Liat Batshira will be teaching how to make spice blends at this year's holiday skill share on Dec. 6. Photo courtesy of Living Web Farms
From Living Web Farms:
Holiday Skill Share Offers Handmade Alternatives to Shopping
The holidays are supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, but they can also be stressful. For many Americans, the biggest source of that stress and anxiety is shopping. In response, on December 6, Living Web Farms will host a holiday skill share focused on making handcrafted gifts and building community.
Mills River, N.C. — On Tuesday, December 6 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Living Web Farms will host the 2nd annual “Make It, Don’t Buy It” Skill Share Event. Several members of the farm’s staff will share different projects along with other skilled artisans. Skills shared will range from many different crafts to culinary projects. Participants will be able to choose the projects that interest them, and materials will be provided.
Kusudama ornament made from recycled paper. Photo courtesy of Living Web Farms
Living Web Farm’s director, Patryk Battle, will be sharing how to make and bottle smoked habanero hot sauce. Additionally, Battle will teach participants how to make roselle (related to hibiscus and a key ingredient in Red Zinger Tea) chutney. Battle calls his roselle chutney a “dead ringer for cranberry sauce”. Part of Battle’s project will include learning how to grow, produce and process the roselle to make this delicious chutney.
Holiday Skill Share attendees will also have the opportunity to spice up their lives with Liat Batshira. Batshira will be teaching about spice blends and bottling them into tiny bottles that can be used as gifts, ornaments, necklace charms or alter pieces.
Meg Chamberlain, local fermenter and owner of FERMENTI, will also be joining the Skill Share event this year. Chamberlain will be making sauerkraut with participants.
Michelle Carter-Griste, owner of Heart Nectar Beeswax and Botanicals, will be teaching how to craft hand-dipped and twisted beeswax taper candles. These candles make wonderful gifts or beautiful additions to a holiday table. Learn more from her blog and shop at www.heart-nectar.com.
Beeswax twisted taper candles by Michelle Carter-Griste of Heart Nectar. Photo courtesy of Living Web Farms
Meredith Leigh of Living Web Farms and author of The Ethical Meat Handbook will be sharing how to create beautiful Kusudama flower ornaments from recycled paper. Kusudama derives from ancient Japanese culture and is typically made by sewing or gluing multiple pyramidal units together to form a spherical shape.
Dianna Parra will be joining the skill share this year to do some leatherwork with attendees. Those who choose to work with Parra will learn how to produce leather barrettes.
To register for Make It, Don’t Buy It: A Skill Share Event, visit livingwebfarms.org.
Meg Chamberlain of Fermenti, will be teaching participants how to make vegetable sauerkraut. Photo courtesy of Living Web Farms
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Max Hunt grew up in South (New) Jersey and graduated from Warren Wilson College in 2011. History nerd; art geek; connoisseur of swimming holes, hot peppers, and plaid clothing. Follow me @J_MaxHunt
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