For my “summer vacation” this year, I spent about a week on the traditional lands of the Ute communities now known as Grand Mesa National Forest in Colorado. The pull to meet the Mesa was strong. Many of us traveled from afar (some as far as Southern England). We were pulled because we had an insatiable curiosity about land relationships on top of the world’s largest Mesa. Having a bit of fear of being an animal on a mountain is healthy. I had this fear […]
My family and I have now been in the United States for exactly two weeks. It took nearly all that time to completely get over jet lag. Some say it takes the body one day for every hour traveled to fully recover. I believe it. The past 14 days have felt like swimming through delirious dreams, like awkwardly waltzing within bardos. But today, for the first time since landing in Los Angeles, I feel finally as though I am fully here. Mind, body and spirit […]
We’re excited to share a short video talking with participants on our Human & Natural Ecologies of Colorado courses on the Grand Mesa in Western Colorado. Participants built their connection with the landscapes of Colorado, from the high alpine down into the aspen groves, scrub oaks, and piñon/juniper forests. Leaving the course, participants walked away with knowledge of wild edible plants, wild edible mushrooms and how to go mushroom hunting, knowledge of ecosystems to help in their foraging, and knowledge of landscape-scale human interactions in […]