Blue Dog
Family Farm is pleased to announce farm classes for the year 2013!
2013
Classes being offered include:
Other classes Shawna
is teaching around town:
Print and mail us a
class registration form to sign up for classes.
Herbs 101
Four week course on Sundays, starting April 21, 1-3:30
Have you been interested in local herbs for food and medicine, but
haven’t known where to start? This class is an introduction to local
herbs, the gifts they offer and the techniques to make medicine for
you and your family. You will be introduced to common abundant herbs,
and learn how to make simple medicines to stock your families medicine
chest including salves, tinctures, decoctions, infusions, lip balms
and more. Each class we will spend time in the outdoors as well as
spend time crafting from the abundance around us! All supplies and
handouts included. $125
The Wise Woman Tradition
Sunday, April 21, 1-3:30
Learn all about the empowering tradition of The Wise Woman! As ancient
as time, the Wise Woman Tradition is a way of healing and whole-ing
yourself by focusing on integration and nourishment as the path of
healing. In this class we will explore the different ways of thinking
about health, our bodies, the planet and one another. We will work to
undo powerful cultural influences including white coat worship, blind
submission, cleansing, fasts, good vs. bad, clean vs. dirty and other
health modalities that do not serve to nurture and nourish our
intuition, our power and ourselves as wise, wild women. As we begin to
make connections we will see how in the Wise Woman Tradition we can
define health as flexibility, openness to change and transformation,
not simple absence of disease. We will also take a wild weed walk to
meet some of our allies in this tradition, and learn simple things we
can do in our daily lives to build health and flexibility, grounded
and rooted in the deep nourishment of the healing arts and the green
plants all around us. $35
The Anti Breast Cancer Lifestyle, The Wise
Woman Way
Sunday, June 2, 1-3:30 p.m.
What can we do as women to nourish breast health? In this class we
will explore breast health on many levels and explore lifestyle
changes that help promote healthy cells. We will cover the top ten
best foods for the anti-cancer lifestyle, foods to avoid,
environmental risks, and lifestyle factors that can contribute to
resilient and robust cells. With this new information, we will head
into the kitchen to get some hands on experience and learn how to
prepare some of these super healthy foods and incorporate them into
our diets. $35
Traditional Foods: Unlocking the Key to Deep
Health
Sunday, Oct.20, 1-4 p.m.
What are traditional foods and what makes them so healthful?
Traditional foods are foods that include highly sought after nutrients
universally recognized by indigenous peoples around the world. In the
past 150 years foods have become highly processed and because of this
much of the nutrition has been stripped away and degraded. In this
class we will learn some of the traditional kitchen skills to include
these valuable foods into our daily diets. Working in the farm
kitchen, we will learn how to make traditional raw dairy products like
yogurt, kefir, buttermilk, soft cheese and whey. We will learn about
soaking grain to release phytic acids and how to create and maintain a
sourdough culture. We will also talk about fermented foods and learn
how to make some simple cultured vegetables. Finally, we will take a
short wild weed walk around the farm and identify a few common wild
plants that can be incorporated into our daily diets. $65
Print and mail us a
class registration form to sign up for classes.
Best Pizza Possible*
Wednesday, March 20, 6:30-8pm
Work with Shawna at the Can-Do Kitchen (511
Harrison St, next to the People's Food Co-0p) to learn tips and tricks
for making the best pizza possible in your home kitchen. Explore
unique topping ideas, tasty cheeses, and throwing your own pizza
dough! Join us to smile and share in pizza heaven. * Please
contact the
People's Food Co-op to register for this class.
Shawna
has been teaching
in the community for over six years on a
variety of homesteading and herbalism topics. She has also taught cooking
classes such as bread baking, pasty making, and pizza creating,
through the
People's Food Co-op of Kalamazoo. She is available to teach on
topics ranging from whole grain bread making, cheese making, soap making,
homestead animal care, herbalism, wild plant walks for medicine and food,
preventing cancer, and a host of other topics. If you would like to book a
private class for your group, contact Shawna through the website and
we can work out the details! Periodically, check back on the website
for a current class list of farm workshops.
Here are some old blog posts by Shawna,
written several years ago. Keeping a regular blog is too
time-consuming, but hopefully you may find
some of these older posts useful or enlightening. From time to time,
new articles
or writings may appear as the spirit moves us. Shawna continues to
explore the herbs, craft herbal medicine and grow in deeper relation
to the green world growing around us. Especially as time goes on, she
becomes passionate about lifestyle medicine, or the place where our
food and herbs and lifestyle choices intersect. She stays active
promoting this message by teaching classes in the local community as
well as here at the farm. She hopes to write some updated articles and
insights as soon as she can find the time.
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