CRAFTSTEADING - Use Plants to Make Anything
Save money, get happy, and expand your creativity by making stuff out of plants you grow, forage or buy. And even monetize your hobbies! Craftsteading is about self-sufficiency and traditional skills. It’s about prepping for survival or enjoying calming handicrafts. Grow your own brooms, cordage, dyes, baskets, containers and more. Each month we’ll bring you a new podcast, so be sure to “follow” us. Website: www.craftsteading.com YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/craftsteading Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/craftsteading/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/craftsteading
Episodes
When you think of plants that are associated with Christmas, what do you think of first? For most people it’s the Christmas Tree that probably comes to mind.
The tradition of Christmas Trees probably began with the ancient Romans. They had an annual feast called Saturnalia, which they celebrated in December. They would bring evergreen trees into their temples. Saturnalia involved a lot of feasting, wine drinking, and the exchanging...
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You can sell handmade products online with very little expense in at least 5 ways:
* your own store built with a platform such as Shopify, Squarespace, Wix, BigCommerce, Weebly, Ecwid or Shift4Shop.
* your own WordPress website with Paypal buttons or the Woo Commerce plugin
* third-party marketplaces like Amazon and eBay
*social media sites like Instagram and Facebook.
* niche sites like Etsy and Big Cartel, Amazon Handmade (US), a...
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Whether you’ve grown your own gourds and decorated them, grown your own broomcorn and made artisan brooms, grown your own Jobs Tears and made botanical jewellery, grown your own willow or bamboo and made baskets, grown your own wax myrtles and made fragrant candles, or simply grown your own Craftsteading materials ready for others to use in their crafts, you could end up with a wide range of unique and gorgeous products to sell, as...
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The humble and underrated stinging-nettle (Urtica dioica) has some amazing secrets. From food and medicine to cosmetics, paper, cordage, textiles for clothing and household linen, dyes, fertilizer and insecticide, nettles have a wide range of uses.
I'll tell you how to make nettle tea, nettle cordage, nettle paper and more.
More than just a weed, nettles are a wonder-plant for craftsteaders.
See our photos on Instagram at Mill Cot...
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This episode is about lemons, Citrus limon. I’ve chosen lemons because it’s pretty likely that most listeners will have access either to lemons the fruit, or a lemon tree, or both.
You can eat the pith, juice, rind and even the flowers of the lemon. Lemons are popular as food and drink but they also have medicinal properties. They can be used as an insect repellent, for metal polishing, or as a bleach. Lemon tree wood is prized for...
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Plant Oils, Waxes and Wicks for Alternative Lighting:
Many plants you can grow in your garden can be used to provide lighting. Some of these plants produce a wax or an oil that can be made into candles, some yield an oil that can be burnt to produce a bright flame, and others can be used as wicks for candles or lamps.
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Oil rich plants you can grow in your garden
Brassica napus – Colza, Oilseed Rape: A hardy annual plant n...
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How to find, preserve and enhance nature’s colors when you make stuff out of plants.
How can you make multi colored cordage?
Can you stop the colored patterns on gourds from disappearing when you dry them?
How can you preserve the beautiful emerald green of freshly cut bamboo? And if you can't preserve it, can you replace it?
How can you weave willow baskets of many colors, without using dyes?
Find out the answers to these que...
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Can colors be experienced through a podcast?
It’s great listening to podcasts and radio and audio-books because you can use your imagination to visualize everything. One small drawback, however, is that it’s hard to evoke colors with sound. And colors are a joyful part of Craftsteading.
People with sound-color synaesthesia see colors when they're listening to music. They actually hear colorful music.
If you're not among those peop...
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April 20, 2022 • 13 mins
What’s in the cheapskate’s basic basketry tool kit? What is a tension tray and why is it tense? And how can you make your own beautiful Catalan tray from foraged materials? All this and more!
