Saturday, August 8, 10 a.m. MEDICINE AND FOOD FORAGING WALK EAT TO YOUR HEALTH: Eat your Medicine. Learn about native and non-native Edible and Medicinal, and Utilitarian plants. WITH DISCUSSION OF PLANT FAMILIES. We’ll do a short walk along a trail in the Arroyo Seco to see and study the native, and introduced plants. […]
HANDS-ON FIRE-MAKING WORKSHOP -- August 15, 10 a.m. FIRE! Yes, it can be dangerous, and yet, it can save your life. Uncontrolled, fire can be devastating. Yet, once you learn how to make and control fire, it's possibly one of your most important survival skills since you use fire to stay warm, to purify […]
mid-day GOURD WORKSHOP Thursday, August 20, noon. Here’s another ancient skill that you’ll enjoy learning. Botanists know that the "ornamental gourds" came out of Africa, and somehow made it to the American south, and spread to the Southwest. How they got to the Americas is a matter of debate -- some say they simply floated, […]