Crystal has co-illustrated a book with Eric Stevens, written by their friend Kelley Johnson-Powers titled Semore the Bird Tells All that He Heard. They are working on several more Children’s Books together. In addition to blogging for MOTHER EARTH NEWS, Crystal contributes to Permaculture Magazine, Grit magazine, The Healthy Planet Magazine and FEAST magazine. Crystal is also working on a Seasonal Eating Cookbook which covers homegrown produce and ethically foraged ingredients. Her second book, Worms at Work will be released spring of 2017. Crystal’s book, Grow Create Inspire was released in the Fall of 2016 under New Society Publishers. She teaches Art and Garden Summer Camps for kids. Crystal is also an Art Teacher for elementary and middle school children, integrating botanical illustration, mixed media collage, nature-inspired art and still life drawing. Crystal hosts women’s gatherings during the equinox and solstice. Crystal organized the Confluence Herbal Summit, one of the first herbal medicine conferences in the St. Crystal speaks and presents at the Mother Earth News Fairs and conferences around the country. Crystal is an herbalist and gives seasonal plant medicine workshops, plant walks and foraging workshops through Dabble and through their resilient living workshop series.
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They host a Resilient Living Workshop Series with topics ranging from Permaculture, Vermiculture, Medicinal Herbs, Home Apothecary, Seed Saving, Composting, Healthy Cooking, Food as Medicine, Ethical Foraging, Gardening 101, Gardening with Children, Cooking with Kids, Mushroom Inoculation, Maple Sugaring, Natural Household Cleaners, Fermentation 101, Botanical Illustration, Nature Journaling and more. They currently reside on a permaculture inspired farm, Thrive Forest & Field, in the Piasa Hills along the Mississippi River. They now work at EarthDance Organic Farm School. It would be irresponsible of me to throw at somebody if I weren’t confident enough in my ability to know I wouldn’t hit the person.Crystal Stevens and her husband, Eric, co-managed La Vista CSA Farm from 2010-2016.The count of rotations is the most important thing. Most stages allow for a half-rotation throw, about 9 feet. Throwing by the blade or handle depends on distance.I’ll also light the knives on fire and throw them while wearing a blindfold. I have a spinning wheel, where the assistant gets on, and I throw the knives around her as she’s spinning. The “basic ladder” is where I throw knives on either side of someone.
I’d say about 95 percent of the commercially made throwing knives are just junk. The ones I use are about a foot long and weigh a pound.
I wouldn’t suggest throwing knives for self-defense purposes.Whip cracking, tomahawk and hatchet throwing, knife throwing-in the circus world, those are referred to as the impalement arts. There aren’t very many impalement artists in the country. Louis that performs a knife-throwing act. As far as I know, I’m the only person in St.I also performed in circuses from Kentucky to here. I’ve produced as well as performed in sideshow events all over St. I started performing at the Beggar’s Carnivale in the Cherokee Street area.I started throwing them at a piece of wood, and the heads just multiplied. So I go inside and grab a few of my old throwing knifes. I started practicing in my back yard, just scaring the hell out of my neighbors, like, “What is this guy doing!?” One day I realized, people are interested in this, watching from their windows. For some reason, I really wanted to learn performance whip cracking. Some friends of mine had gotten very into the circus arts.I competed until I was about 18 then I let it go by the wayside until around five years ago. As a kid, I was really into knife throwing-different knives, different styles, different competitions.That was just the coolest thing I’d ever seen. All of a sudden, he takes this old World War II military Ka-Bar knife and throws it into a tree. One day, we were in his back yard working on lawnmowers. He was a veteran and just kind of an all-around badass.
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