Build Repair Grow: Wheat, Weaving & Wheels

Description

Instructor: Logan McFadden & Build Repair Grow Staff

Pronouns: they/them/their

Dates: Saturday, September 18th, 2021

Times: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST, lunch included

# of Students: 12

Cost: $80 – $160 sliding scale

Materials Fee: Included

Open to: Ages 10+

Logan McFadden (they/them/their), Founder and Director of Build Repair Grow, has been leading nonprofit programs for young people since 2006 and continually enjoys learning new skills from their community and environment. With a masters degree in nonprofit management and a background directing auxiliary programs both in and out of school settings, Logan is thrilled to bring Build Repair Grow to life.

Program Description

Wheat is used for food, fiber, and sometimes as a cover crop in a garden or farm. Fabric of Life and Build Repair Grow are joining forces to explore how wheat can be ground using a bicycle powered grain mill, and cooked into bread, pizza dough, and other treats using different outdoor cooking methods. We’ll also explore how wheat can be used for fiber and woven into cloth.

Bicycles and people have a lot in common — both are filled with potential energy to accomplish great things! In this immersive one-day summer workshop, Fabric of Life and Build Repair Grow will collaborate to provide a hands-on program for students in upper elementary through high school and we’ll explore:

• alternative methods to grinding grain – youth will get to put together a bicycle powered grain mill that we’ll use to grind wheat
• different outdoor cooking methods for making food from wheat – pizza oven, hibachi, wood stove and 
• weaving with fibers from wheat plants 

The day will start out in the garden and end around the table sharing food that we made together. Topics taught include growing and cooking food, bicycle parts/theory, bicycle-driven alternative power, and fiber arts.

About Build Repair Grow

Build Repair Grow is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Western Massachusetts that began in February 2020. The core mission of Build Repair Grow is to provide young people with training in practical skills critical for developing individual resiliency, problem-solving, and self-sufficiency while promoting community health. We do this through teaching skills in growing and cooking food, sewing, basic carpentry, and bike repair.

Please contact us with any questions at office@fabric-of-life.org.

Our sliding scale fee allows us to keep these programs accessible to a wide range of individuals. The ‘admirer’ option covers the cost of the instructor fee, program support, marketing, and administration. The ‘friend’ option covers all of this and allows for a small profit margin to be contributed towards sustaining Fabric of Life programming for next year. The ‘enthusiast’ option covers all of this and allows for us to begin to sustain Fabric of Life programming for generations to come.

FOL will refund 90% of your fee if you cancel more than 30 days before the beginning of the program. 10% will be retained for administrative services. Cancellation with less than 30 days notice will automatically be rolled over as a credit for another program of your choice within the next year from the date of the original program. FOL will maintain the funds and carry them forward once you determine what program you would like to utilize them for. If there is a balance after paying for the second program, it will not be refunded. If a program does not run due to circumstances beyond our control, participants will receive a full refund of the fees paid.