Herbal medicine and food workshop with Susun Weed!

The Peaceful Gardener
A hands-on herbal medicine and food workshop
with Susun Weed
July 17,18, 19th 2009,
at Pollination Project, Baker Settlement, NS

Acclaimed herbalist, author, homesteader and organic gardener, Susun Weed will be making her first teaching visit to Nova Scotia to share her wisdom, knowledge and humour in a workshop that is guaranteed to change forever how you relate to plants. Over the course of the weekend you will come to appreciate the numerous gifts bestowed upon us in the form of the same weeds we would normally consider as useless and unwelcome companions in the garden.

The weekend opens with a meditation on Friday afternoon that will connect you deeply to the earth and plants. Our talking stick ceremony will help clarify goals and needs and attune us to the gifts of our “green allies” Over the next two days, we will learn to identify edible and medicinal plants, pick wild salads, make salves, tinctures and teas to heal and nourish, and learn how weeds serve to indicate soil conditions, heal gardens, and relate to other cultivated plants. With story, song and her encyclopedic knowledge of plant lore, Susun will delight us in the journey to becoming a Peaceful Gardener so that we may all count our green blessings.

Bio: Susun S. Weed is the author of four highly-acclaimed books on herbs and women’s health: Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year, Healing Wise, New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way and Breast Cancer? Breast Health! the Wise Woman Way. Ms. Weed lectures world-wide on women’s health and herbal medicine. From her home in New York State’s Catskill Mountains, she directs the activities of the Wise Woman Centre, acts as editor-in-chief of Ash Tree Publishing, personally oversees the work of 400 correspondence students, and trains herbal and shamanic apprentices. Susun has lived the simple life for nearly 40 years as an herbalist, goat-keeper, homesteader and feminist. She has been called “a true radical … deeply rooted” “a modern pioneer” and “one of the founding mothers of herbal medicine in the United States.”

For more information: Camelia Frieberg (902) 624-1979
camelia@pollinationproject.org / www.pollinationproject.org