In this class, the knowledge required to grow and use bamboo efficiently will be covered. We will cover the best practices for harvesting, curing, treating, and preserving bamboo. You will leave with an intimate connection and understanding of bamboo and the gifts it offers us and our planet.
In this two-day willow immersion, instructor Tyler Lavenburg will show you how to weave up a mighty-fine carry-all basket, using the “stake and strand” method. By the end of this class, you’ll walk away with your very own beautiful and functional messenger bag style baskets with shoulder straps or a picnic basket with a wrapped willow handle. These baskets can be used for just about anything, from harvesting food to carrying your computer!
Rare Bird Inclusive Theatre Camp offers personalized performing arts mentorship for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. With a team of 12 Volunteer Artists and 6 Professional Teaching Artists, campers collaborate with mentors to craft distinctive roles, enabling us to showcase both individual and collective talents. Together, we will cultivate a musical production and present our talents in a public performance on Sunday, September 29. We extend a warm invitation to parents, family, friends, and caregivers to join us for this special event.
In this gathering, participants will explore the different types of kitchen medicines they can easily make in their own kitchens. Salts, honeys and vinegar preparations will be discussed as well as recipes provided by Lori Jenkins of Sister of Mother Earth. Participants will be able to make their own fire cider blend, customizing it with herbs that they find on Rare Bird Farm as well as more traditional fire cider ingredients brought by Lori. They will also prepare an elderberry syrup to take home as well as an herb infused honey. Come for a day of sharing, tasting, creating and gathering together while enjoying fresh herbal tea made from seasonal herbs growing. Plus, Lori will be bringing a few wild food treats to sample and enjoy!
We are invited to camp or sleep in the bunkhouse by the bubbling creek and immerse ourselves in the natural world of dreaming. We will eat together, harvest dream enhancing herbs for tea and pillow making, make dream catchers, take a guided shamanic journey, learn techniques in remembering our dreams, dream journaling, dream embodiment, dream incubation, dream sharing, dream interpretation exercises and much more.
Join Emileigh of Rhythm & Ritual for a day of broomcraft and connection.
More than a handcrafts class, Emileigh creates a ritual space for participants to settle in and create with intention. Everyone will make their own full length sweeper broom.
Are you interested in having an environmentally responsible death plan, learning practical ways to prepare for a thoughtful and conscientious transition, and create a community-held connection around death? Join us for an enlightening presentation by some of North Carolina’s leading environmental and death conscious educators.
Join us for a 3-hour workshop guiding us on an embodied anatomy journey accompanied by multi-instrumental, live-looped melodies and rhythms.
Using more prolific naturals, such as Wisteria, Virginia Creeper, English Ivy, Grape Vine and split Kudzu vines to weave a small ribbed basket. Nancy Basket takes her name from the work she does and a Cherokee grandmother long ago, Margaret Basket. She’s made vessels from natural materials for more than 40 years. Expect serious humor, exhorting you to excellence since she has thrived teaching public school as an artist in education since 1990.
In this workshop we'll do a deep dive into the basics of processing raw(unpasteurized and non-homogenized) milk from the farm to the kitchen. This class will give you the foundational knowledge to process milk at home to make some of your favorite grocery store dairy products like butter, yogurt, and fresh cheeses like ricotta and mozzarella. This workshop will explore the chemistry behind dairy processing, and how dairy takes on so many different forms in our diets.
Laura Boggess, a Biology and Environmental Studies professor at Mars Hill University and Nastassja Noell is a lichenologist who struggles to stay within the fenced pastures of science. As a biologist, painter, and writer, her work grapples with the collapse of ecosystems and the reality of living on stolen indigenous lands, and seeks to co-create futures that reconnect and heal. Join them for an enlightening (en-lichen-ing?) discovery walk, where they will introduce you to the basics of lichen identification, as well as their roles in natural systems and as medicine, natural dyes, kin, and muse.
Enter the world of broom-making – rich with metaphor, beauty, and practicality in this class on Broom-making for Renewal. Emileigh holds the space in a circle format, guiding students through a meditation and connection exercise and will provide an opportunity for sharing and reflection. From a place of presence, we will craft 2 turkey wing whisk brooms of different sizes. Students will walk away with a feeling of accomplishment, connection, and two beautifully crafted brooms. Materials will be available for purchase for those that feel the desire to keep tying brooms at home!
This free family-friendly event is hosted by WNC Food Coalition and is a relaunching of the Collaborative Ag Network with 4 exciting programs to improve connectivity and quality of life for farmers. Meet some folks and learn what’s coming to WNC and how to get involved. Then enjoy some local food and music with A Grisman + Garcia Experience with Dirty Dawg.
