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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.
The Wild Foraged Life Cookbook - print version
Over 50 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 digital version of this 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
Fall First Aid & Wild Food Plant Walk (Burnsville, NC)
Saturday, September 18 • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
(Rain Date Sunday, September 19)
High Pastures Retreat Center, Burnsville, NC
Sliding Scale $45-95
Pre-registration required
*Though the walk is at a Christian Retreat Center, The WANDER School and the event aren't affiliated with any religion.
As the leaves start to fall, it's the perfect time to prepare our herbal medicine cabinets and pantries for winter. Be like a squirrel & stock up! Walk the woods and open wild places at a beautiful nature Sanctuary while you learn from Botanist, Herbalist, & Forager, Abby Artemisia, what grows near you to gather for better health this winter!
You'll learn how to identify wild edibles and herbs, 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.
Root Yourself: Fall Plant Walk Immersion Series (Asheville, NC area)
Every Thursday in October • 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
(Rain Date Thursday, November 4)
Walk Locations within an hour of Asheville, NC
Sliding Scale $200-300
Pre-registration required
In the fall season, the energy of the plants returns to the roots.
Sink your Roots into
Wild Appalachia,
Dig Deeper
into Botanical Knowledge
Join us on 4 weekly plant walks (within an hour of Asheville, North Carolina) to gather together and empower ourselves with wild edible & herbal plant knowledge.
We'll have time to sit with the plants to form deeper connections, fostering recognition and comfort.
Seeing them each week will reinforce the plants in our brains, on a journey of lifelong knowing.
What you'll experience will include (but not be limited to):
- Connecting with the plants through hands-on experience using multiple senses
- Learning basic botany knowledge
- Drawing the plants (no artistic skill needed) to observe them more deeply
- Creating community with other botanical learners
- Learning foraging and wildcrafting skills for self, family, and community reliance
Sliding Scale options $200-$300 for accessibility. Please pay what you can to support the non-profit work and scholarships. Ask about work trade and scholarship options.
We'll meet in various weather unless it's a torrential downpour or dangerous conditions.
Preserving the Harvest - Bigwitch Indian Cooperative (Whittier, NC)
Sunday, October 3 • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Whittier, NC
Sliding Scale $130-200
Pre-registration required
In this, the first of a 3 class fall series in Whittier, North Carolina, we'll learn how to prepare and preserve the harvest, from the garden and the wild. We’ll learn foraging, canning, fermenting, drying, cooking, and medicine making techniques, including wild mushrooms.
Learn from Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians tribal members along with Botanist & Herbalist, Abby Artemisia.
Lunch will be served with traditional Cherokee/wild foods, and some lodging options are available.
Email for work trade and scholarship options as needed and available.
Roots + Nuts = Herbs & Food - Bigwitch Indian Cooperative (Whittier, NC)
Sunday, October 17 • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Whittier, NC
Sliding Scale $130-200
Pre-registration required
In the last of the 3 class fall series in Whittier, NC, we'll look at gathering the products of the wild harvest. As the energy of the trees and plants goes all the way back to the roots, the time is right for harvesting to make tonifying medicines and nourishing foods. While abundant nuts provide food in different forms.
Some of the plants we'll be meeting and working with include burdock, sassafras, chestnut, black walnut, and hickory. Wild mushrooms will also be included!
Learn from Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians tribal members along with Botanist & Herbalist, Abby Artemisia.
Lunch will be served with traditional Cherokee/wild foods, and some lodging options are available.
Email for work trade and scholarship options as needed and available.
Bark, Twig, & Branch Medicine - Bigwitch Indian Cooperative (Whittier, NC)
Sunday, October 10 • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Whittier, NC
Sliding Scale $130-200
Pre-registration required
In the 2nd of the 3 class fall series in Whittier, NC, we'll look at preparing for the winter and various ailments that come along with it. This is a perfect time for making tree medicine, as the temperatures drop and the energy of the trees travels downward.
Some trees we'll learn and make medicine from include spicebush, sassafras, wild cherry, birch, willow, and witch hazel, along with some dried leaves and wild mushrooms.
Learn from Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians tribal members along with Botanist & Herbalist, Abby Artemisia.
Lunch will be served with traditional Cherokee/wild foods, and some lodging options are available (in dropdown menu).
Email for work trade and scholarship options as needed and available.
Foraging Wild Spices Masterclass
Get 26 modules all about how to forage safely and ethically, what to forage when, and how to make declious spice blends, all from a Professional Forager!
Check out the free chapter preview and get yours today at Anchored Outdoors. (The class can only be bought on that website.)
