Learning through Nature!
A hands-on, interdisciplinary curriculum for a sustainable future — for children, teens and adults
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“At the heart of successful human navigation
is the capacity to record the past, attend to the present,
and imagine the future.”
M.R. O'Connor, 'Wayfinding'
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At the High School for Environmental Studies last week making mycopaper as part of their pre-Earth day celebrations. Awesome kids!
Almost beat cell phone appeal.
Almost. 😅
Conversation and Art About Climate Change at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
We chat while making art… here with my homemade bioplastic! The vibrant colors are plant inks.
What is bioplastic? It’s petroleum-free plastic, made from food-based ingredients like algae or gelatin, entirely compostable.
Dehydrated food waste can be integrated into these recipes to create biomaterials for many industries. Can you imagine all the banana peels or eggshells in a day being reprocessed into biomaterials? (@ottanstudio ; @youyang_song )
The plastic problem hasn’t been solved yet, but some scientists and designers are certainly working on it, creating circular systems to replace it. We’re not there yet, and
now is NOT the moment to shut down the research!!
Let’s fight for bio research and climate research.
#plasticpollution
#noplastic
#oneplanet
#climateconversations
#climatecafe
#artfortheplanet
#zerowastefashion
#zerowasteart
#sustainablesdesigns
Nothing will stop us - not even the rain. Hands Off.
This is the time for Fall colors… but let’s not forget about Nature’s amazing designs! They exist for a reason.
Today at the White Feather Farm.
#natureartsandcrafts
#naturedesign
#biomimicry
#naturesbounty
#fallcrafts
#naturespalette
#artheals
#natureheals
#patternsinnature
Where there’s Kids and Climate, there’s Art in the middle.
And possibilities.
Children and Teens generally care and understand the problem with plastic. They feel sad and powerless in the face of plastic pollution. They feel anxiety. I run a middle school elective where the kids and I tackle this issue by creating art based on the hands-on exploration of bioplastics and biomaterials. We make them.
Our exploration of these ‘not plastics’ - entirely biodegradable and fossil fuel free - is energizing and uplifting, and it unveils a whole new awareness of possible future careers in design, art and science for a better future. More importantly, it is reassuring for the kids to know that adults around the world are re-imagining daily life. They feel less alone.
As an artist, I’m having a lot of fun with this. Posted are a few pieces currently exhibited at the Woodstock School of Art instructors’ show.
These are simple proposals, and they’re ephemeral, but what possbilities they open.
#climate anxiety
#bioplastics
#climateeducation
#climateandart
#climatearts
#ecoanxiety
#plasticpollution
#nomoreplastic
#climatesolutions
OMG. I urgently want to share this link to the Ceres Food Film Festival (in person NYC and FREE online viewing, available until Oct 25)
https://www.ceresfilmfestival.org/films
Incredible selection of short and long films on food, agriculture, food justice and food workers rights.
DO NOT MISS THIS!
The photo is in my own kitchen, with Quentin and two friends making dinner last weekend. Stuffed tomatoes and peppers.
Tradition is in our house that sleepover parties with many kids = cooking teams! The result is our Friends and Family Cookbook in the making, celebrating foods from all over and many memories to share….
Food connects.
Again, www.ceresfilmfestival.org
#foodconnects
#foodislove
#foodiesofinstagram
#nutritioncoach
#nutrition
#nofarmsnofood
#futurefarming
#gastronomy
#culinaryarts
Joyful, joyful, joyful day
Thank you Bearsville Music and Art Fair and Woodstock School of Art
And thank you Sweet Earth for lending us beautiful rocks to paint with!
#naturalinks
#artfromnature
#earthheals
#naturepalette
#fall
CLIMATE CAFE at the Fashion Institute of Technology ten days ago.
Let’s spread the conversation about climate change. Climate Cafes are informal spaces where you are invited to share feelings and emotions about the climate crisis. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, you are not alone!
