Learn more about the guest instructors that lead adult workshops at Wright-Locke Farm! We’re always adding in new programs and working with new guest instructors, so be sure to keep an eye on our upcoming workshops.
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Roland “Boot” Boutwell
Since the late ’90s, Boot has been leading guided nature walks through various protected natural spaces in Massachusetts. Boot leads walks for The Trustees, Mass Audubon, The New England Wild Flower Society, The AMC, Wright-Locke Farm, and other conservation organizations.
At Wright-Locke Farm, Boot leads a variety of programs covering topics such as flower and tree identification, maple sugaring, full moon hikes, and seasonal naturalist-guided walks.
Jaime-Lyn Gaudet
Jaime-Lyn Gaudet (RYT 500, RPYT) teaches restorative, prenatal, and slow flow yoga in the Boston area. Her classes foster a sense of curiosity, exploring the moments of transition in the practice, and the space between.
Outside of teaching, Jaime-Lyn works on historical documentary films for the local PBS station (GBH). She enjoys traveling, usually in pursuit of the next rock to climb or sunset to photograph. She lives nearby with her husband, two cats (Henry & Bartleby), and their new puppy (Penny). You can find more info and current teaching schedule at www.jlgaudet.com, or follow along on instagram (@jlgaudet).
Sandi Smith
Carol McGrath
Carol is a Holistic Certified Health and Life Coach, energy worker, and owner of Feed Your Whole Self, LLC in Hingham MA. She combines her life experience with her 21-year background working in health care, certifications in transformational coaching, health coaching, life coaching, dementia, mindfulness, Yoga Nidra, ADHD, and a certification as a Reiki Master Teacher and a Advanced Level Integrated Energy Therapist to offer her clients holistic care, mind, body and soul.
Ferriss Buck Donham
Ferriss teaches garden classes based on the curriculum she created while teaching horticulture to incarcerated people for 12 years. She also holds wreath and floral arranging classes. Ferriss is a Master Gardener, runs her own gardening business, as well as grows flowers which she offers as a monthly Flower CSA @ferrissandphilippaflowercsa.
She believes strongly in using what is available, reusing, letting nature do the work, forgoing plastics, preventing landfill purchases and leaving as small a footprint as possible on the earth. She is an avid soilist.
When she is not teaching or gardening, Ferriss is a companion to mentally ill elderly women and an End of Life Doula. Her gardening career, work with marginalized people and respect for death all create a holistic view to her teaching.
Sue D’Arcy Fuller
Sue D’Arcy Fuller is a fine-art photographer who teaches and promotes photography as a way of understanding our world. Sue has exhibited her photographs at the Griffin Museum of Photography and several Boston area galleries. She was also the studio photographer for the award-winning full-length documentary, Ashbash: A love story, created and directed by Heidi
Sullivan.
She has taught photographic skills at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Wright-Locke Farm, and as part of the Lakota Youth Stay program, a cultural and educational exchange with Lakota youth from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
At Sanctuary UCC’s Arts and Inspiration Gallery in Medford, MA, Sue promotes and curates the arts in her community by creating opportunities for artists of all genres to share their work and inspiration.
If you are interested in learning more about Sue and her work, please visit her website.
Libby Curtis Webb
Libby, a beacon of warmth and healing through her Forest Flow business, is a Kripalu-certified Meditation Teacher and Forest Therapy Guide dedicated to illuminating paths to inner peace and connection to nature.
You can learn more at her website.
Jennifer Weller-Dorfman
Jen has been weaving baskets for over 15 years and teaching basket weaving for 2 years. She first became interested in basket weaving during an art course in junior high school in Pennsylvania. She loves teaching weaving classes and selling my baskets.
Jen works with other local studios including Made in Burlington, in Burlington, MA. Feel free to see her other works/classes there!
Marina Strauss
Marina Strauss is an Expressive Arts Therapist and artist. She is an adjunct professor at Lesley University and has recently opened a community art studio in Arlington. Her love for color and for different kinds of materials drives her creative play.