Author: Shanon Brooks

Mount Olympus Project Enrollment Deadline Pushed Back To Tuesday

  LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT OF THIS COURSE I have had a number of people express interest in this course who have not gotten back to me and I know there was a short enrollment period so I am extending the enrollment period until Tuesday evening September 8, 2015. Please contact me as soon as […]

World Reserve Currency: Do You Know What It Is And How It Affects Your Family?

I have written about this topic many times in the past and I have been lecturing on it for at least the last five years. So here is an update on World Reserve Currency. According to Investopedia World Reserve Currency is difined as: A foreign currency held by central banks and other major financial institutions as […]

By Dawn We’ll Be Free: One Family’s Courageous Journey to Freedom

About a year and 1/2 ago, I was teaching in Southern California. I always try to bring a lot of stories and historical relevance to my classes and in this particular class, I had related the events surrounding the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. One of my students, a quiet but attentive older lady approached me after […]

The Mount Olympus Project

                       Life has changed in the 21st century. Technology is changing everything from how we dress, to how we drive, to how we dream. But It Doesn’t Change How We Feel. And no matter how life changing our technology becomes or how big our dreams are—how […]

Freemium Is Finally Here!!

  OK, we all know that launching big things can take more time than we anticipate…this has been the case with the Strongbrook Mentoring Network (SMN) but it is here now. All you have to do to test drive this world-class mentoring network for FREE is to CLICK HERE, and that will take you to […]

What Are The Georgics, Really?

    “What are the Georgics?,”  is a really good question.  Let me qualify myself before I attempt to answer this. I grew up on a 40-acre farm with 1,000 chickens, 30 head of cattle, 10 pigs and an assortment of ducks, geese, cats, and dogs etc. So I understand farm life and nature’s birth, […]

The Rest of the Story

I am so blessed. Julia and I reached our 30-year wedding anniversary this year…and we are still very much in love. We have 6 beautiful children (ages 24-13) and we adore where we live. I am the first person ever in my family to receive a university education. And I have had the privilege of founding […]

Can’t Fix Stupid

I went back to some of my older blog posts to see what I had said about things then.  Here is one that is worth reprinting.   Fairytale of 2011 2015 Once upon a time and in a land not so far away, there was a people who willing made personal economic decisions beyond their income […]

Liberal Arts: A Rising Trend In Education

One of the hot topics in college education over the last few years is the revival of the Liberal Arts as a vital and necessary part of a quality education.  A quick search online will reveal numerous articles, studies and quotes, from colleges, alumni, and business leaders praising and promoting the value of this kind […]

Do You Know Any Of These Authors and Teachers?

Any of these names or personalities familiar to you? Adams Allison Aristophanes Aristotle Austen Bastiat Bunyan Calhoun DeMille Descartes Douglas Forstchen Galileo Gibbon Gladwell Hamilton Jefferson Johnson Jung Kepler Kirk Lansing Lewis Lincoln Locke Luke Machiavelli Madison Marx Mathew Montaigne Moses Nicomachus Orwell Pink Plato Plutarch Reagan Schneider Shakespeare Skousen Tocqueville Tolstoy Washington Webster Whitehead […]

Krislyn Elliott & Lauren Swanepoel

Krislyn Elliott and Lauren Swanepoel act more like sisters than moms as they take really slow walks through the woods together, looking at and taking pictures of every plant they see & wishing they could remember their names and uses more thoroughly. They also like concocting herbal teas, salves, tinctures and strange drinks.

Krislyn is from Utah and has loved learning about plants since an unusually cool high school biology teacher took his classes on neighborhood botany walks. She has always been fascinated and constantly amazed at the power and beauty of plants.

Lauren is from South Africa, she and her family emigrated to Utah almost 10 years ago. They have fallen in love with the area and know more about this state & the great places to explore here than most Utah natives.

We both feel strongly about taking care of our families with natural methods and the abundant medicine we have growing right around us. We are trying to learn as much as we can about our magical local plants and are looking forward to sharing some of our favorites with you.

