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Richard Walker Food Forestry Level 2: "Medicine from the Food Forest"
Do you know how to reduce inflammation without IB Profin?
What are 3 plants that can help produce a deep and restful sleep?
If the pharmacies closed shop tomorrow how many of your health needs could you provide for?
As the inuit saying goes, "Wealth is every increasing understanding of the natural world." Being able to identify, process and store medicine from our native and established food forests is an essential skill living in 2014. With a food system AND a heath care system (let's be honest it's more of a sick care system) that's a fragile system in and of itself, it's smart living to have a back up pharmacy in your head and in your local ecology.
Richard Walker is a Master Herbalist and Food Forester. Not a common combination. With over 30 years of experience in each Richard has boiled down the excess to a concentrated essence of what to do and what not to do when it comes to connecting with the plants and fungi around us for our own personal resilience.
I think you'll like this course if:
- you are looking to be taught by a man who has several times been in standing Qi Gong mediation and had several chickadees alight upon him (yup, he's a Canadian Snow White).
- you're interested in knowing the simplest way to use and store medicine from the garden in the forms of tincture, salve, infusions, oils and much more.
- you have an interest in plants and the wisdom they provides.
- you're looking for 2 months of herbalism condensed into two and half days, separating excess into essence.
- you love learning with like minded people.
- you want to add to your herbalism knowledge from some one who's made many of the big and small mistakes over his 30 years of experience.
- you want to understand the full process of medicine making, from "tree to tincture".
If you said yes to any of the above, chances are you're going to enjoy learning from Richard for a weekend of herbalism, education, failures and successes and getting to the core of what it takes to make exceptional medicine from the garden, farm and forest.
Ready to learn about the nuts and bolts of this workshop? Read on
When:
Friday May 23 2014, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Saturday May 24 & Sunday May 25 2014, 9:00am - 5:00 pm (both days)
Where:
Fernwood Community Centre
1240 Gladstone Avenue,
Victoria, BC V8T 1G6
Free parking is available on both sides of the street in front of the community centre. There is also free parking on Pembroke St on the side next to William Stevenson Park. There are a couple parking lots on Gladstone Avenue that are connected to Victoria High School. These may be free in the evening and could also be used.
Costs:
Early Early Bird (gets twice as many worms!)
$245 + GST March 26 - April 16, 2014
Early Bird (really does get the worm...)
$265 + GST April 17 - April 30, 2014
Regular
$285 + GST May 1 - May 23, 2014
**There is a $85+GST non-refundable portion of each registration fee
Pre-requisites:
Richard is adamant that anyone can approach food forestry, and he's said the same thing for herbalism. That said, students wishing to be prepared for this course, and build on the knowledge the course brings are asked to read one of the following three books before the course starts. The three books below are some of the best introductory material in the field. Chose one of them and have it read, highlights, dog eared and enjoyed for the beginning of the course to achieve the maximum benefit from this two day intensive.
"Planetary herbology* by Michael Tierra
"Healing with Chines herbs " by Leslie Tierra
"Herbs for longevity and well being" by Rosemary Gladstar
Course Schedule:
Evening Intro - May 23 2014 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Your Forest Medicine Cabinet: Introduction to Herbalism
Day 1 - May 24 2014 - 9:00am - 5:00pm
The unfolding history of herbal use in Asia, Europe, North and South America and the Eclectics:
Chinese medicine: Five element theory, diet, breath and exercise Chi Gung and Tai Chi ( experiential break )
Ayurvedic Principles
Western herbalism
Indigenous medicine
The Electics and the birth of allopathy
The fine art of herbal tea preparation ( experiential )
Day 2 - May 25 2014 - 9:00am - 5:00 pm
Herbal classification
Herbal identification
Herbals and lab safety (quality control and safe manufacturing practice )
Herbal constituent extraction and preservation
Making a herbal tincture (demonstration)
Herbalist diagnosing Pitfalls and Difficulties
Making a herbal salve
The making of a home herbal emergency kit
Normally I would wax on poetically and humorously about all the reasons why it's a heck of a good idea to take Richard's course but I'll end with a short story.
Richard was approached by an airline pilot from a major airline company. It turns out that his eye sight has degraded past the acceptable limits for the company. Through Richard's help and tincture the pilot's eye sight arrested its decline, improved to acceptable standards (and get this) actually got better.
I think you will enjoy, learn and be very glad you took this course.
I hope to see you in class.
Be Fruitful and Mulch Apply,
Javan "I Love Spilanthes Tincture" Bernakevitch
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LocationFernwood Community Centre (View)
1240 Gladstone Avenue
Victoria, BC V8T 1G6
Canada
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