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Of Earth and Sea presents:
The Good Earth
Natural Lifeways & Village Building
Homeschool Program
Fall 2022 Semester Registration is Open!
Drop off Program for Youth
Classes are One Day Each Week
August 29 - November 21
Tuesday Session Ages 4-9
Monday Session Ages 10-17
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*Limited Spots Available*
There are few things as constant as the human connection to nature. Studies have shown participation in nature learning programs increases motivation, concentration, confidence, awareness of the natural environment and awareness of others in youth*. Let embrace this timeless connection to our good earth that nourishes in so many ways!
Join Good Earth: Natural Lifeways & Village Building; where students of homeschool communities will connect via age appropriate, nature centered activities in a drop off style class. Your child will learn how to identify plants, express emotion through art, engage in wonder and exploration through creative activities. Some highlights of our semester together will include:
- Wonder Stewarding with Nature Meditations, Relationship Building Games and Plant Spotlights
- Wild Pesto Cooking
- Natural Dyes & Community Mural Making
- Plant Identification Bingo
- Herbal Garland Crafting
- Fall Seed Stewarding
- Fire Building 101
- Color-wheel & the Doctrine of Signatures
- Seasons Identification and Weather Patterns
- Natural First Aid
- Garden Scavenger Hunt
Through our unique, student-led format, your child will walk away with improved self confidence, resilience, joy, and reverence for the earth all around them. All sessions will be taught completely outside under our beloved crab apple tree, amongst the wildflowers at the Wild Ginger Community Herbal Center in Bryans Road, Maryland 20616 ( note the center is closed during non programming hours).
If you have questions after reading the information below, please do not hesitate to reach out to me at ofean...@gmail.com anytime.
What will my child learn?
Each child will walk away with foundational nature and social skills that will carry them through life. Below you can find the core learning objectives of the semester.
Learning Objectives:
- Students will be able to identify 15+ plants; grown in SOMD ecosystems
- Students will express emotions via nature based arts
- Students will garner understanding about and be able to explain the ecosystem
- Students will garner understanding about and be able to explain weather patterns
- Students will cultivate practical living skills such as fire building, harvesting, stewarding, sowing, and tending the earth
- Students will cultivate generative conflict resolution skills
- Students will demonstrate what it means to be a good steward of the earth
- Students will cultivate a inner peace practice
- Students will develop social emotional literacy skills through connection to the earth, their senses, and one another
- Students will identify and interpret colors and the color’s correlating meaning/message in the natural world; understanding the doctrine of signatures
- Students will craft child safe herbal medicine
- Students will understand the medicinal properties of 20+ plants
This is a program Of Earth and Sea and will be facilitated by Madison McCoy.
Please do not contact Wild Ginger Herbal Center directly,
we are the location but not directly managing this program.
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Welcome to Herb Camp for Kids, where together along with our kids we enjoy simple, nature based creative activities. Our summer session will include five sessions, all entirely outdoors at Wild Ginger Herbal Center in Bryans Road, Maryland. All materials will be provided and participants will go home with their craft and herbal activities. We will engage our senses and spend time outdoors, go on plant walks, and create art together! Each session will be between one and two hours in length.
Summer Session Schedule
Thursday June 23
Natural Mobile Making, Colorwheels, & Seedballs
Thursday June 30
Herbal Garden Walk & Scavenger Hunt
Thursday July 7
Natural Paint Brushes, Ink & Painting
Thursday July 21
Herbal Rainbows & Salves
Thursday August 4
Elderberry Syrup Making & Herbal Dream Pillows
*August 11 Raindate*
Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to identify 10+ plants; grown in SOMD ecosystems
Students will express emotions via nature based arts
Students will garner understanding about and be able to explain the ecosystem
Students will explore the different roles in an ecosystem, defining each role
Students will demonstrate what it means to be a good steward of the earth
Students will develop social emotional literacy skills through connection to the earth, their senses, and one another
Students will identify and interpret colors and the color’s correlating meaning/message in the natural world
Students will craft child safe herbal preparations
Students will understand the traditional uses of 10+ plants
Click Here to Learn More & Register for Herb Camp for Kids
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Intro to Herbalism Weekend Intensive
September 17-18, 2022
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Wild Ginger Herbal Center in Bryans Road, MD
*very limited spots available*
Join us for an exciting weekend this fall at our peaceful herbal center exploring the art of herbal medicine. We will lay out a foundation in herbal medicine, herbal tastes, energetics as well as foundational herbal medicine making. This workshop is meant for the beginner who is looking to learn to build a hands on and personal relationship with plants particularly focusing on ones that grow around us in our area! By the end participants will learn how to create teas make their own tinctures, herbal oils, herbal salves and more! We will also cover basic herbal energetics as well as herbal tastes which will help deepen your relationship to the plants and their medicine. Lastly, we will explore buidling personal relationships with plants through plant journeys, and will learn to craft flower essences as well! A perfect course for those interested in learning the basics of herbal self care and even making gifts for loved ones!
