October 15, 2021
We had another beautiful and sunny day out at Bart’s Cobble. Today was the first day of guilds! We had a lot of diverse options to choose from for forest skills.
Raven offered a quickie bow-making guild, where six experienced carvers will had a chance to practice the subtle art of bow making with different types of wood. Raei offered a black walnut–dying guild, where students processed the hulls of many black walnuts, separated the nut to be dried, the outer part to be dyed, and steeped the T-shirts they are going to dye next week in mordant solution to help the colors stick.
Chris offered a cattail mat–making guild, where students went out into the marsh to harvest cattail stalks (the bigger the better), getting soaked through their shoes, then cutting the stalks down to size, and starting to tie them together with jute cord.
We all had sweet opportunities to really focus on our crafts and spend some quality time in our small groups. After a story from Raven about the “Green Man” from Raven, we all played a big game of one-sided Capture the Flag together.
—River Otter, Black Walnut, White Pine, and Great Horned Owl