Events
Three Aunties provides educational events for the public.
The initial Three Aunties event is the Gainesville Holistic Health Fair. The next fair will be held Saturday, March 26th, 2016, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4225 NW 34th
Street, Gainesville, Florida. Practitioners from a wide variety of alternative and wholistic health modalities will be there to answer questions and provide 15-20 minute sample sessions for $20 (only $5 during the first hour, 10:00 - 11:00 am!). The fair will provide information on nutrition and
environmental health, and empowering workshops on how to take care of yourself and your family. Find out more at the Gainesville Holistic Health Fair blog or send an email to Maria Minno.
ROOTS Festival. This is a day of hands-on natural history study for scientists and environmental / outdoor educators, as well as workshops in nature-based, farm and domestic arts.
ROOTS stands for Reclaiming Our Origins, Traditions and
Skills. The purpose is to restore
understanding of, and cultivate appreciation for, our historical and natural
heritage. This will be accomplished
through providing opportunities for the teaching and learning of ancient and
traditional skills that are being lost.
These skills are especially important for young
people who will live in the world of the future for many decades. The ROOTS Festival aims to restore a sense of place
and a positive relationship with our natural surroundings that will help
benefit people’s mental and physical health and well-being. We are hoping to announce a date between October and December for this event, to be held (hopefully!) at Camp Crystal Lake. Three Aunties partners with other nonprofit organizations in some of its endeavors.
Publications
Besides educational events, the next most important work of
Three Aunties is to provide information.
Three Aunties is presently publishing blogs, and articles, books, multimedia
electronic publications, apps and newsletters are in the works. These publications inform the general public
and interested specialists of important research, discoveries, natural
occurrences, natural phenomena, and empowering methods of co-existing with
nature in a mutually beneficial manner.
The blogs maintained by Three Aunties provide information on
events, publications, and nature study topics.
- The MudPuddling blog informs people of the imperiled state of some of Florida’s butterflies, as well as butterfly natural history. Three Aunties is obtaining records, including photographs and videos of imperiled butterfly species. We have published “Wanted” posters with these photographs and pertinent information on them.
- Florida Nature Finder logs discoveries in backyards and natural areas and informs readers of Three Aunties events and publications.
Grants
Three Aunties is searching for grants from government
agencies or private foundations that will allow us to perform our work without compromise.
Biodiversity Conservation
Finally, Three Aunties can work with private foundations
and/or government agencies to purchase, preserve, and enhance the biodiversity
of environmentally strategic tracts of land in Florida through a Biodiversity
and Land Conservation program. Three
Aunties welcomes donations of land as well as funding for restoration and
management, from foundations, government agencies, individuals and businesses
that are inclined to want to do something to preserve and enhance biodiversity
in Florida.
When possible, Three Aunties will keep these biodiversity
preserves open for nature literacy education and research to benefit the public
as well as for specialists, land managers, and scientists.
Hope For the Future
Three Aunties plans to accomplishes its work primarily through
the volunteer efforts of the Board of Directors, which includes an
Administrative Director and a Scientific Director. They are multi-talented people with skills,
training and experience in computers, natural history, environmental biology, zoology,
botany, mammalogy, entomology, agriculture, alternative health, environmental
health, writing, blogging, photography, alternative health, indigenous people,
sustainable living, nonprofit administration, event planning, and more. The Board of Directors will work with
affiliates and other volunteers, and will network with other nonprofits and government
agencies, to accomplish this work.
In our diverse ways, all of us at Three Aunties are working
for a future where our work will be well received, our offerings will be
grasped, and our purpose and intentions will be fully supported, so that we can
do the work now that we feel is most important for future generations.
The most important aspect of the work of Three Aunties will
be providing educational events for the public. 
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