Programs

Program Description:
When you want rope or any type of cordage, you go to the hardware store. What did people do before stores? Join us as we explore how plants can be turned into cordage. You will experiment with taking raw plant stems and leaves, such as dogbane and yucca, and create your own rope to take home.

Schedule:
• Saturday, June 14, 2025 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Fee:
• $10

Location:
• Rocky Fork Metro Park Pavilion

*About the Instructor:
Sandy Reed is a Nature Program Assistant Coordinator for Healthy New Albany. She recently retired from 36 years of teaching science. She has a BA in Education and a MA in Gifted Education and is a certified Montessori middle school teacher. Sandy was recently recognized as a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow through National Geographic and Lindblad Expeditions and traveled to Antarctica. She is also a certified Forest Therapy Guide and an instructor with Original Wisdom, a small organization that provides international adventure education programs in wildlife tracking, ecology, bushcraft and human culture. As an internationally certified wildlife tracker, she enjoys traveling into the African bush each summer to work on her wildlife tracking skills and teaches bushcraft skills with her husband in the United States and South Africa. She loves to travel, hike, fish, hunt, camp and introduce people to nature.