Whisk Broom Workshop

Date: Saturday, July 13th, 1:30PM-4:30PM CST / 2:30PM-5:30PM EST

Spend an afternoon learning the Appalachian craft of broom making! Participants will make and take home a turkey wing style whisk broom made with traditional broomcorn and hemp cordage. This class is for total beginners as well as avid craftspeople. Age limit: 13+ or with special permission of instructor. This class has space for ten participants.

Tickets purchased through this link – Eventbrite – Whisk Broom Workshop

Early Bird Ticket – $55 plus Eventbrite fees (all materials included)

Standard Ticket – $65 plus Eventbrite fees (all materials included)

Refund Policy: Cancellations prior to ten days before the class date will receive a full refund. Cancellations within the ten day window before the class date will receive a credit that can be applied towards a future class minus a transfer registration fee of $15.

Credit: Frea made her first appalachian style whisk broom with broom maker and craftswoman Emileigh Zola in 2023 at the Firefly Gathering in North Carolina. It was love at first broom and she has been enthusiastically making them ever since. She is excited to share this traditional craft with others.

More about Frea: Frea Forager (pronounced FREE-yuh; she/her) is the craftswoman behind Wild Earth Crafts (https://wildearthcrafts.com/). She has been avidly foraging and weaving with various grasses, vines, sticks, and other wildcrafted materials since at least 2014. Please send any questions and inquiries to her at freawild@gmail.com.

Location: Walden Peak Farm, 141 U.S. Highway 127, Signal Mountain, TN 37377

CLOSED – Nature Crafts & Treats Camp at Walden Peak Farm

For Ages 5-11 July 15-19, 9am-2pm
$260/week Bring a lunch. Snacks included. Max 22 Min 6
Register with $60 deposit to save your spot. Remaining $200 due on July 15.

Join award-winning educator, performer, and author Andrea Zoppo, aka Ms. Ladybug, and her husband Ryan Welch, for a very special week on their farm making, baking, and tasting! Using many of our farm grown berries we will be creating delicious treats. Expect top-notch natural crafts and art to take home. With years of teaching and performing experiences with organizations like Captain Planet Foundation, Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Playful Evolving Monsters, and dozens of schools, Ms. Ladybug and Farmer Ryan have so much to offer.

More about Walden Peak Farm
The Welch family farm is over 20 acres and over 100 years old. Generations have worked, lived, played, and grown up here. Instead of selling off to developers, the family is dedicating the space to live on, grow, and flourish as a gathering place for families and special events. The family has built a beautiful structure from wood harvested right on the property. With a beautiful pavilion, 2 accessible bathrooms, giant blueberry bushes, grapes, blackberries, and more, the farm is inviting and ready to welcome guests of all ages.

More about Ms. Ladybug.
Andrea Zoppo is an artist, children’s entertainer, and gardener, with over 15 years of teaching experience. Her work and dedication as an educator have awarded her PBS’s Early Learning Champion, one of just 17 in the United States in Nov 2018. Certified as a Nature Based Educator with the Eastern Region Association of Forest and Nature Schools, her main love is learning and sharing the wonders of our natural world.

Her Website: FollowLadyBug!

Ryan Welch is a father, gardener, farmer, and builder born and raised on Signal Mountain.

This is a structured camp with planned activities.
If your child prefers more unstructured free play time, please consider joining our Play Camp the following week on July 22. Campers must be able to use the restroom on their own. If your child is turning 5 by Sept 1 they may join the camp.

Circle Of Abundance -Women’s Day Retreat

EVENT DETAILS
– Sunday July 28, 2024
– 11 am – 6 pm EST
– $222 per person
– Payment plan option available – half now, balance in 2 weeks
– Signal Mountain, TN – address sent upon enrollment.
– Leaders: Surreina Gerbman and Kat Merryfield
– Includes: Lunch, snacks, and hydrating beverages

Join Surreina Gerbman and Kat Merryfield for a transformative day women’s retreat. Set in the serene beauty of Signal Mountain, TN, this retreat is designed to honor the spiritual significance of the harvest season, focusing on themes of gratitude, abundance, and community. This enriching journey blends mindful practices with the joy of celebration and connection.

