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Alexander Vido

has been working in Victoria, BC, equally a master craftsman staircase architect for many years. After several trips to Asia he was looking for a way to bring the scythe to the farmers in the hills of Nepal. Alexander took an apprenticeship with his blood brother, Peter Vido of Scythe Connection, a recognized potency in the scythe earth. On Peter's farm in New Brunswick Alexander learned how to use and maintain scythes, and six years ago he established Scythe Works. Soon, he actively promotes the use of scythes to pocket-sized scale farmers in Canada and United states of america. Through workshops he has helped many to get practiced in this ancient craft, a skill which he strongly believes is worthwhile to encompass, because scything, when done properly, is similar a fluid dance in the field of grass. In March 2012 Alexander carried out the Scythe Project In Nepal (SPIN).

Alex Desko

serves as the designer, framer, and optimist for Confluence Fabrication Co., a timber framing business that works to build structures with deep intention, integrity, and craftsmanship. He enjoys collaborating with adept friends and a club abundant with knowledge to build structures that could last centuries afterward the worries and struggles of its creators.

Alma Gomez

has been a painter all her life, and her involvement in handbasket weaving began several years agone when she spent some time with potters from the Hopi reservation in Arizona. In that location she was completely impressed with the fact that the Hopi potters gathered everything they used in their work from the landscape they lived in. Alma'southward formal education includes 2 master'southward degrees and a bachelor's degree, all in the visual arts. She has taught drawing courses at Boise Land University for 24 years.

Andrew Byers

is a Botanist and Cordon Bleu Chef turned Cider Maker. He has been managing microbial populations at Finnriver for almost 4 years; before that he helped produce manor-grown sparkling cider in cider orchards of upstate New York. He brings an bookish emphasis in fungal ecology and systems thinking/design to the forefront of home cider production, as well every bit a deep cognition of tree fruit. Over the years he has facilitated cooking classes, English writing courses, orchard workshops, youth soccer clinics, and four previous CedarRoot cider courses. Andrew'south passion is rooted in the networks of resilience created past living systems, which is what cider making is all about.

Angela Dunham

moved to Port Townsend in 2020 looking for a modify of pace from city life. She is passionate almost sustainability, local food and spending as much time in nature as possible.

Angela holds an MBA from Academy of Washington's Foster Schoolhouse of Business. Her career includes over 15 years in marketing and operations at Microsoft, Capital One, Costco Wholesale and a few startups. Angela is looking forward to drawing on her background and skills to help CedarRoot run every bit efficiently every bit possible and drive greater customs support for the school.

In her free time, you can discover Angela out at the local farmers markets, exploring restaurants and cideries or out hiking or skiing with her family unit.

Anne Aldrich

has been running wild with CedarRoot youth programs since 2006. She spends the majority of her time in the woods or on the h2o, and has been involved in many youth organizations around Jefferson County including the Schooner Martha Foundation, Northwest Maritime Center, and the Port Townsend Sea Scouts. Anne loves making baskets around an open burn down while cooking palatial savory dishes to share with students.

Bryan Bakker

is a quondam energy engineer who moved to the peninsula to work in and learn about organic agriculture. Last year he participated in the FIELD farm apprenticeship program at WSU extension and took a special interest in biochar. With the help of other local biochar enthusiasts, he's helped integrate perennial production and utilise of biochar at Finnriver Farm to improve soil and creature health.

Carianna Schreitz

has 15 years of teaching feel. She has taught fine art classes to both children and adults and has been a classroom teacher for ages 3-six. Carianna is a defended and creative instructor. She finds great joy in nurturing a sense of connection and self trust in her students. Her education includes a B.A. in Ceramics and Teaching fromThe Evergreen Country College and the Haystack Mountain Schoolhouse of Crafts. Carianna lives in Port Townsend with her hubby Dan Bell and their ii lively sons, Bruno and Zephyr.

Dave Rugh

is a wildlife biologist with a career of studying marine mammals, particularly whales of Alaska. Since retirement, he has focused on nature studies on the Olympic Peninsula including attention and helping the Jefferson Land Trust'due south Natural History Course as a lead naturalist, the Fisher Restoration Monitoring Project, the Natural History Society (on the Guiding Commission), Certified Interpretive Guide Grooming, and Certified Animal Tracker (Level III). Previously he has taken and taught a couple dozen first assistance courses, nigh of which focused on accidents in the wilderness. In his free time, Dave has been putting up firewood since 1979 on belongings n of Dabob Bay, where he and Ruthe now live full time. By thinning a thick forest recovering from earlier clearcuts, Dave has had enough of wood for building sheds and providing firewood while accentuating the wellness of a maturing forest. Present he cuts, splits, hauls, and stacks nigh ten cords of woods annually – all split by manus.

