happenings, presentations
& classes ...
` Midsummer medicines medicinal plant walk with herbalist
jim mcdonald
` Natural Building with earth and reed with
Deanne Bednar and
Lance Bowen
` Permaculture with
Jared Bogdanov Hanna
` Native American bow drill fire lesson with
Chad O-Kulich
` Fort building & natural art projects for kids (big &
little) with
Deanne Bednar
` Drumming and Music with Xavier Moore
` Spiritual readings with Jeff Elwell
` Sahaja Meditation with
Vic Divecha
` Crystal bowls with
Dr Bob Pizzimenti
` Hoop Dancing with Sara Evans & Corinne Little
` Down in the Dirt Dance... creative dance w/Jennifer Kovach
&
Ellie Shansky
` Free the Faeries! ...dancing with our resident fey-folk
` Hogwart's America... bring your underage wizards!
` Quiet places to reflect and trails on which to walk
abound
Scheduled events will be offered between
11am and 6pm.
All classes are free unless
otherwise noted.
Click
here
to see the schedule & class descriptions
Primitive Camping (no electricity or running water) will
be available friday and saturday night.
This is an ALL
OUTDOOR Family~Friendly event!
` Please bring a picnic/bag lunch and/or dinner to
tide you over
` Do bring plenty of water to keep you cool &
hydrated
` Dress comfortably for the weather & the FARM
` Limited Chairs & Seating - please feel free to bring a chair / blanket
` Natural Bug Repellant
(jim says
Buzz Away is very good;
sold at Whole Foods)
` Attendees can and are encouraged to bring instruments
and ideas
our presenters...
Deanne Bednar
entered the world of natural
building by participating in a "Start-to-Finish" course
with the Cob Cottage Company in Oregon in 1996. Returning
to Michigan, she became a collaborator in the Strawbale
Studio Project. Deanne now educates (and learns) as much
as she can about natural building & sustainable living
through workshops, internships, presentations, exhibits &
outreach. Deanne had the privilege of illustrating the
Hand-Sculpted House Book, The Natural Plaster Book, and
the Cobber's Companion, and being a start-to-finish
collaborator on the Kensington Kids Cottage, located
within the Kensington Metropark, at the Farm Center. She
has been exploring Sustainability, Appropriate Technology
& Design with Nature over the years, in her work with
Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center, Oxford,
Michigan, and through her activities in natural building &
other natural living skills. Now is a time of networking,
sharing, coming together to envision & create.
strawbale.pbworks.com
Jared Bogdanov Hanna
is a certified permaculturalist and operates his own
market garden and edible forest garden in Troy, Michigan.
His vision is to create bountiful landscapes and
communities full of food, beauty, and equality, thereby
improving one’s quality of life and restoring our
environment. What would be better than waking up in
abundance each morning, with our landscape and community
regenerated into health and productivity? Visit
www.abundantsuccession.com
for more information about his work.
Jennifer Kovach
is an energy intuitive, artist and freeform dancer, & love
sharing her journey of wellness and devotional art in
nature, supporting creative play and the healing
connection between heaven, earth and human. Jennifer
enjoys and facilitates yoga, meditation, & dance in
natural environments, and performs at local events and
festivals. Other background experience imcludes child and
elder care, intuitive nutrition, animal care and
rehabilitation, helping with farmwork and CSA.
Chad O'Kulich
has been exploring Mother Earth his entire life... He has
been guiding wilderness trips for over 15 years, is a
Spanish teacher, Director of Student Leadership at
Cranbrook Upper School, and coaches varsity boys' & girls'
soccer/snowboarding. Chad is a guide for the Cranbrook
Wilderness Expedition (12 day backpacking trip), a
Wilderness First Responder (Wilderness Medical
Associates), taken numerous herbal/medicinal plant
studies, and a graduate of the Standard, Ultimate, & Dirt
Time courses from Tom Brown's Tracking, Nature and
Wilderness Survival School. Chad has an intense passion
for primitive skills and Native American philosophies. He
has backpacked throughout North, Central & South America.
Vic
Divecha has
been conducting meditation workshops in Ann Arbor, Detroit
burbs and Windsor. He has arranged free-of-charge
retreats, meditation courses and seminars for encouraging
self-sustaining meditation practices. He has co-authored 7
meditation CDs, which are made available at no cost to
participants as mp3 downloads or online listening.
Ellie Shansky
holds a BA in English from Western Michigan University
where she also studied dance and theater. She studied
education at Antioch University, is a produced playwright,
freelance writer, Reiki and energy healer certified
through the International Center for Reiki and the Bio
Self-Emergence Institute, respectively, and is currently
studying the pedagogy and technique of Isadora Duncan at
the International Isadora Duncan Institute in High Falls,
NY. She offers kids and adult dance and meditation classes
and healings through her home studio, Peaces, in Grand
Blanc.
Xavier Moore writes, sings
and plays a variety of instruments, offering soulful,
uplifting sounds inspired by his deep passion for life.
Xavier performs regularly at Peace Unity Church and
drumming events.
Lance Bowen
has been in the building industry for over a 15 years in
many different roles including; cabinet maker, Project
Manager, and Purchasing/Specification Manager for large
national builders. He has been deeply involved in Green
Building for almost a decade and started “New
Harvest Homes” in 2004 as a dedicated
“Design/Green-Build” company.
Victoria Eaton has studied
Reiki 1, 2, and Art with William Rand at the International
Center for Reiki Training, and Vibrational and clairvoyant
healing with Donna Harber of the Bio - Self Emergence
Institute. She has led meditation classes at Crazy Wisdom
in Ann Arbor, and at Rochester Holistic Arts where she
currently works. Her extensive travels and interactions
with people from various cultures have helped foster a
love of vegetarian cooking and healing through food.
Sara Evans
and her two young girls are life-long
homeschoolers who tend to focus on life skills and natural
studies. Sara is Macomb County chapter co-leader in
a non-profit group called
BirthNetwork National,
which provides fact-based information on maternity care.
She also has a small sewing business called
SunRaye Designs.
Corrine Little
lives in Detroit and works as a
Montessori teacher's assistant. Sharing
Hoopdance brings together her love of children, music and
a sense of community.
Dr Bob Pizzimenti
is a chiropractor, artist, musician, bastion of community
and creativity in Detroit, and the founder of the Innate
Healing Arts Center, a place intended to offer healing
from the moment you see the building until the moment you
leave. There's a great video that sums up his work
here.
jim mcdonald
has been practicing the art of herbcraft for over sixteen
years, and offers a knowledge of herbalism that blends
western folk and indigenous views of healing with the
Vitalist traditions of 19th century western herbalism. He
has taught classes and workshops throughout Great Lakes
bioregion and the US, hosts the website
www.herbcraft.org and is currently writing
(alternately) "A Great Lakes Herbal" and "Foundational
Herbcraft". Jim is a community herbalist, a manic
wildcrafter and medicine maker, an occasional email
mangler, and has been an ardent student of the most
learned teachers of herbcraft... the plants themselves.
