Asheville Homeschooling & Unschooling

02/01/2021

01/05/2021

🎉Announcing our New Years SALE!🎉
Welcome to 2021 friends!
We're excited to tend the seeds of sustainability with you this year. 2020 was challenging on so many levels, but we also saw it galvanize our commitments to living in a more balanced and rooted way. As we enter a new cycle, may you follow your heart to make choices and take actions that reflect your values and ideals. We're here to help.
Now through January 9th, we're offering the lowest prices of the year on our spring and summer classes, including:
In person classes:
🎉 Women's Basic Carpentry (several class sessions to choose from: Apr. 22-25, May 6-9, July 8-11)
🎉 Wildcrafting and Medicine Making Intensive (May 20-23)
🎉 Natural Building and Tiny House Workshop (July 22-31)
🎉 Survival Skills Class (April 29-May 2)
🎉 Permaculture Design Course (August 14-27)
🎉 Advanced Women's Carpentry (July 15-18)
🎉 Women's Rewilding Weekend (June 3-6)
Online classes:
🎉 Online Gardening School (open now at special pricing, then closed to new students until spring)
🎉 Online Tiny House Building Class (NEW!)
🎉 Online Spring Wild Foods Foraging Class
Our classes will help you gain the competence and confidence to move toward the life you want to live in 2021. Not only do we teach real skills that you can integrate into your day-to-day world, we also provide safe opportunities to connect with like-minded folks, and to experience a more hands-on and fulfilling lifestyle. Warm wishes of thriving for all in 2021!
www.wildabundance.net

01/01/2021

07/07/2020

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This is sickening.

06/23/2020

Kids don't get to spend a lot of time outside in our modern society. What if you were to discover this is actually causing them harm?

06/20/2020

In a race, athlete Abel Mutai representing Kenya, was just a few feet from the finish line, but he was confused with the signage & stopped thinking that he had completed the race. The Spanish athlete Ivan Fernandez was right behind him & realizing what was happening, he started shouting at the Kenyan for him to continue running, but Mutai didn't know Spanish and couldn't understand. Then the Spanish pushed him to victory. A journalist asked Ivan, "why did you do that?" Ivan replied "My dream is that someday we can have a kind of community life". The journalist insisted "But why did you let the Kenyan win?" .Ivan replied," I didn't let him win, he was going to win" . the journalist insisted again "But you could have won!" ,Ivan looked at him and replied "But what would be my merit of victory ? what would be the honour of that Medal ? What would my Mom think of that ?" .

Notes - Values are transmitted from generation to generation .
what values are we teaching our children?
Let us not teach our kids the wrong ways & means to "win"...

Just a thought...
Think about it...

06/19/2020

How many people retain creative genius potential into adulthood? A miniscule 2% of adults have the potential. But children...

05/29/2020

Wow. Way to go, Dad.

Rob Kennedy's dad left his family when he was 14. Now he has a YouTube channel called, "Dad, How Do I?", with which he teaches basic skills to help kids who share his father-less experience.

04/23/2020

Interested in plants for your garden? Here is a local plant sale coming up! Support local growers!

Hello neighbors, friends, community,
We are excited to announce a Beltane Plant Sale on Saturday, May 2, from 11-4.
We will have an assortment of plant starts, perennials, woodland rescues and herbal medicine for sale in the Herb Mountain Farm parking area in Weaverville. See below for list of most of the plants.
Then every Tuesday from 1-4pm starting May 12th, we will have a mini farmers market, selling plant starts, potted plants, vegetables, cut flowers, herbal medicine and more.
We sure hope to see you there! Please help spread the word by sharing this info with those you think who might be interested.
And please respect the times we are going through by giving 6 ft of space to each other and not handling anything unless you are ready to purchase it.
Cash or check only
We are located on Maney Branch Road, at the end of the Reems Creek Valley. When Reems Creek Road ends, turn left and go 6/10 of a mile down Maney Branch Road, and on the right-hand side, look for the Herb Mountain Farm sign and turn in there. If coming from Barnardsville, take Paint Fork Road 4 miles (it will eventually turn into Maney Branch) and look on your left for the sign/driveway to our parking area. Please do not use the Locust Cove entrance.
Plant List:
-Plant starts from Stephanie Hein and Chris Ripley, www.wiseearthway.com ($3-$5)
Vegetables
Tomatoes
Black krim
Large heirlooms
Cherry
Pac Choy
Early jersey cabbage
Herbs
German chamomile
Calendula
Spilanthes
Borage
Fennel
Dill
Lavender ang.
Flowers
Tidy tips
Multicolor yarrow
Green mist lace flower
Sunflower - multi varieties
Hollyhock
More varieties of vegetables, herbs, and flowers in the coming weeks
Herbal Medicine from the farm...all will be on sale for $10 per ounce in honor of Beltane
Potted up plants from Hart and Mary Morgaine's gardens- there are only a few of each, and this list is growing everyday.... ($1-$5)
Elder
Chrysanthemum
Yarrow types
Mugwort
Bee Balm
Valerian
Snow parsley
Comfrey
Star of Bethlehem
Habik Bible Mint
Yerba Mansa
Bugleweed
Peppermint
Kentucky Colonel Spearmint
Clary Sage
Nettle
Heritage Red Sleepy Eye Raspberry
Hardy Succulent ground cover
Graveyard Plant
Double Petaled Yellow Coneflower
Sweet William
Chinese Lantern
Oregano
Plumbago
And more....
Woodland rescues from Emily Bell
Wild Larkspur
Wild Ginger
Foamflower
Trillium
Woods Nettle
Bloodroot
And more...

03/10/2020

Smartphone addiction is real. How do you approach screen time with your children?

50% of adults say they can't live without their smartphones while research shows phone overuse changes the brain to resemble drug addicts.

03/08/2020

Why aren't more parents speaking up about all this testing?

Kids are receiving standardized tests as early as kindergarten when they need to be exploring themselves freely in nature.

02/28/2020

Critically endangered hummingbird eggs are smaller than jellybeans, here’s how to spot and protect them:

Critically endangered hummingbird eggs are smaller than jellybeans, here’s how to spot and protect them: “Hummingbird eggs are tiny, about the size of jelly beans! Please remember to carefully check for nests before you trim trees and shrubs,” the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently urged ...

02/26/2020

What a great testimony to teamwork!

250 Amish men pick up a pole barn in Ohio and move it to a new location on their property with only their hands as moving tools.

02/23/2020

My unschooled kids LOVED this video.

The grasshopper mouse is a ferrocious predator who has evolved to withstand the deadly stings of the scorpion and moves quickly to take down centipedes.

02/18/2020

A step in a different direction for one of England's leading schools.

Bedales School, England's top private school, is developing alternative courses that teach students how to farm, forage and live from the land sustainably.

02/11/2020

Parents, are you aware of flame retardants?

We have been long afraid of heavy metals affecting our children’s development. Lead and mercury have been phased out of many products, like paint and …