The experience of making something yourself that you can use every day is transformative...

If you were to make your own coffee mug, sweater, table, basket, bread, tools, instruments...how would you do it? Where would you get the materials from, and who would you meet along the way? Then, how would you want it to look, to feel?

This is the collaborative, craft work of worlds end school...

Example: Since we are shepherds and have a lot of wool on our hands every year, we spin wool and knit sweaters and hats and sometimes socks. It’s a pretty lengthy and complex process to raise your own sheep and make a sweater. And it would be hard to do it alone; several people and animals and plants are involved: to get a nice clip or shearing you need a healthy sheep which means good grass, good sun, right rain. Photosynthesis. You need to protect your sheep (highly vulnerable to prey animals like coyotes) so you need guard animals - we have dogs. We have to feed those dogs so they eat some lamb from the year before. Some eggs, some chicken scraps and some kibble we buy. We take care of the dogs and they help take care of the sheep. The sheep help us by giving us tons of manure from the winter barn every year which we use on our vegetable and flower beds. This helps us grow better food to eat ourselves and flowers to arrange and sell. The flowers also provide food for the bees which keep fruit coming on our tomato plants and also provides us with honey and wax...