Who is interested in a FUN evening and learning opportunity for yourself and your friends/family?!?! Maybe you just need a girls night out??? 🤩🫶🐝🍞🍉🥑🧁🍓🫶🤩
On Tuesday, October 14th, from 6-9PM, we are partnering with Southeast Community College in Beatrice, Nebraska, to offer participants an opportunity to learn the art of making your own Beeswax Food Wraps, Bags, and Covers! Give you family the benefits of eliminating harmful plastics and chemicals from your food, at a fraction of the cost!!
🐝 There are some HUGE benefits to using beeswax for food storage and preservation…
•Reduce or eliminate plastics and microplastic contaminants from your kitchen and foods
•Making them is a fun family project and will encourage recycling, use of available resources, and will decrease food waste in your home!
•Less food waste means you’ll be maximizing your grocery budget, saving money!
•Beeswax and Pine Resin are antimicrobial, inhibiting mold and bacterial growth on foods, increasing shelf life and food safety.
•Add beauty to your kitchen, versus ugly plastic products products.
•No more disposing containers when lids are damaged or lost! These cover any dish, bowl, pan, or naturally stick to themselves- forming a water and air-tight seal!
•Each wrap is reusable, and customers report that their wraps last years with proper care and regular use! They can also easily be refreshed as needed!
•Unlike plastic wrap, our beeswax wraps will stick and seal to the tops of those darn plastic bowls! Something that NO cling wrap will ever do- frustrating!
•If you bake bread or sourdough, the covers are a baker’s best friend- proofing dough, and keeping bread fresh days longer than plastic, right on the counter!
•The number of ways to use them is endless, and our clients come up with new projects and ideas every day!!
•Fully customizable!! You can make wraps or bags in any size, for any project, and any occasion! They make AMAZING gifts for birthdays & holidays, and you’ll never tire of making new sizes and designs for use in your own kitchen!
Anyone can purchse premade wraps and bags on Etsy, Amazon, Ebay, etc… The problem is the price! They’re EXPENSIVE, and it can be cost prohibitive!! You also have no control over the quality, texture, fabrics, or ingredients used i tour products…
Our class will teach you how and where to source materials and ingredients, the common pitfalls to avoid, and save you hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars on trial and error- testing recipes and techniques that just don’t work! (We spent months doing the hard part for you!)
Topics covered:
•Materials- Fabric types/weight and how it affects final product.
•Recipes and Ingredients: How each ingredient can be used to enhance or change the quality of texture, adherence, flexibility, etc…
•How to Purify Raw Beeswax
•Methods for Melting and Mixing waxes and Resins (this step is where many people fail)
•How to apply wax mixture to fabrics- ensuring saturation and proper melt, applying an even coat, preventing waste (Another pitfall that causes a lot of wasted material, tome and $$)
•Cooling and drying your new products as well as simple packaging ideas
•Making/Molding your wax recipe bars for refreshing wraps, making new, or to give as gifts to those who would enjoy making their own!
•Using premade bars- melting and application options
•Storage, care, washing, drying and how to increase longevity!
•Designs, patterns, common sizes and ideas for different types of food storage, travel, home, school, work, storing at room temp, or refrigeration.
All class materials provided that day. Wveryone will make at least 1 XXL wrap, or a set of various sizes to take home that night. We will have bags premade forose who choose that option for their personal project. If you have a cotton fabric youd like to use, bring it! If its right for using, you’re welcome to use youur own.
Items to consider for home purchase (we recommend you DO NOT purchase wax, resin or oils until after class complete to prevent quality issues). We provide for you on day of class: cotton fabric in various patterns, tools/supplies for use that night- scissors, pinking shears, yard stick, plastic craft/sewinf cutting board with measurements marked, iron, ironing board, parchment paper, baking sheet, double boiler setup, hot plate, 4” Foam Pain Rollers, oven, stovetop or electric hot plate with single heating element fordouble boiler, Beeswax, Pine Tree Resin, Jojoba Oil, Food scale (must weigh in grams), drying rack, plastic clothes pins, glass bowl that fits into the top of XL pot to use as a double boiler, silicone spatulas, stainless steel scraper/stirring utensils. (All materials will be demonstrated that night).
*If you bring your own supplies, please mark them clearly ahead of class with your name on a tag or tape, to prevent mixing with our personal farm supplies available to borrow.
Please let me know if you’d like more info! I will have sign-ups and a link available tomorrow (Monday)! Get ready for a fun and messy night!
Also check out other Workshops in Beatrice, Arts events in Beatrice.
