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16. Part 2 MONETIZING YOUR CRAFTSTEADING HOBBIES. Where can you sell your Craftsteading products and skills online? What about packaging supplies and freight shipping calculators?

You can sell handmade products online with very little expense in at least 5 ways: * your own store built with a platform such as Shopify, Squarespace, Wix, BigCommerce,

15. Part 1 MONETIZING YOUR CRAFTSTEADING HOBBIES. What products or skills can Craftsteaders sell? Where can you sell them in the real world? And how do you set your prices?

Whether you’ve grown your own gourds and decorated them, grown your own broomcorn and made artisan brooms, grown your own Jobs Tears and made botanical jewellery, grown y

14. NETTLES - YOU WON’T BELIEVE THEIR USES! From food and medicine to cosmetics, paper, cordage, textiles, dyes, fertilizer and insecticide!

The humble and underrated stinging-nettle (Urtica dioica) has some amazing secrets. From food and medicine to cosmetics, paper, cordage, textiles for clothing and househo

13. LEMON - YOU WON'T BELIEVE ITS USES! It’s a common fruit but it has a wide range of uses other than as a decoration for a cocktail or a garnish for seafood dish!

This episode is about lemons, Citrus limon. I’ve chosen lemons because it’s pretty likely that most listeners will have access either to lemons the fruit, or a lemon tree

12. PLANTS USED FOR LIGHTING. Many plants you can grow in your garden produce a wax or an oil that can be used as lighting fuel or candle wicks.

Plant Oils, Waxes and Wicks for Alternative Lighting: Many plants you can grow in your garden can be used to provide lighting. Some of these plants produce a wax or an oi

11. HOW TO USE NATURE’S COLORS. How to find, preserve and enhance nature’s extraordinary colors when you make stuff out of plants.

How to find, preserve and enhance nature’s colors when you make stuff out of plants.  How can you make multi colored cordage?  Can you stop the colored patterns on gourds

9. BASIC BASKETRY TOOL SET, AND WEAVING YOUR OWN TRAY (Basketry Pt 3 of 3)

What’s in the cheapskate’s basic basketry tool kit?  What is a tension tray and why is it tense? And how can you make your own beautiful Catalan tray from foraged materia

8. BASKETRY METHODS AND BASKET NAMES (Basketry Pt 2 of 3) What different methods can you use to make baskets? What does randing, waling and scarfing mean? What on earth is a creel, a trug or a tattie

Over thousands of years people have developed numerous different basket making styles and methods, in addition to the many colourfully named traditional styles and design

7. PLANTS USED FOR BASKETRY (Basketry Pt 1 of 3) Grow your own basket-making materials or forage for them. The list of basketry plants is much longer than you’d have thought!

The ancient rhythms of basket weaving are so therapeutically satisfying and peaceful, you’ll want to have basket-making as your new relaxing hobby. And you end up with be

6. DYE PLANTS: Grow dye plants in your own garden, to dye textiles in a rainbow of beautiful natural colours.

Cornerstone dye plants Throughout history the plants that produce the best dyes include indigo, madder, woad, weld, turmeric, saffron, noni, and henna. I’m growing many o

5. LAVENDER - Learn more about one of the world's favourite plants. It's fragrant, edible, medicinal and can be used in many ways you might not have thought of!

In this episode I speak to gardening expert Kurt, of Berryman Gardens, about lavender.  Sweet-scented lavender (Lavandula angustifolia), also called English Lavender or T

4. NATURAL DYES The three sources of natural dyes, the accidental discovery of manufactured dyes, and the strange stories of Carmine and Tyrian Purple.

Beautiful dyes have been obtained from plants throughout human history. You can grow your own dye plants or use a wide range of other plants as a source of dye. Archaeolo

3. BOTANICAL JEWELLERY: The traditional craft of making necklaces, bracelets etc. out of seeds and other plant materials.

For as long as human beings have walked the earth people have decorated themselves with jewellery. The earliest was made from natural materials such as shells, bamboo, bo

2. CORDAGE: how to make string, twine and rope out of natural plant fibres growing in your garden.

 Plants for cordage  You can make useful string and twine and rope out of plant fibres.   The term cordage encompasses everything from fine string to cords to thicker r

1. GOURDS: growing, drying, carving, cutting and decorating gourds to make useful containers and more.

Grow your own gourds and use them to make and decorate handy household containers, bowls, bird houses, soup ladles, dippers, scoops, musical instruments, table décor or e

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