Weaving the Wild - Nov 16/2025 - Red Osier Foraging Basket
Date: Nov 16, 2025
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
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 from right here on our property. 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 before us.
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.
Instructor: Lori McCarthy, a passionate multidisciplinary, cultural ambassador and is dedicated to understanding and preserving the cultural heritage of Newfoundland and Labrador. Inspired by our "Crafts at Risk" a very significant study and document she has embarked on a journey to learn, revive and share these invaluable skills to keep them thriving into the next generation.
Where to Find Your Instructor
Follow Lori’s Craft at Risk journey at @foodcultureplace on Instagram
Date: Nov 16, 2025
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
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 from right here on our property. 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 before us.
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.
Instructor: Lori McCarthy, a passionate multidisciplinary, cultural ambassador and is dedicated to understanding and preserving the cultural heritage of Newfoundland and Labrador. Inspired by our "Crafts at Risk" a very significant study and document she has embarked on a journey to learn, revive and share these invaluable skills to keep them thriving into the next generation.
Where to Find Your Instructor
Follow Lori’s Craft at Risk journey at @foodcultureplace on Instagram
Date: Nov 16, 2025
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
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 from right here on our property. 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 before us.
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.
Instructor: Lori McCarthy, a passionate multidisciplinary, cultural ambassador and is dedicated to understanding and preserving the cultural heritage of Newfoundland and Labrador. Inspired by our "Crafts at Risk" a very significant study and document she has embarked on a journey to learn, revive and share these invaluable skills to keep them thriving into the next generation.
Where to Find Your Instructor
Follow Lori’s Craft at Risk journey at @foodcultureplace on Instagram