Invasive Bittersweet Baskets
Thu, Nov 07
|Scarborough High School
Learn to make a strong, beautiful basket of invasive round-leafed bittersweet. Organized in collaboration with Scarborough Land Trust!


Time & Location
Nov 07, 2019, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Scarborough High School, 11 Municipal Drive, Scarborough, ME 04074, USA
About the event
Asiatic or round-leafed bittersweet is a creeping vine with inedible berries that is considered invasive in North America. Frustrating to gardeners and arborists, and not readily favored by birds, bittersweet is a largely useless bane on wild land. We can use traditional harvesting techniques to tend Asian bittersweet in the wild: harvesting material for baskets while controlling and suppressing future damaging growth.
Learn to make a strong, beautiful basket of invasive round-leafed bittersweet! We'll cover identification, responsible collection, materials processing and storage, and creation, including the basics of stake-and-strand twining and weaving. $45 includes all required tools, materials, and tuition.
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 in the event of a cancellation a week or more before the class, if the space is filled. Refunds for last-minute cancellations are unfortunately…