Below are the results of a video project made possible by support from the Park Foundation showcasing traditional skills projects done with Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The videos were partially shot by students working with a professional videographer, Andrea Claire Maio.

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When is iron bendable? When it's really hot! Watch SEEDS Youth Corps students learn the traditional skill of metalsmithing in the historical setting of Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore. Later they go on to become lumberjacks as they learn to use the traditional crosscut saw. 

 

Follow the SEEDS Suttons Bay Youth Corps students on South Manitou Island as they build a boardwalk and learn about the individual plant species that the boardwalk will protect. Susan Fawcett acts as their art and botany instructor.

 

What do you do with a broken down barn? If it's a historical structure, SEEDS Youth Corps can help preserve it with the guidance of Steve Stier. Watch as students learn historic preservation techniques such as tuckpointing and window repair. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Medieval days, animal skinning, using a crosscut saw, restoring historic buildings, learning the names of plants. What do these all have in common? SEEDS summer programming invites young people to take part in all of these enriching activities.