February Guild Program Night Meeting
Thursday, February 13
7:00 to 9:00 pm Central Time
See our members-only event calendar or Googlegroup for location and Zoom link.
High Hog Farm
Keisha Cameron
High Hog Farm is a family affair and a passion and mission for the Camerons. While foodways for the kitchen and pantry are a major product of the farm, so too is fiber and all the ways around that fiber.
For Keisha Cameron, reaching into the historic and cultural roots of spinning and fiber work fuels her passion of sharing the family’s stories from the farm, land-based skills and building healthy, connected communities. Farm tours and stays help visitors explore the spaces between food, fiber, culture and community. Keisha offers classes in processing raw fiber, hand spinning, and fresh leaf indigo dyeing as well as a community indigo day. Other workshops address the learning needs of small farms, from drone technology for photos and mapping, to grow-alongs. See a video.
Recently Keisha toured Ladakh, India, and the greater Tibetan region as part of the Tibetan Rural & Green Business Training and Exchange Program hosted by Columbia University. The program’s goal is to support Tibetan economic development and cultural preservation. She was part of a hand-selected cohort of eight US Fellows who met with Tibetan pastoralists, shepherds, textile artisans and entrepreneurs living in exile in the Ladakhi region. She shared some of her experience on her Instagram.
Check out Keisha Cameron’s conversation with Anne Merrow on The Long Thread Podcast.
Keisha Cameron is the Lead Cultivator of High Hog Farm. She provides much of the creative vision for the farm, their programs, and community engagement. From sowing indigenous, heirloom crops to exploring Black agrarianism, and ancestral arts, Keisha looks to foster growth wherever she can. Whenever she’s not weeding a bed, seeding a tray, or administering care to one of the animals, she’s working with fiber from the farm’s rabbits and sheep.
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First Saturday (read more about this here)
Saturday, February 1st
Noon – 2:00 PM
SHARE!
February’s Saturday meeting will be this year’s annual SHARE!
Come with your questions or, better yet, let us know ahead of time what you’d like some help with and we’ll try to pair you up with another member who can help.
Demonstrations are TBD, but there will be a rigid heddle warping demo for sure. Since this is just a two-hour meeting we’re encouraging smaller one-on-one types of mentoring and assistance, like understanding a weaving pattern draft or prepping for the February workshop with Janet Phillips. A member has even offered to help other members with knitting questions! Be sure to watch for Discord and GoogleGroup chatter to see if someone needs help, or if someone is offering help and will be there.
In-person at the Northwest Recreation Center
2913 Northland Dr, Austin, TX 78757
Meet-up Night (Formerly Hands-on Night)
Thursday, February 27
7:00-9:00 PM
A weekday night to just come as you are and craft, or meet with our guild Librarian to check out a book or magazine.
In person! at Austin Recreation Center
1301 Shoal Creek Blvd, Austin, TX 78701
Other scheduled meetings in March from our active study groups:
Saturday, February 8 – Spinning Study Group
Thursday, February 20 – Swatch Study Group
Saturday, February 22 – Spinning Group – General Spin-In
See our members-only event calendar, newsletter, or Googlegroup for locations or Zoom links.