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The Nature Lycuem- Remembering a Man of Vision Who Helped Others See!
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Entering the Road of No Return


Once a person experienced the magic of the Nature Lyceum, their life was forever changed. There are really no words that can aptly describe how one is impacted.  It had to be experienced to be understood.  

Those who have been fortunate enough to pass through these gates of learning, moved forward into their communities continuing the mission of the Green Guerilla's, spreading the word about organics.

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Jeff Frank
Was the tireless, passionate and ever knowledgeable director of the Nature  Lyceum. on Long Island in New York.

Thanks to Jeff's insight and vision, the Nature Lyceum opened the eyes of thousands to the necessary changes we need to make in growing our food, in being stewards of the environment and in taking responsibilityfor the condition of our personal health

Graduate Class 2009

Tuesday evening the festivities bagan as the Green Guerrillas's started to assemble. greeted by  Lyceum Director Jeff Frank
signature  YUA-TAH-HEY!   (Navajo greeting) 

Some of the photos in the slide show were taken from the opening evening event Elemental Jamboree 2009. 

T
here is no way a less than amateur photographer like me can even begin to
... C
apture the Breathtaking Beauty,
... Or the Feel of the Vibrational Frequency
... Of 
 This Sacred Space Through Photos 
... 
This Oasis of Beauty or More Aptly This Garden of Eden Shows 
... 
How Someone Can Take a Small Parcel of Land
... Then 
Transform It Through Love
... By Allowing Mother Nature to
... Maintain Her Role as Landscape Architect 
 ...
Teaching Humans How to Appreciate the Gifts
... She Bestows Upon Us 

...Working Co-Creatively with Mother Nature,
... Suzanne Ruggles , the Barefoot Gardener 
... 
Has Connected So Deeply.
 ...Through Her Native Habitat Gardening
 ... 
One Cannot Miss Sensing on
...All Levels the Spirituality Embedded Throughout This Land 
 

Opening Act of the Elemental Jamboree was Dr. Jim Conroy and Basia Alexander presenting  "Tree Whispering" 


Dr. Jim Conroy and Basia Alexander, set off our  2 1/2 day journey, in the beautiful outdoor living room of Mother Nature. Surrounded by the colorful sights and sounds of nature, we first listened to an informational talk on the consciousness of plants, then we engaged in a hands-on session, as we were lead through a guided visualization followed by a walk through 
the yard to personally connect with a tree. 

Following an Organic BBQ, the group listened to a round table discussion of  " Anastasia" This was The Ringing Cedars Series, published by Ringing Cedars Press,  a nine-book collection by Siberian trader Vladimir Megré that chronicles the life of Anastasia, a mysteriously powerful woman who has inspired millions of readers worldwide to cast away their old lifestyles in pursuit of a purer existence.      

What an amazing evening followed by an unforgetable two days of inspiration!                    

2008 Class

Class 2009


JJust a Few Testimonials..... 

"I have always used Organics. When I was young I was a fisherman and worked part time for a tree 
service and never used pesticides because of my love for the water. Now I have my own landscape 
tree Service Company and only use an organic approach. I use what I learned taking the courses at 
The Nature Lyceum.

I am using a new mix of peat moss, earthworm castings, compost and mini pine bark mulch to 
provide nutrients and to aerate also use compost teas as a follient enhancer. The trees are greener, 
healthier and more alive. I will always use Organics –it’s the better way to go."-
                           
Alfred P. Greenwald II Green Forest Management

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"I am the daughter of a golf course superintendent. After being educated at The Nature Lyceum I have 
been using Organics with outstanding results. I witness the transformation of my gardens as the soil 
goes from lifeless to growth and energy. Something as simple as leaves left on the ground can begin 
a chain reaction of countless life. I have experienced 3 years of phenomenal results and success. I
am grateful to Jeff Frank and the Nature Lyceum for the constant support I continue to receive."


