Foragers Week 1: On Reciprocity and Willow: Your Supportive, Hype-You-Up Friend By Allie Smith Through November, I’m tasked with writing about a plant we meet during our monthly sessions at Fox Haven during Foragers 1: A Beginner’s Series to Gather Wild Food with Confidence & Respect for the Land (this title makes me particularly excited […]
Radical Self Care & Inclusive Wellness with the Holistic Agenda Learning how to slow down and tend to the softest and most human parts of ourselves isn’t easy, but it’s necessary. In this workshop, Qubilah will define radical self-care and explore what it means to pursue it in a grind culture-obsessed society. Participants will learn […]
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Guide to Ethical Mushroom Foraging by BaltiSpore Foraging for wild edibles is something that is engrained in the DNA of each and every one of us. It is how our ancestors first found food, through hunting and gathering. While years have passed, and our food systems have become industrialized, shifting our attitudes dramatically about where […]
A look back at 2022’s biggest moments There’s no denying it, 2022 was a whirlwind! Fox Haven continued to be a reprieve where guests could visit and take a much-needed break in nature. Our programming has been strong with new classes to […]
From March ’79 Tired of all who come with words, words but no language, I went to the snow-covered island. The wild does not have words. The unwritten pages spread themselves out in all directions! I come across the marks of roe-deer’s hooves in the snow. Language but no words. by Tomas Transtromer, translated by […]
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Let us not forget, the land currently known as the United States was colonized using the brutal tactics of slavery and genocide. Ecosystems were destroyed as the Indigenous peoples were forced off their lands and Eurocentric government policies prohibited sacred herbalism practices, threatening severe consequences for anyone who dare defy African and Indigenous oppression. Fox […]
Connecting to the Land at Fox Haven Farm Lately I’ve had a yearning to live an earthier, more grounded life. I live in this beautiful place surrounded by mountains and fields and I want to explore it, get to know it. Since I’m always curious about what I can find to eat, foraging for wild edible […]
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As we enter another year of the pandemic, building our body’s natural immune system has never more important. When dealing with invading pathogens, our body’s natural immune system is critical at every stage—to avoid getting sick, to fight illness off, and to recover more rapidly afterwards. Even the effectiveness of the vaccines being developed will depend on […]
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Over the past Spring and Summer season, the Jacksons, a local family have been coming to Fox Haven weekly to monitor the migrating bluebirds. They have so kindly shared their experience of family bonding in nature while doing a citizen science project together–all while helping our non-profit continue to provide bird habitat! Our bird […]
Welcome to the Wilderness Class Four: Wayfinding and Signaling By April Thompson “A family was cross-country skiing in the backcountry in December, when Dad injured himself late in the day, hurt too bad to move. It was a day trip and they had no equipment with him, and no way to carry him out. How […]
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