Tag: landskills
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The Black Mountains and Beyond: A Road Trip Brain Dump
Talgarth, South Wales. This is my first blog in a while and is really just a collection of thoughts and ideas that have been surfacing, or have surfaced during this road trip, arranged in no particular order! Its going to be a bit fragmented while I get down lots of ideas to follow up later.…
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Reconnecting through land-based crafts and skills in socio-ecological systems
Where I reflect back over this weeks two events, the first of our safe-to-fail ‘experimental’ initiative Land Skills for Wellness and Sustainability introducing crafts, skills and nature based learning to students, faculty and staff at UWaterloo for wellness and sustainability benefits. With a bit of complexity and flow theory thrown in. Connecting to the Land…
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Thoughts on Moving into Right Relationships
As the Winter turned into Spring I have been getting outside as time permits using my forestry skills to fell some trees for trail clearance, thinning and mushroom log harvest and cutting some cedar for construction projects. We are reopening a trail next to Cold Creek which hasn’t been used for so long it’s got…
James T Jones 