[SusDet Announce] May 18th Herb walk with Jim McDonald at Upland Hills EAC

[jim mcdonald]

Hi all...

YES!  Spring is sprung, which means classes till fall are almost
entirely out of doors, where'll we'll be able to explore the world of
herbs where they grow.  This is my first long herb walk of the season,
and I hope to see ya there....   jim
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Vernal Virtues... Michigan's Medicinal Plants
Sunday, May 18th from 11am – 6ish
$50/$40 in advance (see below for details)
***please bring along a light lunch or snack to tide you over
Graciously sponsored by Living Free FoundationSM

Herbalist Jim McDonald will be leading participants around the fields
and woods surrounding the EAC in Oxford to explore the medicinal
virtues, identification, folklore and preparation of many of the
common "weeds" we pass by every day.  The information presented will
be both specific and practical, based on Jim's fourteen years
experience in gathering, preparing, and using herbal remedies, and
provide a basis for participants to incorporate what they have learned
into practical skills with which to cultivate and sustain well being.

Participants will receive detailed handouts covering the preparation
of herbal remedies, ethical harvesting, toxicity, recommendations for
further study and, as always, new information on plants not covered in
 previous workshops, making the event fruitful for previous
participants as  well as those new to medicinal herbcraft. Some of the
plants we'll cross paths with include Dandelion, Apple, Nettle, Ground
Ivy, Plantain, Slippery  Elm & Periwinkle.

Jim McDonald has been practicing the Art of Herbcraft for over
fourteen years, and offers a knowledge of herbalism that blends
western folk and indigenous views of healing with the Vitalist
traditions of 19th century western herbalism.  He has taught classes
and workshops throughout Michigan and the Great Lakes bioregion, hosts
the website www.herbcraft.org and is currently writing "A Great Lakes
Herbal". Jim is a community herbalist, a manic wildcrafter and
medicine maker, and has been an ardent student of the most learned
teachers of herbcraft...

the plants themselves.

Please contact Jim at (248) 737-3589 or jim at herbcraft.org regarding
any questions or need of further information.  Please also visit his
website at www.herbcraft.org.

~Graciously sponsored by~
Living Free Foundation SM
&
Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center

To pre-register, send a check payable to Upland Hills EAC to:
2375 Indian Lake Rd
Oxford, MI 48370
(248) 693-1021
www.uheac.org