Lost Skills Gathering

06/22/2026

Lost Skills Gathering is being built by many hands, and today we want to pause with heartfelt gratitude for the businesses, organizations, and community partners helping bring this first-year gathering to life.

Their support is more than logo placement. It helps create a place where families, teachers, makers, elders, small businesses, and neighbors can come together to learn practical skills, preserve local knowledge, and carry meaningful traditions forward.

Please join us in thanking our gracious sponsors for believing in this new regional tradition.

Lost Skills Gathering
October 3, 2026
www.LostSkillsGathering.com

06/22/2026

06/18/2026

Have you felt something missing?
So many people feel it right now, even if they don’t always know how to name it.
A restlessness. A sadness. A hunger for something real. A sense that modern life has pulled us too far from the living world, too far from the seasons, too far from the old skills that once helped people care for their bodies, homes, families, and communities.
Modern life has made us feel like aliens on our own planet.
But the living world is still here.
The plants are still growing in field, forest, garden, backyard, and roadside edge. They still offer food, medicine, beauty, relationship, memory, and care. And they are still calling us back into a more rooted way of living.
That is why Green Path Academy exists.
Our in-person herbal school at beautiful Clary Gardens in Coshocton, Ohio has grown into 20 hands-on classes in plant medicine, nature connection, folk tradition, medicine making, and everyday care.
You can start with one class.
You can return when you can.
You can follow the full path if the plants keep calling.
Most classes begin at $40, and no experience is required.
And if Ohio is too far, you are still part of this work. We are working on bringing more Green Path Academy education online in the future. In the meantime, you can learn with us through the Woodland Herbal blog and bring the plants into your home through our handcrafted apothecary.
If something has been bothering you and you are looking for plant-based support, reach out or explore our remedies. We are happy to help point you toward a tea, tincture, salve, syrup, oil, or formula that may fit what you are looking for.
The plants still remember how to care for us.
Come learn the plants.
Bring their care back home.
Explore Green Path classes: www.GreenPathAcademy.org
Read the Woodland Herbal blog: https://woodlandherbal.com/blogs/walk-with-us-memoirs-meanderings
Shop Woodland Herbal remedies: www.WoodlandHerbal.com

06/17/2026

Woodland Herbal is sponsoring the Lost Skills Festival Oct. 3 at Clary Gardens with a variety of teachers and artisans focusing on skills of the past from homesteading to blacksmithing. See link below ⬇️

📸 Leonard Hayhurst/Tribune

06/16/2026

Ohio herbal apothecary crafting teas, tinctures, and salves by hand. Visit our herb shop or shop online for small-batch, plant-based care and hands-on herbal classes.

06/14/2026

Reminder! Lost Skills Gathering meeting tonight for all who are interested in learning more, joining management staff, teach, volunteer, vend, etc. Clary Gardens, 588 W Chestnut St, Coshocton, OH 43812 @ 5:00 PM under the beautiful pavilion.

06/13/2026

VENDOR APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for Lost Skills Gathering!

We’re looking for local and regional makers, growers, craftspeople, artisans, farmers, bakers, herbalists, food producers, homesteaders, traditional tradespeople, and small businesses whose work fits the spirit of the day.

Lost Skills Gathering is not a typical vendor market. It’s a one-day heritage skills festival set within the beauty of Clary Gardens, created to feel like a living village of handmade goods, useful knowledge, old-fashioned skills, local food, demonstrations, good conversation, and community.

We’re especially looking for vendors who personally make, grow, bake, raise, harvest, craft, or produce what they sell. Handmade, homegrown, small-batch, useful, beautiful, traditional, and story-rich goods are exactly what we’re hoping to gather.

Manufactured items, mass-produced goods, MLM products, drop-shipped items, and general buy-sell merchandise are not permitted. This event is curated for real makers and specialists of their craft.

If your work is rooted in land, home, heritage, natural living, old-fashioned usefulness, folk arts, foodways, or small-batch care, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply here: https://forms.gle/iu1zLC4wGk8VfEtu8

Lost Skills Gathering
Saturday, October 3, 2026
Clary Gardens — Coshocton, Ohio

Help us build a marketplace that honors local makers, supports small businesses, and keeps meaningful work in the hands of real people.

