Lending a hand

Tillers has a wide variety of publications, products, and services to assist you.

Classes and volunteer activities build skills.

Internships

It's not as easy as it looks: a 4-H youth tries his hand at directing a young team at the County Fair.

TILLERS
INTERNATIONAL

"Sharing our Rural Heritage with the World"
for a more Peaceful Earth

Skills Training

Farming - Oxen - Draft Horses
Wood - Fiber
Blacksmithing

Herb Nehring receives Michigan Heritage Award.
At the 2008 Great Lakes Folk Festival (Downtown East Lansing) on Saturday, August 9th at 2:45 pm, the Michigan Traditional Arts Program of the Michigan State University Museum will present a Michigan Heritage Award to long-time blacksmith and Tillers instructor Herb Nehring, in honor of whose service and dedication the Tillers Nehring Blacksmith Shop was named. This event honors Michigan's outstanding traditional artists, with other awards going to Seikichi Iha of Lansing (Shido-kan karate-do) and John Hanna Sarweh of Fraser (Kanoun).

Brian Webb, Dick Roosenberg, Andrew Roberts, and Jan Ott leave late September for a training project in Uganda in conjunction with Catholic Relief Services. You can support these farmers by purchasing an ox, donkey, plow or cart.

See our Class Schedule for 2008 class dates

Upcoming Classes:
Timber Framing, September 29-October 4
Ox Training Clinic, October 9-11
Blacksmithing I, October 11-12
Broom Making I, October 11-12 Make a broom for Halloween!
Windsor Chairs, October 15-19

If you want to farm with draft animals or learn affordable farm skills to share with the world's poor, Tillers can create opportunities for you to learn historical draft animal practices and then integrate new, low-cost technologies.

Tillers is always researching low-capital practices such as intensive rotational grazing and remote solar water pumps to complement animal-powered farming systems. Join us in combining the best of yesterday and today with strategies that can vitalize small farms around the world.

Come for a class, or just a visit.

Helping

Tillers was created to help international farmers develop their production and communities. Each class is designed to deepen the base of skills that participants take to their international rural development projects.

Tillers' specializes in hand tool work. Our classes are designed to help you build the skills to produce quality work independent of electric power.
Take a look at our special events calendar.
This team of four oxen helps with the plowing.