David Moskowitz

For over fifteen years, David Moskowitz has taught classes, lead expeditions, and given presentations on wildlife tracking and other natural history topics around the western United States, Canada and abroad. He was the lead wildlife tracking instructor at Wilderness Awareness School for six years and he regularly teaches seminars for the North Cascades Establishalso as other educational and conservation organizations around the Northwest. Equally an expert in the fields of wildlife tracking, Due north American mammals, wild animals photography, and wildland conservation, David artfully blends his deep noesis of wild fauna biology with a sincere love of teaching. David'due south field programs open students up to a new fashion of looking at the natural earth around them.

David Tuthill

has been working with metals, starting time with jewelry, since the age of 15. He began forging as role of a sculpture grade at Santa Barbara City College in 1988, and began forging full-time in 1992. He has been operating his business Burn Horse Forge in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle since 1994, where he produces architectural commissions, as well as piece of furniture, sculpture, and jewelry. David's years in the Northwest take been the most formative in his metalworking career. With his love for the outdoors, being surrounded by the vast and expansive nature of the region, too as a rich industrial history, including timber, maritime trades, and railroads, he has continued to learn and has been able to more fully appreciate and understand how the influence of his environment can be reflected in the pieces that he produces. "For about of my life I accept been interested in history, and how it still straight, and indirectly influences us today. There is a connection to many of the traditions that brought u.s. to where nosotros are standing, so how practise nosotros give these ancient sensibilities, a modernistic voice, how do we relate it to now?"

Douglas Bullock

has, since 1982, lived with his extended family, friends and skill builders on their permaculture site on Orcas Island. He has facilitated permaculture projects and classes in Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Republic of costa rica, the Bahamas, Russia, California, and Washington. Having traveled extensively collecting and studying agricultural systems, he is familiar with a wide range of climate strategies and crops. His specialties include permaculture design, tree crops, nursery practices, creating small and big-calibration wetland environments, and implementing advisable technologies

Doyle Yancey

is a lifelong Washingtonian who relocated to the Olympic Peninsula in 2002 to pursue his passions in developing a more self sustainable lifestyle. Subsequently launching his greenhouse business "Egg and I Fuchsias" in 2008, he connected with local farmers and began raising heritage breed Tamworth pigs. In 2010 he began studying slaughter/butchering methods from various visiting butchers and many books on the subject area. "The deed of slaughterhouse is a very real feel that nosotros love to share with our friends and neighbors." Visit Doyle and family at www.eggandigardens.com or at the subcontract.

Eli McGregor

has participated in many CedarRoot programs and is excited to be an assistant instructor this summer. Eli just finished his 8th grade year at Sunfield Waldorf Schoolhouse. His passions are mount biking and photography. Throughout his life, he's spent a lot of fourth dimension helping out with younger kids: at school, as an assistant for his mom during summer programs, and doing some childcare. Eli is also an older brother to his 7 year one-time sister, Sequoia.

Emily Tzeng

is a knitter and shepherd on Bainbridge Island where she tends to her flock of Finnsheep and angora bunnies. 2015 will be her fifth year farming in the Northwest. Together with Tatyana, she started Local Color Cobweb Studio in 2013, where they grow and process natural dye plants and paw dye yarn and fiber.

Eric Johnson

has been a traditional archery enthusiast for 25 years and is enthusiastically involved in several martial & move arts traditions. He has pursued a wide variety of folk arts & crafts from various cultures, and has made many voyages in Europe, Asia, North and Southward America. Whether nearby or far-flung, he has ever busied himself with seeking out traditional folk arts practitioners to learn with. Interests here bridge across basket making & woodworking, to ancient battlefield combatives to folk tumbling, music and singing. One of his core passions has been learning & sharing the skills of crafting primitive archery gear and other rock age tools created from materials gathered from the environment. Eric has offered workshops, presentations, performances, and lectures in his diverse interests all across the country, and has been an teacher since 1993.

