On-farm events are a great way for you to connect to your farmer, your food, and your community. This land is for everyone, and I get the opportunity to steward it, nurture it, and then share it with you all!
Foraging ClassesHave you ever wondered why some plants are called weeds? invasive? Or if you can eat it?
A not so long time ago, around the entire world, every human ate from the land. They didn't have grocery stores or markets. Instead every animal they ate they either hunted or raised and every plant they ate they either grew or foraged. In this class, we'll focus first on the common 'weeds' that pop up in your garden or yard. Which ones are edible. Which ones are tasty. When to eat them. How to tell if you might not want to. And which ones you never should. As time and interest allows, each class will slowly wander out further from the farm/garden, into the field and then the forest, finding tasty treats as we go. To end the class we'll share a meal of our findings mixed with foraged and farmed treats and you'll be able to take home some recipes of your favs! What's available and what we find changes with each class and every year. I've been foraging since a child, taught by my acupuncturist and herbalist father to identify the basics (and the toxics!). I love introducing people to knew plant friends and maybe even changing their minds on which plants are friends and which are foes. Learn more about my journey to being a farmer and forager on the About page! Early Spring Foraging | Around* Saturday, May 13th, 2023
Early Summer Foraging | Around* Sunday, June 18th, 2023
Late Summer Foraging | Around* Saturday, August 19th, 2023
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Fall Foraging | Around* Sunday, September 10th, 2023
* Dates listed are approximate for overall planning purpose. The exact date will be finalized about 1 month before the class. This is to allow me to adjust based upon seasonal conditions and to aim for the best quality and variety of foraging.
Yoga Classes / Retreats
2023 Dates TBD
When it's finally warm and sunny in Montana, why do yoga inside when you can do it in the Wilds!
Each summer, I lead various half-day classes/workshops and full-day retreats where we do yoga on the farm and in the wilds.
Each class is limited in size to ensure the highest quality experience for you and the ability for me to customize the teaching experience to each students needs.
Check out this season's classes for specifics but each follow a general flow:
All classes, workshops, and retreats are taught with welcoming, inclusive, and body-loving language. All levels are welcome, especially complete beginners! Every body can do yoga, no matter your size, shape, height, or weight. Pushing ourselves into the perfect image of a pose is not the goal of yoga, instead it is the awareness and connection to the body that is our goal. And that goal is achievable by anyone, of any shape and any ability level. It is my goal as your teacher to help you cultivate that awareness so that you can embody the meaning of yoga whenever you require it.
Each summer, I lead various half-day classes/workshops and full-day retreats where we do yoga on the farm and in the wilds.
Each class is limited in size to ensure the highest quality experience for you and the ability for me to customize the teaching experience to each students needs.
Check out this season's classes for specifics but each follow a general flow:
- Half-Day Classes: usually late morning or early evening so we may enjoy the most temperate time of the day. Will either focus on Yin/Restorative styles with gentle flows that are intended to calm the body and mind, encouraging deep relaxation and recovery, OR a vigorous Vinyasa/Hatha style with muscle working poses to help strengthen us while stretching and building a strong spatial awareness within our bodies.
- Workshops: is there a pose you just can't get the hang of? one you want to know how to work up to? or even if it's a pose that is beneficial for your unique body? The workshops are a place where I will answer all your questions, give you my fav tips, and help you find the ease and breath within each pose. This is the safe space for your questions and concerns. I keep these classes the smallest so everyone gets my fullest attention. Be prepared to ask your questions and share with the class.
- Retreats: a full day of yoga, the wilds, and mindfulness. Most days begin with a yin/restorative class to help us connect with our deep selves and the land beneath us. Just before lunch, we head off for a gentle walk further into the wilds as I lead the group on a quiet (not necessarily silent but mostly so) stroll on an abandoned forest service road that is being reclaimed by the life around it. We will listen to the birds, wind, animals, and plants around us, not only with our ears but also with our hearts as we learn to be comfortable within our silence upon the land. After lunch on the trail, we head back to the farm for an afternoon of vinyasa flow to reawaken us to the active, wild world around us.
All classes, workshops, and retreats are taught with welcoming, inclusive, and body-loving language. All levels are welcome, especially complete beginners! Every body can do yoga, no matter your size, shape, height, or weight. Pushing ourselves into the perfect image of a pose is not the goal of yoga, instead it is the awareness and connection to the body that is our goal. And that goal is achievable by anyone, of any shape and any ability level. It is my goal as your teacher to help you cultivate that awareness so that you can embody the meaning of yoga whenever you require it.
