Press Release – Hands-On Herbal Medicine, Summer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Hands-On Herbal Medicine, Summer
Get your hands on the herbs.
Harvest and Prepare Them as Medicines Yourself, on Over 50 Beautiful Acres in Woodstock, NY
June 15 , 2008
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 summer, she 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, you will get hands-on experience identifying, harvesting, and making herbal remedies from the marvelous plants of summer, including yarrow, motherwort, yellow dock, red clover, and comfrey. You'll create teas, infusions, vinegars, and tinctures.
The lunch provided will also be a treat to local wild food fare.
A great class for beginners!!
“Hands-on Herbal Medicine” will be held at the Wise Woman Center on Sunday, June 15, 2008, 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.
Be sure to come for “Hands-On” classes earlier in the year, spring, and then again in Autumn!
To register, contact the Wise Woman Center (address and phone below) or register online at http://www.ash-tree-publishing.com/bookshop.
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.
