HOLY SNOW! Tree Planting Date Moved Back

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WE ARE STILL ON OUR WAY, But With Modifications!

Everything below is the same except that we are concerned that if we get more snow it will interfere with our planting schedule…So we are moving the date back two weeks to APRIL 22-23, 2016. Sorry we have no control over the weather. The upside is that you will get to rub shoulders with our new cohort of students, who will have just started classes the week before.

THE NEW DATE FOR THE ORCHARDS TREE PLANTING WORK PARTY IS APRIL 22-23, 2016.

A number of you have indicated that you are planning to attend. Please check your schedules and let me know if you can still come.

Details for the Work Party

65 fruit and nut trees have been purchased for an April delivery.

We will plant all of these trees during our APRIL 22-23, 2016 volunteer work party. We would love to have you join us!

On April 8th at 9:00 am MT, we will begin planting trees and work both days until the job is done. We can use all the help we can get.

It will be too chilly for most people to camp out on campus so we recommend that you secure housing with a local motel (cheap rates right now).
blue-mountain-horseheadMONTICELLO MOTELS – Most under $100 per night.  I recommend that you secure housing right away.

We can house a few same gender volunteers or a full family in our in-town classroom/admin. office.  Call me for details (435 590 1661).

We will provide tools and lunch both days.

Things To Bring:

A variety of outerwear (it is hard to predict the weather)

Work gloves

Warm hat

Work boots

A couple pairs of grungy work clothes (you will get very dirty)

Sun glasses

Water bottle

THE NEW DATE FOR THE ORCHARDS TREE PLANTING WORK PARTY IS APRIL 22-23, 2016.

PLEASE CONTACT ME AT 435 590 1661 OR EMAIL AT SB@MONTICELLOCOLLEGE.ORG IF YOU PLAN TO PARTICIPATE SO WE CAN PLAN PROPERLY.

Orchard Update 

We have purchased 45 bare root apple trees, 10 bare root pear trees and 10 bare root filbert/hazel nut trees.  We will plant these trees with the added protection of trunk guards and deer fencing to protect them from voles, mice, squirrels, chipmunks, and deer.

apples-in-boxes.jpg.644x0_q100_crop-smartOnce all three orchards are completely planted and the trees are producing (5-10 years after planting) we can expect the following harvests:

·       50 lbs. per apple tree or 2,500 – 3,000 pounds of apples annually

·       30 lbs. per hazelnut tree or 450 – 500 pounds of hazelnuts annually

·       30 lbs. per walnut tree or 450 – 500 pounds of walnuts annually

·       50 lbs. per pecan tree or 700 – 800 pounds of pecans annually

·       60 lbs. per apricot, plum, and pear tree or 2,500 – 3,000 of fruit annually

Mature Hazelnut Trees
Mature Hazelnut Trees

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.