Whisk Broom Workshop

Saturday, January 4th, 1PM - 4PM

Spend an afternoon learning the Appalachian craft of broom making!

This class is open to total beginners as well as professional crafters. Participants will design and make a turkey wing style whisk broom using traditional broom corn straw and natural cordage. Whisk brooms are useful, attractive, and make great environmentally friendly tools for tending to a space. They are great for quickly cleaning tables and countertop surfaces or can be used to clean dust, dirt, and cobwebs from hard-to-reach spaces where a big broom can't get, such as behind kitchen appliances or toilets. Some people like to keep one in their car or near their fireplace to clean up ashes. They make excellent housewarming or wedding gifts and can also be used in a ritual or sacred space for energetic clearing purposes. If you've never had a whisk, you are missing out on the joy of using these handcrafted tools!

When: Saturday, January 4th, 2025 from 1PM - 4PM

Location: Mid City Zen, 623 N Rendon, New Orleans, LA 70119

Cost: This workshop has sliding scale pricing which includes all materials: $50-$80, with scholarship spots available to people of the global majority (PGM). Please select a payment based on your financial resources. In other words, those with less financial resources should choose on the lower price on the scale and those with greater financial privilege should choose a higher price on the scale. See the Green Bottle Model for help self-selecting the appropriate payment. Additionally, paying on the higher end helps support scholarship options.

Age limit: 13+ or with special permission of instructor.  

Please note this class will exercise upper body muscles and will require use of both feet and hands while seated. There is a minimum of three participants in order to hold this event and a maximum of ten participants.

***TO REGISTER***:  email freawild@gmail(dot)com.

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About the Instructor: Frea (pronounced FREE-yuh; she/her) is the founder and craftswoman behind Wild Earth Crafts, an initiative that helps creative folks, teachers, homesteaders, and lovers-of-the-outdoors learn to use materials from their own backyard to create beautiful and useful home goods. Through Wild Earth Crafts, Frea has been enthusiastically helping connect folks more deeply with nature so that we can weave ourselves back into the wild, back into deeper connection with the land we live upon. She lives to forage for and make beauty with various wild fruits, seeds, nuts, grasses, vines, and sticks while sharing these joys with others. Originally from the greater New Orleans area, she currently resides with two delightful humans she is raising in the Appalachian mountains of western North Carolina.