Author: Shanon Brooks

Monticello College Accepting Enrollment Now for 2018

  If you have ever considered attending Monticello College, TAKE A LOOK at what we are doing.   The following is a list of lectures and books covered during the first semester at Monticello College: LECTURES  How to Take Notes and Prepare for Class Discussion How to Read a Book/What are the Liberal Arts? Who is […]

2018 Scholarships at Monticello College

We are a small liberal arts college that teaches the classics of western and eastern civilization and the manual arts of farming, construction, and survival. For the past 2 years our enrollment has doubled and we have good reason to believe that it will double again in 2018. Based on the applications we have already […]

Utah Farm Conference

The first annual Utah Farm Conference was a raving success. If you didn’t go this year, watch for 2018 tickets soon. If you go to this link, the entire program will still be available for a few days. Otherwise I will give you a quick review.   Speakers: Daniel Salatin Bruno Follador Utah Rep. Marc […]

2017 Monticello College Campus Events

This year school begins on April 18. While we have a very full academic calendar, there are three events designed especially for you: JUNE 12-17  CAMPUS  PROJECT   JULY 10-15 YOUTH FOR AMERICA   AUGUST 30 – SEPTEMBER 2 SECOND ANNUAL STATESMAN ECONOMIC SUMMIT         JUNE 12-17 CAMPUS PROJECT Last April a team of volunteers […]

The Twist

On October 13 I posted the idea of voting your conscious rather than following the offerings of the parties in an article entitled The Sting. A few days ago Unite for America (a progressive organization) uploaded a video making an appeal to all Republican Electors of the up coming Electoral College. Unite for America is asking […]

$3,000 In 30 Days

Monticello College 2016/2017 Capital Campaign It is time to increase our efforts in building Monticello College and that takes money. This capital campaign will raise $200,000. This campaign has three purposes: Build our Endowment ($25,000) Provide Scholarships ($100,000) Construction of Dining Hall (phase one) ($75,000) The plan is simple: 1,000 donors contributing $10 per month […]

The Mission

The Mission of Monticello College To build men and women of virtue, wisdom, diplomacy and courage who inspire greatness in others and move the cause of liberty. To Build Men and Women The mission of this college is not to expand or convey knowledge, however worthy that goal may be. It is to build men […]

The Sting

The Sting  – (the 1973 7-oscars winning movie about con artists)   Liberty is a political state of being; freedom is an internal state of mind.* Today we have front row seats to the end of American liberty and freedom and the greatest political con ever perpetrated on the American people. The thing about a con […]

There Ain’t No Quick Fix

   The following is adapted from a keynote address delivered by Dr. Shanon Brooks on April 13, 2004 at the 2004 Statesmanship Invitational. In the immortal words of Jerry McGuire, “we live in a cynical world.” We also live in a surreal environment of entitlement, enlargement, enticement, fat blasting, and muscling up. With the baby boomers […]

Monticello College 2017 Scholarships Are Now Available

Do you know a student who wants to attend Monticello College but can’t afford the tuition? Monticello College is happy to announce that donors have contributed $30,000 to be used for first-year on campus scholarships for the 2017 academic year. That means that the first ten first-year students accepted for the 2017 academic year will […]

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.