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UPCOMING EVENTS: Just because it’s nice to know, here is the next month or so I’ve got planned. (All plans are subject to change, of course.)
Feb 1st – Mini-lesson by Rebecca, Brother Williams teaches medicinals with the plan being Elderberry Syrup if all goes well. If we have time, we’ll have a one or more slideshow presentations.
Feb 8th – Guest speaker on bees and pollinators, Sister Mock leads the international honey tasting competition – I am so excited for this! I will try not to eat all 12 types of honey before Feb 8th. (I’m still working out the honey competition details – but we’ll be rating the taste of honeys from around Utah and around the world.)
Feb 15th – Guest speaker on native plants, Brother Williams teaches last installment of medicinals, AND 3-4 nature journal pages and 2 reaction papers due!!!
Feb 22nd – Mini-lessons by Liberty and Ivan, Sister Mock teaches Urban Forests and Food Forests.
Feb 29th – Mini-Lessons by Isabelle and Simon, Brother Williams takes the second hour.
Homework items: (not much this week)
READ 10 Essential Herbs chapter 10 on Slippery Elm (pages 245-270)
IF YOU DIDN’T GET A CHANCE LAST WEEK, WATCH…
Fire Mountain: The Eruption and Rebirth of Mount St. Helens. You can google it and watch it on YouTube OR you can watch it for free on Amazon Prime. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like on Amazon Prime.
As a last minute side note: We talked a little bit about different places you can go to do nature journaling during the winter if you don’t want to go outside in the weather. We mentioned Thanksgiving Point’s Butterfly Biosphere and even the Museum of Ancient Life (you wouldn’t be looking at real plants there most of the time, but it’s interesting to see their replicas of ancient plants.) Also, the South American exhibit at the aquarium has LOTS of fun plants and tree you could journal. I do have a Thanksgiving Point pass this year, so if enough people were interested, I would be happy to organize a group to go up to the Butterfly Biosphere. It would costs each person $6 or $7. I’m not going to head up that project, but if a few of you are interested, let me know and we can work something out.