FreeHorse Arts + "Plus"

In addition to our weekly in-person and online classes, we are thrilled to offer unique programming opportunities that underscore our principles of creating conscious community, understanding beyond self, and cultivating a deeply present connection to the natural world.

Upcoming Sessions

  • Handcrafting Salves Workshop

    Saturday, June 3, 2023

    Time: 11:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. EST

    Dandelion Springs Apiary (map)

    Cost: $15.00

    Join Dandelion Springs Apiary in collaboration with FreeHorse Arts PLUS. We will explore growing, gathering, drying and using herbs from the farm to create healthy salves!

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2023 Sessions

  • Who's Who at the Farm

    Saturday, May 13, 2023

    Time: 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. EST

    Dandelion Springs Apiary (map)

    Cost $10 per person.

    Join Dandelion Springs Apiary in collaboration with FreeHorse Arts PLUS to meet ALL our friends at the farm! Learn fun facts about our bees, goats, sheep, rabbits, chickens, ducks, and horses! Enjoy guided interactions with our friends as we explore how to interact as a healthy herd, hive, & community!

  • Foraging Wild Foods with the Horses

    Saturday, May 6th, 2023

    Time: 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. EST

    Dandelion Springs Apiary (map)

    $15 suggested donation

    FreeHorse Arts and Dandelion Springs Apiary welcome Creative Collaborator Heather Flournoy for an introduction to foraging wild foods and folk medicines. This 90 minute class begins with the basics of identification practices, then then time spent in the fields and wooded areas of Dandelion Springs Apiary with the horses.

  • Where Do Pollinators Live

    Saturday, April 15, 2023

    Time: 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. EST

    $10 suggested donation

    Join Dandelion Springs Apiary in collaboration with FreeHorse Arts PLUS to explore where different pollinators live! We will build a pollinator home for all our pollinator friends.

  • Creative Hive Painting

    Saturday, April 1, 2023

    Time: 11:00am-12:30pm

    Cost: FREE

    Tour the hives at Dandelion Springs Apiary (from a safe distance!) and then have fun decorating some empty hives before the bees move in. We’ll provide colored paints, brushes, stencils and more!

  • Springs Starts

    Saturday, February 18, 2023

    Time: 11:00am-12:30pm

    $5 suggested donation

    Looking forward to Spring growth in the FreeHorse Arts Community Garden as we start some plants from seed. We’ll also learn about what we can do to help our pollinator friends and planting diverse native forage is one of them. Diversity and inclusion are important to all living things! You’ll take home a planted seedling of your choice, so come prepared to get DIRTY!

  • Bee Light Candle Making Workshop

    Saturday, January 21, 2023

    Time: 11:00am-12:30pm

    $15 suggested donation

    The bees actually make the beeswax with 8 glands on their abdomen and then form it into the comb shape with their mouths and feet. Participants will get to see comb from a hive along with both unprocessed and processed wax while choosing the type of candle they’d like to make (molded, hand-rolled, or a candle bowl).

2022 Sessions

  • Make Your Own Wreath

    Date: Saturday, December 3

    Time: 11:00am-12:30pm

    Cost: $25 suggested cost per person

    A perfect way to create your own unique wreath with fresh cut greenery! Optional ribbons, bows and other embellishments will be available for purchase. If you can, bring gloves and wire cutters.

  • FHA Community Garden

    We are so grateful to ASCV Herd member Rachel, who has shared her skill and expertise in sustainable agriculture in designing and creating the FreeHorse Arts INAUGURAL COMMUNITY GARDEN. Herd members have hands-on opportunities to apply skills learned in class to include assessing and cultivating healthy soil, growing healthy food from healthy seeds for our communities and ourselves through the bounty of nature.

  • Screening Printing @ Studio Two Three

    Participants screen printed their very own FreeHorse Arts shirts and totes at Studio Two Three, a community arts space that offers studios, classes, workshops and artist residency.

  • Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas Q&A with Composer/Lyricist Paul Williams & Puppeteer Jordan Brownlee

    FreeHorse Arts participants were gifted screeners of the live stage performance of Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas thanks to The New Victory Theater in NYC. Composer and FHA Board Member, Paul Williams and Puppeteer, Jordan Brownlee discussed the art of music composition and puppeteering.

  • An amazing group of people can dramatically change the trajectory of others; I know that because I am one of them that has been positively influenced.

    - Ajay

  • Very excited about this endeavor and happily support its cause and the people who will do such good work in our community.

    - Dave and Kelsey

  • As Margaret Mead best put it, ‘Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.’ Thank you for opening yourselves to such a commitment.

    -Tina (Contributor and Parent of a Participant)

  • I am thrilled to contribute to this work! Thank you for bringing creativity, compassion, and inspiration to our community.

    - Roberta

  • Free Horse Arts continues to impact my life in such powerful ways- I find it hard to put into words. Each lesson every week gives me enough nourishment of the well being for the whole week. Now, Mondays have become my favorite day!!!! Grateful! :)

    – Ajay

  • Time with you is like being suspended in a hug for an hour a week. There have been moments where I am aware of the powerfully supportive and loving energy that envelops the group. Distance and time fall away.

    -Parent of a Connecticut Herd Member