Welcome
At Wild Earth Crafts, we affirm the inherent value and worth of all humans, animals, plants, and earth elements regardless of nationality, race, religion, political affiliation, gender, age, physical abilities, cognitive abilities, or any other perceived differences. We acknowledge that we are upon stolen ᏣᎳᎫᏪᏘᏱ Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee, East), S’atsoyaha (Yuchi), and Miccosukee land and this compels us to learn more about, uplift, and financially support indigenous organizations and communities as well as continue to seek ways to repair the harms that have been done to these communities, many of which continue to this day, some of which we contribute to. We acknowledge that the wealth and power of the organized governmental structures we live under and benefit from were built upon the genocide of native peoples and the kidnapping, exploitation, and enslavement of people of African descent. We acknowledge the existence and continued violence of white supremacy within our colonial country's laws, culture, and ways of being and we strive to counteract and dismantle these harms by learning from, uplifting, and prioritizing voices from people of the global majority (PGM). We believe in the power of actions over words so we:
--> Offer discounted or gratis materials fees for all PGM in all of our classes.
--> Offer at least 2 scholarship spots for PGM for over 80% of our classes.
--> Donated $680 worth of handcrafted items to various equity fundraisers in 2024.
--> Spend at least two hours each week dedicated to continued political education and community organizing around racial justice and right relations work.
Our Values
- the protection of all lands and the lives interwoven with them
- anti-racism, anti-oppression, anti-genocide; we support diversity, equity, and inclusion if/when it isn't harmful to those it is intended to uplift.
- accessibility for all bodies
- decolonization and the land back movement
- felt experiences of connection to the natural world
- the holistic practice of truth-telling, in craft spaces and all community spaces
- the uplifting and prioritization of the voices, bodies, and hearts of persons of the global majority and non-human kin
- talking about, working through, and healing from whiteness and the sociopathic, mass violence of it.
About Frea
Frea Forager (pronounced FREE-yuh; she/they) is the founder and craftsperson behind Wild Earth Crafts, an initiative that helps creative folks, educators, homesteaders, and lovers-of-the-outdoors learn to use materials from their own neighborhoods and backyards to create beautiful and useful home goods. Through Wild Earth Crafts, Frea has been enthusiastically helping connect folks more deeply with the natural world so that we can weave the wild back into our lives and be in deeper connection with the land we live upon. She is a potter, hide tanner, basket maker, broomsquire, forager and handcrafts instructor who enjoys making beautiful, useful items with various seeds, nuts, grasses, vines, and sticks and sharing these joys with others.
Frea began Wild Earth Crafts in 2014 when she decided to start a retail business based on her nature-inspired crafts and passions. Since then she has drifted away from retail to focus more on teaching classes and facilitating nature-connecting experiences. She has been an instructor at various earthskills gatherings in the southeast since 2017. She had an unintended, life-changing initiation into the Truth of her conditioned ignorance, whiteness, internalized racism, and harmfulness in November 2023 when she showed up in a mixed race grief space for Palestine and was graciously referred to read the book Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad. This lead her on a painful and healing truth-seeking journey that she is still very much on. She now brings these pieces of truth and learning into her classes and all aspects of her work. She is now passionate about abolition, healing justice, collective liberation, decolonization, and supporting other white people to examine the harmfulness and conditioning of their whiteness in order to dismantle oppressive and omnipresent systems of white supremacy within our culture. Her craft specialties include wheel-thrown pottery, natural hide tanning, basketry and broom craft. She works primarily with adults to help revive and recreate more harmonious and consistent ways of being in respectful relationship with the other lives around us. Originally from the Bulbancha area (colonially called greater New Orleans), she currently resides with her two children in the mountains on ᏣᎳᎫᏪᏘᏱ Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee, East), S’atsoyaha (Yuchi), and Miccosukee land - colonially known as Western North Carolina.
About Frea
Frea Forager (pronounced FREE-yuh; she/her) is the founder and craftswoman behind Wild Earth Crafts, an initiative that helps creative folks, educators, homesteaders, and lovers-of-the-outdoors learn to use materials from their own neighborhoods and backyards to create beautiful and useful home goods. Through Wild Earth Crafts, Frea has been enthusiastically helping connect folks more deeply with the natural world so that we can weave the wild back into our lives and be in deeper connection with the land we live upon. She is a potter, hide tanner, basket maker, broomsquire, and handcrafts instructor. Foraging is one of her greatest joys in life! She lives for making beautiful, useful items with various seeds, nuts, grasses, vines, and sticks and for sharing these joys with others. Frea began Wild Earth Crafts in 2014 when she decided to start a retail business based on her nature-inspired crafts and passions. Since then she has drifted away from retail to focus more on teaching classes and facilitating nature-connecting experiences. She has been an instructor at various earthskills gatherings in the southeast since 2017. Her passions and specialties include wheel-thrown pottery, natural hide tanning, wild foraging, roadkill harvesting, wildschooling, and general woods rambling. She works primarily with adults to help revive and recreate more harmonious and consistent ways of being in respectful relationship with the other lives around us. Originally from the Bulbancha area (colonially called greater New Orleans), she currently resides with her two children in the mountains on ᏣᎳᎫᏪᏘᏱ Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee, East), S’atsoyaha (Yuchi), and Miccosukee land - colonially known as Western North Carolina.
