

On a whim I wrote to Jet Boil a letter about our forest school. I expressed how much we love our Jet Boil Flash stove and it’s like magic for the students during tea time to watch the tea ceremony. Heating water so primal yet the magic of modern technology captures the young and bright minds that sit with me in nature to learn about healing wild plants. Then we sing our song, “Follow Me Where the Wild Things Grow, a place to forage and explore...” We pass out our tea cups. We all take a sip and cheers! Pinkies out! I ask them, where do you feel the tea in your body? They are all spot on. Plants for respiratory like white pine in their lungs. Wild ginger in their tummies. Rosehips in their hearts. I asked Jet Boil if they would consider sponsoring our school and they said yes! I told this story to the kids last week and I told them, the lesson is the squeaky wheel gets the grease. If you want something in life, ask for it. Work for it. Make it happen. Oh the lessons we are learning are so profound! #jetboil#jetboilflash#forestschool#teaceremony #fuelbigadventures



We are looking for sponsorship to grow our school. I have created wishlists if anyone wants to donate supplies and tools.
It is very exciting to rethink education and how children learn. To participate as a forest teacher has been the most gratifying experience of my life. After school I am exhausted in the most fulfilling way. I sleep good that night in anticipation for Farmer's Market bright and early on Saturday morning. Many of my forest school families come to my booth and support our farm products. I keep my Healing Salve in my first aid kit and the kids are blown away how it takes their pain away if they fall and get hurt. Then the parents come to purchase it. The Elderberry Elixir is always the star of the show. It brings me much joy to know it is keeping colds and flus away. The testimonials are powerful and miraculous. I am so grateful I can provide the best medicine for my community.
Our mission is the harness the healing properties found only in nature and to share with you and your loved ones. On the old growth forest farm and off grid homestead, we are building trails and creating the future home of Freeborn Family Forest School. I for see an amphitheatre where we gather for classes, tea time and concerts (we have a lot of musicians and singers in our tribe). I love to sing and play my buffalo hide drum and hear it echoing down the mountain. Music sounds better outside! "The hills are alive with the sound of music!" I've always loved that movie... We will invite out our community for classes, herb walks and tea talk, forest school for children and family fun events. We are in need of some upgrades and would love sponsorship for the forest farm. It takes a village. If we build it, they will come. Learning together as a forest family. The Youtube channel is being birthed so we can reach more folks who desire to live self sustainably and off grid. With this platform, we can highlight the tools that we love and use. This is the new way of business. It's old school. It's about connection, local agriculture, homeschooling our kids to be better stewards of the land. This has been a dream of mine forever and to see it come to fruition is the fuel that keeps me going. This is hard work. Nature is unpredictable. We lived in a tent during a record breaking spring storm that washed out our road. Yet stayed warm and dry thanks to the wood burning stove and Ultimate Alaknak Tent. We were stuck until our neighbor bailed us out with his tractor. Yet the miracles we have experienced keeps us knowing that this is exactly the work that God wants us to do. And the land needs us all to come together to heal it and reap what we sow. One of the lessons that we are learning is that it never hurts to ask for help. And if you want something out of life, you've got to ask for it. Work hard for it. Plant the seeds and have faith in God. A lyric from my forest school song, "we are asked to be steward's of God's land and with that comes a divine plan." I like to sing as I forage and work the land.
Blessings to all close and far!
-Jessica
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