evening herb walks
at Seven Ponds Nature Center
in dryden, michigan

 

with herbalist jim mcdonald

 

 

Most of the herb walks I do are daylong affairs, often on weekends.  I understand that this makes coming difficult for some people due to work or family schedules.  Enter the evening herb walk series.  This spring, summer and fall, join me and spend a few hours looking at plants in at Seven Ponds Nature Center in Dryden, MI...

On our walk we'll be wandering around the lawns, fields and woods of Seven Ponds to explore the medicinal virtues, identification, folklore and preparation of many of the common "weeds" and wildflowers we pass by every day. The information presented will be both specific and practical, based on jim's twenty plus years experience in gathering, preparing, and using herbal remedies, and provide a basis for participants to incorporate what they have learned into usable skills with which to maintain and restore health.
 

At each walk we'll look at the herbs that are in their prime at the moment, which will vary from season to season.  Please note that evening herb walks (especially in the fall) sometimes flirt with darkness, so bring along a flashlight to keep you illuminated... we also have the beautiful nature center available to us.

 

spring

...Wednesday, June 1st at Seven Ponds Nature Center in DRYDEN

 

summer

...Wednesday, August 3rd at Seven Ponds Nature Center in DRYDEN

 

fall

...Wednesday, Sept 28th at Seven Ponds Nature Center in DRYDEN


Walks will run from 6pm to 8:30ish.  I offer walks rain or shine; please have clothes to keep you dry if there's any chance of rain.  Seven Ponds, of course, has a beautiful indoor space we can be covered up by if rain is heavy.

 

location...

Click here for directions to Seven Ponds Nature Center.  If you're already a plant person, allow extra time to stop numerous times to check all all the cool plants growing along the roads out there.

 

cost...
Each walk is $30, and includes extensive handouts on ethical wildcrafting, medicine making, and some of the plants discussed.

 

to register...
To register for any of these walks, please contact Seven Ponds Nature Center at (810) 796-3200.

jim mcdonald has been practicing the art of herbcraft for over 22 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 Great Lakes bioregion and the US, hosts the website www.herbcraft.org and is currently writing (alternately) "A Great Lakes Herbal" and "Foundational Herbcraft". 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.

 

Have questions about classes? 
I've got answers to frequently asked questions (like times, weather exceptions and such)
here. 

 

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