This Holiday Season Give the Gift of Nature
What better way to celebrate the holidays and the love of nature than by giving yourself or your loved ones a gift that will (re)connect you with nature and teach you all about food and health self- and inter-reliance.
Check out our holiday offers below!
*Note: any items with a price listed as $0.00 must be purchased through a link to another website or require an email for more information.
Please read thoroughly.*
Patreon Annual Subscription
With our Patreon Annual Subscription, you support the work of The WANDER School and get exclusive benefits, like:
- Access to patron-only videos and blog posts
- Tips from Abby’s Kitchen
- Herbal medicine-making tutorials
- Ability to submit questions to Abby to be answered in future videos
- 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
- A discount code to apply to Abby's upcoming classes
Choose one of three different support levels and give yourself or your loved one the gift of nature! You'll also be supporting the work our nonprofit does to get herbal medicine and botanical education to communities in need.
Find out more and choose your support level at https://www.patreon.com/thewanderschool (subscriptions must be bought there)
Botanical Property Survey
Do you want to develop a deeper relationship with the land you live on?
Schedule a personalized plant walk on your property with Botanist, Herbalist, & Forager, Abby Artemisia.
At your Botanical Property Survey, you'll learn all about the plants that grow on your property. As you reconnect with the wild, you'll be empowered with information and know-how to forage for delicious foods and turn wild herbs into medicine.
It doesn't stop there: after the survey itself, you'll get customized information in an easy-to-understand format that will help you continue enjoying the benefits of knowing your land.
There's 3 parts to your botanical property survey:
Botanical Property Survey, Part 1 - Scheduling
Just email Abby to book your botanical property survey. Ideally, you'll do a survey in 3 seasons (Spring, Summer and Fall) because new plants are growing and blossoming at different times of year. Email Abby now to schedule YOUR Botanical Property Survey.
Botanical Property Survey, Part 2 - The Walk
Abby will come to your property and spend a couple hours walking the land with you. You'll get to go for a botanical walkabout of your property with a botanist, forager, herbalist and wildcrafter with over 20 years experience teaching people how to reconnect with the land and empower themselves with the knowledge and the know-how of all things wild. The walk takes at least a couple of hours, and you will get to ask burning questions you've been dying to have answered.
Botanical Property Survey, Part 3 - The Customized Information
After the walk on your land, Abby will provide you with a spreadsheet of the edible, medicinal, and poisonous plants on your land. This spreadsheet is an easy-to-understand tool that you can continue using in seasons and years to come.
The Investment
$250 + transportation fees for the first two hours and the spreadsheet; $100 for each additional hour
Schedule your holiday botanical property survey today! You must email Abby to reserve yours, as price differs depending on length of survey and location.
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
Short Term Private Apprenticeship
If you're missing conferences and botanical education, or bummed about the lack of classes, or always wanted to study with Abby, Private Apprenticeships are the right choice for you.
Apprentices spend 1 to 3 days with Abby for hands-on education about plants. Whether your interest is botany, wildcrafting, foraging, cooking wild foods, herbalism or medicine-making, we design your days together so that you get the most out of it.
To agree on the topic(s) you are interested in learning in the private apprenticeship contact Abby.
Location
You can come to the gorgeous mountains and rivers of western North Carolina!
Or Abby can come to you, if you provide transportation fees (the government mileage rate) plus food and lodging.
The Investment
Apprenticeships are $125 per hour per person, plus materials fees for medicine making and cooking classes. Additional discounts available for multiple days and groups.