Learn how you can change society and build a
sustainable future. Share your skills while learning new ideas all
for free. Your participation is needed more now that we are facing a Trump future.
Join us in Taos, New Mexico this summer.
THE 2017 SCHEDULE
| MAY 1- 15, 2017 | MAY 15 - 31, 2017
| JUNE 1 - 15, 2017 | JUNE 15 - 30, 2017
| JULY 1 - 15, 2017 | JULY 15 - 31, 2017
| AUGUST 1 - 15, 2017 | AUGUST 15 - 31, 2017
| SEPTEMBER 1 - 15, 2017 | SEPTEMBER 15 -30, 2017
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PLEASE APPLY
TODAY! We would love your participation this summer. We are offering workshops in permaculture,
organice gardening, vegan cooking, alternative energy, adobe brick making, community organizing, logic and patterns, consensus process,
crafts and nature.
FILL OUT OUR APPLICATION TODAY!
The principle purpose of the Food Not Bombs Free Skool is to strengthen
the organizing skills of people volunteering in the peace, social
justice and environmental movements. We invite you to share and seek
knowledge in the areas of social change, economic justice, peace,
generosity, diversity, responsibility and a sustainable future.
Flowers
at harvest time.
Welcome!
Rainbow
garden.
Free classes include these topics:
Analysis of current events and social issues
Community organizing
Strategies and methods for
campaigns of nonviolent social change
Organic gardening
and permaculture
Organizing cultural events in support of
social change
Natural building
Wilderness
skills
Creative writing, music, dance, painting, crafts,
and self expression
Sustainable energy
Silk
Screen Printing, puppet making and DIY skills
Please print out our application, fill it out and
mail it to us. This gives us an idea of how to schedule our workshops.
You can contact the Food Not Bombs Free Skool by calling 1-800-884-1136
or emailing us at menu@foodnotbombs.net
A bed of our chard, cabbage and spinach.
Potato beds.
Raised
beds, tipi and veggie oil bus.
If you wish to change the world The Food Not Bombs Free Skool is just
the project for you. We have two week blocks of workshops that start on
May 1, 2017 and run to the end of September 2017. The workshops are
free. You can visit in the winter. We have several housing options. When
you apply let us know what you need. You can live in the local National
Forest for free unless there is a fire restriction. You can stay at the
Snow Mansion in Arroyo Seco about 15 minutes from the Free Skool by car.
You can also live on the land for only $25 a week. You would have to
bring a tent or be prepared to live in the tipi. This year our days will
start with yoga and breakfast. From Monday to Thursday we have out Food
Not Lawns gardening workshop in the morning with two sets of workshops
in the afternoon. Be prepared to work hard and have fun. Some times
preparing the soil can require several hours of strenuous work. Please
be prepared for the cold nights and blistering mid-day sun. We have work
gloves but you may wish to bring your own and sturdy shoes or boots are
really important if you wish to work in the garden.
We have field trips and guest instructors on Friday. The Food Sharing
workshop every Saturday and free time to explore the area on Sundays.
There is an open mic at the Taos Inn every Monday and live music every
night at several venues all within bicycle range. These are also great
places to enjoy a beer or glass of wine. We ask you not to drink on our
land so everyone can get the most from their participation. The Free
Skool provides bikes for participants to travel into town which is a
five to ten minute ride.
Solar
Pump House framed.
Corn!
Our plum
trees.
The Food Not Bombs Free Skool is smoking free but we do provide an area
near the farm for people that need to smoke. We hope you understand that
we need to respect the fresh, clean environment of our community and the
health of all participants. The Pueblo does offer less expensive tobacco
products and you can smoke away from the Food Not Bombs Free Skool as
long as there are no fire restrictions. We also ask you to leave your
pets at home. This is a rural farming area with lots of wildlife. We
would be really upset if your pet was injured by the horses, cows,
coyotes, owls or hawks that visit the neighborhood. Since Food Not Bombs
s dedicated to nonviolence weapons are not to be brought on to the land.
CLIMATE AT 7,000 FEET or 2,400 METERS HIGH
The Food Not Bombs Free Skool is located in a pasture at 7,000 feet or
2,400 meters above sea level. It can be cold at night even in the summer
so please bring a coat and wide brimmed hat. The sun is very bright in
the days and being so high people can get a sun burn before they realize
it. Please view the local weather report here. www.taosnews.com/
weather
If you want us to pick you up in Santa Fe or Albuquerque please contact
us with the date, time and location you wish us to meet you by emailing
info@fnb-freeskool.org
Airplanes and trains arrive at Santa Fe or Albuquerque. Greyhound comes
to Albuquerque. We ask a $40 donation for each trip to cover the cost to
the Free Skool. ( Trips to and from Albuquerque to Taos take over 6
hours to complete and round trip to Santa Fe is at least 4 hours.)
Cooking a Free Skool breakfast.
Working in the garden.
Participants raising
the tipi.
A group of community activists working for social change came to the
realization that we might be even more effective if we organized Food
Not Bombs Free Skool to share knowledge and skills. Some of us had
experience in music and cultural events, other wanted to encourage
organic gardening and sustainable energy solutions yet others thought we
could have more impact if we discussed the formation of more
comprehensive organizing strategies. After some discussion we announced
the creation of the Free Skool and picked a fertile piece of farm land
with water in beautiful Taos, New Mexico as it's home.
Yoga before breakfast
Cooking on the tipi fire.
The
formation of the Free Skool in Taos, New
Mexico
The purpose for which we formed the Food Not Bombs Free Skool is
to provide volunteer teachers and students with a place to learn about
social change, economic justice, peace, generosity, diversity,
responsibility and a sustainable future. This is a unique setting a
bicycle ride from the center of Taos. The perfect place to seek
solutions to the economic, political and environmental crisis of our
time. Many of those involved in this project have direct experience
volunteering with grassroots groups organaizing for social change,
community garden projects and cultural programs from all corners of the
world. The ideas and skills shared at the Free Skool are avalible for
free in print, on audio and video media and on the web.
Free
Skool Library
Unloading manure for the 2013 garden
Dan The
Pandarchist
UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES IN TAOS
The Food Not
Bombs Free Skool is located in the San Luis Valley a short bike ride
from the center of Taos, New Mexico. While participating at the Food Not
Bombs Free Skool you will have time to visit places like the 1000 year
old Taos Pueblo, the Earthships, art museums, Lama and the Ashram where
Ram Das wrote Be Here Now, the H.D. Lawrence Ranch and the Mabel Dodge
Luhan House. You can also soak in the natural hot springs, take hikes
in New Mexico's highest mountains and raft down the canyons of the Rio
Grande. You can also enjoy puppet shows, art festivals, the Taos
Solarfest, open mic at the Taos Inn and live music every week at the
Taos Plaza. Visit these links and learn more about the wonderful things
Taos has to offer. Your time at the Food Not Bombs Free Skool will be so
much more than workshops and classes, it may change your life.
