Adult Outdoors Skills Day Saturday, 9/25, 1-4 pm
Adult nature lovers are invited to join us around the campfire to practice skills such as fire making, campfire cooking, wood carving, sensory awareness, tracking, wild edibles, nature connection mentoring, community building and more.
Saturday 9/25 will be the first of our fall Adult Skills classes, at Nature and Nurture Farm, 7100 Marshall Road, Dexter, MI.
Saturday 9/25 will be the first of our fall Adult Skills classes, at Nature and Nurture Farm, 7100 Marshall Road, Dexter, MI.
Acorn!
Saturday, 9/25 from 1-4 pm
Acorn is an abundant food. The trees drop them all around for us to gather. But without proper processing they're inedible. Let's learn how to make use of this wild blessing!
During this class, we'll do all the stages of acorn preparation, including:
- Greeting and honoring the trees
- Gathering acorns (if they're available that day - plenty have been gathered ahead of time, so we can do our work even if they aren't)
- Shelling acorns
- Grinding flour
- Leaching
- And finally, cooking and eating acorn pancakes (topped with last February's maple syrup!)
The day will be threaded through with song, story, and quiet nature connection.
We'll meet in person, at the farm, on Saturday, 9/25 from 1-4 pm. Suggested donation for this class is $20-45/person, and can be done by PayPal to naturelearningcommunity@gmail.com or by cash or check at class. Pre-registration is required.
Questions? Email naturelearningcommunity@gmail.com or call 734-531-8330.
Masks
Please bring a mask. We'll wear them at times when it's difficult to maintain distance. Enrollment will be limited to enable each person to enjoy the class
while safely spaced apart.
Please bring a mask. We'll wear them at times when it's difficult to maintain distance. Enrollment will be limited to enable each person to enjoy the class
while safely spaced apart.
Secret Agenda!
This class is for all adult nature lovers! But there's a secret agenda. The world needs more nature connection mentors. While we explore outdoors skills together, we'll also be building mentoring capacity. Where you deploy your mentoring abilities is up to you. Friends, family, children and strangers - we all need gentle, non-intrusive mentoring in our lives.
Nature Learning Community also needs more skilled helpers for our classes, and this program is a training ground for our current and future staff. Let us know if this might interest you!
Nature Learning Community also needs more skilled helpers for our classes, and this program is a training ground for our current and future staff. Let us know if this might interest you!
Instructor
Rowena Conahan is a founder of Nature Learning Community, where she teaches nature connection and outdoors skills and consults with educators seeking to increase outdoors experience for their students. She’s an anthropologist, healer, storyteller and Montessori teacher, with a background as a homeschool parent and assistant in a Waldorf-based forest kindergarten. She attended Tom Brown’s Tracker School in New Jersey and Wilderness Awareness School’s Art of Mentoring and is a graduate of the Kamana Naturalist Training program. She volunteers for the global 8 Shields movement. Rowena is also a founding member of Sunward Cohousing Community, where she’s lived and learned for more than 20 years.