Erik Newquist

had his first blacksmith shop in his parents' woodshed with a smoky coal forge and a tiny anvil at the age of 16. He has since moved his shop from California to Vermont and finally back to Washington state where information technology all started. Erik' store is currently located on Marrowstone Island on the Olympic Peninsula. He has a deep honey for beautiful handmade tools that are used everyday. He makes tools that people can use because of the pleasance of working with their hands, such as splitting firewood with an axe, moving earth with the Korean hoe, and shaving wood with a handmade draw knife. In keeping with long blacksmithing traditions, Erik makes his own tongs, hammers, drifts, chisels, forges, and power hammer. His love of the arts and crafts was inspired by blacksmiths the world round, and now he passes on his knowledge to students of every age and skill level. www.etsy.com/shop/NewquistMetalsmith

Erin Jakubek

lived the starting time 25 years of her life in the isle community of Ketchikan, Alaska, just now calls Jefferson Canton home subsequently moving to Chimacum in 2011 for a position on the Red Dog Farm coiffure. For the terminal eight years, Erin has been working on farms and on fishing boats in the Pacific NW and Alaska, and loves piece of work that connects her to the elements and irresolute pace of the seasons. Erin is delighted by the wonder and curiosity of children, and is grateful for the slower winter months when she gets to spend more time with and caring for kiddos in her customs. Inspired past the power of the natural world to instill wonder and curiosity in the immature and not-so-young alike, Erin looks for opportunities to exist in community in the outdoors whenever possible.

Ethan Jones-Walker

is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native, though he often chooses to live the life of an itinerant carpenter to grow his world-view and gather timber framing skills and approaches from willing teachers, agin weather condition, and most of all, from the timber, itself. Ethan is as 1 half of Confluence Fabrication Co., a timber framing business that works to build structures with deep intention, integrity, and adroitness. Cfc is a product of a decade-long friendship, pursuit of craft, and a life-long commitment to learning.

Francesco Tortorici

is an engineer and advisable technology advocate. This interest led him to a briefing in 2011 where he was introduced to clean cook stoves for the developing globe that produce biochar. He initially collaborated with a mushroom farmer in Sequim to develop a commercial gasifer stove used to pasteurize harbinger and make biochar. For the by four years he has been involved with the Port of Port Townsend designing and building biochar filters to remove heavy metals from stormwater runoff. Most recently Francesco teamed with local farms in the production and incorporation of biochar in the soil. This includes biochar trials conducted at WSU's Twin View Ranch and Finn River Subcontract.

Gary Coyan

moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2009 and is happy to share his passions for fine art, proficient food, and organic farming with students at Chimacum High School. His approach to teaching is rooted in experiential learning and existent-world relevance; he uses field trips to organic farms to teach students about corporate ethics and accountability, and gives his art students the run a risk to exit their marking on the community through an biennial mural project. Much of the produce utilized in Gary's Foods class is grown past Horticulture students in the greenhouse, while his Foods students recycle all their food scraps in a worm composting bin for eventual employ in the schoolhouse garden. His Horticulture form takes the lead in maintaining the loftier schoolhouse bee apiary, with the aid of the Tri-Area Garden Club and the East Jefferson Bee Keepers Clan. Gary has constitute that when learning is existent and lasting, students thrive. Gary is besides the piece of work-based learning coordinator, FFA advisor, assistant track coach and serves as an counselor to several senior projects each yr. This year one of those senior projects was successful in establishing Chimacum High schoolhouse as the start High School Bee Campus United states in the nation.

Geoff Briggs

is dedicated to creating and leading maritime experiences that give youth a foundation for living happy, successful, fun, and authentic lives. Geoff has been actively involved with rite-of-passage programs in Chicago and the Pacific Northwest, leading kayaking, canoeing and sailing trips for the final 15 years through W.I.L.D Expeditions. He also skippers for the Sea Scouts and the Wooden Boat Foundation in Port Townsend. Geoff is a US Declension Guard licensed Captain.

Hannah Viano

has spent the last 15 years getting to know, falling in dear with, and sharing with others the natural wonders small and large of the Pacific Northwest. As an artist and educator who is ofttimes working and adventuring far from a studio or desk, she has developed an artistic and personal exercise that is based on sketching and writing about the natural environment in whatever moments and with whatever tools are available. These field journals become the basis for her large-calibration papercut landscapes, too as children'due south books, and public art projects throughout the region. Her most recent book is entitled S is for Salmon: A Pacific Northwest Alphabet and is now on the book shelves! Read more most Hannah here.

