We run seasonal two month sessions of Schools of Salmon Creek, complemented by ongoing series of two week, skill-building workshops focused on the living arts related to land, shelter, craft, food, body, and ecological stewardship.

Schools of Salmon Creek is a seasonal land-based program for artists *of all kinds* at Salmon Creek Farm. We carry on the legacy of the site’s original counter-culture commune by considering abundance, care-taking, climate, community, ecology, embodiment, habitat, inter-dependence, mystery, resilience, resourcefulness, self-sufficiency, shelter, sustenance, and stewardship; getting off screens and out of doors; where the teachers are the land and each other.

Our workshops offer skill-building opportunities for artists including wood-fire ceramics courses, dance workshops, community arts practices, food-arts classes, and more.

Salmon Creek Farm is located on 33 acres of second and third growth redwoods two miles from California’s Mendocino Coast. Old logging roads and foot trails criss-cross south facing slopes from sunny meadows, gardens, orchards, communal outdoor kitchen, and dance deck on top, to eight original commune cabins each nestled in their own nook of the terrain, across a ravine that bisects the land to abandoned off-grid cabins, and finally down to Big Salmon Creek in the valley. It is an especially good spot to feel your small place in the big cycles of life on earth.

Salmon Creek Farm has been informally offering arts programs in a similar spirit since 2014, and now as an independent self-sustaining 501(c)3 non-profit organization, SCA has taken over full operations and ownership of Salmon Creek Farm.