Getting Started

Listed below are things we can do to help you get started.  Once you are ready to move ahead download the Interest Form and email to: milwcraftguild@gmail.com.

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• Use your photos as the basis for setting photographic goals

• Spend time photographing to address technical and aesthetic goals

• Offer advice about camera purchases

• Demonstrate camera techniques, editing options and printing

• Share ideas about sequencing and presentation

• Visit a photo studio

• Facilitate group discussions about our photographs

Photography

Woodworking

• Visit our home-based shops

• Visit your space to help you plan how to set-up your home shop

• Offer advice on tool selection: what to buy, where to buy: hand or power tools

• Offer advice on common home furniture repairs

• Locate community resources for classes/tools

• Demonstrate project design tips

• Provide skill building workshops—we can help teach you basics to get started

• Interface with a community of beginners

Veggie Gardening

• Visit existing gardens to see how others do it

• Visit your yard and help plan a space

• Help you design a layout that makes sense

• Offer guidance on building a box and blending soil

• Provide advice on picking plants that work for your space

• Help you start a mushroom garden

• Show you where to shop for plants or show you how to start from seeds

• Outlining how to create your own fertilizer