‘We need to desire, not fear the future’ (Sarah Jaquette Ray) Together we can re-imagine the world we live in.
Thank you FIT Sustainability Council for inviting me - FIT students: join me for a second Cafe on Thursday this week!
Anyone interested, feel free to contact me.
@climatementalhealth
@climatecommunity
@climateaction
@ecoanxiety
@climategrief
@climateanxiety
@climateconversation
This upcoming weekend: Artmaking By Nature is back at the Woodstock School of Arts!
Rain or Shine - We’ll collect natural materials and will spend the day in the cool studio space creating art materials that reflect our region’s natural palette.
There is still time to register - I’d love to have you join!
link to register: https://woodstockschoolofart.org/course/artmaking-by-nature-2/
#naturalarts
#artbynature
#inks
#hudsonvalleyarts
#naturespalette
#earthwise
Hello Kids! (of all ages ;) These baskets of seeds await you 12-2pm inside the White Feather Farm barn today. Come have a look up close and personal with these natural jewels, spawners of life… draw them, make a ball of them, play with them! Thank you so much Kris Garnier for helping me collect them yesterday and sharing your wonderful knowledge!
@whitefeatherfarmny @krisgarnier
#seedart #naturewonders. #natureeducation #naturelovers
Something exciting in the world of fungi lovers: the Rosendale Mushroom Festival is back -
Come and visit, for the love of fungi!
I’ve been expanding my palette of mushroom paper and I’ll show you the mycopulp-to-sheets (easy) process if you show up at my station on Saturday between 11am and 1pm. You’ll even leave with your own home-made mycopostcard yaii!
Thank you Luke Sarrantino @mycophilicorganism for creating this fabulous event and inviting me @fortheloveoffungi_ I can’t wait!
#mycophilia
#fortheloveoffungi
#mushroomartworks
#fungilove
#naturebounty
#naturearts
So, last weekend was Community Harvest of Cattail at the White Feather Farm with Renee Bauman - MAGICAL!
Then this coming Saturday, this fiber will be turned into baskets!
The cattail plant is one that was once used at all stages of development…
The giving plant.
Thank you Renee, Mali, Kristen and Michael!
(oh, and there is still space at the cattail basketry workshops - https://www.whitefeatherfarm.org/2023-events)
@renee_makes_things
@whitefeatherfarmny
#naturegifts
#naturecrafts
#basketryclass
#basketryart
#cattail
Final day of cooking camp yesterday: sharing the feast ENTIRELY made by the kids!! Very very proud of my creative budding chefs and grateful to the White Feather Farm for providing the best, freshiest and yummiest veggies off the ground everyday, and to the chicken for sharing their eggs with us.
Thank you for the farm’s extraordinary crew for sharing their knowledge and love of the land, and for their thoughtful feedback for each team!
Artmaking by Nature workshop was a lot of fun …even the rain didn’t damp our explorative spirit! Forever grateful for the gift of nature. @_woodstockschoolofart
#natureexplorers
#naturalarts
#naturalinks
#hudsonvalleyart
#hudsonvalleyny
#motherearth
#gratitudeattitude
Gather the abundant Fig Buttercup, turn into powder, mix with golden egg yolk, a drop of water, paint!
Join me next weekend @_woodstockschoolofart for two days of Artmaking By Nature, new edition
https://woodstockschoolofart.org/course/artmaking-by-nature/
#naturalarts
#Hudsonvalleyarts
#artbynature
#inkmaking
#familyarts
#nature
#natural
Feeling is healing! Come to our CLIMATE CAFE tomorrow, Saturday 10 @whitefeatherfarmny to share your feelings about the climate crisis over coffee and treats, enjoying the beauty of nature!
Climate Cafe is an open, inclusive space for people to get together to talk about climate change. There is no pressure to take action, only relief through kinship and community building!
