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Virtual Plant Walk
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!
Virtual Botanical Plant Surveys
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
The Bountiful Bonanza of Bitters Pay-What-You-Can Virtual Class
Monday, December 12 • 6:00-8:00 PM EST
Online (Zoom)
Sliding Scale $20-50
Pre-registration required
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!
Join the class live on Zoom to be able to interact and ask questions (don't worry, you can turn your video off if you want to stay in your pj's :) , or watch the recording (sent out after class). Handout included.
Registration is sliding scale to make it accessible for everyone. If you can afford to give more, please do, as it supports our non-profit work to make this knowledge accessible.
To Hear First about Upcoming Classes and Events:
PAST EVENTS
SPRING 2020
- Wild Edible Botany and Plant Walk co-led by Erica Klopf in Marathon, FL. This will be a beginner's intro to botany of wild and cultivated plants. The purpose is to make botany accessible to everyone, whether you’re an aspiring (or practicing) forager, herbalist, or plant enthusiast. You'll get to know some of the tips and tricks to basic plant identification using the patterns, or families, method of identification. Once you start noticing how plants are related, it's easier to recognize them. Plants in the same family are often edible or medicinal in similar ways. We'll talk about basic flower and plant anatomy and introduce you to some helpful descriptive words.
- Botany for Everyone in Sarasota, FL. This will be a beginner’s intro to the science of Botany. The purpose is to make botany accessible to everyone. You’ll get to know some of the tips and tricks to basic plant identification using the patterns, or families, method of identification. Once you start noticing how plants are related, it’s easier to recognize them. Plants in the same family are often edible or medicinal in similar ways. We’ll talk about basic flower and plant anatomy and introduce you to some helpful descriptive words. Then we’ll get some real world experience, identifying plants in the gardens. This is your chance to delve a little deeper into your study, getting to know what the plants are really about and resources to help you along the way. This is an indoor and outdoor class.
WINTER 2020
- Botany for Foragers, Herbalists, & Everyone Else at Treasure Lake in Petersburg, KY was for foragers, herbalists, and wild adventurers, to identify plants and mushrooms in the forests and fields. We went a short plant walk and learned some basic botany while creating our own field journal over a hot cup of tea.
- Botany through the Seasons: Winter Edition in Asheville, NC was developed because being in one of the most botanically diverse wild areas in the world can be amazing and daunting at the same time. What an incredible gift to be able to collect free and vibrant food and medicine all around us anytime! If you want to be able to do this safely (aka don’t poison yourself or others) and sustainably, you need to know the basics of botany.
- The Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders Book Signing at Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe - Asheville, NC. Abby Artemisia, a botanist, herbalist, and professional forager, has created this user-friendly resource. If you're an herbal novice, this guide will demystify the world of herbs. For those with some herbal experience, it will take you deeper into helpful home remedies with new techniques and recipes.
- Herbal Salve-Making Workshop with Cindi and Abby - Black Mountain, NC. Partnering again are Abby Artemisia, Botanist, Herbalist, Forager and owner of The WANDER School and Cindi Quay, Traditional Native American Herbalist and owner of Cindi's Sacred Garden, to bring you a hands-on herbal workshop on how to create Herbal Salves for topical application!
AUTUMN 2019
- Southeast Wise Women Herbal Conference in Hendersonville, NC.
- Tree Medicine Walk & Workshop in Marshall, NC with Cindi Quay of Cindi's Sacred Garden teamed up to offer a half-day walk and workshop on Saturday, October 26 from 10a-3p in Marshall, NC designed to honor the medicine of trees.
- Rooted in Gratitude in Petersburg, KY at Treasure Lake with Doug Crouch of Treeyo Permaculture co-taught about the importance and functions of roots, how to grow them and make them into food and medicine. Everyone went home with a tincture for their winter first aid kit and some Jerusalem artichokes to start in their gardens, after a scrumptious root-filled lunch!
SUMMER 2019
- At the Upstate Herb, Homesteading, and Foraging Festival at Putney Farm in Honea Path, SC Abby taught one of the classes on herbs and homesteading skills, and showcased her wildcrafted apothecary and new book Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders at one of the booths featuring very interesting crafts and wares. Everyone was excited that Green Deane made it to South Carolina!
- Wild Herb Weekend is an annual conference, held in the beautiful high mountain location of Valle Crucis, NC in late July. There is something for everyone at this intimate little conference. Whether you grow herbs for a hobby, use herbs for healing, or want to start a commercial herb operation, you will find many interesting sessions and hands-on workshops and plant walks to participate in!
- Abby headed to Treasure Lake in Petersburg, KY for a PawPaw Paradise Propagation and Advanced Foraging Adventure collaboration with Doug Crouch. We’ve gone plant walking before, but this was a chance to go deeper into botany. Participants left with a better understanding of plant identification and learned real world tips for processing and preserving the precious Paw Paw treats for food and medicine.
- The 2019 Great Lakes Herb Faire was a two and a half day gathering in Chelsea, Michigan (near Ann Arbor) at the beautiful, rustic, Cedar Lake Outdoor Center which is located at 2500 Pierce Road in Chelsea, Michigan. This event is dedicated to the sharing of herbal knowledge and the celebration of our community and bioregion. We will have dozens of speakers primarily from around the Great Lakes with a seasoning of herbalists from non-Great Lakes states. Our intention is to empower knowledgeable herbalists and beginners alike, provide a space for networking and sharing knowledge, and to strengthen our regional herbal community.
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