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Natural Pigment Workshop: the Art of Foraging and Processing Paint – May & October

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Time: 10am-12pm
Dates:
Sunday, May 31
 Use Coupon Code PIGMENT24 BY May 24th for $10 discount
Sunday, October 25th
 Use Coupon Code PIGMENT18 BY Oct. 18th for $10 discount
Join Tobi Indyke from Periwinkle Skies Farm to learn to make your own fine art pigments from materials foraged straight from Mother Earth! We will review samples of different clays, rocks and mushrooms as well as foraged plants that can all be used to make natural pigments. Tobi will instruct us, step by step, in the art and science of processing these natural elements into useful pigments in a rainbow of colors. Processes will include crafting both watercolor and gouache paints.
There will be time provided for you to do some experimentation of your own!
Paint recipes will be shared and participants can take home some foraged plants for practicing their new skills at home.
Ticket price includes all materials.
Tobi Indyke
Tobi Indyke: forager, farmer and artisanal paint maker

 

 

Tobi Indyke is proprietor of Periwinkle Skies Farm, propagating and providing plants for pigments and herbal tea.

Tobi’s passion is for foraging from nature to create artist colors the way they have been crafted for thousands of years before synthetic paints were introduced. Her mission is to share with others the magic and joy of co-creating with nature through the alchemical process of crafting natural paint.

English Lavender Wreath Workshop in June

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Date: Saturday, June 13th

Times: 10am – 12noon

1pm -3pm

$160 pp

Wreath Workshop

Join us on the farm to make a wreath of freshly harvested Super Blue lavender with Nicole of Spadaflora Botanical Artistry

As a part of our workshop, you will pick some lavender right out of the field. It takes a LOT of lavender to create this, and so the lion’s share of it will be fresh cut and ready for you to fashion into your wreath. There is nothing like the color and scent of fresh lavender and it will dry beautifully, lasting well into the next year. Nicole will guide you to adhere it properly and distribute it nicely around your 12inch wreath support.

Lavender lemonade and lavender shortbread cookies will be served to nibble and sip.

Be sure to take the time to enjoy a stroll around the farm. It is the most beautiful time of year!

This workshop is limited to 8 attendees. In the event of rain, the workshop will be held in our new renovated Workshop Space.

 

Nicole Spadaflora
Nicole of Spadaflora Botanical Artistry

 

Nicole Spadafora is a ghost, driving a meat covered skeleton, made from stardust, riding through space; who on a good day fears nothing. She is the proprietor of Spada Flora Botanical Artistry, a design company which is rooted in all things in all things floral & botanical – from designing and implementing native gardens, foraging, farming flowers and herbs to flowering weddings and holy-days.

Her guiding principal is; “There is only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle” Albert Einstein.

French Lavender Wreath Workshop – June

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Dates: 

Saturday June 20th

Time: 1pm – 3pm

Saturday June 27th

Time: 10am – 12noon

$160 pp

Wreath Workshop

At the height of bloom of our French lavender, join Nicole of Spadaflora Botanical Artistry to make a wreath from freshly harvested Phenomenal long-stemmed lavender. The bloom time of this lavender is within 2 weeks, and this is a very special opportunity that only comes once a year.

As a part of our workshop, you will pick some lavender right out of the field. It takes a LOT of lavender to create this, and so the lion’s share of it will be fresh cut and ready for you to fashion into your wreath. There is nothing like the color and scent of fresh lavender and it will dry beautifully, lasting well into the next year. Nicole will guide you to adhere it properly and distribute it nicely around your 14inch wreath support.

Lavender lemonade and lavender shortbread cookies will be served to nibble and sip.

Be sure to take the time to enjoy a stroll around the farm. It is the most beautiful time of year!

This workshop is limited to 8 attendees. In the event of rain, the workshop will be held in our Workshop Space.

Nicole Spadaflora
Nicole of Spadaflora Botanical Artistry

 

Nicole Spadafora is a ghost, driving a meat covered skeleton, made from stardust, riding through space; who on a good day fears nothing. She is the proprietor of Spada Flora Botanical Artistry, a design company which is rooted in all things in all things floral & botanical – from designing and implementing native gardens, foraging, farming flowers and herbs to flowering weddings and holy-days.

Her guiding principal is; “There is only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle” Albert Einstein.

 

Lavender Wand Workshop – June

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Date: Saturday, June 20th

Time: 10am – 12noon

Dates: Saturday, June 27th

Sunday, June 28th

Time: 1pm – 3pm

Cost: $55
Maximum # of people: 8

WandWorkshop

Lavender wands can only be made with long-stemmed lavender that is fresh cut out of the field. There is a small window of time in the entire year when long-stemmed lavender is in bloom and ready for making wands and that is part of what makes them so special. The wonderful thing about lavender wands is, though they can only be made during the weeks that span the end of June, the sweet lavender scent of a wand lasts for years.

 

Phenomenal Lavender Mad Lavender Farm
Wands can only be made from fresh cut long-stemmed lavender.

The fresh lavender buds are captured within the woven stems, preserving the scent of lavender for years. Just give them a gentle squeeze and inhale the fragrance.

Weaving a lavender wand.
The stems must be fresh cut to be bendable and workable to weave a wand.

We have a variety of pretty colored ribbons to choose from to fashion a wand that is uniquely yours. Using a double faced ribbon you can manipulate a stripe into your weaving.

 

Wand workshop table
Fresh lavender and colored ribbons.

The workshop is rain or shine. If it’s raining, we have a Pavillion to duck into for shelter while still enjoying the pleasure of the farm.

Adrienne Crombie

Adrienne Crombie is an artist, goat mama, root digger, lavender farmer and co-owner of Mad Lavender Farm. Adrienne designed the Mad Lavender logo, develops their product line and likes to paint murals on any available surface on the farm.