Press Release
Hands-On Herbal Medicine, Autumn
August 30, 2009
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 and a spokesperson for the Wise Woman Tradition. Here she teaches people who come from far places to apprentice or just take a one-day class on plants, health and women’s empowerment!
This fall, Susun will be leading her annual class on how to prepare herbal medicines yourself. Long-time teacher 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.
If joining this class, get ready to dig roots and make antioxidant honeys. Join Susun 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.
The lunch provided will also be a treat to local wild food fare.
A great class for beginners!!
“Hands-on Herbal Medicine, Autumn” will be held at the Wise Woman Center on Sunday, September 30, 2009, from 10am-5pm. Open to men and women. You'll be outside among the plants with Susun and the goats, learning to identify, harvest, and use local plants for food and medicine. Fee: $75, includes lunch with a wild salad.
To register, contact the Wise Woman Center (address and phone below) or register online at http://www.ashtreepublishing.com.
Be sure to check out Susun’s other “Hands-On” classes held this year, Spring, Early Summer, Late Summer, and Winter!
Vibrant, passionate, and involved, Susun Weed has garnered 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. Susun is one of America's best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to women's health. Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world.
Learn more at www.herbshealing.com or contact the Wise Woman Center at PO Box 64, Woodstock, NY 12498; 845-246-8081, Wednesdays, 11am-4pm Eastern time.
