Wednesday we traveled a few miles east of Birmingham to gather cane and chert. We scavenged a drainage ditch and discovered several viable (hopefully) pieces of chert, a few fossils, and pebbles for our indoor plants among the fill. Also gathered some dandelion greens and wild onions to toss into a salad and some a few pieces of bamboo from a nearby canebreak.
Jake has finished another piece of locally extracted greenstone as well, this time crafting a pendant necklace with in-laid glass beads.
Friday we went to a sinkhole in the Springville/Oneonta area and collected a couple of bucketfuls of indigenous clay, with which we hope to simultaneously craft teaching materials for a southeast Native American module and holiday tribute for kin.
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