Holiday Gift Ideas from The WANDER School

Whether you're decking the halls, lighting the menorah, preparing for a feast, or hibernating this time of year, keep in mind all the great gifts from The WANDER School,  a small yet mighty woman-owned and operated business that exists to inspire nature reconnection and health empowerment. 

For anyone on your list who is wild food or herb curious...we have LOTS to offer.

As you may be starting to plan your holiday gift giving, we wanted to make sure you know about all the GREAT gifts we have available for you and yours.

Read on, let us know if you have any questions, and as always...green blessings.

Abby's First Book...
​The Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders:  $27 (plus shipping)

The Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders: Farmed and Foraged Herbal Remedies and Recipes is a helpful cornucopia of herbal information and recipes for building health and tending to minor ailments out on the homestead, in your cozy  apartment, on the road, and everywhere else.

When you order the book here, there's a place where you can indicate who you want the book autographed for!

This book is a special, useful, and a great addition to any herbal bookworm's bookshelf.

Buy it now for that homesteader, or wannabe homesteader, on your list!
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Abby's NEW eCookbook...
The Wild, Foraged Life: $15

This book of time-tested recipes from wildcrafter and professional forager, botanist, and herbalist Abby Artemisia includes over 40 pages of wild foraged recipes from her famed kitchen!!!

This widely anticipated foraged e-Cookbook presented by The WANDER School is available for direct purchase and an EXPANDED version is available featuring extra exclusive content as a thank you gift for patrons who support The WANDER School on Patreon at $10/month or more...which brings us to our NEXT awesome gift idea.

Buy it now for that foodie on your list!
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Just 5 bucks a month = access to EXCLUSIVE foraging and wildcrafting education from The WANDER School 

Patreon is a crowdfunding platform that allows creative people to do creative work. Patrons commit to a monthly financial contribution that supports work they believe in.

Here’s how to sign your giftee up for a membership starting at just 5 bucks a month:

Step 1: Go to the Patreon page for The WANDER School!

Step 2: Decide which membership level you want to gift. Support starts at just 5 bucks a month, and Patrons get:

• Access to patron-only videos and blog posts
• Tips from Abby’s Kitchen
• Herbal medicine-making tutorials
• A behind-the-scenes look at The WANDER School's classes & events
• Bonus clips from the Wander, Forage & Wildcraft podcast
• Extended footage from Abby’s IGTV videos chock-full of botany and foraging know-how
• Foraged Recipes not available anywhere else

Step 3: After you select the tier that's right for you, you'll create a Patreon account. Use your e-mail address to keep the gift a surprise, or collaborate with your giftee and sign up together!

Step 4: Give that gift! Notify your giftee of the login info (your email and password) in a secure way, and make sure they know how to access their rewards. Patreon even has has a mobile app they can use to start digging into all the good information from The WANDER School to inspire nature connection and health empowerment.

www.patreon.com/thewanderschool

Buy it now for that lifelong learner on your list!
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Gift Certificates: $10 and up

Gift certificates can be used for just about anything from The WANDER School, including Botanical Property Surveys, workshops, plant walks, or herbal products. They're a great way to treat someone you love or say thanks! Just get in touch to let Abby know the details of your desired certificate and we'll get it to you!

Buy it now for that very specific person on your list!
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Handmade Appalachian
Wildcrafted Products

Stock up on The WANDER School's wildcrafted Elderberry Sumac Rose Elixir to build your cold and flu armor all winter long, and definitely don't miss out on the Wild Oregano Salt that adds a touch of wild to any savory dish. Since the whole mood of 2020 is crazy, the Harmony Tincture is a must-have.

Check out all of Abby's herbal products here or browse below.

Virtual Gifts

Virtual Plant Walk

$35.00

Explore the Appalachians from your couch, and learn how to empower yourself with your own free and vital wild food and medicine!

Join botanist, herbalist and professional forager, Abby Artemisia, to meander through the abundance of wild food and medicine that can be foraged in the late summer/early fall.

Abby believes nature education is so important, especially information on wild edible and medicinal plants, to help us survive in these tough times. That's why she adapted her plant walks to a virtual format, to help you continue to thrive whether you're far away or COVID is keeping you away from group activities.

This plant walk, in the gorgeous Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, features plants that you'll find throughout much of the central and eastern US. Plants included: Sourwood, Sassafras, Witch Hazel, Black Birch, Hemlock tree, Blackberry, Ragwort, Violet, and Mountain Mint. For a special treat, the following mushrooms are included, too: a variety of Chanterelles and Leatherback Milkcaps.

