Shibagau Creek Forest Farmstead
A place to learn, create, recharge and connect with nature.
Upcoming and past events are listed here.
The boxmaking weekend was a great success with beautiful results by each participant. We enjoyed ourselves, worked diligently and went through the steps of constructing, covering and assembling double-tray clamshell boxes covered in colourful Japanese papers.
Join us for the opening event on July 5!
Two workshops are planned that will cover boxmaking and experimental folded artist’s books, including a potential for collage and alternative printing techniques to create contents for binding.
Boxmaking – July 5-6
Over the weekend we will address the construction of box formats leading to a hinged, clamshell-style box. Covering technique will be explained and practiced.
Experimental Artist’s Books – July 25-27
Various options for making folded artist’s books will be presented and the group may decide to focus on particular techniques. Participants are encouraged to bring visual materials to work with or collect them onsite. A photocopier may be used to create pages or acetates for blueprinting. Sewing and gluing will be simple and appropriate for those without binding experience, while more complex approaches can be selected by those looking to develop more advanced skills.
We will begin with a Friday evening introductory session depending on when participants are able to arrive.
If you are interested in attending a workshop, please register online or contact us at workshops@scff.ca.Participants may arrive on Friday to stay the weekend at SCFF or arrive for each day’s session. Accommodation arrangements include all meals.
A deposit of $60. will hold your place with the balance due two weeks prior to the workshop.
A hands-on workshop with local business The Yellow Lion Apothecary and entrepreneur Stephanie Potter. This workshop will include a meditation, some forest bathing, picking plantain and making a salve that you can use on your cuts and scrapes.
| Plantain has been documented as a medicinal plant as far back as 1390. Plantain is most famously known for its ability to heal and draw out poison. A poultice or salve of Plantain will help “draw” the itch out of a mosquito bite and help heal wounds, scrapes, cuts and bruises. Readily available everywhere, plantain is a good all round herbal plant to add to your sustainable medicinal herb cabinet and consider adding Plantain to your diet as a substitute for your regular leafy green. Full of enzymes, minerals and vitamins A, C and K, its deep green leaves can provide a vitamin-rich alternative to other domestic greens. |
About Stephanie Potter:
Stephanie uses locally foraged and homegrown herbs and plants to create all natural products you can be proud to use. Created during the pandemic as a way to provide family and friends with herbal remedies, it became so much more! Stephanie graduated last year from The Wild Rose College of Herbal Medicine, receiving her Herbal Practitioner Diploma and plans on continuing her education to receive her Masters. Stephanie believes that nature is healing and is proud to provide you with herbal products created with love and nature in mind.
Cost: $99
10-3pm on July 19th
The workshop will include materials and a light lunch. Please dress for being out in nature; wear walking shoes and a hat; bring sunscreen and plenty of water.
Please email victoria@scff.ca if you would like any further details.
Co-hosted at SCFF by Sine Andersen and Victoria. Please join us for self-loving, self-image building and self-empowering transformational weekend retreats in nature. Located in the beautiful and private 100 acre off-grid property, we shall spend time in the forest, enjoying the process of therapeutic relaxation focusing on sensory engagement to connect with nature. We’ll meditate, walk and study spiritual practices to help you connect to your inner-self
Register early to avoid disappointment. Maximum 8 people.
Contact victoria@scff.ca if you have questions.
Sine Andersen is a certified coach in life and business from Naestved, Denmark. She is a spiritual leader and a meditation guide connecting people to their soul and inner wisdom. As a solopreneur for the past 3 years, Sine offers individual coaching and has hosted beautiful retreats in Italy and Zanzibar. She loves working with and through her heart & soul and helping people to grow into and become-in who they truly are. https://www.instagram.com/sine_a_andersen/
Similar to last year’s land-based photo workshop, we invite photographers and non-photographers alike, to engage with the land in constructing site-specific assemblages using natural materials and then to photograph them. The image remains as a record of what will inevitably change and fade in the landscape. Over the weekend we will use alternative printing methods to turn digital images into tangible prints.
Participants will work with digital cameras, but are free to shoot film for later processing as well. Exercises and photography will take place around the farm property. Digital results will be reviewed onsite and historical cyanotype printing (blueprinting) will be experimented with. All materials will be provided and a basic camera or phone for making exposures is all that is required.
If you are interested in attending a workshop, please register online or contact us at workshops@scff.ca. Participants will stay the weekend at SCFF or arrive for each day’s session.
Practicalities
Participants will arrive in Tamworth on Friday afternoon or evening and may stay an extra night on Sunday to make a long weekend should they desire.
Cost: $575 includes tuition, accommodation and meals;
$390 for those who do not require accommodation and breakfasts.
A deposit of $60 will hold your place with full payment due 2 weeks prior to the workshop. A non-refundable fee of $60 will apply if you cancel less than 2 weeks prior.
Ride sharing can be coordinated where possible. Pick-up and drop-off in Napanee is also possible should one wish to take the bus or train from Toronto area or Montreal.
Greg De Koker and Brian DeCastro opened the SCFF retreat season with their 3 -day men’s retreat with its focus on visioning one’s life, embracing the land as a tangible metaphor for the weekend’s process of reconnecting with oneself.
“It was a very special time at a very special place.“
We had a wonderful sunny day walking the property as a group of 6, spotting and identifying by sight and song. Beginning early in the open fields, it was clear and pleasant. With the leaves just budding, one could see a wide variety sitting in the trees, calling and swooping across our view. Scott Russell wrote down the list of more than 30 species in his notebook as we progressed.
Here is the list that has been shared on the eBird site!
https://ebird.org/tripreport/375178
Introducing: A Book Club designed for you to recalibrate, and design your self-image and create more of what you love in your life from the inside out.
Victoria Hirst and Sine Andersen, have come ogether to create a unique on-line book club—a space for conscious growth, honest reflection, and deep transformation. We’re diving into Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz—a timeless classic that still changes lives through its insights on self-image, identity, and the invisible limits we place on our own results.
AND, this is more than just a book club:
It’s a practice. A community. A frequency where we:
– Decode the mental patterns that keep us stuck in outdated identities
– Reprogram our inner image of who we are and what we’re capable of
– Train self-leadership, quantum shifts, and aligned action
You won’t just gain insight—you’ll experience transformation. Guided by two women who have lived the work and now live to share it.
We begin Monday, May 12th
12 PM EST Canadian time / 6 PM Scandinavian time.
Every other Monday: May 12th and 26th, June 9 and 23rd, July 7 and 21st
Classes will be 45 mins in length with additional lifework provided to maximize your results. Registered members will have access to all class recordings as the journey unfolds. If you’re ready to create results that match who you truly are, join us, live in person.
This is your moment to step in, your investment is only $99US.
Please register here (Zoom link will be provided before May 12)
The Spring Bird Count on May 11th kicks off our season in Tamworth. Please join us at SCFF for this annual count of birds. Yes it’s Mother’s day and you are welcome to bring your mum, and you can wander the property keeping your eyes and ears open for all you may see and hear. Then share the birds you find with the eBird app. We will also be collecting the list for the day and uploading it. Please register by emailing us at admin@scff.ca so that we know to expect you. This is a free and fun event.