Heidi Bohan

is an educator and author specializing in ethnobotany- native plants and their traditional uses. She has worked the terminal 8 years with Snoqualmie Tribe as a cultural advisor, educator and consultant for their environmental restoration projects and cultural education programs, and for the terminal five years with Northwest Indian College Traditional Plants Plan. Heidi is also offshoot faculty for Bastyr University, instruction 'Northwest Herbs' and 'Ethnobotany' courses. She is the author of 'The People of Cascadia- Pacific Northwest Native American History', 'Starflower Native Found ID Cards' and 'Journeying Institute Medicine Cards'.

Ian Hanna

believes that the almost of import aspect of forest management is a sense of relationship, borne of unyielding curiosity and exercise. A woods ecologist by training, he brings a big-picture perspective to forest management. Over the past 25+ years Ian has been a restoration ecologist for The Nature Conservancy, founded Windfall Lumber in Tumwater, launched the landowner assistance program at Northwest Natural Resources Group (www.nnrg.org), and advanced the market for certified responsible woods products at the Wood Stewardship Council. https://world wide web.linkedin.com/in/ian-hanna-b166746/

Jadyne Reichner

followed 25 years of teaching Biology and Science in Washington with several other careers. In 1996 she founded Purple Haze Lavender, an organic farm that blossomed into 1 of the virtually successful agri-tourism farms in Washington State. After selling the business in 2004, she relocated to Port Townsend and worked with WSU Extension teaching courses in agricultural entrepreneurship and directing the Water/Beach Watchers program in Jefferson County. Jadyne'due south passion for plants and seeds deepened while working as a board member and an operations manager for the Organic Seed Alliance in Port Townsend. Since leaving OSA in 2010, Jadyne has worked at Oatsplanter farm to keep her seed and sustainability work.

Jason Temple

studied Agricultural Engineering at the Academy of California-Davis, and made the leap into the world of natural building after eating tomatoes grown in an earthship during a Colorado wintertime in 2001. He stoked his first rocket-stove with Ianto Evans and studied the fine art of masonry heaters from master mason Jerry Frisch. Jason is passionate about colloquial building, traditional technologies and sustainability, and is a member of the Masonry Heater Association of North America and is a WA Registered Masonry Contractor. He currently builds traditional european masonry heaters and wood fired bake ovens under his company, TempleFire.

Jennie Watkins

started Ananda Hills Farm in 2001 when she was overtaken with the want to take a hand spinner'southward flock of sheep and live more closely with the country and seasons. She comes from a farming family in the midwest where she gained a great appreciation for small family farms and rural living. Her interests reflect a delivery to a slower, more balanced style of living through the growing and sharing of practiced nutrient, and meditative handcrafts such manus spinning, natural dying and knitting. Dull Food! SLOW FIBER! Some of Jennie's favorites authors include Wendell Drupe, Joel Salatin, Barbara Kingsolver, Eliot Coleman, and Rebecca Burgess.

Jocelyn Hanbey

Jocelyn Hanbey has been working and playing with children in nature for over 30 years. A native to the Pacific Northwest, she comes from a background of exploring all that the local surrounding ecosystems have to offer. Her begetter was a forest ranger and teacher who climbed the mountains in the Cascades. He taught her "low affect" backpacking and a passion for nature exploration. Past 17 years erstwhile she went to Germany, Yellowstone and New United mexican states to help on forest restoration projects through the Pupil Conservation Association.
But her heart ever lay with the N Cascades and the Olympic Peninsula ecosystems where she raised her own ii kids exploring nature. Plants, animals, storytelling and nature crafts in all kinds of conditions are her specialties. Tie that in with a Masters in Teaching K-8 and years of profitable in a Waldorf School, she has the right stuff to make sure your kids are happy, safe, and learning virtually their surroundings.

John Bellow

is the main farmer at SpringRain Farm & Orchard where he strives to develop a diversified system as close to a natural ecological one every bit possible. As a grower of many types of berries and orchard fruits, John focuses on genetic variety, adaptation to the item weather on his farm, and ability to thrive under organic management when selecting planting material. Considering he tends to abound antiquarian and unusual varieties, plant propagation is critical to his success. Acquire more than about SpringRain Farm at springrainfarm.org.

Julia Harrison

is a Seattle-based artist who uses forest to create jewelry and small sculpture. Traveling and living out of a bag for many years led her to develop a toolkit and range of techniques that can turn whatsoever minor infinite into a productive studio. Her work has appeared in galleries and museums across the country and in Europe, and she has taught widely at venues including Pratt in Seattle, the 92nd St Y in New York, and the Penland Schoolhouse of Craft in Due north Carolina.

