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Join us and be inspired to Live in Alignment with Nature!
Here is our schedule for the day!
10:30-12:00 Robin Greenfield's keynote, followed by Q&A
Food and Medicine is Growing Abundantly All Around Us!
For one year Robin Greenfield is foraging every bite of his food and medicine. A year without grocery stores, restaurants, pharmacies or even a garden. “Nature” is his garden!
Is it possible to eat in harmony with Earth and live in reciprocity? Robin wholeheartedly believes so and is putting this love and devotion for Earth into bold action as he harvests the food and medicine that is growing freely and abundantly all around us.
He will share insights and practical knowledge to help take individual action and come together as a community to move forward in a path of living in harmony with our home.
12:00-12:45 Break: BYO Lunch, Mingle and Book Signing!
During this time, we will also be converting the larger conference room into three smaller break-out rooms.
12:45-1:45 Break-out sessions
Choose one breakout session to attend as you register!
Class 1) Eat your Weeds
FREE SALAD, first aid, and herbs packed with nutrition, that nature plants for you! Come spend some time with Stacey Quade and the Herbal friends to help yourself be well!
1. Become familiar with (weeds!) plants and herbs found in your yard and the woods around you.
2. Identify uses to add to your meals, basic nutrients and herbal first aid so you can-
Stop this mosquito bite from itching!
Take the sting out of bee stings.
Tummy upset? Chew on this…
Learn who your helpers are for cuts, scrapes and bruises!
Some common herbs we will talk about - Plantain, Yarrow, Mullein, Amaranth, Ostrich Fern, Ramps, Basswood, Purslane, Jewelweed, Stinging nettle, and as many as we can in our time together. Weather permitting, we will go outside and hopefully meet some of them in person! Otherwise, we will use a slideshow and lots of pictures to pass around to get a close look.
Class 2) Edible Pollinator Plants and Gardens
Join Jadell Cavallin of Little Waldo Farm in learning about plants that can provide both necessary resources for pollinators and provide humans and wildlife with food. We’ll learn about several natural occurring species of perennial plants along with several fruits, vegetables and annual flowers and herbs that can be easily incorporated into small growing and gardening spaces for harvesting, while also feeding beneficial insects and wildlife. We’ll discuss ideal growing conditions, general maintenance, and some of the specific insects you will be supporting by adding any of these amazing plants to your growing spaces.
Plants to discuss: Serviceberry - Juneberry - Saskatoon (Amelanchier spp.), Elderberry (Sambucus sp.), Currants/Goseberries/Jostaberries, Blueberries/Honeyberries, Oaks/Maples, Sunchokes, Asparagus, Wild Plum and Cherry, Apple and Wild/Crabapple
Herbs and flowers: Borage, Mints, Lemon balm, Thyme/Oregano, Sunflowers, Calendula, Chicory, Dill, Squash/Pumpkins/Gourds
Class 3) Nature as a Closed-Loop System
April Hepokoski of Zero Waste Duluth will share her journey to realigning her health, habits and lifestyle with how nature was created as a Closed-Loop system. You will learn her 7 R system to allow the materials you use to return back to the earth, completing the Closed-Loop cycle. Her presentation will include her journey from debilitating symptoms with endometriosis, SIBO and increasing food sensitivities to health and happiness with natural medicine that comes from the earth. Her testimony will include God's role in her health and happiness and how that has inspired her to live in more alignment with how God created the earth's systems to function. You will be inspired by how all of these work together, highlighting the relationship between the health of our bodies with the health of the earth.
Books available on a donation-basis at the event:
Closing the Loop on Zero Waste by April Hepokoski
Zero Waste Kids by Robin Greenfield; April Hepokoski as a contributing author
Food Freedom by Robin Greenfield
Seats are limited, please register each person individually who will be attending. This event is free and all books will be available on donation basis!
Register here: https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/zerowasteduluth/living-in-alignment-with-nature
About our amazing speakers!
