Spring Term
The Spring season is when we immerse ourselves in the world of plants, permaculture and homesteading. It's where we start our gardens, tend to young livestock, begin bee boxes and prepare many medicinal tinctures. We also intensively study the life and habits of birds, delving deeply into a very poignant and ancient aspect of tracking.
Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants
Learn to get your body fit and healthy with the greater dietary and medicinal benefits of wild edible and medicinal plants. We address sustainable gathering practices along with the anatomy of balanced nutrition and healing. Proper identification and a deep relationship to individual plants become vital to understand them as both food and medicine.
Permaculture and Homesteading
Receive your Permaculture Design Certification. Our coursework is about understanding permaculture's intensive principles for real world hands-on applications. It's about actually feeding your family and village for many generations to come. It ties directly into our culture of homesteading and sustenance gardening. Harvest and preservation of spring milk and eggs folds into artisan cheese making, pickling and fermentation.
Bird Language
Bird language is a specialized yet essential part of nature observation and tracking. Your sensitivity to the land around you grows as you tune your movements in the forest to the calls and songs of birds. A sparrow alarms to tell you the fox is trotting by. A jay watches in the trees as the bear passes through. We work with many of the best birders, naturalists and trackers in the field to develop deeper relationships was some of the most incredible denizens of our forests.
Class Days for Spring 2010
Upcoming Term March 28-June 19, 2010
Class takes place every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Class hours are 9am-5pm. The 1-week Nature of the Village Permaculture and Wild Plants overnight begins the term (March 28-April 3). City Repair's Village Building Convergence ends the term (June 13-19). Each month we include a 3-day overnight (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) at the Trackers Homestead or other location (beginning Spring 2011 there will be 2 overnights a month).
Dates
Nature of the Village Permaculture and Wild Plants Overnight March 28-April 3, 2010 (overnight)
Regular Class Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 9am-5pm with holiday breaks.
Overnight: Wild Food and Medicine Harvest April 20-22, 2010
Overnight: Coastal Sea Vegetable and Fishing Harvest May 18-20, 2010
City Repair's Village Building Convergence June 13-19, 2010
PDF Download the full Spring 2009 syllabus
Tuition
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