Invasive Bittersweet Baskets
Sun, Apr 12
|Recreation Center @ Val Halla
Learn to identify, gather/remove and make a round, woven basket using invasive bittersweet vines.
Time & Location
Apr 12, 2026, 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Recreation Center @ Val Halla, 60 Val Halla Rd, Cumberland Center, ME 04021, USA
About the event
Frustrating to gardeners and arborists, and not readily favored by birds, invasive bittersweet is a largely useless bane on wild land. We can use traditional harvesting techniques to tend to bittersweet in the wild: harvesting material for baskets while controlling and suppressing future damaging growth.
Learn to weave a round wicker basket, made of invasive bittersweet. Students will employ several different traditional weaving techniques in order to create a strong basket for use in the field, kitchen or garden. We’ll plan to make a basket about 9” wide and 7” deep, with or without a handle. This is a class for beginners, but a moderate amount of hand strength and dexterity is required. Necessary tools, along with locally-sourced hand-harvested basket-weaving materials, will be provided.
Space in this class is limited. Preregistration, along with a paid deposit, is required to reserve a spot in the class. Deposits may be fully refunded…