06/11/2026

We’re looking for traditional skills teachers and hands-on demonstrators.

Lost Skills Gathering is still searching for a few specific people who know useful, practical, old-world, homesteading, craft, and land-based skills — and who might be willing to share them with the community.

Right now, we’re especially looking for people who can teach or demonstrate:

• Repair
• Midwifery
• Trapping
• Cheese making
• Natural dyeing
• Tallow rendering / tallow crafts
• Wine making
• Whittling
• Flintknapping
• Food fermentation
• Sourdough
• Woodworking
• Taxidermy
• Wilderness structures
• Animal husbandry

Some skills disappear quietly when fewer people are asked to share them. Lost Skills Gathering was created to help keep useful knowledge alive through demonstrations, hands-on learning, good conversations, and simple community connection.

Teaching doesn’t have to mean standing on a stage. It can be simple, hands-on, conversational, and kind. Show people how something works. Answer questions. Demonstrate a skill. Help pass along something useful before it’s forgotten.

Teachers are supported through our Pay By The Heart tip culture and may sell their own goods for free when they teach.

If this sounds like you, or someone you know, please reach out or tag them below.

Help us find the people who still know how to make, mend, grow, tend, craft, preserve, build, and remember.

Learn more and apply to teach at LostSkillsGathering.com

06/09/2026

We’re honored to officially announce the Lost Skills Gathering, a new one-day hands-on heritage festival coming to Clary Gardens in Coshocton on Saturday, October 3, 2026.

This gathering has been growing from a simple belief: old skills still matter.

Herbalism, foraging, blacksmithing, broom-making, mushroom inoculation, fire-starting, storytelling, homesteading arts, food preservation, practical crafts, and the everyday knowledge passed down through families, neighbors, elders, and working hands. These aren’t just nostalgic ideas. They are useful, grounding, human skills that help connect us back to land, community, and one another.

The Lost Skills Gathering is being created and hosted by the Woodland Herbal family behind Green Path Academy: School of Herbalism, with Historic Roscoe Village joining as a sponsor co-host, and support from our growing circle of community sponsors and partners.

We’re deeply grateful to Historic Roscoe Village, Green Path Academy: School of Herbalism, Woodland Herbal, Shamrock Printing, Lity’s Scrapyard, and Central Ohio Technical College for helping bring this event to life.

This will be more than a craft fair. It will be a living classroom, a family day, a marketplace, a place for stories, a place for teachers, and a place where old knowledge can be practiced, shared, and carried forward.

More teachers, demonstrations, vendors, musicians, and details will be announced as we get closer.

Saturday, October 3, 2026
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Clary Gardens, Coshocton, Ohio
LostSkillsGathering.com

We hope you’ll mark your calendar and help us spread the word.

06/01/2026

MEETING TIME CORRECTION: 5:00 PM – We're growing something very special in Coshocton, and we’re reaching the point where we need more good hands around the table.

The Lost Skills Gathering is a new one-day festival coming to Clary Gardens, built around the old practical arts that helped people live closer to the land, their homes, their families, and their communities. We’re gathering teachers, makers, gardeners, herbalists, foragers, homesteaders, craftspeople, storytellers, musicians, volunteers, and curious folks who still believe there’s deep value in learning by hand.

To help bring it all together, we’re hosting a Lost Skills Gathering management and planning meeting under the pavilion at Clary Gardens. There will be pizza, conversation, questions answered, ideas shared, and a lot of practical planning for what this festival can become.

We’re looking for volunteers, but we’re also looking for capable, passionate people who may want to step more fully into management staff roles. This event will need organized, dependable folks helping with areas like teacher support, vendor support, setup, parking, hospitality, kids activities, information tables, grounds flow, and the many small moving pieces that make a big community event feel welcoming and well cared for.

Teachers and vendors are welcome to come too. This will be a good chance to ask questions, discuss plans, share ideas, and better understand how the day is being shaped.

If you’ve been excited about the Lost Skills Gathering and wondering how to be part of it, this is a perfect place to begin. Come eat some pizza, meet the people helping build it, and help us carry this thing forward together.

Learn more at www.LostSkillsGathering.com