Robin Greenfield is a truth-seeker, activist, social reformer and servant to Earth, humanity and the plants and animals we share our home with. His life is an experiment with truth and integrity. At the heart of Robin’s action-based philosophy is his dedication to living simply and sustainably as a means of active resistance to systems of destruction and exploitation. Through living closely connected to Earth, he is on a path of personal liberation. Through living simply, he rejects societal standards of consumerism that contribute to great inequity and injustice.
Robin’s public activism involves dramatic gestures designed to reach the mainstream and to provoke critical thought, self-reflection and positive change. His activism creates nuanced conversations on the critical issues of our time, with a focus on solutions for living in harmony. His work has been covered by media worldwide and he has been named “The Robin Hood of Modern Times” by France 2 TV and “The Forrest Gump of Ecology” and “A Thoreau-esque character for our digital age” by Rich Roll. What Robin is dedicated to is simple – liberation and basic rights for all – Earth, humanity and our plant and animal relatives.
He is currently immersed in a year-long activism campaign of foraging 100% of his food and medicine, traveling the country extensively sharing the message that Earth provides us with everything we need. This year he launched the 1 Million Community Fruit Trees Initiative, with an objective to plant 1 Million fruit and nut trees through a grassroots, collaborative effort of thousands of individuals and communities across the nation.
https://www.robingreenfield.org/
https://www.facebook.com/robingreenfieldpage
April Hepokoski is the founder of Zero Waste Duluth, where she inspires others to live a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly life. She is a contributing author for the book Zero Waste Kids by Robin Greenfield, writing 13 of the 35 activities. She is also the founder and teacher of The Little Barnyard Preschool, LLC, a Closed-Loop Zero Waste, nature-based preschool on her hobby farm. She is the author of Closing the Loop on Zero Waste, which features her 7 R approach that helps you align with the earth's closed-loop cycles, tranforming the way we interact with materials. Her life and health have transformed dramatically, going from debilitating symptoms of endometriosis, SIBO and bursting ovarian cysts, to being 8 years free of these without harsh medications and surgeries! April's story incoporates her relationship with the earth, natural medicine and the divine love and authority from God. April enjoys swimming in the cold waters of Northern Minnesota, foraging edible plants with friends, and playing in wild spaces with her son and preschoolers.
https://www.thelittlebarnyardpreschool.com/blogclzw
https://www.facebook.com/zerowasteduluth
Jadell Cavallin is the owner of Little Waldo Farm in Two Harbors, and has been involved in the local and regional growing community for over a decade. She is a volunteer master gardener emeritus with the Lake County Extension Master Gardeners, a second term board member for the Lake Superior Sustainable Farmers Association, a grower member and board member for the Farm and Forest Growers Cooperative, and co-manager of Lake County Humane Society. She also serves as a volunteer Pollinator Ambassador with the University of Minnesota Extension, and is a Certified Pollinator Steward with the Pollinator Partnership. She has participated in the Two Harbors Farmers Market for over a decade, and her farm is one of 13 local small farms that make up the Clover Valley Farm Trail. Providing Community Education courses focused around gardening and pollinators, her long-time experience in honey beekeeping, growing a variety of plants in northern Minnesota, and all around nature inspired resourcefulness, brings her love for all living things full circle when able to share stories, food, and connection with others.
https://www.littlewaldofarm.com/
https://www.facebook.com/LittleWaldoFarm
Stacey Quade, COTA/L, CHTP/I, Herbalist, has maintained a private practice in Healing Touch and Herbal Medicine since 2002 in Duluth, MN. Retired in Oct.2021 as a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant at Essentia Health Miller Dwan Rehabilitation where she has specialized in Traumatic Brain Injury for 33 years; and was part of Energy Based Therapy Research, and Integrative Health Advisory Committee. Stacey teaches classes on a variety of wellness topics, including energetic principles, diet/nutritional basics and herbalism in the Duluth area and surrounding communities. She currently serves on the board of North Central Healing Touch (NCHT), and on the professional development committee for Healing Beyond Borders (HBB)
https://www.energyforlifeconnection.com/meet-stacey/
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Cloquet Public Library, 320 14th St, Cloquet, MN 55720-2158, United States
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