Since 2004, our “all outdoors” summer day camps have provided nature adventures for children that build skills and nurture greater awareness and self-confidence.  So many parents of our summer campers have asked, “Why do the kids get to have all the fun?”  Well, this summer, they don’t.  This year, Wild Earth is so excited to offer adults a day camp experience that is a fun-filled connection to nature and themselves.  Using traditional and modern mentoring, our experienced and inspiring instructors will guide the day in engaging earth-based activities, awareness games, experiential knowledge of plants and animals, natural craft, story and song.  Gratitude and reverence for the earth, as well as fostering a vision of community based on mutual respect and acknowledgment are encouraged.

Program Information for Adult Day Camp

For: Adults of all ages

Dates: July 12 – July 16, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday

Time: 9:45am to 3:00pm

Location: On pristine and private land bordering the Mohonk Preserve & Shawangunk Ridge in the New Paltz/High Falls area

Cost: $220.  $50 non-refundable deposit due with registration

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Additional Questions and Information

Please email David Brownstein at david (at) wildearthprograms (dot) org or call 845-256-9830 with questions about summer camp and registration.

Come explore the beauty and the bounty of the gardens, fields and woods in this six month comprehensive course.  We will cover a vast amount of information encouraging the daily use of herbs for food, medicine and pleasure.  This course is designed to provide inspiring, practical and thorough “hands on” herbal information that can easily be incorporated into one’s life.

Topics include:

• Herbal Therapeutics
• Wild Plant Identification and Application
• Wild Food Foraging and Culinary Preparations
• Medicine Making
• Herbal Skin Care
• Nutritional Healing… and More

A significant amount of class time will be spent outdoors studying wild and cultivated plants. We will then bring these plants into our kitchen-classroom and transform them into food, medicine and various other preparations.  As part of our learning experience, we will prepare and enjoy a primarily “wild” delicious meal influenced by the plants that are in season.  Everyone will make an abundance of preparations to bring home and begin to create their own medicine chests.  In the last part of each class we will focus on a particular organ system, health topic or special project.

Program Information

Dates: One Saturday every month, May thru October 2010 (May 8, June 5, July 10, Aug 7, Sept 11 & Oct 16)

Time: Saturdays, 10:00AM to 4:00 PM

Location: The lovely hamlet of Lyonsville, Stone Ridge, NY

Cost: $595, includes material fee, $150 deposit due with registration, final balance due by April 1 (Note: All payments are non-refundable and non-transferable for this program).

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Dina Falconi, is a practicing herbalist with a strong focus on food activism and nutritional healing. She produces Falcon Formulations natural bodycare products and Earthly Extracts medicinal tinctures. She is a founding member of the Northeast Herbal Association, a chapter leader of the Weston A. Price Foundation & on the board of Slow Food-Hudson Valley. An avid gardener and wildcrafter, Dina is passionate aboutpermaculture and has completed the Permaculture Design Certificate course 2 1/5 times. She is author of Earthy Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Personal Care for Everybody.

Still have a question?  Please call Dina Falconi at 845-687-8938 with questions about the content of this program, or contact David Brownstein at info (at) wildearthprograms (dot) org or call 845-256-9830 with questions about registration.

A Learning Journey in Earth-Based Education & Self-Empowerment for Inspired & Aspiring Adult Leaders

“What is my gift to this world?”

“How do I shape my voice?”

“What is the nature of the fire that burns inside of me?”

“This gift, this voice, this fire that I carry; How may I share this ‘all of me’ with the world so that the world sees me and returns my gifts anew?”

These questions are the bright stones we carry.  They speak to us in a language warm and persistent.  We hold and turn them, feeling their weight, and we ponder their promise of a life well lived.  These questions are the guiding lights of our awakening spirit.

We invite you to journey with us through the year as we explore these teachings through a deeper connection with the land, the elements, and in a circle of community.  Wild Earth is offering a monthly 24 hour immersion experience for a core group of dedicated wilderness instructors: young adults whose gifts we recognize and whose voice we support.  This gathering is designed to activate our survival strategies, our sensory awareness and our knowledge of place, and to strengthen our connection to Self while exploring the raw stuff for the creation of culture anew.  It is an adventure by design that will empathically deepen our abilities as mentors and broaden the mentoring strategies available to us in our work with youth.  Included will be specific skill development opportunities with local specialists, explorations of life-stage journeys (medicine wheel), creative design of ceremony, sacred fire practices, talking circles and much more.

We offer this in service to the vision of a powerfully creative and connected community of young adults willing to risk being fully engaged in the art of giving and receiving Life.  We hope you will join us.

Program Information

Age: 18 years old +

Experience: Instructing (or assisting) in a Wild Earth, Track & Sign or equivalent nature based learning program.

Dates: 11/7, 12/12, 1/2, 2/20, 3/20, 4/24 & 5/15

Time: 10am – 12 noon the following day.

Location: New Paltz / High Falls, NY area.  Exact location to be announced

Cost: $175 for the year-long journey.  You will also be asked to bring food to share for the overnight experience.

SORRY!  THIS PROGRAM IS FULL AND NO LONGER OPEN TO REGISTRATION.

Please call Charles Purvis at 845-626-2474 with questions about the content of this program.  Call David Brownstein at 845-256-9830 or email at david (at) wildearthprograms (dot) org with questions about registration.