Ethnobotany 101 COLORADO

Ethnobotany 101 is a course designed to encourage participants to develop a deeper understanding of plantlore and the resources available to them in the fields of bushcraft, survival, homesteading, and more. This class is catered towards students from all skill levels and no experience is required. Students will grow a sense of how to harvest various materials from their woodland environment for numerous means. Each day participants will learn to positively identify a handful of plants and trees and build on that knowledge with hands-on experience in preparing medicine or food, as well as fire or craft such as cordage and containers from the individual plants they identify. Students will walk away with a couple of handcrafted projects and a deeper understanding of the forest in how certain plants and trees cater toward a particular medicine, craft or skill over others.

Projects may include burn bowls, shrinkpot containers, and basketry…