INTEGRATED EARTH MEDICINE CAMPS

Weaving Gardens, Herbal Medicine & Daily Food into a continuum of health from the ground up. Condensed, focused instruction in 3 areas vital to embracing herbs as peoples' medicine.

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3-Day Integrated Earth Medicine Camps

Friday 10:00am - Sunday 4:00pm

Registration: $250.

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Includes:
 

• All instruction, Talking Stick Ceremony and a local food lunch each day

• Inquire regarding local overnight accommodations 

GARDEN CAMP

From growing gardens to cultivating habitat...

Friday, May 7: 10:00am - 4:00pm

Saturday, May 8 : 10:00am - 4:00pm

Sunday, May 9: 10:00am - 3:30pm
 

Registration: $250.

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Are you  interested  in deepening your earth connection with nature as an ally, guided by the question "How does nature work?" Then, this Garden Camp is for you. You'll learn generative gardening, common sense design, soil management, how to reduce inputs and increase harvest...to cultivate a place where you'll begin to see with the eyes of a gardener-forager...

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Friday Focus: Earth & Design, Grounding 

• Learn simple design techniques that make gardens generative habitats. Design for access.

• Determine your goals? How much time do you have to garden? How can you succeed now and grow into the future?

• Bring your questions and a drawing of your garden space you can work with to...

• Learn what you need to start and grow your own garden

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Saturday Focus: Growing Abundant Gardens

• Compost: You'll learn the simple, No-Turn BOCA method and other composting strategies

• Fertility: is all about teaming with microbes 

• Propagation: seeds, division, cuttings 

• Learn simple methods to grow herbs, vegetables, flowers, berries, fruits and mushrooms using an integrated hands-on process

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Sunday Focus: Growing Up in Generative Gardens

• Pruning: Trees, shrubs & berries

• Coppicing & pollarding: Willows & hawthorns

• Creating boundaries: Hedging, dead-hedging, fences

• Vines: Weaving garden layers together in the 3rd dimension

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Garden skills and simple tools make your time in the garden a pleasure. What better way to slow down and enjoy earth time?

HERBAL MEDICINE MAKER'S CAMP

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Friday, July 9: 10:00am - 4:00pm

Saturday, June 13: 10:00am - 4:00pm

Sunday, June 14: 10:00am - 3:30pm

Making Herbal Medicine: You'll learn to create herbal preparations for home use right from the garden... 

Friday Focus: Water-based preparations

• Harvesting and preparing herbs for water-based preparations: nourishing herbal infusions, teas, decoctions, extracts, vinegars, tinctures, baths...

Saturday Focus: Oil based preparations

• Harvesting & preparing herbs for oil-based preparations: herb infused oils & fats, salves, creams, lotions, massage oil, enfleurage

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Sunday Focus: The Interesting bits...

• Pills, elixirs, honeys, electuaries, gob-stoppers

• First aid applications of herbal remedies

These handmade preparations from nature are used for daily health, first aid, acute or chronic situations, bath and beauty. 

After this long-weekend...your life will be forever changed! Because...You can do this with your own heart & hands at home! 

FOOD CAMP, UNLEASHED

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Friday, August 13: 10:00am - 4:00pm

Saturday, August 14: 10:00am - 4:00pm

Sunday, August 15: 10:00am - 3:30pm

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You can make cheese, sauerkraut, kimchee in your own kitchen with simple, easy to find tools and supplies. It's simple, messy and fun.

Want to know an easy, delicious way to keep your fresh eggs into winter? Thoughts of brandied cherries, plum wine, aronia truffles keeping you awake at night?

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Then, come to Food Camp, Unleashed! Find out why these foods enliven your table, improve your health and well-being and are just plain fun to make and eat. Join EagleSong for a full weekend of hands-on food creation leading up to a sumptuous feast on Sunday afternoon in the . Bring 2 heads of cabbage and 1 wide-mouth quart canning jar and you'll pound the kraut and take home a jar of fresh sauerkraut at the end of camp. This weekend is best suited for intrepid food explorers and anyone wanting a life closer with earth and filled with culture...