Weeds & Walks
These classes are from the 2011 conference. Check back for 2012 classes.
Classes are grouped in sections for ease of understanding only. Participants may take classes in any section at any time without preregistration (except intensives which you must sign up for).
| Herb Walk: Appalachian Plant Walk with Phyllis Light The pharmacy of traditional healers was had by walking outside their door and into the woods. Historical mountain uses of the plants and stories from old-time herbalists and traditional healers such as Granny Light and Tommie Bass will intrigue as well as enlighten. |
| Herb Walk: Edible Wild Foods
with Corinna Wood This is not just theoretical knowledge of the plants. The lines between food and medicine blur as we spend enough time with each plant that you’ll be able to go home and incorporate free, abundant wild plants into your daily life! |
| Herb Walk: Embracing Abundance with Ceara Foley Explore nature’s healing allies that fervently throw themselves at your feet. A cornucopia of medicine abounds amongst common, abundant, and renewable, naturalized botanicals. Empower yourself to reconnect with the free food and healing all around us. |
| Herb Walk: Fall Wild Foods with Juliet Blankespoor Enjoy Falls wild bounty as we delve into processing acorns, walnuts and hickories. Learn about common, easy to identify edible mushrooms, and how to harvest and prepare our forests' fungal delicacies. |
| Herb Walk: Medicine from Trees with June Ellen Bradley Medicine, in Native terms, means power. So often we concentrate on herbaceous plants as a source of medicine yet overlook the standing people. Explore the medicine and survival uses of local trees. Also, experience learning from the trees themselves. |
| Herb Walk: Menopause - The Change Walk with Suki Roth Come meet the large bouquet of plants the NC Mountains offers us for our journey through menopause. Become more familiar with the gentle yet supportive roles they offer to this special time for women. |
| Herb Walk: Walking, Talking, & Tasting with Anya Syrkin Become attuned to the wonderful healing nuances that nature can bring into our lives. We will walk and see with an open heart, hear with full awareness and joyfully notice our responses to the plants. We will identify, nibble and smell. |
| Herb Walk: Wild Plant Walk with Corinna Wood Want to learn how to use common wild plants and garden “weeds” as your source of herbal medicines? Become more self-reliant and naturally healthy by learning how to identify, harvest, and prepare the wild plants at your doorstep as food and medicine. |
