Flying Pig Farm

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Sustainability Series: Cyanotype
Sunshine Celebration with Flying Pig Farm

Saturday, June 20 11:00 - 2:00
Bear Creek Nature Center

$40 includes 2 prints to take home.
Prepaid registration required! See bio for link.
Contact [email protected] with questions

Join Naomi Falk and Mel Williams to forage plant designs and refresh old textiles with cyanotypes in this workshop featuring the natural surroundings at Bear Creek Nature Preserve. Cyanotype is one of oldest and most accessible forms of photography.

An elegant combination of chemistry and botany practices came together to produce the first book of photography. Blueprints were made by layering original architectural designs over cyanotype-treated paper. Join us as we forage for specimens on a nature walk and experiment with this solar print process on different materials. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring a clothing item from home they’d like to transform.

Bug hotels are a great way to invite more critters into your yards or gardens, especially since insects act as pollinators, provide food for other animals like birds, and can reduce common garden foes like aphids.

Not are bug hotels super fun to make, but also super easy! We’ve been using old dresser drawers or bits of salvaged shelving, but you can even use an old shoe box as a frame (as long as it stays covered from the rain/snow). Then, we tightly pack this frame with a variety of materials: toilet paper/paper towel rolls, pieces of cardboard, and dry leaves, twigs, and cones gathered from around the farm. Make sure to create a variety of nooks and crannies so that bugs of all sizes can move in!

Once complete, bug hotels can be hung on a fence, or placed in a tree (preferably facing southeast for lots of morning sun) to await the arrival of their guests!