Three Creeks Farm is a small farm in middle Tennessee located about 45 minutes west of Nashville. For over a decade, the farm has served as a working classroom for students of all ages (including homeschool groups) to learn about traditional arts and crafts such as blacksmithing, soap making, jewelry making and fiber arts in a natural setting.
Farm owner Steve Shafer is a retired teacher who took up blacksmithing and now teaches blacksmithing classes and performs demonstrations at events and craft fairs in Tennessee and surrounding states. He also sells his hand-forged ironwork and does custom orders as well. Steve’s son Seth teaches soap making classes at the farm and other guest teachers and new classes are planned for fall 2025…stay tuned for details!
Upcoming Classes
If you’re interested in being emailed when we post new classes, please subscribe to the class newsletter here. Classes fill extremely quickly (sometimes within a few hours of being posted on the website) so your best chance of securing a spot is to subscribe to the newsletter to get an email notification as soon as new classes are listed.
July classes
- Beginning Blacksmithing – Sunday, July 6, 2025 – 1 to 4 PM
- Beginning Soap Making – Saturday, July 12, 2025 – 1 to 4 PM
- Intermediate Soap Making – Sunday, July 20, 2025 – 9 AM to noon
- Intro to Knife Making – Sunday, July 20, 2025 – 1 to 4 PM
- Beginning Blacksmithing (Youth Class) – Sunday, July 27, 9 AM to noon
August classes
- Beginning Soap Making – Sunday, August 3, 2025 – 1 to 4 PM
- Beginning Blacksmithing – Saturday, August 9, 2025 – 9 AM to noon
- Beginning Soap Making – Saturday, August 9, 2025 – 1 to 4 PM
- Intermediate Soap Making – Saturday, August 16, 2025 – 9 AM to noon
- Intermediate Blacksmithing – Sunday, August 17, 2025 – 1 to 4 PM
- Forging a Rams Head Hook – Saturday, August 30, 2025 – 9 AM to noon
- Practical Herbalism – Saturday, August 30, 2025 – 1 to 4 PM
All of our classes at Three Creeks Farm are very small (5 students or less) and designed to be an interactive and hands-on learning experience with students taking home items they make in class. In addition to the scheduled classes listed above, we do host school groups from time to time and do offer private classes for small groups of 4-5 students. Please contact us with any questions about scheduling a private class.
