Images from the Spring 2022 Fire Mimicry and TEK workshop at Indian Canyon

Opening circle

This past weekend Sudden Oak Life, EcoCamp Coyote, and Indian Canyon Nation joined efforts to choreograph the second FIre Mimicry and TEK workshop. This hands on 3-day event was attended by over 30 enthusiastic participants who took a deep dive into the ecology of fire and the practice of fire mimicry in the context of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Our host and teacher of Indigenous knowledge was Kanyon Sayers-Roods (Mutsun Ohlone). Here are various images from the workshop. If you missed this event, please come to our Fall 2022 FIre Mimicry and TEK workshop at Indian Canyon in November.

An Ancestor oak at Indian Canyon treated with fire mimicry at the workshop

EcoCamp Coyote’s mobile, (nearly) fossil fuel free, vegan kitchen

Mega solar oven

Cob oven used for vegan pizza night

Story telling around the fire

Sweetgrass and ocha root offerings, compliments of Jeff (Willy) Wilson

Removing bark-damaging mosses from an Ancestor oak

Applying limewash (aka liquid fire) to the trunks of the oaks

Limewash helps protect the oaks from diseases, insect pests, and mosses

Applying alkaline-rich mineral nutrients to the soils around the oaks

Surgical removal of an oak borer infestation in the trunk of an oak

Turns out to be a major infestation

Presumed oak borer larvae

Removing deeper parts of the infestation with power tools

Following surgery, the wound is cauterized

The cauterized wound is then dressed with a mineral poultice

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