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Meet Chris & Kim at these Upcoming Community Events:
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Wolf College Stage Schedule:
Saturday 10:00-11:00 AM: Permaculture Garden Installation with Kelda Miller of Sustainable Puyallup
Saturday 11:30 AM–12:30 PM: Perennial Vegetables & Forest Gardening with Nancy Chase of Shambala Farm
Saturday 1:00–2:00 PM: Medicinal Herb Gardening for the Bees with Marilene Richardson – Songcroft School of Self-Sufficiency
Saturday 2:30–3:30 PM: Fire by Friction with Kim Chris Chisholm of the Wolf College (bow drill, hand drill, fire plow, fire piston, fire steel, flint and steel, fire steel)
Saturday 4:00–5:00 PM: Willow & Birch Basketry with Kim & Chris Chisholm of the Wolf college
Saturday 5:30–7:00 PM: Wild Edible Foods Cooking with Chris Chisholm of the Wolf College, and Marilene Richardson of Songcroft (stinging nettle recipes, dandelion tea and fritters, acorn pancakes, and more)
Sunday 10:00–11:00 AM: Efficient Permaculture Gardening with Marilene Richardson – Songcroft School of Self-Sufficiency
Sunday 11:30 AM–12:30 PM: Eat Your Garden Weeds with Kelda Miller of Sustainable Puyallup
Sunday 1:00–2:00 PM: Parfleche & Hide Tanning with Chris Chisholm of the Wolf College
Sunday 2:30–3:30 PM: Bow & Arrow Making with Chris Chisholm of the Wolf College
Sunday 4:00–5:00 PM: Herbal Medicine Making with Kim Chisholm of the Wolf College, and Marilene Richardson of Songcroft (tinctures, glycerites, decoctions, poultices, hot and cold infusions)
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Friday
11:00 - 12:00 Making Cordage
1:00 - 2:00 Cattail Mats
2:30 - 3:30 Making Cordage
3:30 - 4:30 Cattail Mats
Saturday
9:30 - 10:30 Birch & Cherry Bark Baskets
11:00 - 12:00 Willow Basketry
1:00 - 2:00 Birch & Cherry Bark Baskets
2:30 -3:30 Willow Basketry
Making Cordage
Making rope and string from all-natural materials, starting with raffia grass, and progressing to cedar bark and nettle stalks. Cordage is one of the most useful materials for craftwork, as it is a critical element for sewing, basketry, and a thousand other applications like fishing line. You'll never need to buy rope or string at the store again, as the "reverse-wrap" method Kim & Chris will show you is the same as machine-made products.
Willow Basketry
Wolf College will demonstrate how to split willow stalks which are ripe for harvesting at this time of year, and help them weave a large burden-basket for their display table. You'll actually get the chance to practice splitting willow stalks, and learn the trick to making them evenly sized. And did you know that willow is the original source of aspirin? Talk to Kim & Chris about how willow has been processed into pain medicine for ages.
Birch & Cherry Bark Baskets
Wolf College will show you how to make your own basket made from birch and cherry bark. Learn the trick to keeping it from curling up, and receive a paper-pattern to practice your technique before helping them craft new baskets for display at their table. Birch bark will be provided from Chris' parents who harvest it for artwork in the midwest, and cherry bark will be provided from local trees.
Cattail mats
Wolf College will show you the many applications for weaving cattail mats. Their current project is to make beautiful window shades that actually roll-up just like commercial vinyl shades, but they insulate much better due to their porous leaves, and have been used as insulative wall-coverings for ages. You will be able to make place mats and sitting mats from this readily-available resource, and display your creation at their table.
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This is a meeting of the Peninsula Wilderness Club, which has a great website at http://www.pwckitsap.org and we recommend you join at the meeting to take advantage of their great volunteer events. Please rsvp through their website. Thanks! Chris Chisholm, founder of Wolf Camp and the Wolf College, a regional school of wildlife study and wilderness survival skills, will lead a hands-on presentation about wildlife tracking in the Pacific Northwest.
Chris will begin with a review of recent wolf tracking workshops he's been running over the past month, sharing with us the latest update on movements of wolf packs which have recently been confirmed in Washington State. Chris Chisholm pointing out porcupine tracks along the Olympic Coastline in August, 2011. Photo by Kim Chisholm of cougar track including claws in sand. He will then overview skills of the wildlife tracker, including how to recognize tracks of birds and mammals roaming the Kitsap & Olympic Peninsulas, plus teach various approaches to wildlife tracking such as track identification, interpretation, trailing and timing.
Finally, we will work together to unravel a "tracking scenario" that Chris sets up for us using plaster casts, track cut-outs, skulls, feathers and other hands-on devices that will make our November meeting lots of fun. Chris grew up in the north woods of Minnesota, and he is author of the Wolf Journey Earth Skills Training Course. He moved west after earning a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1991, and conceived of the idea for starting a wildlife tracking club during a hike on the Olympic Peninsula in 1993, a club which evolved into Wolf Camp and the Wolf College in 1997. Chris was most recently certified as a basic tracker by Joel Harden Professional Tracking Services and was an active member of Snohomish & King County Search & Rescue tracking teams throughout 2009-2010.
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