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Join Us for a fun weekend at The Ozark Fiber Fling: Classes in the Fiber Arts including my class on tying the Hearth or Welsh Hand Fasting Besom!
The List of Classes at OFF is here:http://www.ozarkfiberfling.com/home/event-information-2/classes/
Finished Besoms at Festival
Harvest of the Broom Corn is done by hand as no machine process can save the
sorghum fiber used for making the Brooms...An added benefit comes form saving the Broom Corn seeds...Some to grow and the Chickens go nuts for the Sorghum Seeds...
Load-O-Corn!
The seeds are stripped off with a comb as soon as they are gathered....
Wait too long and the fiber becomes brittle and will break up when combing the seeds..... Corn Harvest is usually around Labor day weekend in the southern reaches of Zone 6 in Little Egypt...
Hung up to dry, the fibers will turn golden yellow and be ready for tying into brooms...
Wait too long and the fiber becomes brittle and will break up when combing the seeds..... Corn Harvest is usually around Labor day weekend in the southern reaches of Zone 6 in Little Egypt...
Hung up to dry, the fibers will turn golden yellow and be ready for tying into brooms...
A Festival Favorite..Broom Making
Learn and demonstrate this skill and you will be invited to more festivals than you can possibly attend
Learn and demonstrate this skill and you will be invited to more festivals than you can possibly attend
Laying or tabling the corn is done after the fibers turn green...
A pastoral scene at Oak Knoll Farm...The Shetland and Finnish Landrace Sheep on Paddock 2, The big old goofy Maremma Dog, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maremma_Sheepdog
The Broom Corn & Sunflower patch...
The Broom Corn & Sunflower patch...
Broom Corn harvested and Sunflowers ready to dry for the chickens...
