Rewilding |
Working with Wild Plants
Basic Course – Wild Food & Medicine Year-Round
Learn about the nourishing, healing, and magical wild plants we live with in every season. In the cities and forests of Groningen and North Drenthe.
Rewinding |
Ancestral Skill Share
Several times a year, I organize Ancestral Skill Share gatherings where we share and practice primitive skills as a group and get to know our surroundings. Each season, we gather for a day or a weekend around the fire, harvest food and medicine, create and sleep in nature, and share our knowledge and stories. This is how we connect and deepen our rewilding. Will you join us?
Rewilding |
The Night Walk
We modern humans have become addicted to light and shun the dark and everything we associate with it. But once upon a time, like other animals, we walked and slept beneath the stars, and the night was a place of intimacy, peace, and life—it was our home. In this walk, we enter the forest and reconnect with the hidden world of the night.
Ancestral Skills |
Spinning & Thread Magic
Have you always wanted to learn to spin your own wool? This workshop is all about thread that literally and figuratively connects. We delve into the prehistory and mythology of this oldest craft. With practical exercises, we will learn to spin and make thread from wool and plant fibers in one day. You will learn to spin and ply on the spinning wheel as well as with the spindle. In the open air, often around the fire and accompanied by folklore and mythological stories, we will take a creative journey through nature and history and rediscover the skills of our foremothers.
Ancestral Skills |
Weaving circle
Weaving is an ancestral skill that connects. In this one-day course, we’ll use a band comb to weave a band: an ornate belt made from plant and animal fibers, which has had both magical and incredibly practical uses since time immemorial.
Ancestral Skills |
Weaving circle 5-day
Basic Course – In this five-day course spread over six months, we delve into the magical ancient crafts of spinning, dyeing, bandweaving, and felting. We’ll create a personalized bundle of homemade spindles, distaffs, and other tools to learn how to use. Surrounded by a fire in the open air, accompanied by folklore and mythological stories, we’ll embark on a creative journey through nature and history, rediscovering the customs of our ancestors.
Ancestral Skills |
Natural dyeing + Ecoprint
Have you always wanted to learn how to dye with plants and soil? What is the essence of authentic, sustainable clothing and slow fashion? Do you want to know how people have dressed in the most beautiful colorful costumes since ancient times? And how you too can add color and pattern to your clothes in both modern and ancient, always natural ways? Come play and be surprised by nature!
Online Course |
Raw Fleece Felting
If you’ve always wanted to learn about the craeft of wild wool felting & how to make your own felted collar: I will teach you all about it! Through the course of a year Thomas Grootoonk and I have filmed an intimate story of the shepherd and the flock, the ancient history of wool and felting & the thread that binds sheep and (wo)mankind. You’ll learn about the qualities of the beautiful fiber, how to choose the right fleece and felt different, animal friendly wild wool pieces! Join me in this complete Masterclass to aquire the craft of wool felting – truly from the source to the end.