Booth Demonstrations

Many festival exhibitors offer ongoing tastes and samples of their wonderful products at their booths. A few provide more elaborate demonstrations and scheduled workshops. Agriculture, Artist, and Local Livelihood demonstrations at booths are ongoing all weekend at the exhibitor’s discretion unless otherwise indicated as scheduled.  The location of booths with demos can be found on the easels with white boards throughout the festival site.

See the Saturday and Sunday Schedules for times and locations of the following scheduled workshops:

 Seeds of Solidarity:  Growing Great Garlic (12 and 2 pm each day)

Followed by a 2:30 ‘Meet the Authors and Book Signing” with festival and Seeds of Solidarity co-founders, and authors of the new book Making Love While Farming: A Field Guide to a Life of Passion and Purpose.

White Buffalo Herbs: Making Herbal Extracts (Sat. 1:30 pm)

Sweet Birch Herbals: Herbal Preparations for the emotional and physiological Heart (Saturday 2:30 pm)

Foxtrot Farm: Garlic in the Medicine Cabinet (Sunday 11:30 and 2:30)

On-Going Agricultural & Artist Demos and Education at Exhibitor’s Booths:

Just Roots: Bicycle Powered Root Washer (all weekend)

Clearview Farm (guest garlic growers): Braiding Garlic

Woodcock Farm: Spinning

Clearview Composting: Compost Pile Trouble-Shooting

 

Cara Finch Fine Art – Painting Techniques

Dragonfly Designs: Hand wire sculpting of beaded bugs

Firecrow Handwovens: Finishing handwoven fringes

Simple Shoemaking: Crafting Handmade Toddler Shoes

Spoon River Jewelry: Crafting a ring from silver spoon handles

Stillwater Flutes & Standing Bear Drums: Making 2 & 3 hoop dream catchers

Strongford Ltd. Fine Arts & Historic Crafts: Anglo-Saxon Spiral Face Rings

Wee Things Fiber Arts: Needle Felting and Hand-Sewing Toys

Jays Wicked: Farm to Bottle

Maple Mama Beverages: Tapping Trees

Montague Chili Roasters (Sunday)

Sweetwater Farm: Seed-saving and seed cleaning techniques