Preparing Hides to Become Rawhide for the Drum Class and Hide Smoking.

10am – ? at Sunflower Farm, Salmo, BC. No cost.
We’ll be scraping hides and soaking them in lime to get the hair to slip so that they will be ready for our upcoming drum and rattle class. For those students who have tanned a hide, today is the day to smoke it. Mmmmm… freshly smoked buckskin!

How to get to Sunflower Farm (Chris’ place):

From Nelson, drive south on Hwy 6 towards Salmo. Go through Salmo and turn right (west) onto Hwy 3 (towards Castlegar). Travel 6 minutes, going past Erie Lake on your left, the Pine Springs Motel on your right, and finally Archibald Creek Rd on your left. The next right is Meadows Rd. If you reach the Hwy split to Castlegar and Trail, you’ve gone too far.

Turn right on Meadows Rd. I am the third driveway on the right. There is no street number sign, but you will see the big metal quonset shop, cinder block building, and 3 sided horse barn.

Travel time from Nelson is about 45 minutes.