The Porch Swing Collective offers practical, engaging workshops and classes designed to help you build skills, explore your curiosity, and better understand the world around you. From growing and preserving food to ecology, practical know-how, community resilience and everything in between, our workshops and classes are about more than simply learning how to do something.
We want you to understand the why, ask questions, try things for yourself, and leave feeling more knowledgeable and confident than when you arrived.
Whether you are completely new to a subject or ready to dig deeper into something you already love, there’s a place for you here.
Come learn something with us.
Explore Workshops & Classes
Follow your curiosity! Explore below to discover workshops and classes that help you grow, make, understand, connect and build skills for everyday life.
Gardening & Land Stewardship
Grow with greater confidence, from garden planning and soil health to vegetables, fruits, flowers and more.
Kitchen & Preservation
Build practical skills for cooking, preserving food and creating a capable, well-tended home.
Herbalism & Folk Remedies
Learn to work confidently with herbs, from growing and gathering plants to making practical preparations and folk remedies.
Nature & Ecology
Explore the natural world, from plants and wildlife to fungi, foraging, habitats and the ecosystems that connect them.
Home & Handmade
Learn to make useful things for everyday life, from reusable household goods to candles, soap, cleaning products and more.
Preparedness & Resilience
Build practical skills for everyday preparedness, from food and water storage to emergency planning and greater household resilience.
Crafts & Creative Living
Learn practical ways to care for animals. support wildlife and build healthier relationships with the creatures that share our homes and communities.
Community & Local Systems
Explore how food, resources and skills connect us – and how you can take part in creating stronger, more connected communities.