Tracking Nature’s Patterns: How Living Close to the Land Deepens Human Relationships

Tracking Nature’s Patterns: how living close to the land deepens human relationships

Join members of the Quail Springs Permaculture community as they share from their collective wisdom, stories, and experiences gathered from living together on a working farm and educational site. Covering topics such as awareness of nature’s language, tracking patterns and cycles, designing and managing farm systems that intertwine with nature, human nature and social dynamics, and how daily nature routines can deepen awareness and relationships with the surrounding natural world, including one’s self and others.

Quail Springs is a leading environmental educational nonprofit tucked away in a quiet canyon of the Cuyama Valley. The community members and staff are a collective of onsite educators, farmers, ecologists, trackers, natural builders, chefs, artists, and other talented team members, connected to expansive local and international networks of leading-edge practitioners and passionate change-makers. Since 2004, they’ve empowered students of all ages and backgrounds with knowledge, skills, and inspiration essential to cultivating ecological and social health, www.quailsprings.org.

This free talk is part of the Listening to Nature mini-series presented as part of the ongoing Wilderness Hiking Speaker Series hosted by the Santa Barbara Public Library. The talks are the third Thursday of the month and feature topics related to hiking, backpacking, and our local natural history.

The next talks in the series is, Thursday, July 18th, A Little Bird Told Me – Listening to Nature is a great way to find your place, with naturalist and “bird nerd” Dan Fontaine from Wilderness Youth Project.