Press release from the Ashevillage Institute:
Resilient Living School
Contact: Cynthia Tina, cynthia@ashevillage.org
Website: www.ashevillage.org/resilient-living-school
Date: April 2 – Nov. 16, 2016 — with the 8-week residency from April 2 thru May 26, 2016
Location: The 1st 2 months (residency) will take place in Asheville, NC. The remaining 6 months will take place in each participant’s home community.
“We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.” ~ Charles Eisenstein
Have you always wanted to learn how to grow and preserve your own food? To become eco-literate – learning how to identify and use wild plants as medicine? Imagine living a resilient life–in community–in one of the most sustainable cities in the country.
Gain knowledge of personal sustainability, urban homesteading, fermenting, canning, gardening, and more at Ashevillage’s Resilient Living School near downtown Asheville this spring. The school is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to connect with nature, learn new ways to give back to their community, and thrive in a healthy community environment.
The Resilient Living School is an eight-month program that will give students the tools and skills needed for sustainable and resourceful living. The curriculum kicks off with eight weeks of hands-on classes taught by some of Asheville’s top teachers on topics such as herbal medicine making, food preservation, pest and disease management, seed saving, mushroom cultivation, and plant identification. The two-month residency is then followed by six months of mentoring and peer calls from teachers to students. This way, students continue to learn and implement the knowledge and skills gained in their communities.
The teaching team includes Charles Eisenstein, Natalie Bogwalker, Steve Torma, Asia Suler, Luke Cannon, Kate Hanford, Marc Williams, Quinn Asteak, Cynthia Tina & Nick Joyce. Asheville’s top teachers, gardeners, fermenters, healers, botanists, and community educators will share what they know about creating regenerative systems that work for humans and the rest of the natural world.
The first week of the program will lay the crucial foundation for everything else you will learn during this unique experience: gardening, foraging, fermenting, herbal medicine making, plant identification, and first steps in homesteading. In the second through eighth week, workshops will follow a range of themes, from Organic Gardening and Urban Homesteading to Eco-Literacy, Deep Ecology, Wild Foraging & Botany; and from Nonviolent Communication to tours of local organizations modeling resilient business ethics.
The Resilient Living School offers a well-rounded approach to sustainable living that emphasizes not only conscious use of our natural resources, but a connection to community as well. Urban homesteaders, naturalists, foodies, healers, and students alike will all have something to learn at this program. Participants will walk away with the basic skills for sustainable living, even in an urban environment.
Registration is currently open online, with early bird discounts being offered each month. The sooner you register, the more you can save! A limited number of work-trade positions are also available. Contact cynthia@ashevillage.org.
Ashevillage Sanctuary is a one acre, eco-urban, living-learning laboratory, and homesteading hub located in downtown Asheville, NC. We believe in creating the world we want to live in by putting our beliefs into practice in our own backyard. We grow food and medicine, feed the pollinators, capture and use rainwater, build with mud, share resources, relish in the good life…and show others how to do the same. Ashevillage Institute is our educational programming organization.
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