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14/10/2024, NOTES
Herder Berit Kiilerich has been running a shepherding farm Lystbækgaard since 1999, and in parallel a small association facilitating activities around the shepherd's practice and crafts. For Berit, tending to sheep, fire-grazing, and practicing traditional shepherd’s crafts are everyday ways of knowing and tending to land. The heathlands and the herder’s practices are threatened to disappear (especially as the landscapes slowly get purchased by big corporations and culturally and systemically, there is a lack of interest in and support for the practice).
Heathlands’ crafts and rural knowledge was a week’s workshop connecting the sheepherder farm Lystbækgaard, the artist collective Kultivator and the folk high school Vestjyllands Højskole.
During the five workshop days, traditional crafts and technologies were shared and exchanged. Kultivator and a group of students built a clay mass oven based on natural resources and found materials from the rural house called ‘The Yellow House’ and the neighbouring farm Nr. Lystbæk, as well as benches and tables, using only found materials and traditional crafts. Meanwhile other students took courses in shepherding, wool craftsmanship and foraging.
The workshop days were supported by Friluftsrådet.
