Cattail Supermarket (CANCELED)

Sunday, June 23, 2024
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Tuition: $48 Materials: $2
*Sliding Scale Tuition 

Visit cattail swamps and find food and useful household items. We will learn together about indigenous people’s uses for cattails and the variety of foods contained in the roots, stalks, and flowering parts. We’ll return to the Folk School to create useful items and have a snack, the details of which will depend on the cattails’ stage of development. Wear footwear for mucking about. A pocket knife may also be helpful. (And probably bug dope or head net.)

About the Instructor: Johnnie Hyde worked as an Outward Bound instructor for canoeing, winter dog sledding, camping and has guided private trips into the Boundary Waters. She also works as an EMT and a firefighter with the US Forest Service. She is the owner and operator of Raven Words Press in Ely and serves on the Ely Folk School Board.