ScHEDULE

The majority of classes will be taught by Marc Williams. However, a litany of guest instructors with special skills in various areas will join us including:

Birds, Basketry, Drawing, Medicine Making, Seed Saving, Spoon Carving, Sustainable Building and more

Most classes will be held outside with some potential for classroom time for Powerpoint lectures which also may be held online.

Date Topic

WEEK 1

Weds 5/19 Introduction Getting to Know Each Other and Tone Setting/Plant Walk Major Families

Fri 5/21 Sustainable Ethnobiology/Nature Observation

WEEK 2

Weds 5/26 Spring Botany Intensive 1 Spring Ephemerals/Conservation

Fri 5/28 Spring Botany Intensive 2 House Plants/Poisonous Plants

WEEK 3

Weds 6/2 Spring Botany Intensive 3 Woody Plants/Propagation

Fri 6/4 Spring Botany Intensive 4 Gardening (Agrobiodiversity)/Exotic Invasives. Planting Annual i.e Corn, Beans, Squash, Tomatoes

WEEK 4

Weds 6/9 Spring Botany Intensive 5 Gardening Composting

Fri 6/11 Food as Medicine, Ayurveda

WEEK 5

Weds 6/16 Fermentation Beverages (Alcohol, Oxymels, Shrubs, Soda, Switchels, Vinegar)

Fri 6/18 Fermentation Kimchi, Kraut, Breads, Dosas, Idlis, Seed Cheeses, Tempeh

WEEK 6

Weds 6/23 Joe Hollis/Traditional Chinese Medicine Plants

Fri 6/25 Summer Birds and Woody Walk

WEEK 7

Weds 6/30 Medicine Making Tinctures/Salves and Plant Walk

Fri 7/2 Crafts: Dyes, Making Paper and Homesteading and Plant Walk

WEEK 8

Weds 7/7 Crafts Illustration and Wood Carving

Fri 7/9 Crafts Baskets Paper Sources Due

WEEK 9

Weds 7/14 Summer Botany Intensive: Gardening, Brassicas, Summer pruning

Fri 7/16 Social Skills (Appreciative Inquiry, Sociocracy, NVC, Open Space Technology, Love Languages)

WEEK 10

Weds 7/21 Indigenous Ethnobiology/ Traditions of the Cherokee

Fri 7/23 Indigenous Ethnobiology/ FL, Central/South America

WEEK 11

Weds 7/28 Medicine Making w Vinegars, Mushrooms

Fri 7/30 Birds, Butterflies and Trees, Philosophy and Self Defense

WEEK 12

Weds 8/4 Summer Botany Intensive: Wild Flowers ID and Arranging

Fri 8/6 Homesteading/Forging

WEEK 13

Weds 8/11 Summer Botany Intensive: Trees

Fri 8/13 Summer Mushrooms/Homesteading

WEEK 14

Weds 8/18 African American Ethnobotany and BIPOC Equity

Fri 8/20 Transition Culture/Frank Cook Celebration/Tea Ceremony/Work that Reconnects

WEEK 15

Weds 8/25 Black Balsam Field Trip

Thurs 8/26 Black Balsam Field Trip

Fri 8/27 Black Balsam Field Trip

WEEK 16

Weds 9/1 Remediation/Cultivation w Plants and Mushrooms

Fri 9/3 Pies and a Plant Walk

WEEK 17

Weds 9/8 Transition Culture Tiny House, Nursery and Menagerie tour Work Project

Fri 9/10 Resilience Thinking, Hike at Shope Creek

WEEK 18

Weds 9/15 Canning Chow Chow, Hot Sauce, Pickles, Salsa

Fri 9/17 Canning Apple Sauce, Jams Jellies

WEEK 19

Weds 9/22 Fall Equinox Celebration

Fri 9/24 Fall Botany Intensive: Fall Tree ID

WEEK 20

Weds 9/29 Fall Mushrooms/Woody Plants

Thurs 9/30 Fall Mushrooms/Woody Plants

Fri 9/31 Fall Mushrooms/Woody Plants

WEEK 21

Weds 10/6 The Science of Nuts Thurs

Fri 10/9 Non timber Forest Harvest and Sustainable Building

WEEK 22

Weds 10/13 Flower Arranging w Fresh and Dried Flowers

Fri 10/15 Fall Trees and Birds

WEEK 23

Weds 10/20 Hostel in the Forest/Finca Mycol

Thurs Hostel in the Forest/Finca Mycol

Fri 10/22 Hostel in the Forest/Finca Mycol

WEEK 24

Weds 10/27 Fall Botany Intensive: Plant Conservation/Seed Saving

Fri 10/29 Fall Botany Intensive: Asteraceae/Poaceae

WEEK 25

Weds 11/3 Permaculture/Alt Economics , Green Building, Ritual

Fri 11/5 The Business of You Rules, Regulations, Helpful Organizations

WEEK 26

Weds 11/10 Final Presentations Audio (Music, Talk)/Visual/Food/Product/

Fri 11/12 Final Presentations Audio (Music, Talk)/Visual/Food/Product/

WEEK 27

Weds 11/17 Final Presentations Audio (Music, Talk)/Visual/Food/Product/

Fri 11/19 Final Integration, Reflection and Review, Closing Celebration Music, Potluck, Talent Show, Ritual Attire