Sit at a campfire with the Last Rural Forester for an evening encounter with the ‘unseen’ forest. Long before the science of forest ecology, Slavic foresters of Eastern Europe perceived living nature as enveloping and interacting with their daily lives. Similar to a stage set change in the theatre, oral tradition can only be perceived […]

Forest Encounters: The Seen and Unseen Worlds of Slavic Living Nature. September 22, 2024 1:00pm – 2:30pm Birds Hill Provincial Park The indigenous cultures of Eastern Europe are so powerfully bonded to living nature the earliest farming settlers claimed Slavic spirits had followed them to the new world. Join the Last Rural Forester on his […]