William DeMille

Director of Georgic Develeopment

William DeMille is a lifelong vegetable farmer. He studied Horticulture and Agronomy at Northwest Missouri University, Maryville. He holds a certificate in aquaponic engineering and production from Cornell University, NY, and another from GrowHaus Aquaponics in Denver, CO. He also studied soil regeneration and is a graduate of Dr. Elaine’s Soil Food Web School. He is the Director of Georgic Development for The Center for American Legacy Studies.

William is a farm consultant establishing several agricultural startups since 2005 in Missouri, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada and he currently manages 2500 acres of grassland for the Ruby Mountain Foods Company.

His latest venture is a market gardening school called Georgic Revolution where he teaches a 17-week course onsite in Nevada covering soil health and vegetable production without the use of fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, etc. and where he operated a soil lab.

William lives with his wife Vernie in the snow capped mountains of Northern Nevada.

Lloyd Nelson

World Renown BD Expert

Lloyd Nelson has been practicing the art of Biodynamic (BD) Agriculture for over twenty years. He is a BD preparation maker, builder, artist, farmer, arborist, BD educator & consultant. He is co-founder of Biodynamic Source – a Colorado based non-profit specializing in high potency BD preparations – and he owns and operates a Biodynamic spray, fertilizer and consultation service. He has worked with small and large scale farms, vineyards, and orchards to transition to sustainable Biodynamic land management and Demeter BD Certification.

Vern Cox, PhD

Educator

Vern Cox is married to Joyce Christensen and they have 8 children. He has 3 earned degrees, a BA in psychology, and both a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy.

He has had a diverse and interesting career that started with the Bureau of Land Management, followed by a stint as a Learning Disabilities teacher, and finally a marriage and family therapist, working his way up to executive director of the High Country Counseling and Resource Centers that served two counties in Wyoming.

Dr. Cox served for several years on the board of a charter school. Dr. Cox remains heavily involved in his community and the home schooling movement.

He has extensive background in marriage and family counseling, having held a number of administrative positions during his first career. He holds a BA in Psychology and both a Masters and PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy. He lives with his wife and several married children on their multi-generation farm in Southern Utah.

Joseph Lofthouse

Educator

Joseph adopted the principles of landrace gardening in response to the harsh growing conditions in a high-altitude, short-season, desert garden. Instead of relying on expensive poisons, labor, and materials to coddle the plants, he encourages genetic diversity, cross-pollination, and survival of the fittest, allowing the plants to adapt themselves to the current and ever-changing ecosystem, thus simplifying gardening and seed saving. Joseph is the author of Landrace Gardening: Food Security Through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination. Joseph loves eating, farming, swimming, hot-springs, sunbathing, bird-watching, running, yoga, leggings, kilts, playing guitar, singing, and living habitually barefoot.

Dan Brooks

Educator

Dan Brooks was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. During his first career, he spent 20 years working in and managing high-end restaurants and golf courses including extensive banquet/special events services and ice sculptures.

For the past 23 years, Dan has been a successful entrepreneur and family business owner in Las Vegas. He and his wife have 4 children and 11 grandchildren. He serves as a trustee for The Center for American Legacy Studies.

Shanon Brooks, PhD

Director

Shanon Brooks is the director of The Center for American Legacy Studies, an institution dedicated to helping families embrace and incorporate the Five American Ideals; Georgics, Liber, Providence, Public Virtue, and Liberty into their lives and communities. America exists because of Americans. Americans are the beneficiaries of a peculiar culture and way of living.

Over the past 75 years, that culture and way of life have been lost. Restore that culture and Americans will rebuild America to once again be worthy of John Winthrop’s 1630 admonition, “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.”

Brooks has been a leader in alternative higher education for over 30 years, and is the author of two books: AMERICAN: Killing the American Dream and A Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens.

Dr. Brooks is a veteran of military service in the United States Submarine Fleet and holds a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, a Master’s degree in education, and a Ph.D. in constitutional law.

He and his wife Julia reside on the 80-acre conference facility of The Center for American Legacy Studies.