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The Moon's Nest Playschool 

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The Moon’s Nest Playschool is a gender neutral, wild and witchy playschool community for queer families and their allies. Offered in the spirit of  an apprenticeship style of learning, this part of my praxis allows me the opportunity to guide and facilitate the next generation of gender bending, empire resisting witches into my particular way of seeing, being, and moving through the world. 

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We operate on a sliding scale, offer scholarships, and guarantee access to all of our  established families

no matter their capacity to pay tuition.

 

 In addition to our programming, I also maintain our daily adventure stories as part of our playschool blog. There I am documenting and archiving what an early childhood full of play, adventure, magic, and connection looks like in imagery and video. The labor that goes into that work is beyond measure, and beyond compensation. Rather, these are stories and maps that will lead these kiddos and others to practices and ways of being that are in direct resistance to industrial education and colonial ways of knowing and being. 

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This praxis also provides me with the opportunity to continue my research and documentation of best practices for cultivating resiliency in early childhood development. I'm blessed to finally be conducting this research outside of the context of academia.  

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You can lean more about this part of my praxis over at the Moon's Nest Playschool website.

 

You can also check out the Patreon platform for this project and offer a monthly tithe to our scholarship fund.  

Okanagon Land Stewardship
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I call the lands of the Okanagan Valley in North Central Washington my home.

I am a settler on these lands, and do my best to cultivate a life that is in right relationship with these lands and the original stewards of these lands, the Okanagan Peoples. This looks like a lot of projects including land restoration, wild tending, replanting and tending wild gardens, supporting members of the Colville Tribe when I have the capacity, and just generally walking easy on the land with awe and gratitude in my heart. 

 

My partner and I steward 11 acres of land in the Okanagan Highlands, set up high on a mountain. We live simply and slowly. Hide tanning, wild schooling ourselves and our kiddo, tending  wild foods & places, roadkill scavenging and animal processing. The nearest to us town is Oroville, set on the Okanagon Valley floor, at the bottom of mountains, beside Osoyoos Lake, just north of the confluence of the Similkameen and Okanagan Rivers. Last stop before Canada. Nothing much happens there.

 And we like it like that.

These lands are the ancestral home lands of several bands that made up the Okanagan Peoples, who have since been absorbed into the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. 

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I document our work to remember and return to ancestral lifeways.  

Follow @mountain_luv_magic for these offerings. 

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Ceremonial Hide Tanning 

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I've been a practicing crafter of hide tanning since 2015. I've been trading and selling my hides since about 2018. 

All my offerings are road kill sourced. No trapped and no hunted furs fer any of my hide offerings.

 

Most of my hides are sumac & fir bark + brain tanned twice, and then pine smoked.

 

All of my hides are processed in a ceremonial way, and are infused with soul magic and heartfelt reflections, which I share via my Instagram platform. Not a one is nameless, and all of them have stories very dear to my heart.

 

Follow me on Instagram @mountain_luv_magic to find out when I have new offerings available for trade or sale. 

Food Sovereignty and Animal Processing 

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I am committed to the work of Food Sovereignty  and independence from the industrial food system. I've been practicing the craft of  animal processing since 2013, and currently am available for hire to assist folks through the entire process of slaughter, butcher, and preservation of their animals raised for food.  Additionally I am available to teach workshops and support people who would like to become more sovereign and ethical in their meat consumption. The animals I am available to process range from backyard urban farms environments like a chickens, goats, or hogs, to supporting in the culling of your herd of sheep. Additionally, I am skilled in processing roadkill or hunted game such as deer and elk.

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Email me at elmirodrig@gmail.com

to inquire about working together on your upcoming food sovereignty project.

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