Growing, Fermenting, Canning & Why
May 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm CDT
The Maurin Academy wants to inspire you to take action in your own back yard, someone else’s back yard, or your community garden. Any of these five sessions can be attended singularly, but you can also think of them as one big event. All sessions will be held live on Zoom starting at 7 p.m. Central Time, starting February 20. We will also record all sessions. Registrants on Eventbrite, and Maurin Academy patrons who subscribe to all our sessions and courses for one low monthly price on Patreon, will receive the full playlist to view again at the end of the series.
Sessions:
February 20: Garden Planning I: Ryan Dostal
February 27: Garden Planning 2: Ryan Dostal
March 12: Canning Techniques: Why We Should Preserve Food: Deacon Chris May
March 19: How to Ferment Food: Ryan Dostal
March 26: Roundtable Q & A: The Politics & Economics of Food Preservation, with Ryan, Chris and the Maurin Academy Team
Teaching Team:
Ryan Dostal works at Allen Centennial Garden, a free public garden on UW Madison’s campus. He uses his background in history, food systems, and education to share the process of growing food and flowers with his community. He studied history at Nebraska Wesleyan University as an undergraduate, completed a Master’s in Horticulture at Kansas State University, and spent several years working at historic house museums in Virginia where he managed historic gardens, supported research, and provided tours.
Deacon Chris May is a Catholic deacon living in Pennsylvania. He has placed his ministry under the patronage of St Lawrence, deacon and martyr, who cared for the poor in 3rd Century Rome. In his day job he is the lead chaplain in a large inpatient psychiatric hospital; he also serves his diocese and parishes in many other different capacities. His academic studies were concentrated in Philosophy, especially Phenomenology and Hermeneutics. His interests include: the spiritual care of persons, especially those with mental illness, the life of prayer, the philosophical shifts of the late medieval and early modern periods, Catholic social teaching, and home vegetable gardening & preserving. He is celibate, with two adult children. He is grateful for the opportunity to assist the Maurin Academy in Peter Maurin’s project of making a world where it would be “easier to be good”.
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