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Brenda, one of our awesome resident volunteers, has been experimenting with clay in her free time. Out of several volunteers and visitors who talked about figuring out a way to fire pottery, Brenda is the first to put the clay into the fire. Quite literally.
Rather than messing […] Suzie and Brie are two amazing women who came to us from Minnesota. They are great friends, and both of them helped out so much, so it seems appropriate to spotlight them together.
Suzie was our fourth volunteer, and helped us develop and start our resident volunteer program. She was our […] We have a gazillion pine needles on the forest floor. For weaving baskets, the pine needles need to be long – at least 20 centimeters, or about 8 inches. A women’s collective in Opopeo (a village about an hour from the Bosque) came to this area and taught the women here how to weave beautiful […] Some of our visitors use their time in the forest as a personal artist retreat. This area of Michoacán is known for attracting artists such as Frido Kahlo and Diego Rivera. We’re not sure if it’s the climate, the openness of the people here to receiving strange artist foreigners, or just coincidence. Whatever the case, […] |