Lost Skills Gathering

Lost Skills Gathering The Lost Skills Gathering exists to foster community, preserve and celebrate timeless traditions, and empower people with the tools of self-sufficiency.
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Lost Skills Gathering is a one-day gathering in Coshocton, Ohio, where elders share their wisdom through hands-on instruction, storytelling and live demonstrations of 50+ timeless skills — from herbalism to craftwork and homesteading to self-sufficiency. We are committed to creating an inclusive, kind, and welcoming space where politics are set aside, and connection through learning is at the hear

t of the day. By sharing knowledge of heritage crafts, forgotten skills, and sustainable practices, we honor the wisdom of the past while equipping our community for a resilient future.

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO HATHAWAY, INC.At Lost Skills Gathering, we believe in the value of showing up for each other. Tha...
08/31/2026

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO HATHAWAY, INC.

At Lost Skills Gathering, we believe in the value of showing up for each other. That's exactly what Hathaway, Inc. General Contractors did for us.

Hathaway has been serving Coshocton for almost 70 years, providing quality construction work for local factories, businesses, agencies, and schools throughout the community.

This year, they generously donated 2,000 bottles of water to help keep our teachers, makers, and guests hydrated throughout the day.

We are so grateful for their support and for a local business that keeps showing up for this community, year after year.

Thank you, Hathaway, Inc.

Learn Heritage Skills. Reclaim the Future.

📍 Clary Gardens · Coshocton, Ohio
🗓 October 3, 2026
🎟️ LostSkillsGathering.com

Step back into a world where hands met earth, stories filled the air, and life was learned by doing. The Lost Skills Gat...
08/30/2026

Step back into a world where hands met earth, stories filled the air, and life was learned by doing. The Lost Skills Gathering is a one-day, hands-on festival where talented elders and artisans teach the skills, crafts, traditions, and self-sufficient ways our grandparents once used to thrive.

Together, we breathe life into precious knowledge before it’s forgotten — preserving connection, resilience, and the wisdom that sustains and preserves. The Lost Skills Gathering transforms one unforgettable day into a celebration of tradition, resilience, and hands-on learning.

Haven’t you ever wished you could learn the skills your grandparents once used to thrive? In this one-day gathering, elders will share their wisdom through stories, hands-on instruction, and live demonstrations of 50+ timeless skills — from craftwork to homesteading to self-sufficiency.

Set within a beautiful botanical garden, the festival becomes a living classroom where knowledge preservation, community connection, and resilience come to life.

🎟 www.LostSkillsGathering.com

SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT: Real McCoy BBQ ( https://www.facebook.com/RealMcCoyBBQ/ )Lost Skills Gathering would not be possible ...
08/29/2026

SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT: Real McCoy BBQ
( https://www.facebook.com/RealMcCoyBBQ/ )

Lost Skills Gathering would not be possible without the generous businesses and organizations choosing to stand behind this vision.

A special thank you to Real McCoy BBQ, an Artisan Sponsor, for choosing to support a gathering centered around community, practical knowledge, shared experiences, and the skills that help bring people together.

Our sponsors are doing far more than placing their names on an event. Their support is helping create a day where neighbors can learn from one another, generations can share knowledge, and traditional skills can remain alive, useful, and accessible within our community.

Because of their generosity, the booth fees for our teachers and skillkeepers have been fully covered. This allows more craftspeople, growers, makers, educators, and tradition-bearers to participate, demonstrate their work, share what they know, and connect directly with the people who come ready to learn.

That support strengthens the entire gathering. It helps us welcome a wider range of teachers, keep admission affordable, and build an experience rooted in education, community, resilience, and belonging.

We are deeply grateful to each sponsor who believed in this first-year event and chose to help bring it to life. Please join us in thanking them, and whenever possible, support the businesses and organizations that so generously support our community.

See you October 3 at Clary Gardens in Coshocton, Ohio.

