Yucca Fiber Workshop with Bruce Vincent
Yucca Fiber Workshop with Bruce Vincent
November 21 @ 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Top: Yucca plant in Chumash Garden. Bottom (left-to-right-): Bruce Vincent, yucca fiber, Lanny Kaufer with yucca plant, Bruce twisting yucca fiber
JUMP TO REGISTRATION
Join me and my special guest and local legend — naturalist-craftsman-photographer Bruce Vincent — on Saturday, November 21, in the Chumash Garden at Ojai Valley Museum as we slow down into ancestral time for an outdoor Yucca Fiber Workshop.
Enrollment includes:
• All materials and equipment
• Yucca Fiber Processing: Learn to make usable fiber from fresh yucca leaves.
• Yucca Fiber Crafts Project: Use the fiber you created to make something.
• Chumash Garden Plant Identification Tour: Learn to identify edible, medicinal, and useful plants.
• Museum Access: The Museum will open after the workshop. Admission is on a donation basis.
After Lanny’s short interpretive tour of the Ojai Valley Museum’s Chumash Garden, Bruce will demonstrate and guide participants in step-by-step processing of fresh yucca leaves into usable fiber. Then each participant will have the opportunity to make something with the fiber they created.
ABOUT BRUCE VINCENT:
Bruce Vincent has taught the ecology, wilderness skills, and ancestral crafts of Southern California since 1980, having worked for Matilija Environmental Science Area, Naturalists-at-Large, International Center for Earth Concerns (Taft Gardens), as a docent in CA State Park programs, and on private contract to schools and school districts in Ventura and Los Angeles counties. He is highly regarded as a preeminent naturalist and birder of the Ojai Valley. Bruce’s world-class woodcrafting (furniture, walking sticks and more) has brought him local legend status, with pieces displayed in the Smithsonian. He was coaxed out of retirement to lead this workshop.
REGISTRATION INFO:
Paid registrants will receive a confirmation email with all necessary info, including weather forecast and parking directions, a few days prior to the workshop. They also will receive a follow-up email afterwards with notes, photos and more.
Adult tickets are $55 plus PayPal fee. Tickets for minor children (12-17), one child per adult, are $35 plus PayPal fee. You also can opt to bypass the fee by mailing a check. Please request instructions for that during registration.
