After reading Basket Moon and learning about a basket-making family in Columbia County, NY, the girls set out to make their own baskets.
A Big Thank you to Zachary Rouda and Rewild Maine for coming to Vinton Camp to teach us about the history of basket-making and to show us how to make baskets out of birch bark.
You can read about Zach's organization here:
Zach teaching us about the history of using woven bark to make things like shoes, bags, baskets and much more:
And they're off.....under, over, under, over, under, over
uuuummmm: are they taking orders for baskets by any chance????????