Full Circle Adventures

03/21/2024

For all you folks down south, this is the foraging and cooking workshop for you! Longview Alberta and Willow Hill Lodge are the location for this nature immersion, wild food foraging and cooking event! Follow the link to register!

These edible wild plant workshops are for you to have the opportunity to make tea, to cook a meal, a treat, or to harvest one of the wild weeds or native species from private lands. Re-claim these skills and re-wild your gardens with wild plants you have learned to cook with!

03/21/2024

Full Circle Adventures is running a new program with Forest Fix, combining a forage and feast cooking event with forest bathing.

What a deep immersion into nature this day will be! Inhaling the deep scents of the forest, touching the textures of the leaves, ingesting the nutrition of nature into our beings! WOW!
Follow the link to register for this program on June 1st!

Retreats offers a series of guided practices in nature, that are interwoven with deep reflections and learning.

03/18/2024

Getting excited about our spring programs! www.fullcircleadventures.com

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Call to book a private outing with your family or corporate group. If you desire to delve deeper into the outdoors as part of your personal lifestyle, Full Circle Adventures offers experienced, knowledgeable and entertaining guides that make your connection to nature a rich and awe filled experience...

03/03/2024

02/26/2024

The fresh snow at WBC Saturday was silky smooth! The best ever!

02/23/2024

01/28/2024

Beautiful conditions at Pocaterra and most of Peter Lougheed this weekend! Our Level Terrain XC ski lesson was a great success, with improved balance, propulsion and control being big parts of the group feedback.
This graduate came for a nice ski with me at the end of the day.

01/11/2024

Rachael is a 3rd generation Rancher in Southern Alberta. I bought her beef this fall from Trail's End Beef and this Albrrta girl loves it!

Once upon a time I married a cowboy and started a ranch. Then I completed a MA in History, specializing in ranching, and wrote a thesis inspired by the women in my family. In 2017 it was published in book form. And in December 2023 it made it on a bestseller list of Alberta books! Pretty cool that there is enough interest in ranching women that people keep buying this little book. Just like a ranch, this book couldn't have happened without a team effort. Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen along the way!

If you'd like a copy for yourself they are available directly at the ranch or at some of our favorite independent boutiques: Cody & Sioux Tap Town Books Because I Said So

https://readalberta.ca/recommendations/bestsellers/alberta-bestsellers-december-2023/?fbclid=IwAR2IM8SC4MljaY_82tt41OT9dWvQsfC1DsOWtGHia9fRmwwYprcvtpB8GN0

01/11/2024

Check out these kick sleds for skijoring! Dogs, Sleds and winter! Alberta mush for fun!

01/08/2024

Time to book your awesome School field trip for Spring 2024!
Human history and the land was a huge hit this past fall for Grades 5 to 8. Plants as food and Fibre is also a big hit with Grades 7 to 9.

Check out the programs and prices at:
https://www.fullcircleadventures.com/school-programs/

12/29/2023

Who is who in the snow? The tracks are always true to the owner!

12/27/2023

Woo hoo! Happy Boxing day!

12/26/2023

Solstice, Winter blessings one and all! A clear, sparkly day of blue sky and blue shadows!

12/11/2023

A beautiful sunset this lovely Sunday in December! So lucky to live in this beautiful place!!

12/09/2023

The Sun. June 9th Forage and cooking workshop is open for registration! Come down to Longview for a scenic forage and feast!

What a fun way to spend time together, learning to forage and cook a meal together.

These edible wild plant workshops are for you to have the opportunity to make tea, to cook a meal, a treat, or to harvest one of the wild weeds or native species from private lands. Re-claim these skills and re-wild your gardens with wild plants you have learned to cook with!

11/05/2023

11/02/2023

The Beaver stocks up, the birds finish the fall feast. The fish move less to conserve O2 in the shallow streams. The trees lose chlorophyll and the sap and starches drop into the roots. The last leaves fall after being iced then a thaw.
The frost, then snow, rain and cold. Winter winds hit hard and bold. Inward, prepping, busy and still. Connected, deep, silent and chill.
These are the gifts winter brings our way. We adapt, hunker down, dress warm and pray.

Blessings from the full moon, on to the next. Seasons change, harvest done, secure the deck.
Much Light, Love and warmth to you all! 💥🌟🙏

10/25/2023

Hiked up Sulfur Mountain for the first time. Was helping out Timberline College with young leaders. Very cool hike! Even without much view!

10/18/2023

The last day of school programs! What a wonderful Autumn!

10/06/2023

Here we go again! I suggested selective logging. Only 30% of the trees per acre! What are your thoughts?

End clearcut logging in Kananaskis Country, protect the Highwood river.

10/03/2023

Fun with Grade 5 today, learning about Human heritage and the land and enjoying their Earth inspired art!

10/03/2023

On a private property forage we enjoyed some Spruce, Juniper tea! With a neighbors honey!

10/02/2023

Autumn Edible plant walks are stunning this year!! Chokecherry, Bolete mushrooms, Rosehips, Juniper and Spruce needles!

09/27/2023

A truly fun encounter on our edible plant hike Sept. 23, right after we say about 4 mushroom varieties!

09/23/2023

This was shared with me from Juan Ramirez. Very good wisdom to consider!!

Indigenous Expectations For Foraging Or Harvesting Traditional and Non-traditional Medicine from Treaty 7 Lands.

Presented by AIM - Alberta

Harvest all medicine plants away from roads and communities

Take only what you need. It is important to collect only the plant parts you need. Pick selectively from different areas and take care not to over harvest from one area.

Leave an offering for gathering special medicine plants (a list of sacred plants and medicines according to region can be found online.) You may also leave offerings for other plants as a sign of respect. Place an offering like to***co, wooden matches, or say prayers before and while collecting plant parts. Please note to always place an offering before collecting ochre and other sacred regional medicines.

Share harvested resources such as medicine plants, meat, fish, berries with those not able to obtain these resources for themselves.

Always share and offer medicine to your first nations community members, always offer extra or excess medicine to elders as a sign of respect and conservation

Harvest resources with care, love and respect. Treat the plants as if they are spirits because they are. They are alive and they contain the spirit of our ancestors.

ALWAYS ASK PERMISSION TO TAKE AND HARVEST FROM RESERVATION LAND

Acknowledge and respect the ancient right of stewardship that indigenous people have to all lands on turtle island regardless of government status

09/10/2023

Hey mushroom peeps...Are these Shaggy Parasol?