A Million Little Things and One Big One
“Not only is an animal an instrument played by the landscape, but the landscape is an instrument played by the animal. Thus the spheres of animal, plant, and land come […]
Clearly not a baby blackberry
Sunday, May 15, 2022 It was a hot day at Lockier’s Pit in Orangeville. The sky was blue with wispy cirrus clouds high overhead. The grey treefrogs sang a summery […]
The Sunday Creek Bog Wolves
Written by Tamara Anderson, February 16th, 2020 At some point between February 13th and 15th, two wolves travelled through the Sunday Creek Bog in Algonquin Park and captured our hearts […]
Tracking in a Winter Wonderland
Boyne River Valley Saturday, January 18th Kinglets sing Are you listening? On the trail, Snow is glistening A beautiful river, We’re happy together Tracking in a winter wonderland In the [...]
Deep roots, green goldfish and wolf flatulence
On Saturday, November 3rd, 2018, the Earth Tracks plant apprentices met at the Mono Forest Tract – one of fourteen Dufferin County Forest tracts located across Dufferin County. Alexis [...]
Raining Spruce Tips
The Earth Tracks Edible Wilds weekend began at the Kinghurst Forest reserve. The sound of a goshawk greeted the plant apprentices as they arrived. Alexis presented a plant mystery to […]
Bittersweet Weekend
By Ann Schletz On the weekend of November 25, the 2017 Plants Apprenticeship group gathered for the last time. We spent our time together making plant medicines from many of […]
Plants have all the anthers
Utilitarian Uses of Plants Weekend Written by Tamara Anderson and Ann Schletz Alexis lit a fire literally and figuratively to start the weekend session of Utilitarian Plant Uses. After providing [...]
Tastes like “Chicken Dinner with the In-laws”
During the Saturday session of our Plant Medicines weekend, Alexis led a workshop on The Energetics and Constituents of Plants. He gave a brief overview of the origins of plant […]