Meditations in the Wilds
2023 Dates TBD
If you are like me, you've tried to meditate in the wilds, but as soon as your eyelids close, they snap back open because you are sure you heard something! In these excursions we will either be on the forest/farm edge or, for the really adventurous, deep into the wilds. I will lead the group through a short, slow movement practice to ready our bodies for stillness. Then each person will be able to find their most comfortable space within eye- and ear- shot of each other as I guide everyone into their meditation. The group will be able to remain in mediation unperturbed by any branch cracking or strange bird call as I watch over with a wary and cautious eye as a shepard watches her flock.
Even if you have never meditated, this is a great way to begin because even if you need to fidget or get bored, you can always open your eyes and enjoy the forest around you (even take a nap) while you wait patiently beside your fellow classmates to finish. You can also choose to lay down on a blanket, lean against a tree, or curl up around your fav plant, so no need to be able to sit stick straight for hours on end.
Even if you have never meditated, this is a great way to begin because even if you need to fidget or get bored, you can always open your eyes and enjoy the forest around you (even take a nap) while you wait patiently beside your fellow classmates to finish. You can also choose to lay down on a blanket, lean against a tree, or curl up around your fav plant, so no need to be able to sit stick straight for hours on end.
Your Teacher
I came to Yoga over 10 years ago after injuring the discs of my lower back. As an active, outdoorsy 20-something who grew up playing sports and climbing trees, it was deeply humbling to be unable to move with ease. The yoga I found focused on gentle flows that emphasized maintaining length in the spine and ease of the breath. It didn't matter how far you pushed into the pose but how your body felt in it. Those first few months of recovery were slow, but the lack of expectation I felt in how I should look in the pose meant I gained an awareness and appreciation for the subtleness of the bodies different movements and how small changes could have big affects.
Since then, I have had many jobs that required a level of mobility and strength that I have only been able to maintain through my yoga practice. There have been times when I've been unable to practice yoga with the frequency I know I need and my lower back and body suffered for it. Yet, I return when I can knowing that yoga is a practice and not an end goal. There is no winning yoga, only doing yoga or being yoga.
Since becoming a small farmer five years ago, I have returned to my practice with renews interest as I quickly discovered that relying upon hand tools instead of tractors didn't mean that my shovel or my rake was my most useful tool but that my body was. I also found that being a small farmer meant being a business owner, a social media manager, a customer service agent, a website designer, a bookkeeper, and an event planner, all of which left little time for me to be just me, the girl that loved to hike along mountains, climb, trees, and just be instead of do. The practice of yoga is my way to connect with my body, listen to its needs, answer its calls, and fulfill its desires. Meditation is the way I connect to who I am, remember my deep soul and spirit, listen to what I need, and fulfill my own desires separate from the wants of the so-called civilized world we live in.
I came to Yoga over 10 years ago after injuring the discs of my lower back. As an active, outdoorsy 20-something who grew up playing sports and climbing trees, it was deeply humbling to be unable to move with ease. The yoga I found focused on gentle flows that emphasized maintaining length in the spine and ease of the breath. It didn't matter how far you pushed into the pose but how your body felt in it. Those first few months of recovery were slow, but the lack of expectation I felt in how I should look in the pose meant I gained an awareness and appreciation for the subtleness of the bodies different movements and how small changes could have big affects.
Since then, I have had many jobs that required a level of mobility and strength that I have only been able to maintain through my yoga practice. There have been times when I've been unable to practice yoga with the frequency I know I need and my lower back and body suffered for it. Yet, I return when I can knowing that yoga is a practice and not an end goal. There is no winning yoga, only doing yoga or being yoga.
Since becoming a small farmer five years ago, I have returned to my practice with renews interest as I quickly discovered that relying upon hand tools instead of tractors didn't mean that my shovel or my rake was my most useful tool but that my body was. I also found that being a small farmer meant being a business owner, a social media manager, a customer service agent, a website designer, a bookkeeper, and an event planner, all of which left little time for me to be just me, the girl that loved to hike along mountains, climb, trees, and just be instead of do. The practice of yoga is my way to connect with my body, listen to its needs, answer its calls, and fulfill its desires. Meditation is the way I connect to who I am, remember my deep soul and spirit, listen to what I need, and fulfill my own desires separate from the wants of the so-called civilized world we live in.
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