Weekend Schedule:
Saturday
10:00AM Welcome and Introductions
Exploring Folk Herbalism
Garden Plant Walk
12:00 PM Lunch & Break
1:00-4:00 PM Herbal Medicine Making
Learn to Make Teas, Tinctures, Glycerites, Oils, Salves, Poultices
Sunday
10:00 AM Herbal Tastes
Herbal Energetics
12:00PM Lunch & Break
Flower Essences
Plant Journeys
This class will be taught by Molly Meehan, community herbalist and founder of Wild Ginger Herbal Center.
Class Date:
September 17-18th from 10-4
Location:
Wild Ginger Herbal Center in Bryans Road, Maryland (address sent in email confirmation)
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REGISTRATION IS ENDING!!!
Learn More about Medicine Keepers Series
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The Medicine Keepers Series
Seasonal Series Growing & Creating Your Own Apothecary
The Medicine Keepers, the tenders of this path, of the land,
this knowledge, these traditions, and of lineages.
In community, we will plant, grown, tend, harvest and create
alongside our beloved plant allys!
By the end of our season together you will have about 32 herbs and herbal preparations as part of your amazing herbal apothecary!
Molly Meehan Brown of Wild Ginger Herbal Center is the program facilitator.
This program will have very limited spaces and is expected to fill fast.
The Medicine Keeper Series
Seasonal Series Growing & Creating Your Own Herbal Apothecary
🌿 = an herb or preparation you will take home with you
Class 1 : Preparing . . . Sowing Seeds & Life
April 24 - Sunday the from 12-4 pm
Circle Work
Tending the Garden
Garden Bed Prep
Seed Starting
Milky Oats Planting
🌿Fresh Nettles Harvest
🌿Comfrey Salve
Class 2 : Planting . . . Reap what you Sow
May 15 - Sunday the from 12-4
Circle Work
Tending the Garden
Composting
Planting (ginger, foods, herbs, hibiscus, spicy radish)
🌿Peach Leaf
🌿 Chickweed Tincture
🌿 Yarrow Flower Essence
🌿 Peppermint Glycerite
Class 3 : Tending . . .Harvest & Nurture
June 26 Sunday the from 12-4
Circle Work
Tending the Garden
🌿 Milky Oat Harvest & Tincture
🌿 Bee Balm Harvest
🌿 Motherwort Harvest - Fresh & Tincture
🌿 Shiso Harvest
🌿Linden Harvest & Tincture
🌿St. Johns Flower Essence
Class 4: Abundance . . . Putting Up the Harvest
August 14 Sunday the from 12-4
Circle Work
Tending the Garden
🌿 Sumach Harvest
🌿 Gingko Biloba Harvest Fresh & Tincture
🌿 Tulsi Harvest Fresh & Tincture & Honey
🌿 Nettles Seeds
🌿 Passionflower Fresh & Tincture
🌿 Horehound Oxymel
🌿 Calendula Salve
Class 5: Going Inward - Save for the Future
October 23 Sunday the from 12-4
Circle Work
Fresh Root Digging - 🌿Burdock
Seed Saving - 🌿Burdock, 🌿Marshmallow, Etc
🌿Fresh Goldenrod
🌿Fresh Hibiscus Ginger Cordial
🌿Nettles
🌿Tulsi Rose Honey
🌿Elderberry Syrup
🌿Cedar Juniper Bundles
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Wild Ginger Herbal Center
Southern Maryland
For 10 years, Wild Ginger Herbal Center has been holding space for community based herbal education at our small herbal center in Southern Maryland. When we began, our goal was to create life-giving and accessible programs that help our community gain practical knowledge and build relationships with the plants. Since then we have gone on to host our beloved annual Community Herbal Program each year, our Birthkeepers Program, multiple Permaculture Design Programs, as well as the annual Chesapeake Herb Gathering, and a variety of other programs exploring herbs, farming, gardening, birthwork, and land-based living. Over the years we have regularly hosted Indigenous and BIack led programs for our local community including liberatory, abolitionist, and anti-oppression work - and we hope to continue to offer this space for that work. It is our honor to be in service to our community and thank you for joining us here!
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