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Coming up at the Wise Woman Center:

JULY
July 8-11: Green Witch Holiday
July 9: Moonlodge
July 17-18: Work-exchange Weekend
July 23: Moonlodge
July 24: Talking with Plants: Medicine Wheel of Plant Uses, Doctrine of Signatures, Five Questions
July 25: More Hands-on Great Remedies: Identify, harvest, prepare and use great herbal remedies

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AUGUST
July 31 - August 1: Work-exchange Weekend
August 2-8: Green Goddess Apprentice Week
August 6: Moonlodge
August 10: Shamanic Herbal Apprentices, High-Summer Group begins
August 14-15: Work-exchange Weekend
August 20: Moonlodge
August 21: Hands-on Holy Ferment: Taste and make herbal wines, lacto-fermented sauerkraut, yogurt, and more
August 22: Adaptogens: Think better, live longer, feel great, adopt adaptogens
August 28-29: Work-exchange Weekend

See the full schedule of live, outdoor, workshops at the Wise Woman Center:
www.susunweed.com/EventsCalendar.htm

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Red Earth: The Mountain West Women's Herbal Gathering

Red Earth: The Mountain West Women's Herbal Gathering

Virtual Gathering: September 10-12, 2021

Red Earth Herbal Gathering is a sacred ceremonial container created by and for women to honor and activate our inherent life-nurturing power.

We gather together to learn from and inspire each other through ceremony, workshops, deep healing and community building.

By recognizing the beauty and power of what it is to be women doing our sacred work, our life’s calling, we step into our collective potential to support the great turning of our planet at this time.

For more info : www.redearthherbalgathering.com

 

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Green Goddess Apprentice Week

Green Goddess Apprentice Week
August 2 - 8, 2021

A one-week apprenticeship for aspiring shamanic herbalists.
My shortest apprentice opportunity. It is deep, intense, uncomfortable, and life-changing.

During your week-long Green Goddess Apprenticeship you will:
* Learn how to identify plants
* Learn how to use common plants for food and medicine
* Take part in daily talking stick ceremonies
* Learn about plant families and botany
* Make one or more herbal remedies to take home
* and so much more!

Learn more:
www.susunweed.com/greengoddess.htm

 

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Wise Woman Center

Learn in person with Susun at the Wise Woman Center.

First workshops of the year coming in April. Register now!

April 6: Shamanic Herbal Apprentices, Early Spring Group begins

April 10-11: Work-exchange Weekend

April 23: Moonlodge

April 24: Hands-on Spring Tonics: Make nettle soup and a wild salad; find brassicas, alliums, sweet birch

April 25: Woodland Wonders: Meet ramps, coptis, dwarf ginseng, bloodroot, hepatica.

See Full schedule:
www.susunweed.com/EventsCalendar.htm

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Last day for Wise Woman School Discount

LEARN YOUR WAY.

No time limit, no pressure.
Give the gift of simple, safe, effective herbal medicine to yourself and to those you cherish.
Our gift to you is 20 percent off all Susun's online courses for a limited time.

Use coupon code: HOLIDAY20
www.wisewomanschool.com

Offer valid until until Dec 10th 11:55pm Eastern.

Autumn at the Wise Woman Center

Autumn events at the Wise Woman Center:

OCTOBER

October 3-4: Work-exchange Weekend

October 9: Moonlodge
October 10: Hands-on Magical Plants: Visionary herbs, dream pillows, flying oils, love potions
October 11: Fend Off Winter Woes: Prevent and treat colds, flus, coughs, fevers
October 24-25: Work-exchange Weekend

 

NOVEMBER

November 6: Moonlodge
November 7-8: Work-exchange Weekend

 

DECEMBER

December 5-6 : Work-exchange Weekend

 

More info here:
http://susunweed.com/Wise-Woman-Center.htm

 

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Garlic Mustard Root Vinegar

Garlic Mustard Root Vinegar

Find some garlic mustard and sit with it. Tell it you are going to harvest it. 

Acknowledge that you are giving death to the plants. Dig up as many roots as you wish.

Soak the whole plant in cold water to loosen the dirt, then rinse.

Cut off the larger leaves, but keep the smaller purplish leaves and all petioles; chop.

Fill a glass or plastic jar with your chopped herb and then fill it to the top with apple cider vinegar.

Close with a non-metallic lid and label with the contents and date. Very shortly the red coloration will be visible in the center of the roots.

Within four hours the red coloration and the taste have moved out of the roots into the vinegar.

You can start using your Garlic Mustard Root Vinegar immediately on salads or stirred into water and taken to relieve sinus congestion.

Yes, it does get better and stronger if you let it sit longer, but go ahead and use it now. Wow!

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Learn how to be happy, healthy, and empowered.
No testing, no effort, just watch, listen and learn.

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Work-exchange

Work-exchange!

This weekend, newly added days!

August 22-23: Work-exchange Weekend!

More info and full 2020 schedule here:
Events Calendar

 

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Peoples medicine

You may lose your job and your health insurance, but the medicines of the earth will never abandon you. Green blessings are always waiting for us to recognize them and utilize them. Look at my course offerings, and you’ll see an interesting change over the past five years. I used to offer one class a year called “Hands-On Herbal Medicine,” where we made infusions, tinctures, vinegars, ointments, and herbal honeys. Now, almost a third of my classes are Hands-On classes. I see how much confidence my students gain when we go out together to identify, pick, prepare and use the plants that grow around them. We make salads and soups; we dry herbs; we get our hands on the plants and listen to them.

Herbal medicine is people’s medicine. It always has been, and always will be. The World Health Organization says that 90 percent of all heath care is done by women in their own homes using simple herbal remedies. Many modern westernized cultures rely on drugs and are suspicious of herbal medicines. While drugs and surgery can be miraculous, I don’t think anyone would disagree that they are overused.

It bothers me when people said that I do “alternative” medicine. Herbs are not alternative; they are traditional. Herbal medicine is traditional medicine. Simple herbal remedies are safe and effective primary medicines and excellent complementary medicines when we must choose drugs or surgery.

 

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Easy Online Courses!
Join Susun Weed with her new easy video based courses.
Learn how to be happy, healthy, and empowered.
No testing, no effort, just watch, listen and learn.

Click for more information.

Pacific NW Herbal Symposium

Susun is teaching at the Pacific NW Herbal Symposium.
August 22-25: Whidbey Is, WA

For more info and to register:
www.nwherbsymposium.com