Event schedule:

10:30
Morning yoga.

Slow flow yoga for all experience levels and ages.

11:45- 12:45

Utilizing unusual flavors with Emily Altanner. Emily is the curator of drinks at Spice Catering and uses foraged ingredients to create Spice’s specialty drinks. We will explore tips and rules of thumb for integrating the novel flavors of foraged foods [into your meals in this class.

shelter

1:00-2:00

Ecology and Community with Prerna Agarwal. Prerna spearheads programming for Cleveland Owns and will be talking about the importance of community and food soverignty as it relates to the landscape. Maintaining knowledge about how to feed yourself and others as well as the culture behind our relationship to the land will be discussed. This will be a lecture and open dialouge style class.

2:15-3:15

Joe King from Rust Belt Riders will discuss regenerative gardening. We will touch on some basic botany, building soil, native plants interaction with insects and how you can create a garden space that reinvigorates the habitat around you.

outside

11:45-12:45

Cyanotypes by Molly Murray, learn about the many fiber and dye plants in Northeast Ohio and make a cyanotype resistance dye paper card

1:00-2:00

Permaculture basics and guerrilla gardening with Amy Coursen of Erie Shore Gardens. We will make seed paper to take home and learn about the ethics of considering the well being of natural spaces beyond your property. Amy is a permaculture landscape designer and will also touch on basic permaculture concepts

2:15-3:15

BreJona Whitlock will discuss food sovereignty and preservation of the harvest, whether it be from your vegetable garden or from the wild. Key topics will be safely canning, pickling, and drying foods with minimal fancy equipment. We will also touch on bartering and community building through skill sharing.

3:30-4:30

Spring ephemeral and ant phenology with Dr. Chelsea Miller of Akron University. This talk will discuss how warmer than average spring days are related to shorter durations of spring reproductive window in spring ephemeral plants and their insect pollinators. She I would also highlight the role of "citizen scientists" in collecting the data across a network of botanical gardens. The data collection project will be featured in the upcoming May issue of Public Gardens magazine, which we will discuss as well.

5:00-7:00 Dinner/networking

Pasta and salad featuring wild edibles collected by instructors, gluten free and vegan options will be available. If you wish to bring a dish as well, please let me know ahead of time.

Closing ceremony

Brief meditation and intention setting before saying goodbye. We will encourage each other to take action in our own communities!