Saturday, May 7th
9:30am-4:30pm, Break for Lunch
All Ages
$115

Make your own berry basket and in the process learn one of the oldest crafts in human history.  For thousands of years, in every culture, people have been crafting beautiful, durable and useful vessels from the materials at hand. Carry on the tradition and take home a beautiful, durable and useful basket made from local and responsibly harvested, hand pounded black ash logs.

This is a great introduction to the extraordinary qualities of the black ash tree. Students will experience all the steps in the process, from a demonstration of pounding the log, to weaving their own unique, square to round basket with an optional leather strap.  Included is a discussion on identifying, choosing and harvesting a tree.

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Penny Hewitt (she/her) strives to grow, craft and participate in seasonal harvests for as many of her needs and wants as possible. She is grateful to be part of a generous community of talented makers and growers with whom she trades skills, ideas and wares. She uses hand-harvested resources from the forest, letting the qualities of varying materials dictate their use.

Among other things, Penny is a homeschool mom, craftsperson and homesteader, who is inspired by the traditionso of other cultures to revitalize and share skills useful to everyday life.

“I believe we all hold the capacity for positive change in the world and even the smallest steps toward reclaiming agency over our lives and wellbeing reverberate far beyond what we can see and know.”