Weaving the Wild - A Foraging Basket with Red Osier, May 31 2025
Date: May 31st, 2025 | 9-4pm
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Where: Food Culture Place HQ, Mobile , NL
Description of Workshop
Step into the rhythm of the land and learn to weave with what nature offers freely. In this full-day, hands-on workshop, we’ll begin with the harvest—gathering red osier, or as locals call it, dogwood, from the landscape around us. This vibrant, flexible shrub has been used for generations, its branches bending like memory into baskets that hold not just berries or mushrooms, but the stories of those who made them.
After harvesting, we’ll gather in the warmth of the yurt to shape these wild-cut stems into your own small foraging basket, guided step-by-step through the process of preparing, shaping, and weaving. Like threading the landscape into a vessel, each movement will reconnect you to something older, slower, and deeply rooted.
Alongside laughter, tea, and a hearty hot lunch, we’ll share in the knowledge of respectful harvesting, seasonal traditions, and the quiet joy of making something beautiful and useful by hand. This is a day to slow down, to create, and to remember the strength in things woven together—just like our weaving community.
What will be provided:
All materials will be provided
Hot lunch, tea, snacks and coffee included
What you will leave with:
A start-to-finish, handcrafted, ready-to-use foraging basket
An understanding of red osier harvesting and preparation
The skills to continue weaving at home
A deeper connection to traditional crafts and the natural world
Additional Information:
You will receive a reminder for your workshop with details about location, parking and what to bring in the week leading up to the event
If there are any mobility issues or anything you wish to make us aware of please do so by email when you purchase. Our yurt is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible.
Please let us know in advance if you have any severe food allergies
This is a full-day experience and may run a little long—just like a good story.
Description of Instructor
Lori McCarthy identifies fiercely as a Newfoundlander, which means more than just geographical location of birth to her. Her passion for the land is matched only by her passion for the culture and the people. Deeply rooted, the skilled chef and outdoorswoman is guided by a sense of responsibility to place. The ethics of conservation and sustainability inform her every move, and she is as serious about protecting Newfoundland Labrador culture, and resources as she is about sharing them.
To be an innovative chef, forager, hunter, educator , and enthusiastic outdoors person is less unusual amongst Newfoundlanders than you might think. The province's culture is based on the values of resourcefulness, connection and working with what the land provides. However, Lori has made it her life, becoming a leader and advocate in a back to the land approach where culture and people are cherished.
Where to Find Your Instructor
Follow Lori’s basket weaving journey (and other shenanigans!) at @foodcultureplace on Instagram
Date: May 31st, 2025 | 9-4pm
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Where: Food Culture Place HQ, Mobile , NL
Description of Workshop
Step into the rhythm of the land and learn to weave with what nature offers freely. In this full-day, hands-on workshop, we’ll begin with the harvest—gathering red osier, or as locals call it, dogwood, from the landscape around us. This vibrant, flexible shrub has been used for generations, its branches bending like memory into baskets that hold not just berries or mushrooms, but the stories of those who made them.
After harvesting, we’ll gather in the warmth of the yurt to shape these wild-cut stems into your own small foraging basket, guided step-by-step through the process of preparing, shaping, and weaving. Like threading the landscape into a vessel, each movement will reconnect you to something older, slower, and deeply rooted.
Alongside laughter, tea, and a hearty hot lunch, we’ll share in the knowledge of respectful harvesting, seasonal traditions, and the quiet joy of making something beautiful and useful by hand. This is a day to slow down, to create, and to remember the strength in things woven together—just like our weaving community.
What will be provided:
All materials will be provided
Hot lunch, tea, snacks and coffee included
What you will leave with:
A start-to-finish, handcrafted, ready-to-use foraging basket
An understanding of red osier harvesting and preparation
The skills to continue weaving at home
A deeper connection to traditional crafts and the natural world
Additional Information:
You will receive a reminder for your workshop with details about location, parking and what to bring in the week leading up to the event
If there are any mobility issues or anything you wish to make us aware of please do so by email when you purchase. Our yurt is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible.
Please let us know in advance if you have any severe food allergies
This is a full-day experience and may run a little long—just like a good story.
Description of Instructor
Lori McCarthy identifies fiercely as a Newfoundlander, which means more than just geographical location of birth to her. Her passion for the land is matched only by her passion for the culture and the people. Deeply rooted, the skilled chef and outdoorswoman is guided by a sense of responsibility to place. The ethics of conservation and sustainability inform her every move, and she is as serious about protecting Newfoundland Labrador culture, and resources as she is about sharing them.
To be an innovative chef, forager, hunter, educator , and enthusiastic outdoors person is less unusual amongst Newfoundlanders than you might think. The province's culture is based on the values of resourcefulness, connection and working with what the land provides. However, Lori has made it her life, becoming a leader and advocate in a back to the land approach where culture and people are cherished.
Where to Find Your Instructor
Follow Lori’s basket weaving journey (and other shenanigans!) at @foodcultureplace on Instagram
Date: May 31st, 2025 | 9-4pm
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Where: Food Culture Place HQ, Mobile , NL
Description of Workshop
Step into the rhythm of the land and learn to weave with what nature offers freely. In this full-day, hands-on workshop, we’ll begin with the harvest—gathering red osier, or as locals call it, dogwood, from the landscape around us. This vibrant, flexible shrub has been used for generations, its branches bending like memory into baskets that hold not just berries or mushrooms, but the stories of those who made them.
After harvesting, we’ll gather in the warmth of the yurt to shape these wild-cut stems into your own small foraging basket, guided step-by-step through the process of preparing, shaping, and weaving. Like threading the landscape into a vessel, each movement will reconnect you to something older, slower, and deeply rooted.
Alongside laughter, tea, and a hearty hot lunch, we’ll share in the knowledge of respectful harvesting, seasonal traditions, and the quiet joy of making something beautiful and useful by hand. This is a day to slow down, to create, and to remember the strength in things woven together—just like our weaving community.
What will be provided:
All materials will be provided
Hot lunch, tea, snacks and coffee included
What you will leave with:
A start-to-finish, handcrafted, ready-to-use foraging basket
An understanding of red osier harvesting and preparation
The skills to continue weaving at home
A deeper connection to traditional crafts and the natural world
Additional Information:
You will receive a reminder for your workshop with details about location, parking and what to bring in the week leading up to the event
If there are any mobility issues or anything you wish to make us aware of please do so by email when you purchase. Our yurt is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible.
Please let us know in advance if you have any severe food allergies
This is a full-day experience and may run a little long—just like a good story.
Description of Instructor
Lori McCarthy identifies fiercely as a Newfoundlander, which means more than just geographical location of birth to her. Her passion for the land is matched only by her passion for the culture and the people. Deeply rooted, the skilled chef and outdoorswoman is guided by a sense of responsibility to place. The ethics of conservation and sustainability inform her every move, and she is as serious about protecting Newfoundland Labrador culture, and resources as she is about sharing them.
To be an innovative chef, forager, hunter, educator , and enthusiastic outdoors person is less unusual amongst Newfoundlanders than you might think. The province's culture is based on the values of resourcefulness, connection and working with what the land provides. However, Lori has made it her life, becoming a leader and advocate in a back to the land approach where culture and people are cherished.
Where to Find Your Instructor
Follow Lori’s basket weaving journey (and other shenanigans!) at @foodcultureplace on Instagram