Keith Kisler

is the co-possessor of Finnriver Farm & Cidery. He has been making cider commercially for four years, later preparation with primary British cider consultant Peter Mitchell. Finnriver has won numerous awards for their handcrafted ciders, including the 2012 Edible Seattle Local Heroes Award for Artisan Potable, and are founding members of the Northwest Cider Clan. With over 15 varieties of hard cider and fruit wines, their farm and cidery tasting room in Chimacum attracts thousands of visitors each year.

Kenny Schordine

has been interested in solar thermal since 1980, when his father brought solar thermal into the family refrigeration concern (both rely on efficient heat transfer). He began working for By Design Heating in 1986 and attended several workshops and seminars on advanced organisation design. K.Schordine Solar Hot Water was launched in September of 2008. Like his father, Kenny continues to innovate at his own residence and recently completed a solar hot tub. Kenny says "I like to endeavour out new ideas at my domicile first, where failures and mistakes can be used for their educational value. Information technology is the style nosotros overcome adversity with humility and dignity that knowledge and character are built. "

Linda Davis

learned to bind books while living aboard a boat with her hubby in Ireland. She apprenticed for a year with Kisane and Hubert Hand Bindery in Cork, Ireland. Since then Linda has been busy repairing books for local collectors and creating books for marketing her subcontract products (for example: a lamb cookbook for Solstice Subcontract's customers).

Margie Weaver

brings an all-encompassing background in theatre arts, holding a BFA & MFA in Interim, plus 2 decades of professional acting and academy teaching feel. She also has spent fifteen years as a full-fourth dimension teacher of yoga, breathwork and chanting, and she makes an ongoing study of the skills of deep living, making human culture, knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, and working for a meliorate day for those coming up backside as part of Stephen Jenkinson'southward Orphan Wisdom Schoolhouse. She well-nigh recently helped launch the 612 Sauna Society Cooperative in Minneapolis as a steering commission and founding lath fellow member.

Maria Bullock

like all of our instructors, has many talents. Originally from Poland, she is a Permaculture Design skilful, broom maker extraordinaire, weaver of baskets and hats, and a circus teacher. Nosotros are honored to host her classes.

Marko Colby

is an organic vegetable grower farming on the verdant North Olympic Peninsula of Washington state. Marko runs Midori Farm with his wife Hanako Myers. They produce an affluence of fresh marketplace vegetables, tens of thousands of seedlings for surface area gardeners, loftier quality seed, and traditionally fermented sauerkrauts and kimchi from their farm-grown produce. Check out their delicious saurkraut flavors for auction at the PT Food Coop and Farmer's Marketplace.

Michaela Knighton

grew up in the Puget Sound area in a home surrounded past forest and sea. From a young age, Michaela was fatigued to the natural earth and spent the majority of her babyhood playing barefoot in the forest, building fairy houses, swimming at the beach, and discovering the secrets of the nature that surrounded her. This love of nature was further encouraged through Michaela'due south Waldorf School education that emphasized living in harmony with the natural world, hands on learning, and outdoor education. Michaela loves to share her passion of nature and inspire others to reconnect with the natural world. She'southward washed this through many avenues, including running a nature summer army camp program for 5 years at the Madrona Waldorf Schoolhouse on Bainbridge, leading backpacking expeditions in college, and taking her loved ones and friends out into the wilderness. When Michaela is not playing outside, she enjoys painting, cooking, and singing.

Michael Pilarski

has been growing and wildcrafting medicinal plants for over 40 years and considers himself a life-long student of plants and earth repair. His farming career started in second class and his organic farming career began in 1972 at historic period 25. Michael founded Friends of the Trees Society in 1978 and took his offset permaculture pattern course in 1982. Since 1988 he has taught over three dozen permaculture design courses in the US and away. His specialties include earth repair, agronomics, seed collecting, nursery sales, tree planting, fruit picking, permaculture, agroforestry, forestry, ethnobotany, medicinal herb growing, hoeing, and wildcrafting. Michael has hands-on experience with over 1000 species of plants. He is also a prolific gathering organizer and likes grouping singing.

