Plant Camp: Spring Session
May 7th - May 10th Near Montrose, CO
Wild Mountain Medicine 2021 Spring Session — Plants and Skills
$600
““This was a truly incredible, healing, replenishing, all the positive adjectives experience. Time with incredible people and plants, and learning skills nourished every aspect of me”. ”
FOraging and Fire
Join us for a weekend of ancestral skills, plant medicine, and wild foods. Learn how to identify spring greens, flowers, tips, roots and shoots in western Colorado. This course is a hands on botany intensive with emphasis on plant identification, learning plant family similarities, and gaining awareness of local ecology. Designed to give you confidence in your future foraging endeavors with skillful instruction on how to avoid poisonous look-alikes, and how to feel comfortable knowing common edible and medicinal plants.
This spring workshop is centered around the ancestral skill and elemental workings of wood and fire. Learn about the abundance of weeds and tree medicine, and how each has varying uses as food and medicine. Dive down the rabbit hole of Spring Tonics and Teas—learn to properly dry herbs, concoct vinegar extractions, make infused honey for medicinal or culinary uses, and how to tastefully blend a bag of wild tea.
During this wild learning adventure learn how to start a fire using ancestral techniques, and other fire building skills, including coal-burning and carving wooden spoons. We will be setting intentions into our own smudge bundle building with local sagebrush, juniper, and piñon.
Important Details:
Please come self-sufficient for breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day.
Program is an intensive, 8:30am - 5:30pm - be prepared to go all day.
Be prepared for hot days and cold nights
There will be some hiking and strenuous activity
Participants must arrange for their own transporatation to and from the course
Camping is remote, and without services. Resupply will be limited for the duration of the intensive. Bring enough food and water for the trip (participants need to supply their own food and water).
There will be gas stops available.
COVID-19 safety protocols will be strictly followed for the duration of the course to ensure everyon’es health and safety.
Pricing
Spring Session Only: $600
Combine and Save, Spring and Summer Session: $1400
