From Virginia to Guatemala
By Katie Gilman, AMI 2015-2016 Fellow I was drawn to the AMI Fellowship in 2014 when I returned home to Virginia after spending 8...
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- Nov 5, 2018
Seasons of Change
By Elora Overbey, Phase II Fellow On Halloween morning, the Phase I Fellows packed their bags and headed home. The next morning, I...
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- Oct 30, 2018
Phase I in Photos
By Grace Grattan They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I thought I’d share some of my favorite photos from Phase I for the...
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- Oct 26, 2018
A Bear Mountain Snow Day
By Ariel Duran, Phase I Fellow When I arrived at AMI, I worried that I might arrive to snow covering the mountain and that my little...
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- Oct 22, 2018
Capstones Complete
By Freddy Carruth, Phase I Fellow Early in October, we presented our Capstone projects to the Highland County community. It was great to...
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- Oct 5, 2018
Culminating Capstones
By 2018-2019 Fellowship Cohort In addition to their six months of living and working on the mountain, AMI Fellows have been busy...
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- Oct 2, 2018
Fall
By Julia Loman, Phase I Fellow Fall is in full swing on the mountain. It would be incorrect to say summer is easing into fall, because...
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- Sep 24, 2018
Milkweed Royalty
By Grace Grattan, Phase I Fellow Within the past week, the Lodge has become a temporary home to four new striped friends. It all started...
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- Sep 20, 2018
Seeing Things Through
By Elora Overbey, Phase II Fellow This time last year, fall had just arrived hot off the heels of a whirlwind summer, and we were a few...
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- Sep 17, 2018
Unlocking Secrets of the Soil
By Maggie McCormick, Phase I Fellow “Keep soil covered. Minimize soil disturbances. Maximize living roots. Energize with diversity.” These...
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- Sep 13, 2018
Bright Spots
By Audrey Carter, Phase I Fellow If you’ve read the previous blog post, you know that we, the Phase I Fellows, spent a week together...
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- Sep 10, 2018
Fellowship Road Trip
By Julia Loman, Phase I Fellow For a full week in August, we came down from the mountain and hit the road, participating in workshops,...
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- Sep 4, 2018
Alumni Weekend
By Ariel Duran, Phase I Fellow Last weekend was the AMI Alumni Weekend, a time when past Fellows are invited back to enjoy some time in...
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- Aug 16, 2018
Saving the Seasons
By Nick Hodgson, Phase I Fellow A big part of our experience here at AMI is learning to live closer to the land and to be more in tune...
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- Aug 10, 2018
Preserving the Harvest
By Grace Grattan, Phase I Fellow Over the past couple weeks, we’ve been lucky enough to have our fermentation and canning workshops....
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- Jul 23, 2018
Saving Seeds
By Maggie McCormick, Phase I Fellow Last week, Ira Wallace, co-manager of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, visited the farm to teach us...
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- Jul 17, 2018
Exploring Highland
By Freddy Carruth, Phase I Fellow I am very attuned to our Phase I weekly schedule, as I like to believe, are my fellow Fellows. It is...
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- Jul 11, 2018
More than Meat
By Ariel Duran, Phase I Fellow When we arrived at AMI, we were told that we would be responsible for raising broiler chickens that we...
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- Jun 29, 2018
Mountain Senses
By Grace Grattan, Phase I Fellow It’s officially summer! Even though the temperatures on the mountain are far cooler than any summer...
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- Jun 22, 2018
A Very Long Table
By Audrey Carter, Phase I Fellow Coming atcha live from week nine! It has been a wild, wonderful, and exhausting few days. It’s all...
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