Miriam Murdoch

has lived due south of Brinnon for x years. She moved out from Fall Metropolis where she raised her three daughters and created a country preschool called Cedars Montessori in 1980. She received her Montessori certification from Seattle University, and has embraced outdoor education with her students and her five grandchildren for over twenty years.

Molly Fallon

is originally from Michigan. She got bachelors in Sociology and Anthropology from Earlham College in Richmond, IN. During her college years, she spent summers leading backpacking trips through Mass Audubon's Drumlin Subcontract Camp program. Since 2011 she has resided in Chimacum and institute her calling in the world of agronomics on the Peninsula. She spent 5 seasons growing with SpringRain Farm and Orchards, and a year as "Farmer Molly," the Garden Educator at Grant Street Elementary School in Port Townsend. Molly is happiest outside moving and creating, and is enthusiastic almost creating opportunities for others to detect joy in movement, nature, and well-being.

Molly Stebbins

has been a teacher at Sunfield Waldorf School for 9 years, in diverse positions. She is currently education preschool and parent-child classes. Molly lives with her family on their 5 acre homestead in Quilcene. She is the mother of two children (Eli, 14 & Sequoia, 7). Molly also enjoys mountain biking, hiking, singing and dancing.

Nancy Edgerton

is a Master Preserver who has been canning since she was xiv. She has been teaching people of all ages to preserve their ain food for over a decade. She lives in Chimacum on a pocket-size homestead where she and her married man abound most of their ain meat and vegetables. Nancy strives for self-sufficiency by curbing desire, eating in flavor and eating locally. The compost is her elation!

Niall Motson

was mentored in wilderness survival, naturalist and sentinel skills for many years of his childhood at White Pine Programs in southern Maine. After receiving a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Academy of Vermont and working for a medical tech startup in Seattle, he listened to his calling to render to his roots and offer the aforementioned uniquely impactful experiences he had in his youth. He has instructed children and developed programs with the Wilderness Awareness Schoolhouse and helped found Roots of Connection Kids, a blossoming woods school in Woodland Park, Seattle. Most recently he and his partner Natalie moved to Chimacum, WA to kickoff White Lotus Farm & Inn. He is thrilled for the opportunity to balance life on the farm with time shared in the wild, lighting fires, edifice shelters, foraging food, playing, tracking, scouting and more.

Nicole Karn

fell in honey with the Quimper Peninsula as an adolescent, climbing madrone trees to write short stories and riding her bike from bluff to bluff chasing clouds. Later earning a writing degree from Western Washington University, she embarked on self-guided learning adventures living off-grid in Ireland, picking apples in Quebec and Nova Scotia, and studying the unschooling movement and food preservation on a homestead in the foothills of the French Alps. Since making her home in this region, Nicole has worked with young children to incite the wonder and appreciation for the country, sky, and ocean that she felt as a young person. Nicole founded an outdoor nature studies course for Swan Schoolhouse's kindergarten and first grade students, and serves as an assistant teacher in their preschool in addition to co-leading CedarRoot'south Sapling Program. She is as well a Backcountry Guide for Wild Lodge, works for Centrum's High School Writers Conference, and is a NOLS certified Wilderness First Responder. Today she tin can still exist institute riding her bike from bluff to bluff, pretending to be a mountain caprine animal in the olympics, learning to pick a guitar, and pressing flowers into her hand-bound journals.

Nicole Larson

studied wildlife biology at Academy of Washington and Academy of Montana, traditional Chinese medicine at Bastyr Academy, and Western herbalism through various programs for fifteen years. She completed the Intensive Tracking and Naturalist Programme with Jon Young, creator of Wilderness Awareness School and 8 Shields Program. She is the Owner/Mentor of Ravens Wing Nature Studies Programme, a program that helps children ages five through eighteen proceeds a greater sense of place, and dear and respect for self, others, and the natural world through nature sensation games, tracking, and naturalist studies. Nicole is currently enrolled in Due east West School of Planetary Herbology and has a Wilderness First Aid certificate.

Peter Yencken

has been making bows for 26 years. He started as a bowyer while working for Tom Brown'southward Tracking and Wilderness Survival School. He has taught the art of making bows to 2000+ people of all ages. Peter currently lives in Ticksville (a.k.a. Charlottesville, VA) and learns much wisdom from his daughter.

