Hearth Broom Making Workshop (Broom with Wood Handle)

Long has the earth nourished and fed us around a dinner table but also importantly has gifted materials for craft. Pruning wood from an apple tree to make a coat hanger, a sapling for a cane, or broom corn for broom making. In our current consumer culture most utilitarian goods are crafted far from the fields, woods, and our local community. Coming together to make something and to share skills empowers and rightfully brings us back to our responsibility to our shared places. Our hands connect us to the greater world one craft at a time. What a pleasure to sweep the floors of your beloved home using your own creation.

We will make a Hearth Broom (wood handled long broom)

COST: sliding scale of $75-90, with a nonrefundable $20 deposit ahead of time here with paypal or by check: Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825. Please bring cash or check for the remainder that day.

All materials are included: broom corn, carved wood handle, waxed thread wound around piece of wood, scissors, pliers, stitching vice, and needle for stitching

Limited to 6 participants.

Structure of the class:

• Meet and Greet (Introductions, flow of the day)
• Introduce the materials (broom corn, thread, tools)
• Bryan demonstrates binding the broom corn to handle
• Participants bind broom corn to handle
• Bryan demonstrates stitching the broom
• Participants stitch broom
• Showcase our makings and closing

The Venue: Emerson House at Tuckaway Farm is a new indoor/outdoor community space on a working farm available for mission-related activities. Their goal is to both share and support this space as a resource for healthy agriculture and community. There is indoor and outdoor space which could adapted depending on the weather and class needs.

Presenters:
Bryan is a community member of the Piscataqua Watershed who revels in the tidal rhythms. Bryan feels summoned to the curious connections with place and community. Pruning old apple trees, maple sugaring, scything hay, or sitting with a neighbor to greet the fireflies. Bryan believes hand work and utilitarian crafts are a gateway to our belonging and intimacies with place and story.
Yulia is a member of Seacoast Permaculture board and an avid environmentalist and maker of things from natural found or repurposed materials.