Ondatra Adventures is commited to connecting people with the natural world through hiking and backpacking trips, outdoor excursions, workshops in traditional skills and naturalist knowledge, as well as nature-based educational programs. We aim to awaken and deepen your relationship with the natural world.
Listening To Earth: The Fertile Soil of Uncertainty
July 11-12, 2020
Spirit Hollow, N. Bennington, VT
Be earth now, and evensong.
Be the ground lying under that sky.
Be modest now, like a thing
ripened until it is real
--Rainer Maria Rilke
On the wind, in the songs of birds, in the pulse of the trees and the bubbling of the waters, Earth speaks to us in countless voices. Through all our different windows of knowing, we can attune to the trembling of a tiny wild flower or the croak of a raven, the shimmer of a white quartz boulder, or the wellspring of tears that arises from deep underground. These and so many others entice us into conversation, into relationship.
Join Tracey Forest & Dave Muska for this 2-day course to enliven our connection and communication with the Earth.
Throughout the weekend we will participate in the art of tracking on the land and tracking our own mythos, stargazing and befriending the dark, fire making and tending our own inner fires and facilitated council. There will be plenty of solo time on the land to reflect and release, listen and receive.
The Montpelier Bridge
'Footprints in the Snow' by Mara Brooks
2020 Calendar of Classes
January 11, 2020: Animal Track & Sign
Huyck Preserve & Biological Station,
Rensselaerville, NY
February 1, 2020: Wildlife Tracking 101
North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, VT
March 7, 2020: Intermediate Wildlife Tracking
North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, VT
March 28, 2020: Wildlife Track & Sign
Mosher Marsh Preserve, Amsterdam, NY
(Postponed Due to COVID-19)
June 13, 2020: Wilderness Way-Finding Challenge
(Youth Program)
Scoharie Creek Preserve, Town of Charleston, NY
(Postponed Due to COVID-19)
June 14, 2020: Wilderness Crafts (Family Program)
Van Dyke Preserve, Town of Bethlehem, NY
July 11-12, 2020: Listening To Earth: The Fertile Soil of Uncertainty
Spirit Hollow, North Bennington, VT
July 25, 2020: Wild Mushroom Immersion
Montpelier, VT
August 1, 2020: Mushrooms of Holt Preserve
Holt Preserve, New Scotland, NY
August 2, 2020: Edible & Medicinal Plants
Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy Private Easement, New Scotland, NY
Nov 7, 2020: Understanding & Interpreting the Landscape
Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy private easement, Glenville, NY
