I’m happy to announce that on Saturday, August 22nd, I will be leading the “Wild Plants As Medicine” Workshop & Summer Foraging Hike at North Park in Western Pennsylvania… and I would love for you to join me!
This time, we’ll be discussing how to develop a personalized medicinal strategy using the various wild plants of the Northeastern United States… including the species growing in your backyard!
I’m so excited to be leading this event, as this is a topic that is more important today than ever before.
Why, you may be asking?
Well, this may come as no surprise to anyone, though what I’m about to say is worth acknowledging:
We don’t exactly live in “ideal” times anymore. Meaning…
Our air isn’t as clean as it used to be. (Air quality recently measured at Beaver Falls was among the worst 10 percent of the nation’s monitors; in Lawrenceville, it’s among the worst 25 percent in the nation.)
Our water isn’t as clean as it used to be. (A stream that feeds a water treatment plant in Greene County was recently found to contain 60 times the maximum amount of radiation allowed in drinking water. Yes, that’s 6-0.)
And our food certainly isn’t as clean as it used to be. (Glyphosate, anyone?)
Throw in a diet that typically lacks bitter (read: medicinal) flavors, and the outcomes don’t look so hot.
Diabetes, headaches, insomnia, arthritis, cancer, dementia, heart disease, influenza and other viral infections… is it any wonder that these illnesses plague the human species (and not squirrels, snapping turtles, or snakes)?
Perhaps you currently experience one or more of the above conditions, and you’re looking for alternatives to the medications typically prescribed to you.
(There are local wild plants that address all of those illnesses by the way… for free!)
Or, perhaps you currently feel pretty good, though you’d like to take immediate action right now to reduce your chances of experiencing any of the aforementioned illnesses somewhere down the line.
The solution?
“Everything you need is growing in your backyard.”
Ever hear that before?
Listen…
Organic food is great… though it’s not enough.
Non-GMO? Fantastic!… though it’s still not enough.
Local, sustainable, meditated on and blessed by the Dalai Lama himself … sorry to say, this still may not be enough.
You see, for optimal health… ya know, the kind of health that beams outward from the depths of one’s 5-carbon sugared backbone we typically refer to as DNA… Homo sapiens require the wild medicines from the landscape.
And, I’d love to show you how to make it all happen in this 2-part event on August 22nd!
The first part will feature a presentation on personalizing a medicinal strategy using the wild plants of the Northeastern United States. We will also begin the process of making a medicinal tincture, which can be taken home for you to finish (sorry, no alcohol allowed in this park!). Part 2 will include a hike in the park as we identify and discuss late summer edible and medicinal plants and mushrooms.
By attending this program, you will learn:
- The importance of developing a medicinal strategy based on wild plants
- Medicinal benefits of specific wild plants, supported by research
- How to make wild plant infusions
- How to make tinctures
- Wild plant field identification
- Wild plant nutrition
- Plant harvesting methods
- Latin nomenclature
… and much more!
Each participant will receive the starting materials for a wild plant extraction (which we will start in the workshop), as well as an e-book with notes from the workshop, summer medicinal plant descriptions, medicine-making instructions, and more!
This program will entail light to moderate hiking, and will take place rain or shine. Please note that in order to maximize your learning experience, space is limited and registration with payment in advance is required to secure your spot. The exact class meeting location will be provided upon registration.
When: Saturday, August 22nd
Where: North Park, Allegheny County, Western Pennsylvania (13 miles north of Pittsburgh)
Time: 1:00 – 4:00 PM
Investment: $45
To register: Please email Adam at adamharitan@gmail.com
Come enjoy an eventful mid-summer’s day in a beautiful park with a great group of foragers! We look forward to seeing you there!
Thanks!
-Adam Haritan
Wild Foodism 
Hello, I’m living in southeastern Missouri and would like to learn more about everything here
I want to buy mushrooms ganoderma dry, in I looking in page but, I cannot find the right page, can you help me please how, buy, thankyou so mouch.
Adam, Thank you for all your fine work. Your posts have helped me with a lot of questions in my quest as a mushroom forager. I found what I think is Chaga in northern Delaware where I live although we don’t have much birch and it doesn’t get really cold here. There was lots of rounded growths of it on a standing, dead beech tree.(no branches, lots of woodpecker holes) They are dark brown, knobby and hard on the outside and golden/ orange and corky on the inside. I was able to saw a few of them off without taking the bark. They aren’t burls.-they appear to be distinct organisms with a color different from the gray of the beech.
2 questions. Is this chaga? If the host tree is clearly dead, does chaga live on, spread, and will it continue to retain its nutritional vitality? If the tree falls, is it just as well that I harvest more of it or leave it.
Thanks so much. I hope to attend one of your workshops.
Frank Vincent