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16pt"><b>Leapfrog Programs Presents:</b></font></font><font
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</b></font></font><font face="Garamond, serif"><font
style="font-size: 32pt"><b>The Sumac School</b></font></font><font
face="Garamond, serif" size="+1"><font style="font-size: 22pt"><b>
- year long intensive wild food cla</b></font></font> </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Garamond, serif"><font
style="font-size: 16pt" size="4"><b>This apprenticeship
will take you deep into connection with the natural
world we live in and are a part of through the doorway
of wild foods</b>. Penetrate the wallpaper that limits
our relationships with the wide world of plants and
animals! Through a year's cycle, we'll cover a wide
range of survival, practical and awareness skills with a
strong focus on learning from and about plants and
animals. Enjoy an immediately positive impact on your
diet, budget, health, awareness and sense of belonging
to the land.</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Garamond, serif"><font
size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal">Gain
confidence and familiarity with </span><b>more
than 50 edible, medicinal & useful and
poisonous species of plants, </b>and their uses -
how to find, ID, harvest and prepare them into food
and medicine.</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Garamond, serif"><font
size="4"><font color="#000000"><b>Plant and land
stewarding skills:</b></font><font
color="#000000"> Learn how to care for and
propagate plants by coppicing, grafting, layering,
and germinating seeds and cuttings; and the basics
of permaculture design and gardening as we explore
gardens in the area. Explore a diversity of
habitats and wild hotspots in the Valley as we
explore gardens, streams, rivers, forests and
fields together in different towns.</font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Garamond, serif"><font
size="4"><font color="#000000"><b>Learn how to make
plants into useful tools </b></font><font
color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: normal">to
create glue, baskets, mats, cordage and rope,
tinder and insulation, making friction fires,
and projectiles.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Garamond, serif"><font
size="4"><font color="#000000"><b>Learn 20 mammals
and 20 bird species </b></font><font
color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: normal">that
share our habitat, their habits, appearance,
songs and tracks. <b>Process animals into food
with skinning, butchering, meat curing and
hide work</b>. We will slaughter chickens and
a sheep.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Garamond, serif"><font size="4"><b>Class
appropriate for ages 15+. Meets one Sat. a month
closest to full moon from 4/18 to 3/19. Cost is
400-700$ sliding scale, requires a 200$ deposit -
and supports public fruit tree planting. Limited
work trade available. Register by 4/15</b></font></font></font></p>
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color="#000000"><font face="Garamond, serif"><font
size="4"><strong><font color="#2a2a2a"><font size="3"><span
style="font-weight: normal">Saturdays</span></font></font></strong><font
color="#2a2a2a"><font size="3"><span
style="font-weight: normal">: 4/28, 5/26, 6/23,
7/28, 8/25, 9/22</span></font></font><strong><font
color="#2a2a2a"><font size="3"><span
style="font-weight: normal">,</span></font></font></strong><font
color="#2a2a2a"><font size="3"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> 10/27, 11/17,
12/15. 2019: 1/5, 2/2 ,3/2 </span></font></font></font></font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font
face="Garamond, serif"><font color="#000000"><font
size="3"><b>Instructor bio: </b></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font size="3">Felix Lufkin has been
foraging and educating about plants, for 12 years. He
teaches nature and gardening programs at K-12 schools
in the Valley, and has offered hundreds of plant walks
for the community through Acorn Kitchen and Help
Yourself.</font></font></font></p>
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<font size="3"><font face="Garamond, serif"><b>Visit <a
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to find out more and register</b></font></font>
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