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. Guest teachers (including Steve’s son Seth) offer additional classes at the farm.
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.
June classes
- Intermediate Blacksmithing – Sunday, June 8, 2025 – 1 to 4 PM
- Tong Making – Saturday, June 14, 2025 – 9 AM to noon
- Beginning Soap Making – Sunday, June 15, 2025 – 9 AM to noon
- Copper Jewelry Making – Sunday, June 15, 2025 – 1 to 4 PM
- Rail Spike Ax Making – Sunday, June 22, 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.