From Farmfest to The Green Gathering at Chepstow!

The Green Gathering!

On leaving Farmfest I made my way north-west to Chepstow for the Green Gathering, previously known as The Great Green Gathering, but now downsized for many reasons and rebuilt in the wonderful grounds of Piercefield Park pictured below. A wondefully landscaped park with secret views and magical places that included a grotto, druid's temple, bathing house and giant's cave,  over the Rivers Wye.

The organisers of Green Gathering plan the festival site around the contours of the park and transform the area into a wonderful space full of craft workshops, fun, music, healing, tee pees, saunas and enveloped with plenty of love! The recycling system is excellent, with sacks for every type of waste - definitely involved a lot of thought as to what you are actually throwing away, which added a new element to this festival. 

The craft area was exceptional with all stalls/workshop areas set in a wheel formation facing outwards! Such craft people as Oak Clan Forge, Waynes Wood Spoon Carving, upcycling with Rags to Riches and for something even more useful - wild foraging with Carol Hunt and then....................there was The Travelling Tuffeteer! I absolutely loved everything about this festival, the people, the setting, other stallholders and especially our brilliant craft organiser Simon Craig, who incidentally is an amazing coin carver!

Green Earth Awakening -24th -27th May

The Green Earth Awakening mini fest was enveloped in the most wonderful atmosphere of togetherness. Small in number, fair to middling weather - some sunshine some light rain and a group of folk that gelled more and more as the weekend went on. Great talks, crafts - I even made a wooden spoon with Wayne of Wayne's Spoons -

 A great workshop if you ever have the opportunity - he will be at The Green Gathering in Chepstow so hopefully you will be there too! My tuffet workshops were so packed we used every loom and sat out in the sunshine to make them.














My small looms designed for children have unfortunately never been terribly successful.........until now! It was discovered that when held by the feet it works really well, however there is a need for a degree of suppleness!!