Free Community event:
https://www.whitefeatherfarm.org/2023-events/climate-cafe
#climategrief
#ecoanxiety
#ecoanxietyfree
#climatecafe
#climateaction
#hudsonvalley
#hudsonvalleyclimate
#woodstockny
#saugertiesny
#kingstonnytourism
It’s today!
The third event of the 11th Annual Woodstock Film & Discussion Series presented by Woodstock Land Conservancy, Woodstock NY Transition, and the Woodstock Jewish Congregation: screening of the film ‘Inhabitants’ followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and Curtis Zunigha, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Lenape Center.
The film follows five Native American Tribes across deserts, coastlines, forests, and prairies as they restore their traditional land management practices.
Free and in-person, at the White Feather Farm (1389 rte 212 Saugerties) Come by!
BONNE ANNÉE! HAPPY NEW YEAR ! Peace and Love to all living and non living creatures on Earth y’all!
Just one more day to see the Woodstock School of Art instructors’ show at the Lockwood Gallery ! My Vegetal Spoons 1 and 2 are already off the wall , gone to a new home and I am so excited about that! Thank you dear new owner of my plant sculptures :)
#natureart
#papersculpture
#plantsculptures
#plantsculptures
To all my printmakers fellows: go see this exhibition today if you haven’t seen it yet - TODAY!
Closing at 5 today at the Dorsky Museum in New Palz: Benjamin Wigfall and the Communications Village. Historical yet current, and simply gorgeous.
‘Wigfall’s upbringing and education in Richmond and Hampton, Virginia, deeply informed his decision to address the inequities of access to art education. While a professor at the State University of New York, New Paltz, he intentionally established his studio in a close-knit Black neighborhood in nearby Kingston that reminded him of his childhood community in Richmond’s Church Hill. There, he opened his studio to nearby youth. His practice as a printmaker quickly merged with his philosophy as an arts educator, and Communications Village became a place for both art making and mentoring.’
Bumped into this wonder while biking through the city…
13 giant seeds
Sculpture you can touch
https://13moons.nyc/
#environmentalart
#landart
#deforestation
#sculpturepark
#treehugger
#savetrees
What’s in a tiny fall harvest? Fried green tomatoes - yaii
Karine and I dropped off our scarecrow at the Comeau for the Woodstock Land Conservancy - if you’re not already there, run!
Then go to Karine’s Food Forest Opening and on the way, stop at the WSA alumni show opening!
NEVER a boring day in Woodstock
@woodstock_land_conservancy
@kan_landscape_design
@_woodstockschoolofart
#artandnature
#artinthefall
#foodforestdesign
#scarecrows
Pollinators…couldn’t live without
#plantmilkweed
#savepollinators
#noneonicotinoids
#protecttheland
#protectinsects
#pollinatorpathway
#thinksystems
Come immerse yourself in the Woodstock School of Art beautiful woods.
Now is the perfect time to register to my upcoming workshop Artmaking By Nature - May 19-20;
Sign up for a totally relaxing time if you haven’t already done so!
https://woodstockschoolofart.org/course/artmaking-by-nature-for-adults-3/
#livingland
#gratitudefortheland
#connectwithnature
#naturalinks
#hudsonvalleyart
#artmakingwithnature
#hudsonvalleyclasses
#natureheals
#learningthroughtheland
#restoringnature
Only a few more days to see the Olive Free Library show, and one great moment to share with the artists! Sat. Apr 30 from 2 to 4pm - don’t miss it, we’d love to see you there @olivefreelibrary. @maxinedavidow @esmarkart @empowerartist @cwaruch.printmaker @susannaronner_art @katemcgloughlin
Not sure what to first thank the Earth for…
For the first Japanese knotweed spring soup, for the paper-like, desiccated wood fiber to experiment with, or for the shelter in the fallen sycamore tree … still alive and burgeoning? Earth Day is everyday.
Detail of one of my pieces in the Olive Free Library show: Forged in Ink - Opening this Saturday! more info
@olivefreelibrary.org and in my next post!
