Student or Group Info

Name(s): Yolanda Heermann
Term: Spring 2021
Credits: 8
Title of ILC or Group Project: Wild Wind: A Foraging Journey of Change

Internship Info (if applicable)

Field supervisor: Professor Sarah Williams
Title: Professor
Organization: The Evergreen State College

Subcontractor

Name: Dr. Steve Scheuerell
Title: Professor
Organization: The Evergreen State College

Program of Project Description

Narrative: Wild Wind: A Foraging Journey of Change-

A journey of perseverance through sobriety, a pandemic, a divorce and quarantine.  Survival of the resilient and creative continue to search for a light to trudge onward to better days.  The wild winds of climate change scatter energy or destroy a home to break the vulnerable, to be rebuilt stronger than before by using the methods our ancestors practiced during the struggle against the hardships caused by natural phenomenons or personal. 

I came to The Evergreen State College with a few bags and three boxes, middle aged, and everything fit in a closet.  Action towards attaining my dreams started with anxiety, a separation anxiety of where is home, I was suffering.  Desperate to find hope the journey of recovery began.  People change and remembering who you are before others tell you how to live is surrendering to the natural order of living. 

Today, exploring recovery is a journey of connecting to every living species.  Foraging brings me back to innocence, with roots that were established in my genomes.   Sustainability and resilience is perseverance in motion to feel the earth beneath your feet and touch the soil, giving your soul more time to not only smell the flowers, but taste the place, pause, pray, breathe into your space.  The only peace I’ve ever found has been outside in the natural great outdoors.  Honestly, eating, loving, with faith that all else will work takes strength.  Don’t give up.

Learning objective	Activity	Deliverable
To explore how and why wild food is medicine.	Reading books with authors who are teaching knowledge of culinary arts with indigenous wild plants. Text may include: Botany in a day, The patterns Method of Plant Identification, by: Thomas J. Epel and Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States, by: Mihesuah and Hoover	Maintain and keep an ePortfolio
To forage for wild food, gather recipes, to taste place and seasonality and to experience foraging as food sovereignty.	Foraging twice a week, cooking once a week, and writing about my foraging journey of change.	Wordpress week 10 Presentation.
Culinary Art will be used to display on WordPress.	Cooking and tasting the foraged specimens.	Journal review.

Evaluation of Work

• WordPress ePortfolio
• Final week ten presentation
• Narrative evaluations from field supervisor and/or subcontractor
• Narrative mid-quarter and final self-evaluations