As we gather during this pivotal time of year, we embrace the Earth’s abundance and the fruits of our intentions. It is a moment to honor the cycle of life and death, recognizing both growth and release. Through shared experiences, we strengthen our community, preparing for the seasons ahead by celebrating life with friends, enjoying the outdoors, and making time for play.

Retreat Highlights:

– Opening and Closing Circles: Begin and end the day by grounding yourself in gratitude and abundance, setting your intentions, and reflecting on the day’s experiences in a sacred circle.

– Gentle Yoga and Feminine Embodied Movement Practices: Connect with your body and the rhythms of nature through gentle yoga and movement.

– Spiritual Botanical Walk and Forest Bathing: Discover the healing properties of local flora on a spiritual walk and experience the restorative power of nature as you bathe in the tranquility of the forest.

– Altar Creation and Flower Crown Making: Participate in creating a communal altar and celebrate the season’s bounty by crafting beautiful flower crowns, tapping into your creativity.

– Releasing Ceremony and Ecstatic Dance: Release what no longer serves you in a special releasing ceremony and joyfully move and celebrate life in an ecstatic dance session, embodying the spirit of the season.

Throughout the retreat, enjoy a delicious lunch, nourishing snacks, and hydrating beverages, all prepared with love and seasonal ingredients.

Taking a day away from the demands of life to gather in sacred sisterhood offers profound benefits. Rejuvenate your spirit in a supportive environment, connect deeply with like-minded women, and experience the healing power of nature and intentional practices. This retreat is an opportunity to pause, reflect, and immerse yourself in the beauty of community and the Earth’s gifts.

Reserve your spot today and step into a sacred space of abundance and gratitude: https://surreina.offeringtree.com/…/circle-of-abundance…

Facebook Event Link

CANCELLATION POLICY
– No refunds within 7 days before the event.
– 50% refund for cancellations within 7-14 days before the event.
– 25% refund for cancellations within 14-30 days before the event.
– 100% refund for cancellations before 30 days of event date.
– All cancellations and refund requests must be submitted in writing. 

Woodwind In The Woods

June 1st – 4:30 – 6:30 Eastern

A concert with Grandmaster of the Shakuhachi flute:
Cornelius Boots
zenshakuhachi.com

Wood Prophet and root philosopher Cornelius Boots has performed in most types of ensembles, at international festivals and up-close for goats with big horns. Boots has written, recorded, and released over a dozen albums of his original compositions and teaches his signature playing style to the curious and dedicated around the world.

Forging his own no-holds-barred style as a professional woodwind performer/composer/teacher since 1989, he is a three-time graduate of Jacobs School of Music (BM Classical Clarinet ’97, BS Audio Recording ’97, MM Jazz Studies ’99) and licensed grandmaster (dai shihan) in the dynamic Zen shakuhachi lineage of Watazumido. The 1996 inventor of the bass clarinet quartet – now a popular modality in many colleges and communities – Boots is a sought-after composer, performer, and teacher, and is an active recording artist who has won awards and created fresh new repertoire for both bass clarinet and shakuhachi, reshaping the landscape of modern woodwind performance practice through robust expressive, signature techniques rooted in pan-stylistic depth and artistic evolution.

After a 30-year career of high-caliber jazz, classical, rock, and experimental music activities (on multiple woodwinds with a focus on the bass clarinet), Boots has now positioned himself at the crossroads of personal expression and divine revelation, exclusively playing bamboo shakuhachi (jinashi/hotchiku) and its baritone brother, Taimu. He is the founder of Black Earth Shakuhachi School, and composes music for the Wood Prophets, the world’s first bass shakuhachi group.
zenshakuhachi.com

ALSO FEATURING TONAL VISION!
Tonal Vision is:
Fred Taylor Percussionist/ tabla

Joseph Ridolfo
Sitar, dulcimer and Native American Flute

Jerry Wallace
Digeridoo, singing bowls and Native American Flute

Heath Luallen
Hand pan, percussion and Native American Flute