In three weeks All Sorts Acre will be starting it’s 9 month weekend Permaculture Design Course. There are a couple of spots left. Time is running out to register. Some of what the we will be doing over the 9 months:
I am so thrilled and privileged to be running 2 felting workshops at the Trillium Waldorf School in Guelph.
Wet Felting is Sunday February 24, from 11-3pm.
Wet Felting Examples
Each participant will learn how to do basic wet felting. Beginning with a simple project, moving onto making a piece of felt fabric, and then onto making their final piece which is either a purse, book jacket, or scarf. In total people will make 2-3 items that they will be able to take home with them.
Class Outline:
Learning about the properties of wool.
Demonstration explaining how a raw fleece goes from sheep to felted item.
Teaching how to use the equipment – picker, drum carder, felting tools.
A starter project to get participants comfortable felting, learn the tactile qualities of felt, and get an idea of the time it takes to felt.
Mixing a base colour using the equipment for the second project.
Choosing embellishments for second project.
Making second project of felt fabric.
Lunch/Rest
Choosing final project of clutch purse, book jacket, or scarf.
Mixing a base colour for the final project.
Make the final project.
Needle felting demo.
Cost: $55/person - $5 of each registration will go to Trillium Waldorf School.
Needle Felting is Sunday, March 3, 2013 11am-3pm
Needle Felting Examples
Each participant will learn how to needle felt three dimensionally, and applique, and/or paint with wool, depending on their time. If people attended
the wet felting workshop they are encouraged to bring their wet felted piece back to do some needle felting embellishment on it. If someone wants to concentrate on a larger wool sculpture, they will have the option of doing so instead of the applique and felt painting.
Class Outline:
Learning about the properties of wool.
Demonstration explaining how a raw fleece goes from sheep to felted item.
Teaching how to use the equipment – picker, drum carder, felting tools.
Learn how to create a 3-d needle felted object
Lunch/Rest
Learn to transfer and applique a design onto another fabric object.
If time, do a felt painting onto a sheet of wool.
Cost: $50/ person - $5 of each registration will go to Trillium Waldorf School.
People interested in attending one or both workshops are asked to contact:
We are so excited to be offering our Permacullture Design Certificate Course!
The course runs one weekend per month over 9 months.
Why such a long course?
Not everyone can get away for a two-week stretch. We didn’t want to teach a course that we couldn’t attend ourselves so we formatted it in a way that we could have been participants as well.
We feel that learning in small increments, taking it home, thinking about it in your own environment and coming back with questions specific to you is important. Then you can ere ally apply it to your own life in meaningful ways.
We also want to begin building a strong permaculture community. Meeting, talking, and breaking bread together for almost a year makes it easier to find meaningful connections between us.
To make the course as well rounded as possible we wanted to share the teaching. We aren’t experts in everything, but found people that were to compliment the PDC curriculum.
Combining permaculture with seasonality just makes sense. There is so much to see and experience from season to season.
We can’t do as much cool stuff in a short period of time. Field trips lets you see permaculture applied in different ways.
And Finally, we felt it was more like real life. Knowledge unfolds with experience over time.
10 Carden will be hosting Guelph’s first Felt-in!
Friday September 28th, from 7pm – 9pm.
All ages and abilities.
Come and try you hand at the art of wet felting! Come and make your own felt covered rock using wool from local sheep. Use one of our rocks or bring your own special rock!
Take your rock home or leave it to add to the 10 Carden Rock Pile; a permaculture art piece that combines, nature, art, and agriculture.
Needle Felting 1: Applique Needle felting is one of the fastest growing crafts today. Create a beautiful design on a felted purse. This workshop will take you from idea stage through development, to finished product.
Needle Felting 2: Sculpture Using wool, a needle and your imagination you will create a beautiful wool sculpture.
Wet Felting 1: Intro: One of the oldest and enduring ways to make fabric. Felt is durable, warm, and amazingly simple to make. Wool, soap, water, and friction can create a number of beautiful and amazing items from scarves to hats, to shoes.
Wet Felting 2: Story Scarf: Scarves are a wonderful way to express your inner artist and storyteller. A more advanced felting workshop. This workshop will focus on creating a nuno-felted scarf.
This two day course covers permaculture foundations. $75/ day or $125 for two days.
Saturday October 13
An interactive workshop that focuses on the permaculture design process. You will leave with a much greater understanding of HOW to create a permaculture system in your own home.
Sunday October 14
The focus is on the doing. Learn practical skills to take home to your own piece of land. You will be able to work on a a complete project throughout the day.
September 15, October 13 – 10am – 1pm $25/ person. Children under 14 free.
Come and get a guided tour of All Sorts Acre. Tim and Jennifer will explain what they have done, why they have done it, and how it has worked. Learn from their mistakes, and see what can be done on an acre. Some of the areas that will be discussed include:
small scale livestock
alternative grazing systems on a small scale
coppice systems
silvapasture
forest gardens and how they have been planted
designing the landscape effectively
economic feasibility
choosing an agricultural focus
processing and selling
urban agriculture in the future
aquaponics
Bring any questions you have. An extensive library of resources will be available to look through.
-September 15 Farm Tour: $25
Rural Romp
Saturday September 29 $5 suggested donation
All Sorts Acre will once again be on the Wellington Rural Romp. Take a self-guided tour through our one acre micro-farm. Visit the animals, see what the garden produced, and what other products can come from a a small land base.
This coming Sunday we are doing a short workshop on the “$100 Food Forest“. We are on from 2-2:30pm Sunday afternoon. Come on out and find out how to make a food forest for $100!
Guelph Wellington Local Food Fest
Come out and enjoy a fun filled day at the Guelph Wellington Local Food Fest on the grounds of Ignatius Jesuit Centre this Sunday from 11am – 5pm.
Cooking Demos, Workshops, Farmers’ Market, Wagon Rides, Farm Tours, Children’s activites, musical entertainment and delicious local food.
Bring along your family and friends and enjoy this outdoor event. Don’t forget your shopping basket and picnic blanket.
For directions, event details and shuttle bus schedule, see our website.
