Name: Pine Needle Basketry - A Wildcrafter's Workshop with Northwest Natura
Start: 2025-06-22
End: 2025-06-22
Location: Chuckanut Center

In this wildcrafting workshop you will learn how to weave a basket using the coil technique and Ponderosa Pine needles. Weaving with pine needles and other coiled plant material is a practice ancient peoples from all continents implemented in day-to-day survival, conventional living, and art. The technique requires patience and attention to detail before it becomes a relaxing, repetitive stitching pattern. It is a skill that is more easily learned with a little guidance. Dabblers, beginners, intermediate, and advanced weavers will enjoy this creative, social gathering with Northwest Natura.

In this course you will learn: - ID and Ecology features of Pinus spp. (various pine tree species). - Foraging techniques and where to harvest pine needles. - How to weave a coiled basket using pine needles.

* More information available on the event website. ** Please register via the event website.

Starts: June 22, 2025

Time: 1 - 5:30 p.m.

Admission: $65

Location: Chuckanut Center
Bellingham, WA 98225

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Produced By: Northwest Natura

Contact Person: Jazmen Yoder

Phone: 360-927-9895

Email: nwnatura@gmail.com

We acknowledge that Whatcom County is located on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples. They cared for the lands that included what we’d call the Puget Sound region, Vancouver Island and British Columbia since time immemorial. This gives us the great obligation and opportunity to learn how to care for our surrounding areas and all the natural and human resources we require to live. We express our deepest respect and gratitude for our indigenous neighbors, the Lummi Nation and Nooksack Tribe, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.