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Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants

Wild Plants for Food and Medicine
May 8-10, 2009; lead instructor John Gallagher
4:30 p.m. Fri. - 4:00 p.m. Sun., Duvall, WA; $275. Food and camping included, airport shuttle available. Call to register: 425-788-1301

Have you ever wanted to know the plants that grow all around you?

Would you like to learn how wild plants, even in cities, can both feed you and take care of your health?

This informative and hands on weekend experience introduces participants to the most common and useful plants of our area through direct experiences of touching, eating, cooking, and making meals and medicines.

The nature of this course offers a new relationship with plants—whether found in urban yards or vast wilderness—that intimately connects us to their lives while enhancing the nourishment, nutrition, and health of our own.

Skills include:

• Plant identification to confidence and safety
• Herbal oils and salves for most minor first aid situations
• Tincture making with wild plants for cold & flus
• Herbal teas and infusions
• Herbal nourishment for better daily health
• Mineral vinegars: the ULTIMATE "vitamin"
• Making a wild foods meal that is nutritious AND delicious
• Poisonous plant identification
• Herbal first aid so you can treat yourself naturally
• AND lots of other fun herbal surprises

We will weave all these skills into a way for you to bring wild herbs into your life to enhance your health.

What is seen by many as an overwhelming subject will be presented in a simple way, so you can easily access herbal wisdom on your own. There will be a good balance between class time and herbal activities.

Students will go home with herbal remedies for their home first aid kits.

Students will also go home with a free copy of Wild Foods for Every Table, an amazing 100 page wild foods books with delicious recipes such as sorrel soup, creamy nettle soup and spiced wildberry jelly.

Do not miss this opportunity to infuse herbs into your life in a simple and practical manner.

Due to the hands-on nature of this course, it is limited to just 18 people (and it filled early last year), so sign up soon. Call 425-788-1301 to register

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John Gallagher, L.Ac., CCH is staff specialist guest instructor at the Wilderness Awareness Residential Program. Since 1991, John has served in many positions with Wilderness Awareness School, most notably 10 years as Independent Studies Director. He was also the design editor for the Kamana Naturalist Training Program, and has also completed the course as a student. He is a licensed Five Element Acupuncturist, Community Centered Herbalist, and teaches herbal studies with the Residential Program. John is the proud father of his son Rowan and daughter Hailey, and husband to Kimberly. John and Kimberly run LearningHerbs.com and HerbMentor.com, web sites that teach simple herbal medicine making and natural health through products they designed.

 

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