Lectures & Workshops 

Lectures & Workshops with “Garden Insects” filmmaker Chris Korrow

Chris is available to travel to your school, library, conference or gathering. Events can be tailored for children or adults. Focus can include: Practical aspects of dealing with insects in the farm and garden; the spiritual aspects of nature observation and gardening; the technical aspects of nature photography and filmmaking. 

Chris uses his expertise as a nature photographer and filmmaker, his many years as a farmer and gardener, and his keen sense of nature observation, contemplation and meditation to articulate and illustrate peaceful, positive development in the human condition, society and the environment through practical examples found in nature.

Contact Chris at 270-864-4167 or email 90acres@accessky.net.

Presentations include:
 • Show “Garden Insects” (there is 26-minute version of the film) with Q & A with the filmmaker. 
• Approximate hour-long lecture with the 26 minute film.
• Day long classes and gardening workshops.

Coming Events

July 6-11, 2008
Awakening to Nature
Gardening and Nature Observation as a Path of Spiritual development
Chris will offer a 4 1/2 day course as part of the Center for Anthroposophy’s Renewal Courses (www.centerforanthroposophy.org) in New Hampshire. Visit their website for more info or to register. 

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

“The ideal situation would be to pursue our esoteric training among green plants and sunny mountains, surrounded by the loveliness of nature’s simplicity.” Rudolf Steiner, How to Know Higher Worlds

Nature: There is boundless wisdom to be found in the least of her inhabitants. Peace, beyond measure, and incredible beauty in such a mundane event as a frosty morning. Spend enough time with her and she will force you to look into your soul and find the place where you fit. Somewhere in-between moonlight and sunshine.

Nature has played a monumental role in the pursuit of enlightenment and in our experiences with temporary enlightened states. There are very definite reasons for this – one of the most notable is the fact that the divine is much easier for us to recognize and digest in its “natural state” than in our everyday ”created” lives.

We as a society have become increasingly detached from the earth, from where our food comes from and from the inner workings of nature. Yet we  constantly have the opportunity to reconnect with nature in a way that is up close and personal — through our own gardens, backyards and neighborhoods. The miraculous is always there, ready to sweep us into her grace, if we can developed our ability to recognize it.

Over the four days, we will explore our connections with nature, our gardens, and farms through many different meditations and teachings. The meditations are designed to deepen our connection with nature, but can also be applied in any of life's situations, such as work, classroom, at home or even in the city, as they are active mediations that involve connecting to the world by heightening our general awareness of what is happening around us. There will also be some brief writing and photography exercises, exercises with darkness (night), and with our senses.

We will explore the biodynamic workings of the garden from the point of view of how nature works, This will give participants the ability to make their own assessments as to the needs of their own gardens. Participants will have the chance to experience the biodynamic preparations. 

Oct. 25-26, 2008
The annual fall Waldorf parenting conference: "Children, Nature and Us" will take place at Shining Mountain Waldorf School

"Children, Nature & Us" (Oct. 25-26 in Boulder) will feature Joseph Cornell, whose books on Sharing Nature with Children have been a classic resource for parents and teachers.

Chris Korrow will also be joining us and sharing his wisdom from bio-dynamic farming; Chris is also a filmmaker, and his award-winning film on garden insects was recently shown on PBS.

We are also delighted to welcome Sharon Lovejoy, who is an internationally acclaimed author on gardening. She has written several books on gardening with children, including Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots, Sunflower Houses, and Hollyhock Days. And we will be joined by Craig Holdrege, Director of The Nature Institute in Ghent, NY and a frequent lecturer on biodynamic agriculture and the Goethean approach to the natural world. In addition, there will be three dozen workshops on various aspects of the Waldorf curriculum, parenting, and ways to nurture children--and ourselves--in the living forces of nature.


About Chris Korrow:
For the last 20 years, Chris has been an biodynamic farmer and gardener doing his best to live a sustainable lifestyle. Chris and his wife Christy have been instrumental in helping to transform agriculture in the southeast, as well as working on many other social/spiritual issues. They reside in rural Kentucky with their two home schooled daughters. 

He is a filmmaker who's latest documentary, “Garden Insects” premiered nationwide on PBS last summer. He is the photo editor for LILIPOH magazine and is currently working on several book projects with his wife Christy, which includes a series of nature/gardening books for children.
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