Rachael Van Laanen

runs Mystery Bay Farm, a micro-goat dairy on Marrowstone Island. She received a BA in Ecology and Instruction which led her to teach environmental and garden based didactics for x years. She so followed her passions to the world of farming and co-ran a diversified organic vegetable farm for three years. While working on her dairy business plan she worked with Mt Townsend Creamery during their first two years in operation and helped nurture a school garden at Islandwood. She is kept on her toes daily by a vibrant viii-yr-sometime and over 25 goats!

Rachael as well teaches basketry for CedarRoot. She was mentored for 4 years by Miwok elders in Yosemite Valley Ca, where she learned to twine willow into all different shapes, sizes and patterns.

Radha Newsom

loves playing outside, hanging upside down, and running barefoot. She co-founded and performed with FireKeeper Productions, a musical theater company creating shows based on fables and worked at the New England Eye for Circus Arts, somewhen coaching 2 youth circus performing troupes, instructing and directing six years of circus camps. In Apr 2016, Radha completed a 10-calendar month bike bout with her husband in Northern Europe and Southeast Asia. She moved to Nordland, WA at the end of 2016.

Rick Kirkwood

has been a hobby blacksmith for over 20 years. Rick apprenticed with Main Smith Paul Thorne in 2001-2002, and opened his concern, Stillwater Forge, in 2003 from which he did professional commissions and conducted workshops for both beginner and advanced students.Rick has appeared as an invited demonstrator at the Anacortes, Coupeville, and Port Angeles arts festivals, and has been a featured demonstrator at a Northwest Blacksmith Association coming together. "Always since I used my father's blowtorch to heat nails and hammer them into different shapes, I take been excited about the possibilities of working with heated iron; that is forging. My goal is to transfer some of that excitement to my students, equally well as teach some of the possibilities, both useful and beautiful, of working with forged materials."

Russel Miller

is based out of Portland, OR, and has spent the last six years in the renewable energy field. Two years working professionally in the solar electric industry and the previous four years earning a available's degree in Renewable Free energy Engineering at Oregon Constitute of Technology; the kickoff nationally accredited renewable energy focused engineering plan. During that time Russ has worked on nearly every side of the solar industry (electrical and structural design, off-filigree and grid-tied systems, portable systems, system installation, permitting, project direction, sales), interconnecting over 200 residential and modest commercial projects-totaling in excess of i Megawatt of solar installed. His favorite awarding of renewable energy, however, is in humanitarian projects and he has had the privilege of taking role in small-scale off-filigree solar electric, water pumping and irrigation projects in both Nicaragua and Nepal.

Sarah Spaeth

has a lifetime of exploration of, and connection to the Pacific Northwest, and has worked for Jefferson Land Trust for 23 years helping to preserve the farms, forests and fish habitat of Jefferson County. Her life'southward work was enriched immeasurably through a wildlife tracking grade she took half dozen years ago— it opened her eyes fully to the significance of conservation piece of work to the other creatures that share their abode with the states. Sarah has spent the terminal 6 years studying wild fauna track and sign through the Wilderness Awareness School's Wildlife Tracking Intensive, and is excited to help united states acquire to read this first script written on the land, telling stories rich in love, mystery, drama and decease!

Scott Brinton

has over two decades of nature education feel. He has mentored hundreds of students in practical wilderness skills and nature sensation. He co-founded the Riekes Nature Studies Section in California, has taught Environmental Scientific discipline for Peninsula Higher, and taught Islandwood'southward graduate students in the Natural History and Ecology program. Nearly recently, Scott founded CedarRoot to help continue natural history and rural skills education. He is passionate most applying ecological lessons discovered in nature to areas of regenerative pattern, sustainable evolution and agroecology. Education: B.A. in Agriculture and Culling Free energy, The Evergreen State College; M.A. in Natural History and Education, Prescott Higher. Certifications: Current Wilderness Showtime Responder and Level iii Track and Sign certificate http://trackercertification.com/

Solomon Dusseljee

moved to Port Townsend with his family in 2008 at the age of eleven, and participated in a number of CedarRoot programs before becoming an youth plan instructor in 2012. He studied at the Wilderness Sensation School, Tribal Border School, and the WA Land University FIELD Farm Intern Programme. He is a 4-H archery/USA Archery Level ane instructor and a Starfish Aquatics Plant Lifeguard, and has a Wilderness First Assist (WFA) certification. Solomon is passionate well-nigh expanding enthusiasm for both learning and personal progression.

