Baskets in the Barn

I joined members of the Nova Scotia Basketry Guild on their annual excursion to demonstrate basket weaving using materials and technique sympathetic to the Ross Farm Museum interpretation period. It was a damp and dismal day, but spirits were cheery in the barn with the wood stove going and delicious treats on hand. We wove freshly harvested withrod into traditional harvest baskets. You can see one completed that day to the right of Monique at the barn entrance.

Ross Farm Museum http://rossfarm.museum.gov.ns.ca is tucked away in the centre of the province but well worth the trip. It is blessed with an incredibily skilled and dedicated staff. Outfitted in period costumes, they go about the daily tasks of farm life complete with animals, crops & household chores. Visitors have the opportunity to interact with all the inhabitants and get a nitty gritty idea of what life was really like in rural Nova Scotia in the 1800's

Road side trip

Ross Farm hosts a Farmer's Market during the "Growing Season". We were fortunate to be there for its last day for this year. Stalwart stall holders cheered marketers braving the wet weather and, for their part, shoppers had a fabulous time buying homemade sausages,mustard, veggies, bread, soap and more.... Part or the "growing" group Farmers markets in the province.