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Living the Experience: Herbalism, Wild Nutrition & Forest Gardening 7-Day Intensive

Overview The Flow Registration Overview “Something new is happening, a new vision, a new energy, a new sacred story is coming into being in the transition from one era to another.” ~Thomas Berry July 5 – 12, 2020 This 7-Day experiential intensive informs and engages you in the energetic and nutritional elements of herbalism, wild nutrition and forest gardening, to expand your awareness of the plant world through ecologically sustainable practices. Cultivating a human relationship with the plant kingdom and their cycles, from the garden to plate, is ancient and essential if we are to fully understand how to participate in regenerative food systems that support both our personal health and the health of the Earth. This week-long intensive invites you to deepen into a truly human intimacy with the natural world. Discover the diverse relationships you have with plants through plant medicine, wild nutrition, forest gardening, earth stewardship, edible plant foraging, herbal skills, eco-spiritual connection and nature immersion. The goal of this program is to cultivate an authentic, dedicated, growing herbal community of passionate leaders who hold a vision of a future that is ecologically resilient, socially just, and spiritually fulfilling for all beings. Meet the plants where they live and discover … Read more

Create Your Own Future! A Permaculture Solution Weekend

Permaculture offers visionary and practical solutions for personal, environmental and social change. April 15 & 16 Are you seeking the tools and confidence to actually do something about what’s happening in the world? If so, we are here to support you. Imagine a life where you are completely lit up by your desire to be in service to creating a more beautiful world. You feel confident in how you will contribute and secure your skills and knowledge to create and share your dreams with others. Permaculture integrates the best of ancient knowledge, sustainable technologies and disciplines to help us design ecologically sound, efficient and productive ways to live in our households, gardens, communities and businesses. Based on the principles of ecology and sustainability, this design system can be used to create landscapes that mimic nature’s patterns and yield an abundance of food, fibre and energy for all our needs. Permaculture can be used by anyone, anywhere. An invaluable tool for homeowners, farmers, urban and rural gardeners, educators, landscapers, foresters, neighbourhood organizers and anyone interested in sustainable living. Permaculture is creative, imaginative, productive and mostly – fun. We invite you to join a life-enhancing revolution and be part of building the … Read more

Wild Plant Permaculture & Rewilding Practicum (PDC)

Overview Objective & Process Schedule Registration Overview Rewilding Design System – Understanding the Language of Nature June 18 – November 15, 2020 16 Week Evening Series plus Two Weekends Learn to transform degraded woodlands and thickets into healthy, biodiverse, productive native plant habitats through hands-on, ecologically sound techniques. This part-time program is equally suited for the professional and the layperson, for landowners and land stewards, activists, naturalists, outdoor enthusiasts and native plant lovers. We begin with the permaculture foundations and then dive in deeper to understand how wild plants embody permaculture and cooperate to enhance the environment for the benefit of all. You will experience hands-on projects and expand your understanding of forest garden design through explorations of ecological practices. The wild wisdom of nature will be your inspiration while we re-design our own rhythmic patterns and participate more powerfully in a regenerative transformation of the world. What’s Rewilding? Rewilding is a process that nurtures resources, ecosystems, and communities back to health by reversing the devastating effects of industrial civilization. The modern person’s ability to intuit and discern the deep patterns and communications of the Earth have atrophied slowly over several thousand years of belief in human separation from and … Read more

Forest Gardening Mentorship: Ecological Resilient Design

Mentorship Pathway The Process The Experience Testimonials Registration Mentorship Pathway Ecological Resilience of Native PlantsTBA, 2024 “Learning from the forests to live is to reach the highest level a human can aim for.”~Vanadana Shiva This program is committed to ‘planting the future’ by saving our native healthy and edible plants through an education that inspires tomorrow’s foragers, wildcrafters, herbalists, forest gardeners, permaculturists and ecologists. It offers a rigorous and intensive immersion into designing and regenerating our landscapes. Discover how a genuine working relationship with Earth is the cornerstone for enduring personal, community, and ecological health and happiness. Learn how to achieve the same benefits natural systems demonstrate: stability, resilience, self-maintenance, self-renewal and increased nutrient conservation at personal and ecological levels. We discover an ancient relationship with Nature through ecological study and forest gardening. One that evokes a sacred partnership with the living planet. You will learn ways to participate in creating thriving ecosystems that sustain and regenerate all life. “The ultimate goal of both herbalism and forest gardening is not only the production of crops, but also the cultivation and perfection of new ways of seeing, of thinking, and acting in the world.” In this 12-day intensive forest gardening design training … Read more

Four-Season Permaculture: If You Can Dream It, You Can Create It

Overview Our Approach Course Options Why Permaculture Registration Details Testimonials Overview April 15 to October 22, 2023 Are you seeking the tools and confidence to do something about what’s happening in the world? If so, we are here to support you. Imagine a life where you are entirely lit up by your desire to be in service to creating a more beautiful world. You feel confident in how you will contribute and secure your skills and knowledge to create and share your dreams with others. Why We Do What We Do We believe that if everyone knew even a little about how Permaculture works, the degree of global change would be incredible. If you can’t already tell, we are passionate about Permaculture. Nature Works! and has proven that for millennia. Drawing on the principles of nature, Permaculture takes us through a step-by-step process to create the future Now! A 7-Month Dive Awaken your connection with the Earth and learn the practical skills required for humans to stay here on planet Earth. This is a 7-month dive into how to change your life and the world. All you need is guidance from those who have walked this path before. You … Read more

The Local Wild Living Design: Foundational Workshop

Living Seed – Living Soil – Living Foods Foundational Workshop for All Herbalism, Nutritional Herbalism, Forest Gardening & Energetic Medicine Mentorships March 3- 4, 2024 This workshop explores and integrates edible and medicinal plants, local living nutrition, permaculture fundamentals, wholistic health, and herbalism principles. By bridging the gap between Earth’s living soil and the soil of our bodies, the results will enhance y our well-being. Bring wild foods into your daily diet and sprouts to create delicious live-food meals through practical application. You will learn the benefits of making cultured and fermented recipes and ancient detoxification techniques for enhancing well-being. Integrating herbal healing modalities and encompassing excellent earth-centred skills into daily life will create a deep connection. Wild Nutrition Native Edibles & Medicinal Plants Herbal Wisdom The Art of Sprouting Our Inner & Outer Biology Fermented Condiments & Cultured Foods Nature’s Permaculture Plants “We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest in exploring and learning all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable. Land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because they are unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” ~Henry David Thoreau Through a combination of … Read more