
vernal virtues herb walk: medicinal plants of Michigan
Tuesday May 13, 2025
6:00 to 8:30 pm
midsummer medicines walk: medicinal plants of Michigan
Tuesday July 8, 2025
6:00 to 8:30 pm
wild roots & fall foliage: medicinal plants of Michigan
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
5:00 to 7:30 pm
This spring, summer and fall, please join me and spend a few hours looking at a slew of amazingly virtuous plants growing in Sterling Heights, MI... On our walk we'll be wandering around the lawns, fields, and woods along the banks of the Clinton River at Dodge Park 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 25+ 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.
cost...
Each walk is $40, and includes extensive handouts on ethical wildcrafting, medicine making, on some of the plants discussed.
location...
40620 Utica Rd.
Sterling Heights, MI 48313 (directions)
Click here for directions right to where we'll be meeting at Dodge Park; by the playground & picnic shelter on the far northwestern end of the parking lot (the opposite side from the parks & recreation building, or your left if you're standing with your back to the road looking towards the river and woods).
to register...
To register for any of these walks, please use a "register for an herb walk" button on this page ; pre-registration helps SO MUCH and is deeply appreciated. Likewise, sharing with and bringing along friends, family, and random passersby makes you awesome! If there is space left you can also bring payment the day of the walk.
Please understand that I offer walks rain or shine; be sure to have clothes to keep you dry if there's any chance of rain. We can likely make use of the shelters there if rain is heavy.
questions about classes?
I've got answers to frequently asked questions (like times, weather exceptions, missed classes and such) here.