BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO LOW-WASTE LIVING FOR FAMILIES
BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO LOW-WASTE LIVING FOR FAMILIES
(IN PERSON)
SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2021, 10:00AM - 2:00PM
Registration closes at 6:00pm the evening before the class. Be sure and reserve your spot!
LOCATION:
OUTSIDE AT TREESONG WITH SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
INSTRUCTOR:
SAM JENNINGS
Throughout the day Sam will share with you her inspiration and experience with living a sustainable life with a family of six. Her experience includes food sourcing and preparation, gardening, arts and crafts, and creating DIY personal and household cleaning products. Sam will share easy and practical tips to get you started, by making some of these easy DIYs and connecting you to your local resources.
Sam hopes that you will end the day feeling compelled to make a contribution and that it is necessary at this time of planetary health crisis. You as a individual or family can make an impact. She will empower you with simple ways to reduce your consumption and the quantity of plastic packaging your family produces by encouraging you to be resourceful, to appreciate the importance of voting with your dollar, and to understand how you can benefit the planet by supporting your local farmers and businesses.
Sam is sure you will see how learning to live in a sustainable way will not only benefit the planet, but will also grow a deeper connection to your community. The goal is to create a life living closer to the land in which slow living is embraced, and to enable you to centralize yourself within this movement — a movement of global activists adopting low-waste living in an effort to help prevent climate change and protect against the habitat loss and destruction caused by plastic pollution.
This will be a hands-on, small-group day course.
TUITION: $20 - $40 SLIDING SCALE
SUPPORT NATURE CONNECTION: Please consider making an additional donation to help TreeSong, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Anything helps and we thank you in advance!
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has." — Margaret Mead
About the instructor:
Sam and her family of six are striving to live a sustainable life by choosing to live close to the land and enjoy slow living. They are cultivating a 10-acre permaculture homestead where they grow their own food, care for their animals, and homeschool their four young kiddies. Five years ago Sam was captivated by the ‘zero waste’ movement, and challenged herself to ensure their life as a family of six made as little of an environmental impact as possible. She achieves this by utilizing the 5 R’s: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot, in line with low waste living. Sam’s husband Jonathan is the executive director of a local Portland based nonprofit called Health in Harmony, which is an international nonprofit dedicated to reversing global heating, understanding that rainforests are essential for the survival of humanity. Sam is a Midwife and previously spent many years working with Doctors without Borders across Africa and India. Sam documents her family’s life on her blog www.littlegreenlives.com.