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Saturday begins in the classroom
by Molly Phemister 25 Oct '24

25 Oct '24

It'll be 40 degrees Saturday morning, let's start our morning together in the classroom. After a discussion there (including more from chapter 20), we'll head over to the garden to check in our potatoes and cabbages, and to do a little seed saving. It won't be hard work, but you'll still want closed toe shoes. Those of you who have not shown up yet this October, you're now at the line- if you have perfect attendance from here on, the stipend is yours. If you want to make up sessions, there's already 3 other students who want to do a make up, you could easily join us for those, and the stipend would be yours. We're having a lovely fall season, try to get outside today and enjoy it. Molly Get Outlook for iOS<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aka.ms/o0ukef__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!BnM6… >

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Saturday morning starts in the greenhouse: ALL STUDENTS WELCOME
by Molly Phemister 16 Oct '24

16 Oct '24

Hello my relatives! I hope you are all doing well after our brief prelude-to-winter. We took some hard frost in pockets around town. The garden is largely down to cabbage family members (but that kale is good for you, so keep swinging by and collecting some!) We'll finish seed collecting in the next few weeks and do a bit of clean up work, but not quite yet. Not this weekend. This weekend, we'll start in the greenhouse to finish planting the herbs and salad greens that we will take into the winter with us, and then head over to the classroom to work on Chapter 20: Sitting in a Circle. This is a long chapter, but it is such a fun one. Have you ever been camping? Remember how much packing you did to prepare for that trip? Picture going camping with your science class... And bringing almost nothing... What?! What did they do? How did they navigate that? You've got to read (or listen!) to believe it. Chapter 20 part 1: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://youtu.be/dz4nMoFkX0I?si=OkpSGmQURQECMt3… Chapter 20 part 2: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://youtu.be/oIyB73FXa84?si=XP7RmZNBOnnp2QU… Who am I hoping to see? ALL OF YOU! If you dropped your habit of joining us over the summer (powwow circuit, summer jobs, sports, or whatever the reason was), this is the autumn quarter now and you are 100% welcome to rejoin us (and to qualify for the fall stipend). Speaking of which, the glitch holding up the summer checks has been cleared, they WILL be out soon. Sorry about the delay and thank you for your patience, Molly Get Outlook for iOS<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aka.ms/o0ukef__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!GVY8… >

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Saturday starts and ends in the garden
by Molly Phemister 10 Oct '24

10 Oct '24

Hello Relatives! I hope the long autumn is drawing you out of doors? It's gorgeous out here, and I look forward to time outside with you this Saturday. The things we planted in the greenhouse are beginning to sprout! Yay! So exciting. We will plant more next weekend. This weekend, we will start in the garden with seed saving and checking on the potatoes (are they ready yet? How does one know?), and then move over to join Bob Henrickson of the Statewide Arboretum on a tour of our garden's neighbor, the nut orchard. We looked at that space briefly this spring, but now the nuts are coming in and Bob will help us learn even more. With luck, there'll be time between the tour and lunch to listen to a snippet from and start talking about Chapter 20, in which Robin takes students camping and brings no supplies. We'll talk more about that chapter next week too, when we do some weaving and learn to make rope. Lunch will be by the garden. While we won't be doing huge labor in the garden this weekend, I would like folks to still wear closed toe shoes. Long pants will be helpful- it's often chilly in the morning these days. Sunblock is still a great idea, and DO plan to stay for lunch. There's a lot to be gained from being part of this community building moment. Thank you! See you Saturday! Molly [https://ucomm.unl.edu/images/email-signature/Nebraska_N_RGB_small_on_white.…] Molly Phemister 3110 North 40th St Lincoln NE, 68506

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by James Cooper 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

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Saturday starts in the GREENHOUSE
by Molly Phemister 05 Oct '24

05 Oct '24

Hello my relatives! This Saturday we will start in the greenhouse and end in the classroom (95 degrees? October 5th? Aiyiyi). The greenhouse portion will be hands on, so DO plan to get your hands into some dirt, but otherwise no prior preparation is needed on your part. For the classroom, however, we're going to tackle bits from the chapter "Learning the Grammar of Animacy". Kimmerer explores here how a language can to take us into a whole world view. What if everything around us was alive? In motion? What if everything around us was sacred? "But Molly! I don't have time to read a whole chapter before Saturday!" Try listening instead? https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://youtu.be/mEBErBoPuTg?si=sMfwEGsJoHTCFQQ… (this is particularly helpful for this chapter due to all the Anishnaabe and Potawatomi words in this chapter, not to mention the scientific terms) I believe in you! See you Saturday, Molly [https://ucomm.unl.edu/images/email-signature/Nebraska_N_RGB_small_on_white.…] Molly Phemister 3110 North 40th St Lincoln NE, 68506

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Saturday in the garden LAST DAY OF SUMMER SESSION
by Molly Phemister 28 Sep '24

