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Wanda Halten has been homesteading her entire life and is knowledgeable in a wide variety of homemaking skills. She worked at the Hancock Shaker Living History Village for almost 2 decades teaching a plethora of workshops.  She has a micro-farm in New Lebanon and raises animals, vegetables, trains herding dogs and makes beautiful traditional, non toxic soaps.

We will take tallow and turn it into a basic soap product that can be used for laundry, dish and finely milled facial soaps through traditional methods. We will take this basic product and bring it through the first phase of milling, using essential oils, algaes and herbals.

These will be great gifts and perfectly timed for Christmas.

We expect this workshop to sell out, so, please register early.

Bring rubber gloves, protective eyewear and smart, weather appropriate clothes.

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These workshops are deliberately designed to be low tech, home and small farm -scale and emphasize hands-on-learning so that you can easily incorporate these skills into your routine. All demonstrations will send you home with lots of information and samples, when possible. Please peruse the entire schedule - you may want to take more than one! Please bring your lunch, beverages and wear appropriate clothing and footwear. Also, continue to check the website as we are constantly adding workshops, lectures and events.