Presented by Laurie Lacey

The Medicine Walk: A Nature Awareness

and Wellness Experience

In this walk, we will explore the wild world of plants and trees, their medicines, and their energetic interaction with us. Always an experiential medicine walk, we will learn simple but powerful nature awareness exercises, to enhance your energetic and sensory connection to the plants, trees, their medicines, mother earth and mother nature. Good medicine always!

Presented by Amanda Dainow

Natural Animal Care
In this workshop, Amanda will inform participants about various methods of natural animal care, with emphasis on herbal medicine. Other healing modalities covered will include nutrition and Tellington Touch, with a demonstration on her dog assistant, Buddy.

Presented by Michele Haddal

Plant Spirit Medicine

This year Michele will lead a session on Plant Spirit Medicine, in the form of Flower Essences. Our group will explore connecting to plant energies and transfer them into healing elixirs. Participants will communicate with flower spirits and exchange healing gifts from them. This interactive process is joyful skill to learn and practice for the highest good of all beings.

Supplies needed:

Clear glass or crystal vessel which will sit on earth

50-100 ml glass bottle and label to store essence

{more if you would like to share}

Tobacco or other offering such a corn meal

Presented by Kelly Souva

Making an Herbal First Aid Kit
Kelly will explore how to use common plants easily found locally for household first aid.  She will bring some examples of medicine herbs for identification and demonstrate how to use them in a first aid kit. 

Presented by Savayda Jarone

Contact! - An Experiential Exploration of

Herbal Healing via the Skin
This is not a conventional workshop on topical first aid or dermatitis.  We'll get covered in herbs and then follow the reaction as it ripples throughout the body, mind and quite possibly the spirit. Bring a towel.

Presented by Jill Francis

Mi'kmaq Medicines: Personal Reflections
In this workshop, Jill draws on her family background and personal experiences, to reflect on the importance of plant and tree medicines in Mi'kmaq culture. She will talk about the ceremonial medicines, and several other plants and trees that are important to the Acadia First Nation and the Mi'kmaq healing tradition.

Presented by Basma Kavanagh

Dyeing with Mushrooms
Basma will demonstrate how to dye natural fibers with mushrooms. This demo and discussion will include an introduction to dye-mushroom families; a short history of natural dyeing, in particular, the history of mushroom dyes; dye methods, preparation and examples; and discussion of bio-prospecting for dye mushrooms. A basic "how-to" book on mushroom dyeing will be available for sale.

Presented by Jayme Melrose

Plant Walk - Forest Gardening
Jayme will lead a plant walk with the perspective of Forest Gardening.   We will wander through the woods, identifying plants, looking at ecosystem patches, and talking about how we can garden the forest, and develop little medicine 'forests' in our gardens.