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To Help You Reconnect to the Wild at Home
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 Discovery Session
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 plant walk 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 Discovery Session, 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 Discovery Session 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 Discovery Session 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 DISCOVERY SESSIONS 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 Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders
When you’re a homesteader, you face many challenges: from a simple cold, to an earache in your child, fleas on the dog, or worms in your goat. Medicines and treatments are never cheap, and are often vague. Wouldn't it be great to grow, forage, and create natural remedies yourself? Look no further than The Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders!
The Wild Foraged Life eCookbook
Don't miss out on this widely anticipated foraged e-Cookbook presented by The WANDER School.
Over 40 pages of wild foraged recipes from Abby's famed kitchen are now yours to enjoy!!!
This book of time-tested recipes from wildcrafter and professional forager, botanist, and herbalist Abby Artemisia includes:
- Tasty seasonings and condiments to sprinkle and drizzle on every meal
- Delicious beverages to sip on and savor
- Incredible entrees to nourish and delight
- Versatile side dishes to add pizzazz and nutrition
- and Delectable desserts, because dessert is a non-negotiable these days
You seriously want to add this e-book to your collection, so that you can serve up some foraged decadence everyday.
BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!!
An expanded version of this e-cookbook featuring extra exclusive content is also available as a thank you gift for patrons who support The WANDER School on Patreon at $10/month or more.
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 Abby’s classes
- Bonus clips from the Wander, Forage & Wildcraft podcast and Abby’s videos
- Foraged recipe tutorials not available anywhere else
- Recordings of Abby's monthly Book Club
- ....And of course...a copy of The Wild Foraged Life, Abby's widely anticipated e-cookbook.
Become a Patron here to get your expanded e-cookbook featuring 6 Patron-only exclusives for just $10/month. Your support helps us continue inspiring nature connection and health empowerment in a way that’s accessible to everyone despite background, experience, location, or financial status.
Get cooking with the NEW e-Cookbook!!!
Over 40 pages of wild foraged recipes can be yours to enjoy!!!
My First Book: The Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders
Handmade Appalachian Wildcrafted Products
Join Abby's Upcoming Classes and Events
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 Discovery Session
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 plant walk 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 Discovery Session, 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 Discovery Session 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 Discovery Session 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 DISCOVERY SESSIONS 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
Wild Edible & Herb Walk (Sarasota, FL)
Thursday, March 11th • 4:00 PM
Arlington Park, Sarasota
Let's stroll through the park, learning to see what we usually miss. It's easy to overlook food and medicine hiding in plain sight. We'll learn how to identify, harvest, and preserve a variety of wild plants.
Pre-registration required by 3/9.
Abby will have her book, The Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders, for sale after the walk, along with Appalchian wildcrafted herbal products.
Temples Farm Foraging and Herb Walk (Metter, GA)
Saturday, February 27th • 2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Temples Farm
$40 (includes foraging class, tea tasting, Yaupon Teahouse gift bag)
Meet at Temples Farm in Metter, Georgia
Join us on February 27th for a foraging adventure into the wild lands of Yaupon Teahouse’s farm located in Metter, GA. Botanist and Herbalist, Abby Artemisia, will lead you on a plant forage to learn what wild foods and herbs surround us in the forest, how to safely identify, ethically harvest, and methods of preserving and cooking them.
Enjoy and learn the benefits and ancient wellness of the yaupon plant with a tea tasting by Yaupon Teahouse co-owners, Lou and Lori.
Each attendee will receive a gift bag with a box of organic Yaupon Tea and a wellness herbal blend by Lori.
Bring your questions, field guides, notebook and cameras, along with hiking boots, water bottle and snacks.
AFTER CLASS...
Abby will also have her book, The Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders: Farmed & Foraged Herbal Remedies and Recipes (for any urban or rural home/stead) for sale after the walk. Bring cash or check, if possible (as internet for card reader may be limited.
Early Spring Herb Walk (Atlanta, GA)
Sunday, March 14 • 3:00 PM
Henderson Park, Tucker, GA
$30
Join Botanist, Herbalist, & Forager Abby Artemisia for a stroll through the park to discover how to identify common local wild herbs. Tips for sustainably harvesting, processing, and storing will be included.
Space is limited, register now.
Bring your questions, field guides, notebook and cameras, along with hiking boots, water bottle and snacks.
AFTER CLASS...
Abby will also have her book, The Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders: Farmed & Foraged Herbal Remedies and Recipes (for any urban or rural home/stead), and Appalachian wildcrfted herbal products for sale after the walk. Bring cash, check, or card.
Antiviral Herbal Learning Day (Ft Myers, FL)
Sunday, March 7 • 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
1643 N Flossmoor Rd, Ft. Myers, FL
$40 + $5 materials fee
Join us for this unique opportunity to learn from THREE botanical educators and lovers!
We'll go deep and learn several herbs up-close and personal. Then we'll get to make two herbal remedies, a tincture and an herbal burn stick (to clear the air of viruses and energy).
There will be lunch break in the middle of the day, so remember to bring your own food.
Space is very limited. Register now.
AFTER CLASS...
Herbal products and Abby's book, The Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders, will be available for purchase after the class.
Wild Edibles & Herbs of Spring
Saturday, April 24 • 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Camp Celo, Burnsville, NC
Sliding Scale $45-95
Pre-registration required
Wander the incredibly biodiverse fields and forest of Camp Celo in Burnsville, NC, with Botanist, Herbalist, and Forager, Abby Artemisia. The land is very flat and accessible.
You'll learn how to identify wild edibles and herbs of Spring, along with how to process and preserve them.
Abby will also have her book, The Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders, and her Appalachian herbal wildcrafted products for sale.
