The gathering will run Friday afternoon, 9/29, through Sunday afternoon, 10/1. Camping available. There will be 4-5 workshop blocks, time to work on and share personal projects, trade items, and share meals and community. More details, including class schedule, coming soon.
Food not included - BYO ingredients for outdoor kitchen. Potluck dinner on Saturday evening. Sorry, no pets. Space is limited-- Register by emailing [email protected] Class Descriptions Mushroom ID and Walk - Dean Colpack We'll explore the fungal connections all around us, learning about mushroom relationships with trees and insects, as well as some of the identifying features human animals use to categorize these edible and medicinal forest friends. Nonviolent Communication - Dean Colpack We'll explore the process of finding self-empathy, empathy for the experience of others, and tools for expressing ourselves authentically in communication. Nonviolent Communication has a long history in conflict mediation and facilitation of group process. Fire by Friction - Ryan Richards This workshop will look at a couple methods of making fire without matches or a lighter. We will primarily work with the bow-drill and get a chance to practice and play with a set-up. We'll also get to see a modified partner/group version, as well as the handrill. This will be a mostly participant-led exploration of fire, what it can teach us, and how we can learn to tend it better. Singing in Community - Lilly Bell and Maggie Ranen Come raise your voices together in song and learn different melodies and harmonies. We will explore songs from all different parts of the world. Just Come and Sing! The CT River: Floodplain Forest Ecology and River Geology - Mike Parham Learn about the natural landscape of the CT river valley. This class will cover the geology, ecology and environmental history of the Floodplain Forest: The disappearing unique forest landscape, which surrounds rivers like the Connecticut and its tributaries. The class covers different types of Floodplain forests, important species, flooding cycles, glacial history, land use, and alluvial floodplains. It will cover invasive species and control as well as differing viewpoints on the role of invasive plants in the wild. Making yarn using drop spindles - Devin Roark Have you ever thought about where yarn comes from? The store? A sheep? Come learn how to transform sheep’s wool into yarn using a drop spindle. Inner Tracking - Moses Draper Take some time to slow down and let the natural world open us to our inner world. We'll combine a short solo in the woods with sharing in circle. Basics of stone tools - Neill Bovaird: This class is a window into the past. We will learn how early humans discovered and created stone tools using a variety of techniques. This 3 hour class focuses on techniques in stone tool production including, bipolar percussion, block on block percussion, percussion flaking, pressure flaking and finish work. Through the seven stages of reduction we will rediscover what our ancestors perfected. This class will be divided into 2 parts- 45minute demo followed by a 2 hour and 15 minute hands on portion. The demo is open to all and the hands on portion is open to 7 participants. There is a $5 fee for the hands on portion to cover the price of the stone we will use. Please bring thin leather gloves if you will be working with stone. Bark Baskets - Maggie Ranen Come learn how to transform a white pine tree into a basket for holding berries, nuts etc. We will go through the entire process from choosing a suitable tree, stripping the bark, shaping it to your liking and lacing it up using cordage made from plants. using only wood, knife and bone as tools. Sewing Buckskin Skill Circle - Maggie Ranen Have you had leather, buckskin or rawhide sitting around and have not known what to do with it or have always wanted to do leatherwork? Great, come to the skill circle, there will be tools and leather for working on projects. Learn and get inspired! Sheep butchering - Devin Roark and Felix Lufkin Learn how to slaughter, skin, dress, quarter and butcher a sheep! In this workshop, we'll learn about butchering, charcuterie and anatomy as we transform a whole, living, noble cousin of ours into food for us humans. All parts of the animal will be used including organ meats, bones and blood. Lastly, we will learn to use the sinew for string, hooves for glue how to begin hide work. Folks will be expected to roll their sleeves and participate. All this will be done, of course, in the respectful context of interdependence. Wild edible plants - Felix Lufkin We'll explore different habitats in the landscape - forests, fields, wetlands - with an eye towards accurate plant identification, harvest and preparation, edible and medicinal parts and uses. Meet and greet new and old friends, from roots to shoots, herbs to trees. We'll also discuss harvesting techniques that care for the land and ensure greater abundance year after year. All levels of foraging familiarity welcome. Space is limited - please RSVP at [email protected] Comments are closed.
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