                                Florence Rewenski - Estate Gardener

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" I have been using an Organic approach for the past 10 years. I have reduced my pesticide use 
more than 90% and fertilizers by 1/3. I use compost and compost teas to fight off diseases injected
through the irrigation system. I spray the problem areas directly. I use natural fertilizers in all areas.
The results have been great-it works! My membership feels good about not playing in a chemical 
environment and so do I.

The small bird population is thriving at my course. We are also very concerned about the water 
under Long Island as we are situated on a penninsula and have public drinking wells on the 
property. So you can see how important it is to move in the Organic direction. Jeff Frank and The 
Nature Lyceum is a guiding light for making a difference. It just makes sense."

               Phil Anderson - Golf Course Superintendent (18 yrs)
              The Village Club of Sands Point, New York

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In his new book, “Greening America to Save the World” Author and Landscape Architect, Mark 
Pavletich, says in the first chapter, “An Organic Journey”.  “For two decades, all my energies were 
focused on building a thriving Landscape business. But everything changed in 2002. Renowned 
Landscape Architect Carter van Dyke, with whom I had worked on several projects, recommended
that I attend a seminar at The Nature Lyceum, a school for Organic Horticulture on Long Island, 
NY. Experts from our industry spoke on how toxic landscape chemicals and fertilizers were killing 
landscapes (not nourishing them). Then Organic experts lectured on how maintaining landscapes 
could be done with out harming the plants. You can imagine the shock in the classroom, which was 
full of landscape architects and landscape company owners. All of us came away with from the 
seminar feeling that we had been brainwashed by the chemical industry. My perspective on 
horticulture and my career changed over night. I felt reborn as a green horticulturist and 
businessman.                                                    

                     Mark Pavletich - Landscape Horticulturist and Businessman

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After attending the Nature Lyceum, I went home to West Virginia for the holidays and gave away 
sample copies of Acres magazine along with numerous vegetable seeds.  It was a huge hit.  
Everyone was interested in what I learned and were excited to see me so happy.  My grandfather 
who is a self-proclaimed expert on everything actually listened to everything I wanted to say and to
my enormous surprise he started pulling out old natural healing books that were my great 
grandma's.  She had written down her own natural remedies inside the front cover decades ago.  
Absolutely priceless to me!!  

Recently, I finished Harvey Lisle's The Enlivened Rock Dust Powders- parts of this book blew my 
mind. Currently I'm reading Black Elk Speaks.  I can't put it down.  I have sent out 8 packets to my 
closest friends who are superintendents.  I've know these guys for years so I want to get them to the 
class.  I wrote a passionate letter accompanied by a copy of The Lyceum homepage, the organics 
course description, and a copy of The Big Lie.  I am so excited to hear from them.  I just can't wait 
to hear their reactions.   

Attending the Nature Lyceum was one of the best decisions I have ever made.  It has completely 
changed my life.  As an assistant golf course superintendent I feel finding alternatives to 
chemicals is the most important issue in the golf industry today.  The passion by which courses are
taught at the Lyceum is the driving force behind a common sense organic approach to agriculture 
as well as life in general.  

I attended the class to learn more about organics and I walked away with an enlightened 
perspective on life itself.  I can not continue to contribute to the problems of this world by 
maintaining business as usual at work, or as we like to say in the turf industry "best practices", 
without trying alternatives  The more I research these alternatives the stronger and more confident I 
feel.  I know in my heart that I'm on the right path.  I saved a tree a week ago that the club wanted to 
cut down behind a green.  A green which has no air or light issues.  The tree actually blocks the 
view of the pump station as one walks off the green.  That was an easy victory.  Last week a worker 
applied a granular copper fungicide to a newly seeded extension of a fairway for snow mold 
control.  The next morning, our four interns wanted to go out there and sod the edges of that same
fairway.  If I hadn't been there to assert some common sense those guys would have ended up with 
chemical all over them.  Sometimes we just need to slow down and think.    

Jason Hart- Assistant Superintendent
Pine Valley Golf Club, Pine Valley N.J

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