livingsoil2021
Local Wild Living Soil
2023 Draft Syllabus
Learning from Nature's Wisdom
September 19th - October 26, 2023
88 hours Course Time
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays from 9:00am - 12:00pm
Field trip to the Dream Cave in McElmo Canyon
Field trip to the Silver Star Hut in La Plata Canyon
Class Schedule
Class 1: Tuesday, September 19 - (Class held at 848 East 3rd Ave.)
Intentions and Welcoming Ceremony
Lecture: Introductions, Wild edible abundance, Harvesting wild weeds, Green juice
Class 2: Wednesday, September 20 - (Class held at the Turtle Lake Community Farm at 53 Misty Lane)
Field Trip to Farm: Local and Wild Foods on the Farm, Mushroom Remediation, Food forests, Market Garden and Growing Abundance through Permaculture
Class 3: Thursday September 21 - (Meet at Colorado Trail parking area)
Field Trip
Class 4: Tuesday, September 26 - (Class held at Turtle Cafe, 848 East 3rd Ave)
Lecture: The Power of Enzymes: Fermentation, Sprouting Basics, Planting Microgreens
Class 5:Wednesday, September 27 - (Meet at Turtle Cafe, 848 East 3rd Ave)
Field Trip
Class 6: Thursday, September 28
Lecture: Herbal Medicine and Plant Communications
Overnight field trip to the Dreamcave in McElmo Canyon September 23-24 Honoring the Equinox at the ancient Sun Dial
Class 7: Tuesday, October 3 - (Class held at 2409 Delwood Ave.)
Lecture: Back To Basics
Class 8: Wednesday, October 4th - (Meet at Turtle Community Farm 53 Misty Lane)
Field Trip
Class 9: Thursday, October 5th - (Class held at the Turtle Lake Community Farm at 53 Misty Lane)
Lecture: Wild Food and Medicine Plants, Making Wild Body Care Product Recipes
Class 10: Tuesday, October 10th - (Class held at the Turtle Lake Community Farm at 53 Misty Lane)
Lecture: Bees, Honey, Pollen, Propolis, Candle making
Class 11: Wednesday, October 11th - (Meet at Turtle Cafe, 848 East 3rd Ave)
Lecture: Wild and Living Food Recipes
Class 12: Thursday, October 12th - (Class held at 848 East 3rd Ave.)
Lecture: Wild and Living Food Recipes
Class 13: Tuesday, October 17 - (Class held at the Turtle Lake Community Farm at 53 Misty Lane)
Lecture: Organic Land Stewardship Practices - Making Weed Remedies
Class 14: Wednesday, October 18 - (Meet atTurtle Cafe, 848 East 3rd Ave)
Field Trip
Class 15: Thursday, October 19 - (Meet atTurtle Cafe, 848 East 3rd Ave)
Field Trip
Overnight field trip to the Silver Star Hut in La Plata Canyon October 21-22
Class 16: Tuesday, October 24 - (Meet atTurtle Cafe, 848 East 3rd Ave)
Lecture:Solar Dehydrators, Earth Ovens and Wild Seed Bread
Class 17: Wednesday, October 25
Lecture: Composting, Worm bins, and Soil Nutrient Cycling
Class 18: Thursday, October 26
Final Celebration and Presentations!
Suggested Reading Material:
Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival by Katrina Blair
Local Wild Life: Turtle Lake Refuge's Recipes for Living Deep by Katrina Blair
Invasive Plant Medicine by Timothy Lee Scott
Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West by Michael Moore
Health through Gods Pharmacy by Maria Treben
Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rockies by Linda Kershaw
From Earth to Herbalist? by Gregory Tilford
The New Age Herbalist by Richard Mabey
Best Tasting Wild Plants of Colorado and the Rockies by Book Seebeck
Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants by Steve Brill
The Peace Pilgrim
The Essence Gospel of Peace by Edmond Bordeaux Szeleky,
Colon Health by Norman Walker
Why Suffer? By Ann Wigmore
The Raw Food Gourmet by Gabrielle Chavez
The Web with no Weaver by Ted Kapchuk
The Permaculture Home Garden by Linda Woodrow
Gaias Garden by Tony Hemenway
Raw Food and Attachment Parenting by Karen Ranzi
Living on Live Foods by Alissa Cohen
Raw Emotions by Angela Stokes
Growing Roots by Katherine Leiner
Solviva by Anna Edey
What the Robin Knows by Jon Young
Philosophy of Natural Therapeutics by Henry Lindlahr
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets
Survival in the 21st Century By Victoras Kulvinskas
Back to Eden by Jethro Kloss
The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program by Ann Wigmore
All the Rain Brings and More by David Aurora
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation by Tradd Cotter
Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz
The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Katz
Sacred Lands Sacred Sex: Rapture of the Deep by Dolores LaChapelle
Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein