Come out and learn a variety of techniques for making beautiful jewelry with natural materials. We will be making cord from plants, beads from seeds, nuts, wool, feathers and more. We'll make earrings, necklaces and bracelets and everyone will have finished jewelry to bring home. Come out for the day, get creative and have fun!

Note: There is a $10 dollar materials fee for this class.

Make your own beauty care products! Environmentally friendly, totally natural Lip Balms, first aid ointments, spray perfume, cremes, and others!
Learn about plants that are good for the skin and first aid, and how to use them in your day to day life.
This class teaches participants to make their own natural facial and body products from local plants and herbs! No pharmaceuticals, no synthetic hormones, chemicals or other harmful and unknown ingredients. All natural, all local. Everyone will go home with products they have made and guidance on how to further herbal studies on their own.

There is a $10 materials fee for this class.

Baskets have been used for thousands of years in a variety of different purposes across geographical location and time period. Basketry techniques have been used to make everything from clothing, water-tight containers, packs, shelters, and for food gathering and processing. This class will focus on four different kinds of baskets using various materials such as: Birch Bark, Pine Needles, Dogwood, Willow and others. This will provide an opportunity to explore several styles of basketry to make plaited, coil, mellon, and twined baskets. The more creative will have opportunities to push the idea of what a basket could be, making oneself a new lampshade, hat, shoes or modified bag to go grocery shopping or searching for new basketry materials! It’s practical, fun, and funny!

Tree and plant identification, harvesting missions, stories, readings, and plenty of workshop time are included.

Only a few generations ago, our ancestors relied on hides as a primary source of rugged clothing for the outdoors. Many hide products remain the ultimate in functionality in cold weather, outperforming even the latest high-tech synthetic clothing. In this class, participants work through the entire hide tanning process, from fresh hide to beautiful tanned buckskin. We then turn this beautiful leather into a pair of comfy, functional and extremely warm mitts!

Various hide and fur tanning techniques will be covered, as well as patterns, sewing techniques, beading patterns and artwork for the finished product.

When done traditionally, leather is warm, rugged, breathable and contains no chemicals whatsoever. If left in your garden, it will biodegrade and actually make the garden healthier. There is nothing more sustainable or "green"! There are few clothing items that have so little environmental impact associated with them than handmade hide items harvested in a sustainable manner.