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Learning and DiscoveriesAbove all I have learned many new and alternative methods of appreciating and absorbing information through studying the nature and plants of my site at the Longhouse Garden. I found myself becoming a much more patient person throughout this learning process and developed a system of actively going out and finding plants and information about them and more passively understanding their medicine. Instead of turning directly to reasearch and facts I started allowing myself to take all of the information gathered from books and other people into consideration, storing that in a more passive part of my brain and waiting to form my own understanding of the plant until I had visited it physically and established a connection with it. Working to learn and understand how the plants at my site can be used as medicine on a weekly basis has inspired me more to follow along the path of herbolism and healing that I have already started. ~ Ingrid
The past ten weeks have been particularly challenging for me. What I discovered was a restlessness with nature. I found that forcing myself to be vunerable with my surroundings ended up being more of a reward than I anticipated. Allowing myself to acknowledge and welcome all that my physical habitat has to offer has in turn allowed me to push myself in other areas of life. Translating lessons learned in nature into concrete facts was the best thing I have learned this quarter. I found that documenting the environment has contributed to interpreting all its teachings. And for that I am grateful.
-Katelyn
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