#printmakers
#artopening
#printmakingshow
#hudsonvalleyart
Hi everyone- long time no see! I am so glad to be back and excited to invite you to the opening of ‘Forged in Ink: A Community of Printmakers’ on March 19 at the Olive Free Library. It would be so sweet to see you there! Peace to all 🕊
That’s all folks…last summer flowers from my yard
It was all about having a good time, connecting with nature, being in the moment at the Artmaking By Nature workshop… thank you Woodstock School of Art and to a fabulous group of participants!! Stay tuned for the next edition of this workshop …
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Thank you Mother Earth for your beauty and generosity 🕊 #gratitudefortheland
#connectwithnature
#naturalinks
#hudsonvalleyart
#artmakingwithnature
#hudsonvalleyclasses
#natureheals
#learningthroughtheland
#restoringnature
fabulous event for all explorers yesterday at the Longyear Farm day organized by the Woodtsock Land Conservancy! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to learn something about seeds and experience their beauty by painting them with acorn ink…and Thank you to the wonderful volunteers ! @woodstock_land_conservancy #gratitudefortheland
#connectwithnature
#naturalinks
#hudsonvalleyart
#artmakingwithnature
#hudsonvalleyclasses
#natureheals
#learningthroughtheland
#restoringnaturechallenge
Come visit me tomorrow at the Longyear Farm Day organized by the Woodstock Land Conservancy…I’ll have a table all about seeds! You can find this and other information on my BRAND NEW WEBSITE ☺️Check it out! @livinglandlearn.com @woodstocklandconservancy.org @susannaronner.com
#gratitudefortheland
#connectwithnature
#naturalinks
#hudsonvalleyart
#artmakingwithnature
#hudsonvalleyclasses
#natureheals
#learningthroughtheland
#restoringnature
Black walnuts
New logo! Beautifully designed by Susanna Ronner (susannaronner.com) to reflect the spirit and mission of Living Land Learn to restore nature’s integrity and balance, as well as our own… more in the website coming soon! #livingland
#gratitudefortheland
#connectwithnature
#naturalinks
#hudsonvalleyart
#artmakingwithnature
#hudsonvalleyclasses
#natureheals
#learningthroughtheland
#restoringnature
Coming out of the woods with new colors! Chemical miracles in blues and greens… ink experimentation cont’d…. #livingland
#gratitudefortheland
#connectwithnature
#naturalinks
#hudsonvalleyart
#artmakingwithnature
#hudsonvalleyclasses
#natureheals
A few highlights of the Artmaking By Nature workshop @woodstockschoolofart - young people give me so much hope! 💕🕊 #livinglandlearn, #natureart, #naturalinks, #gratitudefortheland, #naturebounty, #connectwiththeland, #hudsonvalleyart, #natureheals
Don’t miss out on the next Artmaking By nature workshop at the Woodstock School of Arts! August 5-7 for teens, August 21-22 for adults. @_woodstockschoolofart, #paintingwithnature, #artmakingwithnature, #gratefulfornaturebounty
Purslane, bee balm, wood sorrel and more provide wild flavors on all foods cooked and devoured at the Cooking With Nature camp …and it’s all hands on deck to create new pasta shapes! ahhh the taste of lettuce freshly picked. We are so grateful for the fresh farm bounty that awaits us every day! thank you @whitefeatherfarmny
Looking to brighten up this rainy day with color…and my natural ink experiments by turning them into monotypes. So great to spend the day in the WSA printmaking studio yesterday! @woodstockschoolofart
(check the website for workshop coming up soon! )
Last call for the Cooking with Nature workshop for youth beginning next Monday @whitefeatherfarmny! 5 beautiful days outside roaming the woods, the orchard and farmed land in search of edibles. Looking forward to lots of fun harvesting, tasting, creating and chewing - there is still space! https://www.whitefeatherfarm.org/2021-day-camps. #safeforaging, #LivingLandLearn, #gratitudefortheland #creativecooking #hudsonvalleycamp
Magic happened in many forms at the Arts in the Woods camp @ the White Feather Farm…as in musical vibrations, with Kris our very special in-house musician/plant expert! Then the land gave us color to paint with - ochres and umbers, charcoal black, mulberry purple - and matter, to shape things with. And so much to feel and look at! Next camp is at the Woodstock School of Art next week. Calling all teens to come and connect with nature! https://woodstockschoolofart.org/course/artmaking-by-nature/ @whitefeatherfarmny @_woodstockschoolofart
Special treasures , special moments at the Arts in the Woods camp happening at the White Feather Farm. Tomorrow we begin to explore art making with our nature finds! #livinglandlearn, #artmakingwithnature, #gratitudefortheland
Camp starting tomorrow! very excited with the potential of the mulberries fallen on the ground - that pinkish ink so fun to mix …and so yummy smelling! Many more nature mysteries await us.
