2017 Monticello College Campus Events

MC STUDENTS BUILDING A MODEL OF AN ECO DOME 2016

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

 

THE FINISHED DOME

AUGUST 30 – SEPTEMBER 2

SECOND ANNUAL STATESMAN ECONOMIC SUMMIT

 

 

 

 

VOLUNTEERS BUILDING MC ORCHARD

JUNE 12-17

CAMPUS PROJECT

Last April a team of volunteers converged on the Monticello College campus

and in just 36 hours transformed a bare piece of land into an orchard with 65

fruit trees.

 

Thank you so much, we are forever in your debt.

This year we have consulted with Cal-Earth to begin building student housing. Cal-Earth did a wonderful job of training a number of MC faculty in the process of  building “Super Adobe” domes for student housing.

CAL-EARTH ECO DOME

During the week of June 12-17, we are inviting volunteers to join us for a week of hard labor and love as we begin construction on our first MC student domes.

If you are interested in joining us for all or part of this adventure, please

contact me directly at 435 590 1661 or email at sb@monticellocollege.org.

Here’s how it will work, it’s really simple:

  1. bring a tent and camp on site.

2. Work really hard from sun up to sun down.

3. We will feed you and you will have access to restrooms and showers.

When you are done, you will of course have helped us build our campus, and for that you have our eternal gratitude. But that is not all you will take home. When human beings put this kind of effort into helping others, it changes them. It will make you a better person, and if you bring the whole family, it will strengthen your family unit in ways that are almost indescribable.

ECO DOME UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT CAL-EARTH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JULY 10-15

YOUTH FOR AMERICA

CLICK HERE to learn more or to register.

It has always been true—the youth are the future. So what does your future hold? Are you prepared to lead?

Monticello College hosts our annual Youth For America retreat because we take your future leadership serious.

But nobody said that learning about great American leaders and developing your leadership skills had to be boring.

Come join us for a week of fun, excitement, and some of the most incredible natural beauty you have every seen.

Classes, colloquia, hiking, lake trips, bonfires, and wilderness experiences that will stimulate discussions and help you remember why this is the greatest nation on earth.

Perhaps most importantly, you will meet some of the best youth in the nation—youth like you who care about the important things, and you will make new friends that will change your life forever.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to enjoy the beauties of the Blue Mountains and catch the vision of a lifelong Thomas Jefferson Education on the campus of Monticello College!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLICK HERE to learn more or to register.

 

AUGUST 30 – SEPTEMBER 2

SECOND ANNUAL STATESMAN ECONOMIC SUMMIT

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

For some, this summit will be the beginning of an education they have longed for.

For others, it will be the next step in their intellectual development.

Still for others, it will be a launching pad into social/political change and impact.

Regardless your reason for attending, this summit will be a major turning point in knowledge acquisition and intellectual insight, in building deep meaningful relationships, and bonding with nature and nature’s God.

Everyone is familiar with the phrase “those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.”

We believe this so strongly that we have taken our theme from Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and will address the essence of this tome comparing and contrasting it with American history and our potential future.

Holding such a summit in the wilderness of the Blue Mountains, in the company of some of the greatest people in our land, and learning, analyzing, and meditating on the knowledge gained here will be the experience of a lifetime.

Come join us and begin to become part of the American solution.

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.  We ask not your counsels or arms.  Crouch down and lick the hands, which feed you.  May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” – Samuel Adams

Lecture Topics: 

Origins of Conservative and Liberal Thought

Decline and Fall of the Roman & American Empires

The Economy: Local, National, Global

Millennial’s: The New Economy

The Servile State: Medieval Economics

Location:  Monticello College 1849 North Creek Road, Monticello, UT 84535

Cost*:  $300 per person/$500 per couple

San Juan County Discount – $250 per person/$400 per couple

MA NL Student Discount – $215 per person/$375 per couple

Information:  (435) 590 – 1661

*Cost covers meals and materials only.  Housing should be secured separately.

 

 

 

 

 

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.