28 Sep '24

Hello my Relatives, I hope this message finds you well. Have you ever noticed how we have several beautiful or even somewhat hot days when the east coast gets a hurricane? Well, Helene is will be working her way across the southeast over the weekend, so our afternoons are going to have lots of tropical air heating them up. The mornings, tho! You may wish to start Saturday in long sleeves, it'll still be in the low 60s when we start on Saturday morning. Brrrrr What's in store for this weekend? I'll read a bit more from the chapter Epiphany in the Beans, weeding (of course) and we have cover crops and additional fall veg to plant, plus yet more GLORIOUS salad to make. (Some of you have wanted to be on Team Chef and haven't had a chance yet. Please speak up and remind me who you are so that we make sure you get a turn to fix things up the way you like them.) Congrats to everybody who has met me for make-up sessions in the garden the past few weeks. Each of you who has done that is now in good shape IF YOU COME THIS SATURDAY. Do not miss Saturday without reaching out ahead of time. Also reach out ahead if you need a ride in either direction (or both ways): if you want to work with us, then we will definitely work with you. As always, long pants are better, a hat is great, closed toe shoes are crucial, and sunblock will keep you looking younger longer. (I promise, we are ALL, 20 years from now, going to look back at pictures of ourselves now and think "crickey, I was so young and good looking back then and I didn't even know!" Aging is funny that way.) Thanks for reading this far. In October, the fall session begins and it'll have more variety of starting location, so the emails will be extra important. Those of you who vanished for the summer (sports, jobs, whatever), WE MISS YOU. Please put it on your calendar to come back to us. This week if you'd like, next week for sure. (for shizzle? Do the kids still say that?) Grateful to know you, Molly [https://ucomm.unl.edu/images/email-signature/Nebraska_N_RGB_small_on_white.…] Molly Phemister 3110 North 40th St Lincoln NE, 68506

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Saturday in the garden
by Molly Phemister 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Hello, Relatives! The last several Saturdays have been bucolic, and now the weather will be even better. Let's live it up! The seasons are turning, and winter will be here too soon. We will soon return to beginning in the greenhouse to launch new seeds off on new adventures, and even return to the classroom to discuss the text and learn some food preservation and processing techniques. This weekend will include cover crops, harvesting, some joint decision making about our fall clean up plans, salad, sandwiches, and a reading from Braiding Sweetgrass (from the Epiphany in the Beans chapter). Please come early / on time, and plan to stay until noon. As always, I encourage hats and long pants, I strongly advise closed toe shoes and sunblock. I enjoy your company, I hope to see you this weekend. If you need a ride, please do not hesitate to ask. If something else has come up, please do let us know. Molly [https://ucomm.unl.edu/images/email-signature/Nebraska_N_RGB_small_on_white.…] Molly Phemister 3110 North 40th St Lincoln NE, 68506

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Garden gorgeous garden
by Molly Phemister 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

If you missed last Saturday, you missed a treat. We're going to do it again this Saturday: we will gather produce from our gardens and make a salad to go with our lunches. Part of that gathering included important stories shared by our elders about deer woman and buffalo calf woman and others. We would be so grateful to have additional stories from additional elders, goodness knows there are always enough lunches, please consider joining us. Before lunch, we have cover crops and fall salad greens to sow where the tarps are coming up, tarps to move around, And quite a few beans, okra, peppers, and tomatoes to harvest. Please plan to stay the full-time, that final chunk of the morning is fertile soil from which to grow your good futures. We will be below 80 the whole time, long pants should be doable, and I always advocate close to shoes because of the tools we are using. If you need a ride, please do not hesitate to ask. We value you being here! See you Saturday! Molly Get Outlook for iOS<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aka.ms/o0ukef__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!BcKO… >

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Saturday garden rules update
by Molly Phemister 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

Good morning relatives! I hope this note finds you in good health. We have been Enjoying having some of our friends Visit us in the garden, and even work with us, but have been told that, for liability reasons, we really need the only attendees on Saturday morning to be enrolled students and their accompanying adults. I hope you understand, and I look forward to seeing you on Saturday morning. We will be doing some harvesting and a little bit of food prep work together. Please plan to stay all the way till noon. Molly Get Outlook for iOS<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aka.ms/o0ukef__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!EoAj… >

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Labor Day Weekend makeup days
by Molly Phemister 31 Aug '24

31 Aug '24

Good afternoon relatives! My apologies for the delayed email, but being a bunch of college professors, it snuck up on us that this was Labor Day weekend. Oops. What we are going to do is count Saturday as a bonus day- everybody's welcome, and everybody who shows up will get an absence erased. There is also capacity to make up additional time on Monday morning 9-11, and some of you could really use it. What about Sunday afternoon? Would anybody want to do that one? Write me back, let's get as many people caught up as we can this weekend. As usual, I believe you will be the most comfortable in the garden in long pants because you will not have to deal with itchy plants and bugs on your legs. Close to shoes are a safety concern, and a hat keeps you from looking old faster than necessary. It'll be in the 70s all morning, so truly just a lovely day to come and revel in all that Unci Maka provides for us. See you in the morning! Molly Get Outlook for iOS<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aka.ms/o0ukef__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!FZiX… >

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