Garden ASMR with Pink Orach this morning.
Easily grown in the southwest, it will self seed and come back the next year.
Medical actions of this plant:
-Antianemic: reduced anemia by increasing red cell production
-Astringent: tightens, constricts, and tones while reducing secretions and discharges
-Antiscorbutic: provides vitamin C
-Stomachic: strengthens and tones the stomach
-Anti-inflammatory: reduces swelling and inflammation of the tissues
Protein, fiber, and d antioxidants… YUM!
Replacing some axe handles and sheathes with some of the youth mentees soon.
A good axe certainly falls the top 5 important woodsman tools.
What are your top 5? We’ll share ours in a future post.
Thanks to Grand Forest for the handles and new sheaths.
Misting drip system in the Johnson-Su Bioreactors. Check out all the mushrooms and Mycelium growing! Also Pill Bugs who help with heavy metal cleanup as they do their work as decomposers. We’ll be bringing some of this knowledge to The youth at @santafeyouthworks this summer on the #fullcirclefarm at San Isidro Crossing in Agua Fria Village.
Happy Earth Day today and everyday!
Beautiful day today with the plants, the trees, the garden, the seeds and the children 🌱
Interns Cassius Hall and Isaiah Chinana demoing some Muay Thai leg and kick moves during a morning workout.
Learning new skills. Stitching up a new roof for a yurt ⛺️
Fire Making w/ a Hand Drill
MONDAY August 24th
5-6:30 pm PDT / 8-9:30 EDT
w/ Mother Nature Center & Ibrahim Loeks
Join Ibrahim on Zoom!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87617303916?pwd=MjNyM29QNVE3V0hSWUVTVXVsdDFxdz09
Meeting ID: 876 1730 3916
Passcode: 90848
ABOUT THIS CLASS:
Learn how to make fire using natural collected materials and homemade bow drill fire kits.
MAKING FIRE: Friction Fire Making practiced by almost all peoples in almost all environments of the world. From the Bow Drill to the Hand Drill, the Fire Saw to the Fire Plough. In this class we will focus on dialing in your Bow Drill skills and briefly touch in on and demonstrate other techniques.
Learn how to make fire using collected materials and made fire kits. Using a hand drill is one of the simplest friction methods, but high speed can be difficult to maintain because only the hands are used to rotate the spindle. It works best in dry climates.
PRE-ORDER YOUR FIRE KITS: This class can be done with or without pre-ordered fire kits. Kits are $40 included shipping any where in the US. Kits need to be ordered by Aug 17th in order to arrive to you in time for the class.
Kits are not required for sign up to this class session, if you do not pre-order a fire kit, you can still just watch the instructional information. When you select the pre-order kit ticket Dancing Earth will contact you for your mailing address. All kits will be mailed out by facilitator Ibrahim Loeks & Mother Nature Center.
PRE-ORDER KITS INCLUDE :
Kits include a Wooden Fire Board, Wooden Bow Drill w/ Nylon Cord, Wooden Spindle & kindling.
ABOUT PPAK: Practicing Principals of Ancestral Knowledge
PPAK is a sustainability and life ways series that follows traditional Indigenous teachings and practices. These workshops are aimed to connect people back to living in balance with the Earth through traditional living practices of Native people. As all Indigenous cultures historically lived in balance with the cycles of nature, PPAK ins
Shelter: Explorations in living light on Mother Earth 🌍✨🌈🌧
Whittling a friction fire kit time lapse. How many of these kits have been whittled collectively by our ancestors?
Building a friction fire coal directly onto a knife blade allows the ability to transfer it to a tinder bundle. It is also possible, like we’ve shown here, to place a piece of resin next to your coal on the knife or light an incense directly from the coal.
Community Seed Bank seed, plant starts and fertilizer brought out to #santafecommunitycollege today. @reunityresources came through with some extra #wormcastings for our fertilizer blend.
This film showcases a bit of what SFCC already had overflowing out of their beds.
Food being grown at the college during COVID-19 is going out to those in need through the World Cafe at SFCC.
We had this beautiful fire going for 7 days to #standwithmashpee
That look on a face when they first light the fire in this way. Child like happiness and wonder. Dr. Azrael Angel at the Universidad de la Tierra (Oaxaca, Mexico) equipped to bring these memories and technology back to his students. 🔥
