From Seed to Herbal Medicine: A Year’s Journey to the Heart of What Really Matters  (February 13, 2018, Warm Springs Library)

*** Information provided below is for educational purposes only. Consult with your medical provider and/or a licensed herbalist before embarking on a journey with herbs. Use of particular prescription drugs and/or the presence of specific medical contraindicate(s) the use of specific herbs.  Merrily A. Kuhn & David Winston’s Herbal Therapy & Supplements, A Scientific and Traditional Approach is my primary “go-to” when looking for contraindications with herbs.

Sample Herbal Medicine URLs introducing topics in our talk

• Rosemary Gladstar is a favorite of ours, whether you’re with her in person or watching via YouTube and links to her website ( sagemountain.com ), you’re in for a treat! Laughter and learning rolled into one!

 

Rosemary Gladstar: Fire Cider Remedy

 

 

Deb Soule: an Avenabotanical video – Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

 

 

Rosemary Gladstar’s Garden Wisdom: Yarrow

 

 

Susan Weed: Dandelion Medicine

 

Morag Gamble: Our Permaculture Life – Calendula

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w46LHwBz4_4

 

Morag Gamble: Make Calendula Flower Oil: for skin care, healing & eating

Morag Gamble: Make Simple Calendula Salve

 

Conservation/Preservation:

• Certified Botanical Sanctuary (United Plant Savers),
• Certified Wildlife habitat and Advanced Certified Bird-Friendly habitat (National Wildlife Federation),
• Certified Pollinator Habitat (Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation),
• Certified Bee Friendly Farm  (Pollinator Partnership).

Seed Catalogs:

• Southern Exposure Seed Exchange,
• Territorial Seed Company,
• Johnny’s Selected Seeds,
• Strictly Medicinal Seeds,
• Prairie Nursery

Where we get our tree seedlings:

• Virginia Department of Forestry Nursery,
• Stark Brothers

Books that have influenced our thinking:
(listed in order to go along with our presentation)

How did we get here?

• The Dynamic Laws of Healing. Catherine Ponder. 1972. DeVorss & Company
• The Oversoul Seven Trilogy. Jane Roberts. 1973. Hay House, Inc.
• The Search for the Girl with the Blue Eyes: A Venture Into Reincarnation. Jess Stearn. 1968.
• Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet. Jess Stearn. 1967. Doubleday.
• Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives. Brian Weiss. 1988. Simon & Schuster.
• No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior’s Guide to Daily Life. Dan Millman. 1992. H.J. Kramer, Inc.
• The Magic of Findhorn. Paul Hawken. 1976. Bantam Books.

 

• Permaculture: A Spiritual Approach. Craig Gibsone and Jan Martin Bang.  2015. Findhorn Press. Findhorn, Scotland.
• A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River. Aldo Leopold. 1949. Oxford University Press.
• The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming. Masanobu Fukuoka. 1978. Rodale Press.
• Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture. Ellen F. Davis. 2008. Cambridge University Press.
• Agriculture: Spiritual Foundations for the Renewal of Agriculture.  Rudolf Steiner. 1993. Biodynamic Farming & Gardening Association
• Earthdance: Living Systems in Evolution by Elisabet Sahtouris. 2000. iUniverse.
• Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. James Lovelock. 1979. Oxford University Press.

 

Winter: Research

• An Agricultural Testament.  Albert Howard. 1943. Oxford University Press.
• Self-Reliance.  Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1841.
• Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. Toby Hemenway. 2^nd Edition. 2009. Chelsea Green Publishing Company.
• Restoration Agriculture: Real-world Permaculture for Farmers. Mark Shepard. 2013. Acres U.S.A.

 

Spring:

• My Work Is That of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver. Mark D. Hersey. 2011. The University of Georgia Press.

 

Summer: Caring

• The Holistic Orchard: Trees, Fruits and Berries the Biological Way. Michael Phillips. 2011. Chelsea Green Publishing Company.
• Bringing Nature Home.  Douglas W. Tallamy. 2009. Timber Press.
• Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality. Alan Watts. 1970. Pantheon Books.
• Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration. Tao Orion. 2015. Chelsea Green Publishing.
• The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature’s Salvation. Fred Pearce. 2016. Beacon Press. 

 Fall: Harvesting and Makin’ Medicine

 

 

Rethinking reason and the things I learned in college

• Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West.  By John Ralston Saul. 1992. The Free Press, Maxwell Macmillan International, New York, New York.
• The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth. Stephen Harrod Buhner. 2002. Chelsea Green Publishing.
• Sacred Plant Medicine: The Wisdom in Native American Herbalism. Stephen Harrod Buhner. 1996. Roberts Rinhart.
• The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Direct Perception of Nature. Stephen Harrod Buhner. 2004. Bear and Company, Rochester, Vermont.

 

Additional Websites:

aldoleopold.org