GOURD CARVING WORKSHOP
LEARN TO CARVE A HANDMADE Gourd HARVEST BOWL
Sunday, July 13, 2025
10am - 4pm
Sedalia, Colorado
Join us for a 6-hour immersive workshop where you’ll learn to transform homegrown bushel gourds into beautiful, functional bowls—perfect for gathering wild herbs, blending loose-leaf teas, or serving your favorite salad with rustic amazingness!
We’ll be working with gourds I’ve personally grown and carefully dried, cured, and cleaned—ready for you to shape into something truly special. Throughout the day, you’ll explore key aspects of gourd crafting:
• Carving
• Cleaning
• Decorating
• Finishing and Sealing
In addition to hands-on work, we’ll delve into the rich cultural history of gourd artistry and discuss tips for growing and curing your own gourds at home.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll leave with your own finished, food-safe harvest bowl—durable, one-of-a-kind, and ready to use for years to come.
This class is intentionally small, with just 7 spots available, and offered on a sliding scale for those that need in order to keep it accessible. Please contact me if sliding scale is something you need.
If this speaks to you, we’d LOVE to craft together—sign up below!
Your Guide:
Mandy Bishop is a ritual artist, medicine maker, nature-based guide and mentor. She’s a farmer, sister, daughter, teacher, storyteller and perpetual student of these ancient ways and ancestral lifeways. She’s a seeker, a lover of life, a dancer and a ceremonialist. Born on the front range of Colorado (lands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne and Ute peoples), she is deeply connected to the mountains and the wild places, and when not tending her garden and growing gourds she might be found foraging food, wildcrafting medicines or making art.
She’s also the founder of Old Ways Wisdom—a place to bridge the gap of disconnect in these wild times by rekindling the old ways and fostering relationship with the land, our bodies, and the ancient wisdom in our bones through deep story work and ancestral skills. Mandy is in service to the remembrance of our wild selves; to a partnership between nature, creativity and soul; and to the wisdom carried in our bones waking us up to what is most important in our lives. And she loves more than anything to share in these old ways and wisdom with you!