Steve Habersetzer

has lived and worked as a farmer and woodworker in Jefferson County since 1980. Local, sustainable practices are function of both his farming and woodworking. Steve is a self taught artisan woodworker with involvement in design, ecological problem solving and organic farming. He specializes in non-toxic construction and finishing, building for chemically sensitive people, using non-toxic glues and finishes (pure boiled Linseed oil or 100% Tung Oil). All work is solid wood - no veneers. Frame and panel construction with book-matched panels is a trademark of his work. Steve is most famous for his custom made gypsy wagons; a slideshow of his work tin be found at http://www.ptwoodschool.com/gypsy_wagons.html

Summer Sondey

grew up on 80 acres of farmland in rural Michigan, where her passion for playing and dear of the natural world grew in the fields, streams, and forests. She attended a forest school kindergarten followed by twelve years of Waldorf Education, which focused on the seasons and cycles outside the classroom. In 2013, Summer attended Alderleaf Wilderness Higher where she deepened her understanding and commitment to the globe through studies in ethnobotany, archaic skills, permaculture, wildlife tracking, and coyote mentoring. Since 2014, Summer has been on the Olympic Peninsula, instructing summer camps and afterschool programs with CedarRoot and teaching early childhood classes at Sunfield Biodynamic Farm and Waldorf School.

Tatyana Vashchenko

is a landscape designer and fiber fiend on Bainbridge Isle. She can often be spotted knitting while reading on the ferry to/from Seattle. She enjoys designing with plants and fiber akin, making plant dyeing a wonderful intersection of both passions.

Tassie Mardikes

spent her childhood summers running wild on the Oregon Coast, hiking the Columbia River Gorge, and attending overnight environmental camps offered past Oregon Museum of Scientific discipline & Industry (OMSI). She became active in childcare at the historic period of 12 and has never ceased to spend fourth dimension with picayune ones. For many summers she led outdoor adventures through OMSI, including backpacking in the Olympics and rafting the John Twenty-four hours River. She is peculiarly knowledgeable about Northwest plants, and very interested in animals. She has taken many children on adventures to unfamiliar territory and ensures that they are safe, at ease, individually appreciated, and having fun!

Tracy Hudson

has been researching, collecting, and creating textiles for the final 25 years. While living in Thailand, India, Japan, and Qatar, Tracy fed her passion for cloth making with contained inquiry and immersion in local fabric traditions. Through her documentation, she strives to convey the living qualities of such traditions, to testify how deeply embedded textiles are in the lives of the people who brand them, and to share the wonder and beauty of both the finished pieces and the skills used to make them. Tracy's own exercise of handspinning and weaving has grown through interaction with traditional cultures and agreeing friends. She moved to Port Townsend in 2015, and is eager to teach others how to make cloth with the simplest of tools. More info and photos of Tracy'due south enquiry and personal cobweb work tin be seen on her website: www.einesaite.com

Trenton Rembert

grew upwardly hiking and fishing in the Sierra Nevada mountains of eastern California. From early on his passion for wild places has inspired him to pursue traditional skills and crafts as various as edible and medicinal plants to survival skills to buckskin and leather making. He has studied with many notable teachers including Thomas Elpel, Steven Edholm, David Moscowitz, and Mathew Wood, in addition to being a graduate of Wilderness Awareness School's Residential Program and Kamana Naturalist Training Plan. He is currently in his second year of study at the School of Traditional Western Herbalism.

Willie Richards

has virtually ten years of experience in ecology education from Minnesota to Maine to Alaska. He found his way to the Olympic Peninsula and the serene water of Lake Crescent in 2010 to work as an environmental science educator for Olympic Park Institute (known as Naturebridge today), and fell completely in love with exploring this corner of the world and sharing it with students. Willie strives to create opportunities for students to develop their own unique relationship with the natural world and to forge a personal connection with information technology. His education includes a B.A in Environmental Studies from Saint Olaf College in MN and a Graduate Naturalist Training Program through the University of MN, Duluth and Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center.

Zachary Gaynes

is no longer new to Port Townsend, moving from Seattle more than a year ago, where he became committed to outdoor education and recreation as a lifestyle. While in in the big urban center, he earned a Masters of Instruction and gained valuable outdoor education feel from Islandwood and the Academy of Washington. In Seattle he worked for Tilth, managing a small-scale farm access and training program. He also spent some of his free time volunteering at Bicycle Works, which is a model for building community and educating youth about wheel transportation. Zach delights in watching children notice their passions while building a stronger relationship with the globe that sustains them. Zach is trained in Wilderness First Aid.

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