Make a Harvest Trophy – afternoon session

Celebrate the harvest of our heritage wheat at Oxford Botanic Gardens, by creating your own harvest trophy. Traditionally, ‘harvest trophies’ or ‘corn dollies’ would be made to celebrate the harvest and displayed at the harvest home supper. At Christmas or Plough Monday it would then be burned, scattered or ploughed back into the land, fulfilling the ancient belief of ‘what comes from the land must be returned to the land’. As well as being an endangered craft, working with straw is a very mindful activity, with benefits to general wellbeing and mental health. This workshop is taught by Straw artist Penny Maltby.

Price: £40

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