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Living the Experience: Herbalism, Wild Nutrition & Forest Gardening 7-Day Intensive

Living the Experience

Overview The Flow Registration Overview “Something new is happening, a new vision, a new energy, a new sacred story is coming into being in the transition from one era to another.” ~Thomas Berry July 5 – 12, 2020 This 7-Day experiential intensive informs and engages you in the energetic and nutritional elements of herbalism, wild nutrition and forest gardening, to expand your awareness of the plant world through ecologically sustainable practices. Cultivating a human relationship with the plant kingdom and their cycles, from the garden to plate, is ancient and essential if we are to fully understand how to participate in regenerative food systems that support both our personal health and the health of the Earth. This week-long intensive invites you to deepen into a truly human intimacy with the natural world. Discover the diverse relationships you have with plants through plant medicine, wild nutrition, forest gardening, earth stewardship, edible plant foraging, herbal skills, eco-spiritual connection and nature immersion. The goal of this program is to cultivate an authentic, dedicated, growing herbal community of passionate leaders who hold a vision of a future that is ecologically resilient, socially just, and spiritually fulfilling for all beings. Meet the plants where they live and discover … Read more

The Family/Community Herbalist: The Art of Medicine-Making

September 9 & 10, 2023 Discovery of the many facets of herbalism by focusing on the essential applications of using medicinal plants. We will learn from the plants that grow in our medicine wheel herb garden or the wildflower meadows and forest gardens. We will look at the healing plants from numerous angles, including botanical, therapeutic, energetic, historical and the sacred. Each day will include hands-on medicinal preparations such as salves, oils and extracts. We will also discuss medicinal plant cultivation: seed gathering, harvesting, drying, preserving and ethical gardening. Includes samples of extracts and medicines made in class. This training promises to be a unique and intimate herbal experience! Why buy herbal products when making your own is so simple and empowering? Some of the possible topics: Plant Identification Foraging, Harvesting, Preserving Herb Drying & Storage Oil Infusions & Salve Making Choosing your Menstruum: alcohol, vinegar, glycerin Dry & Fresh Plant Tinctures Fresh Juice Extracts Making Your Own Herbal Remedies The Art of Formulating Herbal Medicine Medicine-Making from the simple to the complex Herbal First-Aid Solutions Case Studies “Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favour … Read more

Create Your Own Future! A Permaculture Solution Weekend

Permaculture Foundations

Permaculture offers visionary and practical solutions for personal, environmental and social change. April 15 & 16 Are you seeking the tools and confidence to actually do something about what’s happening in the world? If so, we are here to support you. Imagine a life where you are completely lit up by your desire to be in service to creating a more beautiful world. You feel confident in how you will contribute and secure your skills and knowledge to create and share your dreams with others.  Permaculture integrates the best of ancient knowledge, sustainable technologies and disciplines to help us design ecologically sound, efficient and productive ways to live in our households, gardens, communities and businesses. Based on the principles of ecology and sustainability, this design system can be used to create landscapes that mimic nature’s patterns and yield an abundance of food, fibre and energy for all our needs. Permaculture can be used by anyone, anywhere. An invaluable tool for homeowners, farmers, urban and rural gardeners, educators, landscapers,  foresters, neighbourhood organizers and anyone interested in sustainable living.  Permaculture is creative, imaginative, productive and mostly – fun. We invite you to join a life-enhancing revolution and be part of building the … Read more

Wild Plant Permaculture & Rewilding Practicum (PDC)

Overview Objective & Process Schedule Registration Overview Rewilding Design System – Understanding the Language of Nature June 18 – November 15, 2020 16  Week Evening Series plus Two Weekends Learn to transform degraded woodlands and thickets into healthy, biodiverse, productive native plant habitats through hands-on, ecologically sound techniques. This part-time program is equally suited for the professional and the layperson, for landowners and land stewards, activists, naturalists, outdoor enthusiasts and native plant lovers. We begin with the permaculture foundations and then dive in deeper to understand how wild plants embody permaculture and cooperate to enhance the environment for the benefit of all. You will experience hands-on projects and expand your understanding of forest garden design through explorations of ecological practices. The wild wisdom of nature will be your inspiration while we re-design our own rhythmic patterns and participate more powerfully in a regenerative transformation of the world. What’s Rewilding?  Rewilding is a process that nurtures resources, ecosystems, and communities back to health by reversing the devastating effects of industrial civilization. The modern person’s ability to intuit and discern the deep patterns and communications of the Earth have atrophied slowly over several thousand years of belief in human separation from and … Read more

The Sevenfold Path Residential Apprenticeship Program

Overview Testimonials Registration Details Overview Apprenticeship Dates: August 11 – 20, 2023 & August 11 – 30, 2023 Experience one of the most comprehensive eco-spiritual vegan Permaculture lifestyles in Canada.  Each year we welcome six enthusiastic individuals to this program. As systems that we have counted on for decades continue to crumble it opens space for new ways of living to emerge that will support the integrity of all life. This Apprenticeship program offers time-tested skills, knowledge, and perspectives from ancient and modern roots that open the way to a more regenerative future for yourself and the Earth. This hands-on experience unlocks skills and potential, passions and insights applicable in regenerating your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual life. A Sevenfold Path Peace-Walker is a potent catalyst for change and has a deep desire to be part of the global transition we are in the midst of. The world needs people who choose to embrace the invitation to be emissaries of conscious evolution. Pioneering souls who can ‘live the solution’ in all areas of their lives. Supported by a progressive educational model and a group of kindred spirits who are committed to living life on the same level as you are, … Read more

Four-Season Permaculture: If You Can Dream It, You Can Create It

Overview Our Approach Course Options Why Permaculture Registration Details Testimonials Overview   April 15 to October 22, 2023  Are you seeking the tools and confidence to do something about what’s happening in the world? If so, we are here to support you. Imagine a life where you are entirely lit up by your desire to be in service to creating a more beautiful world. You feel confident in how you will contribute and secure your skills and knowledge to create and share your dreams with others.  Why We Do What We Do We believe that if everyone knew even a little about how Permaculture works, the degree of global change would be incredible.  If you can’t already tell, we are passionate about Permaculture. Nature Works! and has proven that for millennia. Drawing on the principles of nature, Permaculture takes us through a step-by-step process to create the future Now! A 7-Month Dive Awaken your connection with the Earth and learn the practical skills required for humans to stay here on planet Earth. This is a 7-month dive into how to change your life and the world. All you need is guidance from those who have walked this path before. You … Read more

The Local Wild Living Design: Foundational Workshop

Local Wild Living Design

Living Seed – Living Soil – Living Foods Foundational Workshop for All Herbalism, Nutritional Herbalism, Forest Gardening & Energetic Medicine Mentorships March 3- 4, 2024 This workshop explores and integrates edible and medicinal plants, local living nutrition, permaculture fundamentals, wholistic health, and herbalism principles. By bridging the gap between Earth’s living soil and the soil of our bodies, the results will enhance y our well-being. Bring wild foods into your daily diet and sprouts to create delicious live-food meals through practical application. You will learn the benefits of making cultured and fermented recipes and ancient detoxification techniques for enhancing well-being. Integrating herbal healing modalities and encompassing excellent earth-centred skills into daily life will create a deep connection. Wild Nutrition Native Edibles & Medicinal Plants Herbal Wisdom The Art of Sprouting Our Inner & Outer Biology Fermented Condiments & Cultured Foods Nature’s Permaculture Plants “We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest in exploring and learning all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable. Land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because they are unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” ~Henry David Thoreau Through a combination of … Read more

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