Session

Descriptions

Saturday, May 24th

Sunday, May 25th

Saturday
Block 4 | 4:00 - 5:00 pm

Soil Savvy

Mark Angelini
Mountain Run Permaculture · mountainrunpermaculture.com

Learn how to understand soil health from a whole systems perspective as we delve into the basics of soil testing, mineral nutrition, microbial balance, and more. We’ll balance complex subjects with easy to understand and actionable principles and practices so that you can improve your soil conditions, decrease pest and disease, improve yields, and work toward producing truly nutrient-dense foods.

  • Mark Angelini has spent the past the past 15 years immersed in the realms of local food systems, regenerative agriculture, permaculture & ecological design, traditional woodworking, herbalism, wild foods, and fermentation. He co-owns Mountain Run Permaculture with his wife Allison where they work with gardeners, homesteaders and farmers of all skill-levels, acreage, and experience to design and implement regenerative food producing systems that maximize ecological outcomes.

Making Paint Out of Nature

Bubbles Cuckoo
Bramble Community · BubblesCuckoo.com

Would you like to learn how to make your own art supplies and free yourself from big business? We will make a variety of watercolor paints out of plant and mineral pigments. I will discuss methods of creating pigments and we will learn how to grind paint with minimal startup cost.

  • Bubbles has been teaching for the last 20 years, as well as carpenting, restoring boats, and coaching a robotics team to the world championships. These days they are obsessed with natural living in tiny homes, and spend a lot of time building structures out of the materials found on the land I steward. Bubbles studied at VCU arts and loves making art out of natural materials.

Cycle Syncing

Kate Hopkins
Kate Hopkins LLC · KateHopkins.co

Cycle Syncing: living attuned to the ebbs and flows of the menstrual cycle. If you menstruate, you’re simply not the same person 3o days a month. Our capacities, needs, and gifts shift cyclically. In a world that always demands more of us, how can we turn to our bodies, meet ourselves with love, and create a life that nourishes us? We will blend the medical and mystical to look at our cycles, share our experiences, and reflect on our body’s wisdom.

  • Kate Hopkins is a Craniosacral Therapy Practitioner, Childbirth Educator, and Labor & Delivery Registered Nurse. Menstrual health has been a five year hyperfocus area of interest for her, guided by her own health journey working with burnout, mental health, and Somatics. She believes our bodies are our greatest ally.

Meridian Yoga: Aligning Energy & Balance

Sara Garrett
SeggYoga · seggyoga.com

This class blends traditional yoga with Meridian Yoga Therapy, integrating movement, breath, and acupressure points to harmonize the body’s energy pathways. Inspired by Chinese medicine, we’ll work with the meridians—your body’s energetic highways—to promote balance, release stagnation, and restore vitality.

  • Strings (they/them) lives, plays, and works at Bramble, a collective homestead project in Bumpass, Virginia. Strings identifies as a chaotic-good anarchist, gardener, musician, maker, learner, and unschool parent who loves to hang out in the woods and make mild mischief. Fiber arts and crafts rank high among their favorite fidgets.