Press Release
Hands-on Herbal Medicine
- Early Autumn
September 19, 2010
Woodstock, NY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Get Your Hands on the Herbs. Harvest and Prepare Them as Medicines Yourself, on Over 50 Beautiful Acres in Woodstock, NY
The Wise Woman Center in Woodstock, NY is home to a great variety of plant life. It is also home to Susun Weed, world-renowned herbalist and author, spokesperson for the Wise Woman Tradition. Here she teaches people who come to her from all over the world to apprentice for several weeks or just to take a one-day class on plants, health and women’s empowerment.
Early this autumn she will be leading her annual class on how to prepare seasonal herbal medicines. Long-time supporter of empowering our health choices by harvesting plants local to us, Susun also prefers to teach us to take charge of our health by preparing our own remedies and wild foods.
Early autumn is time to dig roots and make antioxidant honeys. Join Susun at her home at the Wise Woman Center for a full day of identification, harvesting, preparing, and using the wild foods (including mushrooms) and medicines that grow all around us. Be prepared to get your hands dirty. You’ll create teas, infusions, vinegars, and tinctures. This class is great for beginners. The lunch provided will be a treat to those who love local wild foods.
“Hands-on Herbal Medicine/Early Autumn” will be held at the Wise Woman Center on September 19, 2010, from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. The cost is $75. Class includes a delicious wild foods lunch.
To register, contact the Wise Woman Center (address and phone below) or register online at www.wisewomanbookshop.com.
Weather permitting the class leaves promptly at 10:15 a.m. for a talking stick ceremony and a weed walk in the woods with the goats. You will have lots of time to learn to identify and talk about plants and ask questions. When the goats take a break, you will prepare and enjoy a wild food lunch. Class size is small to allow personal attention. Class held indoors in case of rain.
Vibrant, passionate, and involved, Susun Weed has an international reputation for her groundbreaking lectures, teachings, and writings on health and nutrition. She challenges conventional medical approaches with humor, insight, and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine. Unabashedly pro-woman, her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly provocative.
Visit http://www.wise-woman-center.com to find out more about the 2010 schedule of events, work exchange weekends, moonlodges, and much more! If you prefer, you can send a letter to PO Box 64, Woodstock, NY 12498, or call us on Wednesdays between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Eastern Time at 845-246-8081.