If you’re new to basketry you don’t have to outlay a lot of money for tools. You can buy tools online or you can use common household and workshop tools as substitutes. I tell you how to assemble a basic basketry tool set.
One of the easiest ...
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Over thousands of years people have developed numerous different basket making styles and methods, in addition to the many colourfully named traditional styles and designs of the baskets themselves. There are 5 main basketry methods: Coiled basketry, Plaiting basketry, Twining basketry, Wicker basketry, and Splint basketry. But what does randing, waling and scarfing mean? What is a creel, a trug or a tattie scull? Find out the ans...
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The ancient rhythms of basket weaving are so therapeutically satisfying and peaceful, you’ll want to have basket-making as your new relaxing hobby. And you end up with beautiful, useful creations to show off to your friends. Baskets can be made from a variety of fibrous or pliable materials—anything that will bend to form a shape. Plants for a Future, (PFAF) lists over 300 plants used for basketry. These include, for example, vario...
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Cornerstone dye plants
Throughout history the plants that produce the best dyes include indigo, madder, woad, weld, turmeric, saffron, noni, and henna. I’m growing many of these cornerstone dye plants in my garden, and depending on your climate, you might be able to grow them too.
I'll tell you about these wonderful dye plants and some of the dyeing basics you need to know.
Non-cornerstone dye plants
A huge range of other plants, ...
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In this episode I speak to gardening expert Kurt, of Berryman Gardens, about lavender.
Sweet-scented lavender (Lavandula angustifolia), also called English Lavender or True Lavender, is one of the world's most beloved plants. IN your garden, it attracts bees and other beneficial insects. It also makes a lovely hedge. The leaves, petals and flowering tips can be eaten raw, used (in small quantities, because the flavour is strong) ...
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Beautiful dyes have been obtained from plants throughout human history. You can grow your own dye plants or use a wide range of other plants as a source of dye.
Archaeologists have found evidence of textile dyeing dating back to the Neolithic period. In China, dyeing with plants, barks and insects has been traced back more than 5,000 years.
Natural dyes are derived from three sources. These are plants, invertebrate animals such as ...
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For as long as human beings have walked the earth people have decorated themselves with jewellery. The earliest was made from natural materials such as shells, bamboo, bone, tusks, claws, teeth, wood, coral, gemstones, pearls, the fossilized resin we call amber, and seeds. I’ll explain how to make your own botanical jewellery, and even how to grow your own beads!
The Craftsteading podcast Is hosted by Sally Gardens and produced at...
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December 2, 2021 • 8 mins
Plants for cordage
You can make useful string and twine and rope out of plant fibres. The term cordage encompasses everything from fine string to cords to thicker ropes. All of these things begin with strands of fibre twisted or braided together in a way that gives them strength and length. You can start by making thin string, then twist lengths of this string together to make cord, then twist lengths of the cord together ...
You can make useful string and twine and rope out of plant fibres. The term cordage encompasses everything from fine string to cords to thicker ropes. All of these things begin with strands of fibre twisted or braided together in a way that gives them strength and length. You can start by making thin string, then twist lengths of this string together to make cord, then twist lengths of the cord together ...
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November 27, 2021 • 6 mins
Grow your own gourds and use them to make and decorate handy household containers, bowls, bird houses, soup ladles, dippers, scoops, musical instruments, table décor or even tiny earrings.
A gourd is the hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants, in the botanical family Cucurbitaceae.
If you want to grow your own gourds you can buy seeds online. They grow well in climates from warm temperate to sub-tropical to tropical. So you...
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November 26, 2021 • 2 mins
101 ways to save money, get happy, relax and find your creativity by making stuff out of plants you grow, forage or buy. And even monetise your hobbies! Craftsteading is about self-sufficiency and handcrafts and gardening.It’s about prepping for the apocalypse or relaxing with therapeutic mindful handcrafts.Are you looking for something engrossing to take your mind off daily worries? Would you like to learn a relaxing but exciting ...
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