Intro: One commitment of Plant Healer publications and events is to provide an accessible, non-exclusive nexus and welcoming home to the existing diverse community of herb users, nature lovers, and community healers. Every issue of Plant Healer Magazine is a coming together of the wide ranging tribe, a plant-communal intercoursing and exchanging of ideas and tools, and each […]
Please Help Us Spread The Word About the 2016 TRADITIONS IN WESTERN HERBALISM CONFERENCE The Herbal Resurgence www.PlantHealer.org/intro.html ––––––––––––––––––––––– Your help is needed again getting the word out: Facebooking, putting up TWHC Posters in your area, and distributing Postcard Announcements if you have or know of an herbal-related retail business. Growing a Resurgence It is […]
Deep Discount Tickets to the 2016 Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference $100 Advance Discount – Good Until Dec. 30th Only TWHC – The Herbal Resurgence – is the annual gathering of folk herbalists and culture-makers held the 3rd week of September in a vintage lodge in enchanted forests, high atop Southern New Mexico’s sky-island. In […]
We are pleased to announce the selection of teachers and classes for our 2016 TWH conference and celebration atop New Mexico’s mind-blowing Sky-Island. It’s been harder and harder to make selections each year, as we struggle to balance our championing of new voices with our desire to bring back a core group of vital teachers that just […]
Free 300 Page Ebook for Western Herbalists Many of you will be excited to hear we’re putting together a nearly 300 pages-long color Ebook, featuring lengthy and informative Class Essays from 25 of the awesome teachers presenting this year’s Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference. The fully illustrated 2015 Class Essays Book (valued at: $29) will be […]
The journey to the upcoming Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference & Celebration is one of the most amazing drives in the American Southwest, starting in the colorful desert elevations and winding upwards through oak and piñon covered hills, dramatic rock filled canyons, and into the lush aspen and fir forests at cloud height. The plant life in […]
Excitement continues to grow for the upcoming Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference & Celebration, over 50 in-depth classes for the students and enthusiasts of herbal medicine – Sept 17th through the 20th high atop New Mexico’s picturesque Sky-Island. The Lodge is offering attendees a special discounted meals package, but these packages must be purchased in […]
CONNECTING WITH OUR HERITAGE THROUGH HERBS by Dara Saville An Excerpt from the New Plant Healer book: The Traveling Medicine Show: Pitchmen & Plant Healers of Early America Full color – 104 pages 8×11 – $24 – Order from the Bookstore Page at: www.PlantHealer.org Read the truth about the largely wonderful if oft maligned historic herb […]
THE VITAL FORCE New Science, Vitalism, & Healing by Guido Masé Guido Masé is a clinical herbalist, herbal educator, garden steward specializing in holistic Western herbalism, valued columnist for Plant Healer Magazine, and esteemed teacher at the upcoming Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference atop New Mexico’s Sky Island (click on: www.PlantHealer.org/intro.html). Guido’s teaching style is […]
Plant Healer Parents Group Forming A commitment to teaching the craft, ethos, and values of folk herbalism to kids and teens is one of the most important things we can do for our species, our planet, and our future. Asa, Lauren, and the Plant Healer Parents group are doing all they can to move this vision […]
We periodically like to profile our Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference teachers here, some of the best teachers in the herbal field today. Shana Lipner Grover was one of the popular of last year’s instructors, impressing attendees with her vast herbal knowledge and considerable experience, her passion and love for the plants, and her clear communication […]
New Conference Website, Kiva’s new Moss & Mezcal Botanica, an Updated Bookstore and Discounted Advance Tickets On Sale For The 2015 Plant Healer Event! –Discount Ends Jan. 1st– Discount Tickets for the 2015 Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference For the 6th year in a row, Plant Healer presents an incomparable event for the folk herbal […]
Announcing The Most Amazing New Conference Site: A Veritable Fairy Castle Atop a Sky Island Wildland! In the past few weeks, the two of us have spent over 300 hours painstakingly researching potential conference sites throughout the West. Finding our required combination of sufficient classrooms, comfy lodging, free camping, wilderness surroundings, and closeness to an […]
Download The October Herbaria Newsletter Special Issue – Over 80 Pages Long! The latest issue of Plant Healer’s Herbaria Newsletter is a rather crazy 82 pages long, almost triple the size of most monthly issues. Part of the reason for that is the bonus section featuring attendees’ stories of their experience at this year’s HerbFolk […]
If you were unable to attend Plant Healer’s 2014 event for any reason, you can still get a taste of its spirit and themes, while benefitting from the immense amount of information and inspiration found herein. Conventional Class Notes books consist mainly of basic outlines, whereas our event ebooks contain in-depth, full length essays on […]