🎟 www.LostSkillsGathering.com

Learn Heritage Skills. Reclaim the Future.

08/28/2026

Have questions? Want to check out the grounds? We're meeting 5-6PM this Sunday at Clary Gardens

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: THE LOST SKILLS MAIN STAGE IS HERE.This is one of the parts of Lost Skills Gathering we’ve been mo...
08/28/2026

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: THE LOST SKILLS MAIN STAGE IS HERE.

This is one of the parts of Lost Skills Gathering we’ve been most excited to share.

From the opening words at 9:15 in the morning to our keynote at 4:15, the Main Stage will carry us through a full day of practical knowledge, living tradition, food, plants, mushrooms, leadership, resilience, and our relationship with the land.

You’ll hear from:

• Jamie Hetzel on the wisdom and skills we carry forward.

• Hand Hewn Farm with a two-hour, practical look at butchering at home.

• Jim Sayers on designing a living apothecary through permaculture.

• Annie Warmke on leadership, responsibility, and learning to lead.

• Zack Miller with a live mushroom log inoculation.

• Brandon Elijah Scott & Jenni Parsons on moving old knowledge from “lost” back into living practice.

• Amy Boldt on healing through relationship with plants.

• And at 4:15, our keynote speaker Nathan Wright (Getege’nini) closes the Main Stage with “The Land Remembers: What Are We Missing When We Stop Listening?”

And this is only the Green Path Pavilion Main Stage.

Across Clary Gardens, 60+ more teachers, demonstrators, makers, and knowledge-bearers will be sharing skills throughout the day.

One gathering. One day. A remarkable amount of knowledge worth carrying forward.

October 3 • Clary Gardens • Coshocton, Ohio

Tickets + full festival information:
LostSkillsGathering.com

CALLING ALL MAKERS, GROWERS & VENDORS!The Lost Skills Gathering is growing — and with more than 55 incredible teachers a...
08/27/2026

CALLING ALL MAKERS, GROWERS & VENDORS!

The Lost Skills Gathering is growing — and with more than 55 incredible teachers already joining us, we’re opening the remaining flat-land spaces at Clary Gardens to a small group of makers, growers, craftspeople and vendors.

For 2026, we’re offering an introductory vendor rate of just $40 — a $100 value.

Only the first 13 vendors to apply will receive this special rate.

This is for the people who make things, grow things, restore things, build things, preserve things, and keep useful crafts alive.

We’re looking for:
• Handmade crafts & artisan goods
• Farm-grown and locally produced goods
• Traditional tools & useful wares
• Art, woodworking, textiles & handmade gifts
• Food & specialty foods
• Antiques, vintage goods & old-time finds

No mass-produced merchandise. We want the vendor marketplace to feel like an extension of the Gathering itself — thoughtful, useful, beautiful, and rooted in real craftsmanship.

If you have a skill you can TEACH, we strongly encourage you to apply as a teacher instead. Teachers receive their booth space FREE and can sell from their teaching area.

But if you simply want to bring your goods and sell for the day, this is an incredible opportunity to be part of the inaugural Lost Skills Gathering for only $40.

Vendor setup must be completed by 8:00 AM, and booths must remain set up until the festival closes at 6:30 PM.

Just 13 introductory-rate vendor spaces are available.

Makers. Growers. Craftspeople. Farmers. Artists. Antique sellers. Food makers.

Come help us build a marketplace worth wandering through.

📍 Clary Gardens · Coshocton, Ohio
🗓 October 3
🎟️ LostSkillsGathering.com

It is a profound honor to welcome an extraordinary company of teachers, makers, growers, craftspeople, and tradition-bea...
08/27/2026

It is a profound honor to welcome an extraordinary company of teachers, makers, growers, craftspeople, and tradition-bearers whose knowledge will bring the Lost Skills Gathering to life.