At the White Feather Farm this Week and next (7 to 10 and 10 to 12 year-olds) then at the Woodstock School of Art for a teen workshop - there is still space!
The White Feather Farm opened their farm stand this past Saturday! 1389 rte 212 - You should try it. A feast for the eyes and mouth - DELICIOUS!
#localfoods, #foodies, #regenerativefarming
paper making with turkey tail mushrooms - you could almost eat it!
#LivingLand, #Playwithnature, #naturebounty, #papermaking
more ink experimentation ...
#livingLand, #naturebounty, #watercolorandink
Experimenting with homemade inks - made from nature.
#livingland, #naturesbounty, #inkworks, #naturearts
Spring foraging is on! I always look forward to my first dandelion salad (here, with wild chive and tender mustard greens) for celebrating nature’s awakening, a family ritual. Consider enjoying these beautiful ‘weeds’ - as pollinators do, and need - before cutting your grass...
3rd picture: the ‘pediatric adolescent diet’ meal served to Quentin during his stay at the hospital this week as a GI patient 😳whaaa? (he is doing great now, no worries)
#livingland, #foraging, #naturebounty, #foodjustice, #selfsufficiency
Wrinkled, sprinkled or smooth...let them mingle. Diversity makes my world go round. Thank you dear farmer for seeing them all as good eggs! Oh, and does an egg really need to be painted? Love to all
Peace and beauty this morning at the Ashokan Reservoir. ‘By honoring the knowledge in the land, and caring for its keepers, we start to become indigenous to place’ (Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass)
#livingland, #indigenouswisdom, #naturebond, #roots
A lot of rain can inspire any kind of water fun. Today I had to use the variation of inks I made last week with acorn and... rust juice 😉#livingland, #naturebounty, #giftoftheland, #watercolorart
Grateful for a beautiful day outdoors making things from nature. Today: wax crayons (charcoal + beeswax + Japanese knotweed) - lots of fun
#LivingLand, #naturecrafts,
One for the birds! It’s been fun making bird food (that one is with pork fat - no salt please) and bird- spy all winter... the perfect Zoom companions! #LivingLand, #natureforinspiration
Collecting Japanese knotweed tubes to prepare for summer fun🐞
#invasiveplants_control #crafts #nature_exploration
Two peas in a pod, but two very different peas. Both equally so lovable!
To all my friends, family near and far, I wish GOOD HEALTH, PEACE and STABILITY. May 2021 be a REGENERATIVE year for our planet and every soul living on it. Let’s do what it takes to restore and sustain it!
#regenerativeculture #livingearth #rewilding #earthsteward #ecology #followthescience #ancestorknowledge
Had a great time at the Woodstock School of Art Monothon yesterday- Thank you everyone!
A mama robin has elected the top of our outdoor brooms as the safest spot to build her nest and guard three precious eggs- we all get it wrong sometimes but I’ll play along with this one - HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO ALL KINDS OF MOTHERS!
Letting loose and having a great time at WSA workshop with Meredith Rosier
Happy New year everyone!
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