Foraging & Home-Made Plant Medicine

239 Herron Cove Road,Weaverville NC 28787

26 September, 2021

Description

A workshop focused on foraging Medicinal Plants & preserving them as medicine Donation based - Sliding scale- asking $49 cash A well rounded foraging & wild crafting experience learning the practical applications for the everyday forager herbalist. We will make tincture extracts with fresh herb that we harvest, and you will take home your very own hand-made tincture. Join us as we learn how to identify wild medicinal plants & then learn how to prepare them during a hands on demonstration & wild medicine tasting. Together, we will learn the principles of wild crafting medicine, common preservation & preparation methods, identify several medicinal plants, sample various home-made medicines & make our own plant medicine extracts. We will move at a steady pace as to accommodate anyone new to the world of foraging & I am certain you will come away from this experience with valuable skills and lifelong plant allies. About Your hosts: Your guide will be Oak Mason Oak InLove is an experienced forager and wild foods teacher. He will show you what kind of plants and mushrooms are growing around you, if they are edible, what they might teach us, and how they might be connected with the bigger picture of life on this beautiful planet, Earth. A self-taught herbalist, Oak has a B.S. Agronomy from WVU, led his first plant walk in 2012 & has been teaching wild foods & medicines ever since. He completed a foraging teacher training program with Asheville based "No Taste Like Home" in 2016 and is currently availble as a naturalist for hire at his website, http://www.friendofplants.com Dress appropriately to walk and move around Bring a basket or bag & a field worthy knife FYI we have found a mushroom on every event to date but there are no guarantees that we will find mushrooms! Children are definitely welcome and encouraged! Dogs are not allowed. I suggest bringing a notepad and pencil. Having a camera/phone can help you remember what we identify on our walk. You can take photos and video of plants and we ask that you might share them on the meet-up event page. It is a good practice to get permission for photos of people. Bring water if you need it. Bring any medicine that you may need and bring ANYTHING you will need to TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. Bring your curiosity and a willingness to learn and eat new things and I'll see you there!