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<p>I can vouch: Felix is very rad, and well respected in the local earth skills/nature connection community. I've worked with him on occasion, and taken a workshop or two with him before. Thinking about signing up for this myself.</p>
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<p>On 2018-03-15 15:36, Felix Lufkin wrote:</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><strong>Leapfrog Programs Presents:</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: 32pt;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: 32pt;"><strong>The Sumac School</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><strong> - year long intensive wild food cla</strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>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</strong>. 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.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Gain confidence and familiarity with </span><strong>more than 50 edible, medicinal & useful and poisonous species of plants, </strong>and their uses - how to find, ID, harvest and prepare them into food and medicine.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Plant and land stewarding skills:</strong></span><span style="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.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Learn how to make plants into useful tools </strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">to create glue, baskets, mats, cordage and rope, tinder and insulation, making friction fires, and projectiles.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>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</strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Instructor bio: </strong></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">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.</span></span></span></p>
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