On October 3, guests will follow their curiosity among teacher tents, working demonstrations, music, storytelling, and hands-on experiences, all woven into a day of shared knowledge, meaningful connection, and the revival of practical skills.

Come follow your curiosity, learn something real, and help keep valuable skills alive.

Learn Heritage Skills. Reclaim the Future.
📍 Clary Gardens · Coshocton, Ohio
🗓 October 3
🎟 www.LostSkillsGathering.com

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: KEYNOTE SPEAKER — NATHAN WRIGHT(GETEGE’NINI)We are deeply honored to welcome Nathan Wright (Getege...
08/26/2026

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: KEYNOTE SPEAKER — NATHAN WRIGHT(GETEGE’NINI)

We are deeply honored to welcome Nathan Wright (Getege’nini) as a keynote speaker at Lost Skills Gathering on October 3 at Clary Gardens in Coshocton, Ohio.

Nathan is an Anishinabek (Ojibwe) educator, mycologist, community herbalist, regenerative farmer, water protector, U.S. Marine Corps veteran, and founder of Herbal Lodge, an Indigenous-owned botanical company in northern Michigan. A citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, his work carries traditional ecological knowledge into conversation with herbalism, regenerative agriculture, and the challenges of modern life.

His keynote will take place at 4:15 PM on Oct 3:

THE LAND REMEMBERS
What Are We Missing When We Stop Listening?

Drawing from Indigenous teachings, traditional Anishinaabek stories, a lifetime spent on the land, and his own encounters with the living world, Nathan will explore connection, reciprocity, spirituality, belonging, and responsibility.

At the heart of his talk is a simple challenge:

Become a student of Mother Nature.

The forest teaches patience. Plants teach adaptation. Seasons teach that change is necessary. Animals teach awareness, resilience, cooperation, and when to act—or remain still.

But what happens when we become too distracted to notice?

What might we learn if we listened more closely?

Nathan’s keynote is an invitation to reconsider our relationship with the places we call home—not as resources separate from us, but as living communities to which we belong.

This is more than a talk about nature.

It is an invitation to listen, learn, and allow the living world to teach us how to live.

October 3 • Clary Gardens • Coshocton, Ohio
LostSkillsGathering.com

SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT: Lost Skills Gathering would not be possible without the generous businesses and organizations choosi...
08/26/2026

SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT:

Lost Skills Gathering would not be possible without the generous businesses and organizations choosing to stand behind this vision.

A special thank you to McWane Ductile, a Mentor Sponsor, for choosing to invest in a gathering centered around learning, making, practical skills, and strengthening our connection to the knowledge within our community.

Our sponsors are doing far more than placing their names on an event. Their support is helping create a day where neighbors can learn from one another, generations can share knowledge, and traditional skills can remain alive, useful, and accessible within our community.

Because of their generosity, the booth fees for our teachers and skillkeepers have been fully covered. This allows more craftspeople, growers, makers, educators, and tradition-bearers to participate, demonstrate their work, share what they know, and connect directly with the people who come ready to learn.

That support strengthens the entire gathering. It helps us welcome a wider range of teachers, keep admission affordable, and build an experience rooted in education, community, resilience, and belonging.

We are deeply grateful to each sponsor who believed in this first-year event and chose to help bring it to life. Please join us in thanking them, and whenever possible, support the businesses and organizations that so generously support our community.

See you October 3 at Clary Gardens in Coshocton, Ohio.

🎟 www.LostSkillsGathering.com

Learn Heritage Skills. Reclaim the Future.

08/25/2026

What does it mean to be a "keeper" of traditional knowledge?

Brandon and Jenni share what being a keeper means to them, and why they believe these skills belong in our communities, not just in our history books.

Who taught you something you still carry with you today?

Come learn, make, explore, and discover what you might want to carry forward.

Learn Heritage Skills. Reclaim the Future.

📍 Clary Gardens · Coshocton, Ohio
🗓 October 3
🎟️ www.LostSkillsGathering.com

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