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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2-Day IEM Camps (Friday 10:00am - Sunday 3:30pm)

Registration: $150

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Includes:
 

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

• No overnight accommodations until further notice

GARDEN CAMP

Saturday, April 18: 10:00am - 3:30pm

Sunday, April 19: 10:00am - 3:30pm
 

Registration: $150. 

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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. A place where you'll begin to see through the eyes of a gardener...

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Saturday Focus: Earth & Design 

• Learn simple design techniques that make gardens generative habitats

• Natural gardening, common sense design, soil management

• Compost using the simple, No-Turn BOCA method and other composting strategies

• Fertility 
   

Sunday Focus: Growing

• Propagation: seeds, division, cuttings, 

• Pruning: trees & shrubs

• Learn simple methods to grow herbs, vegetables, flowers, berries, fruits and mushrooms with an integrated, close to home process

• Learn what you need to start and grow your garden with a seasoned gardener and practicing herbalist in her hands-on, how-to garden with 3 decades of growth and change to experience and learn from...

HERBAL MEDICINE MAKER'S CAMP

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Saturday, June 13: 10:00am - 3:30pm

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

Making Herbal Medicine:

• Learn to create herbal preparations for home use right from the garden... 

• Water-based preparations: infusions, decoctions, extracts, vinegars

• Oil-based preparations: herb infused oils & fats 

• Pills, elixirs, honeys, gob-stoppers

Applied Herbal Medicine
The simples made in day 1 & 2 are crafted into an array of herbal preparations for cultivating health and vitality, for first aid application and use in chronic health conditions. 

An herbal salve, cream, poultice, compress, massage oil, soak, bath and much more will be crafted in this full day of engagement with herbal preparations.

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!

FOOD CAMP, UNLEASHED

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Saturday, August 8: 10:00am - 3:30pm

Sunday, August 9: 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 long-weekend of hands-on food creation leading up to a sumptuous feast on Sunday afternoon. 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 to intrepid food explorers and anyone wanting a life closer with earth and filled with culture...