17. CHRISTMAS TREES. Did you know that they have a surprising range of uses? How do people use them as food and medicine? And what has turpentine got to do with Christmas trees?

16. Part 2 MONETIZING YOUR CRAFTSTEADING HOBBIES. Where can you sell your Craftsteading products and skills online? What about packaging supplies and freight shipping calculators?

15. Part 1 MONETIZING YOUR CRAFTSTEADING HOBBIES. What products or skills can Craftsteaders sell? Where can you sell them in the real world? And how do you set your prices?

14. NETTLES - YOU WON’T BELIEVE THEIR USES! From food and medicine to cosmetics, paper, cordage, textiles, dyes, fertilizer and insecticide!

13. LEMON - YOU WON'T BELIEVE ITS USES! It’s a common fruit but it has a wide range of uses other than as a decoration for a cocktail or a garnish for seafood dish!

12. PLANTS USED FOR LIGHTING. Many plants you can grow in your garden produce a wax or an oil that can be used as lighting fuel or candle wicks.

11. HOW TO USE NATURE’S COLORS. How to find, preserve and enhance nature’s extraordinary colors when you make stuff out of plants.

10. HOW TO HEAR COLORS IN A PODCAST. How can colors be experienced through a podcast? Listen to our home-made sounds and find out if you can hear colors.

9. BASIC BASKETRY TOOL SET, AND WEAVING YOUR OWN TRAY (Basketry Pt 3 of 3)

8. BASKETRY METHODS AND BASKET NAMES (Basketry Pt 2 of 3) What different methods can you use to make baskets? What does randing, waling and scarfing mean? What on earth is a creel, a trug or a tattie

7. PLANTS USED FOR BASKETRY (Basketry Pt 1 of 3) Grow your own basket-making materials or forage for them. The list of basketry plants is much longer than you’d have thought!

6. DYE PLANTS: Grow dye plants in your own garden, to dye textiles in a rainbow of beautiful natural colours.

5. LAVENDER - Learn more about one of the world's favourite plants. It's fragrant, edible, medicinal and can be used in many ways you might not have thought of!

4. NATURAL DYES The three sources of natural dyes, the accidental discovery of manufactured dyes, and the strange stories of Carmine and Tyrian Purple.

3. BOTANICAL JEWELLERY: The traditional craft of making necklaces, bracelets etc. out of seeds and other plant materials.

2. CORDAGE: how to make string, twine and rope out of natural plant fibres growing in your garden.

1. GOURDS: growing, drying, carving, cutting and decorating gourds to make useful containers and more.

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