Class Description

Have you ever bought name brand bees wax wraps and thought to yourself “I could probably learn how to make this?” Now you can! This class will teach you how to make this reusable alternative to cling wrap so you can keep your food fresher for longer. Participants are welcome to bring their own fabric (light weight woven cotton fabric is best - no t-shirt fabric), but there will also be fabric on hand as well.

Please register at least 24 hours in advance by either emailing heronsllyn@gmail.com or texting (970)-471-4691, the sooner the better! Class fee is collected the day of the class. 

Class cost: $20

Class length: 1.5 hours

Spots: 8

Instructor Bio

Aja Ewing (she/her) is a 3rd generation fiber artist who specialises in fiber education and how textiles are connected with our natural resources. She has a BS in Natural Resource Management from Green Mountain College and a MS in Wildlife Conservation and Management from Unity University. She has 20+ experience in spinning and dyeing as well as knitting, crocheting and weaving. She's spent the last 5 years in pollinator studies, including her masters course, Cornell's Master Beekeepers course, as well as working for commercial native plants nurseries and apiaries. Through her education she has focused on ways that our textile industry impacts our natural environment and ways to improve the ways we source, process and market textiles in a method that can reduce harm or even benefit native pollinators. Aja's teaching style is engaging and hands-on and she takes care to create a learning environment that is a safe place for all. She raises sheep and bees as well as sells her handspun yarn out of her farm in Orwell, VT.