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🐑 ~ Sheepskin drop ~ 🐑 I’ve been tanning

🐑 ~ Sheepskin drop ~ 🐑

I’ve been tanning away this winter in between online skills offerings and grad school (!). I’m going to post pics of new sheepskins available for sale + shipping next week.

The sheepskins are a mix of Icelandics, like this one here, and Romneys, which all have fleeces of brown and chestnut.

📸 by Christel @fermefiolafarm. Check out Christel’s beautiful farm in Treaty 1 territory, where some of these hides were tanned. Thanks for your hospitality in lending your space and tending fire!
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#sheepskin #handmade #naturalhidetanning #hidetanning #bushcraft #oldways #sheepskintanning #sheepofinstagram #homedecor #cozyhome

Put your faith in the two inches of humus That gr

Put your faith in the two inches of humus
That grows beneath the trees
Every thousand years

~ Wendell Berry
The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

In Ecology we observe ecosystems through the lens of Adaptive Cycles, where change is the messenger of cyclical time. Change is episodic: not only gradual and not only chaotic but both in turn, and sometimes simultaneously.

The Adaptive Cycle starts with rapid growth, which becomes stability, which moves to revolt, and changes again to reorganization. So when spring arrives, there is rapid growth; stability during summertime; revolt (aka release) as fruit turns to seed in autumn; and reorganization over winter.

A new cycle will never be the exact same as the previous one, and its quality depends largely on what happened in that previous cycle. Was it set up for lushness, or scarcity? For diversity, or monoculture? For temperance, or extremism?

Integral Ecology maps onto human culture and the social ecosystems in which we navigate cycles. What we do during times of rapid growth and stability lays the groundwork for revolt/release and reorganization. Did we engage in mutual aid? Did we practice horizontal organizing? Did we heal trauma? Did we learn new skills?

Ecologically speaking, choices create potential. We might not see the changes that our actions usher in, but we create the potential that comes after us.
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#ecojustice #integralecology #nature #queersoutdoors #environmentaljustice #ecofuturism #sustainability #sustainable #closedloopsystem #environmentalmovement #environmentaleducator #climatejustice #ecoeducator #integralecology #panarchy

“The breathing, sensing body draws its very subs

“The breathing, sensing body draws its very substance from the soils, plants, elements that surround it;

it continually contributes in turn to the air, to the composting earth, to the insects and oak trees and squirrels,

ceaselessly spreading out of itself and breathing the world into itself

so that it is very difficult to discern precisely where this living body ends and where the world begins.”

David Abram ~ Spell of the Sensuous

Today is the last day to apply for Hide Tanning Immersion 2021. 🦌 Link in bio.

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I am struck with the response + knowing this program resonates with so many. It is bittersweet, as we will not be able to host everyone who’s applied (due to limited materials + that it’s our first foray into online collaboration together as instructors and mentors). But if you’ve applied, you’re part of the fam. We will cultivate more opportunities for online education and I look forward to expanding the program next year.

I will email everyone by January 7. Program begins February 7.

Thank you! 🍃🍂
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#hidetanning #bushcraft #folkmagic #folkart #oldways #hidetanningimmersion #survivalskills #outdoors #craft #natureskills #landbasededucation #environmentaleducation #environmentaleducator #queersoutdoors #natureskills #healing #honouringyourancestors

Tanning hides is folk magic. Hide tanners brush s

Tanning hides is folk magic.

Hide tanners brush shoulders with the more-than-human world, both tangible and intangible. Like the healer and the doula, we move in that realm between life and death. Moving between worlds changes us. The animals change us. Among so many lessons in this craft is the ability to commit to renewal and transformation.

Happy New Year ✨ May the upcoming months bring the renewal and transformation we seek for collective healing.

• ✨ Solstice Giveaway ✨ • To celebrate th

• ✨ Solstice Giveaway ✨ •

To celebrate the return of light and this momentous epochal turn: a rawhide box lantern.

Sewn with smoketanned buckskin + crafted from a Whitetail Deer 🦌.

To enter:

1 entry) follow this account + tag a friend who’s a bright light in your life
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2 entries) sign up for the Crowsnest newsletter : link in bio
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3 entries) share this post on your story (tag me so I know!)

Candle and shipping are included. Winner chosen on December 25, 2020.

✨☀️✨

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#wintersolstice #solstice #godjul #godjul🎄 #mothersnight #giveaway #solsticegiveaway #rawhide #braintan #smoketan #hidetanning #handmade #lantern #yuletide #yule #yulecelebration

Hide Tanning Immersion: meet the instructors. Thi

Hide Tanning Immersion: meet the instructors.

This is elder June Pardue. June is teaching the capstone craft class on making slippers, incorporating each of the textiles we will make during the program.

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June is a renowned Alutiiq and Inupiaq artist from Kodiak Island. Her work includes traditional waterproof stitching, slippers-making from her family’s generational methods, and fish skin tanning. June is an Elder who is very active in her community as a mentor to others, and teaches online to people around the world.

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I first connected to June through @earthandgleaners when she came down south for their project Local Threads. She is an incredible and generous teacher; we are so honoured for her to be part of the program.

To see more of June’s teachings online, find her on FB at June Pardue Studios and June Pardue’s Art.

Hide Tanning Immersion: meet the instructors. Thi

Hide Tanning Immersion: meet the instructors.

This is @shauna.mikomi who’s teaching sheepskin mineral tanning in May.

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Shauna is a hide tanner, wild foods forager, and student. She began her skills journey travelling across the continent to learn place-based skills from peers and mentors.

Shauna specializes in Buffalo hide tanning and lives close by a beloved herd at the Rocky Mountain Buffalo Ranch, in Golden, BC on Ktunaxa and Secwepemc territories.

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Thank you, Shauna! I am so excited that you’re a part of this project.

Hide Tanning Immersion applications are open til January 3. Program starts February 7. Link in bio. ☺️
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#sheepskin #sheepskinrug #sheepskins #hidetanning #traditionalcraft #womenhidetanning #survivalskills #wildernessskills #outdoors #landbasededucation #placebased #placebasededucation #womanownedbusiness #naturebased #hidetanner

*Shop update* Tools are restocked in the Crowsnes

*Shop update*

Tools are restocked in the Crowsnest shop!

I’ve been building up toolstock, sourcing directly from makers for most. And I’ve been sewing these canvas tote bags for carrying cases. They are going towards the Hide Tanning Immersion cohort but a few are in Hide Tanning Starter Kits, up for sale week before the holidays!

📸 1 + 2: Starter Kit (see comments for deets)
📸 3: The Handheld, dry scraper and hide softener
📸 4: S Scraper for big hides
📸 5: Longhandled dry scraper

Link in bio; 10% discount already applied to the Starter Kit. Individual tools posted in the shop.

Thanks to the makers Pritchard Ironworks + @zilka_forgewerks + @hammarede.
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#tools #hidetanningtools #bushcraft #survivalskills #outdoorskills #handmade #bushcrafttools #bushcraftknife #wildernessculture #wildernesssurvival #wildernessstones #womanownedbusiness

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