Abby teaches you how to harvest the plants and mushrooms, including tips for a sustainable harvest. She tells you about making formulas like teas, tinctures, salves, syrups, and spices, for conditions including coughs, pain, viruses, skin irritation, stagnation, and more. She teaches the Family Method of Identification, giving you patterns to make it easier for you to start to recognize plants and how they're related. 

You'll get a private link to the video that you can access anytime and as often as you want but please don't share the link - as we offer SO MUCH free education already and every purchase is important to our small business.

You can even email Abby about the virtual plant walk with your thoughts and questions!

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Virtual Botanical Plant Surveys

$75.00

Take advantage of this seriously special offer!

When you’re walking around outside, and you think...

dang I wish I knew more about these plants!

More plant knowledge could help me survive, if it all came to that...

Your wish is granted. 

You can now join botanist, herbalist and professional forager, Abby Artemisia,

for a private virtual botanical plant survey customized FOR YOU.

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS!

• Buy Your Session (or Gift), choosing as many hours as you'd like. If you are buying multiple gifts, please checkout with multiple orders, so each gift recipient receives a unique order number.

• Schedule Your Session: Book a time slot with Abby via email. You will need the order number* to schedule.

• Prep for your session: Test the videoconferencing options agreed on at booking. If you don’t have data reception where you live, or you’d rather do it inside on your computer, just bring the plants you most want to know about (or several pictures of each one). That is very common! Just make sure you walking around outside and note the plants you want to learn about.

• LEARN! Join the videoconference at your scheduled time to begin. During your Virtual Botanical Plant Survey, Abby will focus on a few plants to help you understand your connection to them better through some practical tips on identification as well as the benefits those plants can provide you as food and medicine.

• Grow! Each Virtual Botanical Plant Survey lasts (1) hour. You can do a 2 or 3 hour session also, if you have lots to learn! You'd be surprised how fast an hour flies!

*Your order number becomes available on the thank you page after purchase below, and in the email you'll receive after purchase with the subject "Your downloads are ready!" You will need to note this order number to schedule.

THIS OFFERING MAKES A GREAT GIFT!

If purchasing a Virtual Botanical Plant Survey as a gift, make sure to note the order number you receive, and give THAT to the lucky recipient when you give the gift. You can just print or email out the PDF you receive after purchase to give to to the lucky recipient once you've added the order number details!

HERE'S WHAT FOLKS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT VIRTUAL BOTANICAL PLANT SURVEY WITH ABBY...

• "I was really curious about the trees that were growing outside my window. I felt pretty lonely during quarantine, and they seemed to just keep me company. Abby helped me learn more about them." -Angela G, New York

• "I had no idea that I could eat the weeds that I was pulling out of my garden! I just wanted to know more about them, and turns out now I have extra free food!" -Susie, Ohio

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The Bountiful Bonanza of Bitters Virtual Class

$20.00

RECORDED VIRTUAL CLASS

The Bountiful Bonanza of Bitters

Making herbal formulas to support your digestion and spice up your cocktails, mocktails, and sodas.

Though bitters are trending, they are concoctions that go way back! Back in the day, folks would eat wild, bitter greens because they were the first fresh food to pop up in the spring. Coincidentally, they’d tonify the body and kickstart the liver after a winter of eating preserved foods.

Today we have so many more choices for supporting our livers and protecting us from invaders like environmental toxins and hard-to-digest fatty foods and alcohol. Once you get used to the taste, you’ll actually start to crave it!

Did you know that citrus peels, coffeee, chocolate, vanilla, and reishi are actually bitters? Just think of all the tasty and tonifying combinations you can come up with!

In this class, you'll learn more about what bitters are, their history, and how they function. Plus, the best part: get a handout with recipes you can make at home for liver and digestive love just in time for the holidays, fancy drinks for entertaining, and they make tantalizing gifts! 

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Investment Gifts

Get in touch with Abby if you know someone who might like a Botanical Property Survey (starting at $250 + transportation costs) or Short-Term Private Apprenticeship ($125/hour + materials) near Asheville, NC and beyond. If sponsoring an episode of the Wander, Forage & Wildcraft podcast as a gift sounds groovy, dedicated single episode sponsorships start at $400.