Land, People, and Place: Field Ecology of the Colorado Rockies

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near Aspen, Colorado

July 10-13

Location: Aspen Environmental Center Toklat/Ashcroft campus and public land beyond

scholarships available! (inquire with ACES)

Hide Tanning Classes Coming up:

email kelly@ofsedgeandsalt.com for scholarship opportunities

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Podcast / Field Ecology and Ancestral Skills Classes / Land-Based Philosophy & Theory/ Herbal Apothecary / Land Based Craft

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The Ground Shots Podcast has been featuring conversations and stories about our relationship to land since 2017

listen some of the latest Ground Shots Podcast episodes:

The Ground Shots Podcast
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Episode #90: Wind Clearwater. 20 years of permaculture in the desert
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Episode# 89: Morgan Sjogren on advocating for western lands through immersive journalism
Episode #88: Trevor Warmedahl of Sour Milk School & Milk Trekker on the necessity of reclaiming pastoralism
Episode #88: Trevor Warmedahl of Sour Milk School & Milk Trekker on the necessity of reclaiming pastoralism
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Episode #87: Samuel Bautista Lazo and Mandalin Sattler on becoming good food for rock woman in Oaxaca, Mexico
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Episode #86: Wild Tending Series/ Samuel Bautista Lazo & Damián Jiménez Martínez on Tseé Xigie radio - ecology, wild tending, land politics (Español/English)
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Episode #85: Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff: Viscous Expectations: Justice, Vulnerability, The Ob-scene
Episode #84: We all eat the Colorado River: this watershed is a microcosm of our society with Jeff Wagner
Episode #84: We all eat the Colorado River: this watershed is a microcosm of our society with Jeff Wagner
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Episode #83: Callie Russell on tending ecosystems with goats
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Episode #82: Jason Hone on biblical ethnobotany and ecology of the holy lands
Episode #81: Ethan Bonnin on Ecological Degradation at the Borderlands
Episode #81: Ethan Bonnin on Ecological Degradation at the Borderlands
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Episode #80: Elizabeth Yaari on regenerating desert land at the Night Owl Food Forest in Paonia, Colorado
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Episode #79: Samantha Zipporah on radical fertility & the politics of birth
Episode #78: Jacquie Hill on the medicine of Ponderosa Pine and botanical research ethics
Episode #78: Jacquie Hill on the medicine of Ponderosa Pine and botanical research ethics
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Episode #77: Calyx Liddick of Northern Appalachia School on the historical connection between ecological conservation and eugenics
Episode #76: Sylvia Poareo on Planting Seeds of Collective and Inclusive Regeneration
Episode #76: Sylvia Poareo on Planting Seeds of Collective and Inclusive Regeneration
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Episode #75: Kelly solo on teaching riparian ecology, preparing for a season on the land
Episode #74: Alex Zubia on the importance of good food, community and love in Fresno, California
Episode #74: Alex Zubia on the importance of good food, community and love in Fresno, California
Episode #73: Kelly solo on borders, rising to the occasion, weaving ecologies and land immersion
Episode #73: Kelly solo on borders, rising to the occasion, weaving ecologies and land immersion
Episode #72: Lisa Ganora on molecular level connection, the magic of herbal constituents
Episode #72: Lisa Ganora on molecular level connection, the magic of herbal constituents
Episode #71: writer, botanist, Susan Tweit on being a walking ecosystem, writing the deserts of the West
Episode #71: writer, botanist, Susan Tweit on being a walking ecosystem, writing the deserts of the West
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Episode #70: checking in with Sarah Galvin: internal and external landscape tracking to address ancestral trauma, mothering in the modern world
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Episode #69: Nikki Hill with Sigh Moon on Botany as Archaeology, to Stop a Lithium Mine
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Episode #68: Wild Tending Series / A conversation in a Camas meadow. Adam Larue of Sharpening Stone on tending wild plants in southern Oregon
Episode #67: Ted Packard on bodies as a multiplicity, coyote-trickster troubadour-ing, music as ecological channeling, kids and nature connection, & creating communities of mutuality
Episode #67: Ted Packard on bodies as a multiplicity, coyote-trickster troubadour-ing, music as ecological channeling, kids and nature connection, & creating communities of mutuality
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Episode #66: An ode to Doug Elliott, Appalachian storyteller, herbalist and naturalist (plus photo diary)
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Episode #65: Wild Tending Series / Dave Meesters and Janet Kent of the Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine on disempowering the engines of disruption through intentional land-tending
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Episode #64: Mary Morgaine Plantwalker of Herb Mountain Farm on care-taking a botanical sanctuary in Appalachia
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Episode #63: A life of living in the wilderness, fermenting on the road and facing the immediacy of death with Marissa Percoco
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Episode #62: Chama Woydak of Homegrown Families on birth, death, and land connection
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Episode #61: Jillian Ashley aka. Jill Trashley on the origins of the NOHM collective, nomadic business, community & plant tending across ecologies [plus photo diary]
 
 

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Things come/cüme/come back around sometimes in the most immensely beautiful and torturous ways. Life, death and rebirth, the spiral the next go round and deciding what to do with the new layer, seeds that make rounds and the responsibility of te
About to be in the high country for a week teaching field ecology classes, gathering wild food and medicine, planting a backlog of wild food seeds and then in utah for @elkhorn_gathering - I’d love to pass along a couple of the sheep hides I h
Episode #84 of @groundshotspodcast went live last week across most podcast platforms. + We all eat the Colorado River: this watershed is a microcosm of our society with Jeff Wagner + of @groundwork_org I've heard the lecture that is the basis for
Yesterdays haul of ‘wild’ food, medicine and sort of poison. … It’s already a good mushroom season here in the high country which means August is going to be even more amazing. .. here’s what I gathered with a few fr
Showed a combination of new and old work associated with my ground shots explorations, ‘skin kite,’ ‘there he goes’ and more. Mainly work is the alchemy involved in the materials moving from life to death to material or death
A month spent here during one of their last residencies in this building for now. Over the years I have tried to make time for intentional space to make art or explore creative mediums. I feel like my life is my art- my photography, my work with mate
August field ecology sessions coming up! We dig into a critical analysis of ethnoecology while also learning basic botany and naturalist skills, applicable to western Colorado but also contextualized in place beyond, so no matter where you come from,
New poem among other writings on Substack > a space you can follow me for free or with $ subscription for more vulnerable things. A better space I like to inhabit over this one these days when I have the time to share to the world writings and thi
Read it all at groundshots.substack.com #moabutah #uranium #mining #southwestecology #coloradoriver #problemwithwilderness #invasionbiology #invasiveplants #treeofheaven #saltcedar #russianolive #nuclearbombs Just got back from my 4-day ecology co

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