Herb Walks March & April Events
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Click on the image above to see the segment that aired on Spectrum News 1. It's just 2 minutes and 40 seconds long. |
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Herb Walks on Spectrum News 1
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Nic Cha Kim of Spectrum News 1 joined us on February 17 at Euterpe Farms for the foraging Presidents' Day Herb Walk and Stone Soup Picnic. Nic is an award-winning media journalist and it shows in this excellent segment he filmed and narrated. It aired on Monday, March 2, but you can see it online by clicking here.
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Mela Gaskins Butcher of Center for Ayurveda |
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New online Ayurveda Plant Medicine Course
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Join Mela Gaskins Butcher, founder and director of the Center for Ayurveda and 2020 Ojai Herbal Symposium speaker, for this fun and inspiring 12- week online course.
You will learn the names, identification, and preparations of 100 of nature’s most treasured plant medicines. Each week you receive your curricula via emailed voice memos which Mela has written and recorded. You then discuss that week’s curricula in a 30 minute private one-on-one phone session with Mela.
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Hi there! Hope to see you soon! |
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You don't want to miss the Taft Gardens and Nature Preserve on Saturday, March 21!
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Now that Mother Nature has had three winters worth of rain with which to recover from the 2017 fire, we’re going back to this amazing property for a private tour of the Taft Gardens & Nature Preserve, operated by the Conservation Endowment Fund (CEF) in the mountains above Lake Casitas west of Ojai.
This rare and special place has no public trails connecting it to the outside world. The land includes plants and features beyond what we usually encounter on my outings, including the world class, Mediterranean-climate, Taft Botanical Garden. We'll see an unparalleled collection of Australian and South African plants. A docent will be present to share some of the rare exotics found in the garden.
Of course, we'll also take a walk on the adjacent Nature Preserve to identify and learn about the diverse edible and medicinal native plants of the area.
Read more and register at this link.
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Chinese Jade Screen herbs |
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How COVID-19 is currently treated in China with TCM
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The Chinese government is now recommending the use of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the treatment of pneumonia due to infection from the novel Coronavirus. Click here to read the full article. Thank you, Miriam Delosantos, LAc, for sharing the news about this major collaboration between Western and Chinese Medicine.
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George Inness.
Winter Moonlight (Christmas Eve), 1866. |
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The way these walks have gone viral on Facebook, I recommend that you, my loyal readers, reserve now for Wednesday, May 6, at this link. The walk finishes with an optional after-party at Azu Restaurant & Ojai Valley Brewery. |
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Christopher will bring some of his books for sale and signing. |
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Learn from Christopher Nyerges how to forage for wild foods and build a fire with native plant materials
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Join me and special guest author/forager/survivalist Christopher Nyerges on Saturday, March 28, in Ojai to learn seasonal foraging and primitive firemaking. Participants will identify and process edible greens, soap sources, and other useful plants, and learn to ignite a fire using only natural plant materials.
The workshop will begin with a foraging walk on the fringes of Euterpe Farms followed by an afternoon workshop under a live oak where Christopher will direct preparation of a wild salad and demonstrate the primitive skill of starting a fire. Everyone will have a chance to practice.
Christopher Nyerges is an author, forager, survivalist and ethnobotanist with a lifelong interest in how native peoples lived off the land. He has been teaching classes and leading field trips since 1974 to over 40,000 students. Nyerges has authored nearly two dozen books, including
Foraging California, Guide to Wild Foods, How to Survive Anywhere, and many others.
Read more and register at this link.
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Congratulations to Mary Hardy!
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The American Botanical Council (ABC) recently announced that the 2019 Fredi Kronenberg Excellence in Research and Education in Botanicals for Women’s Health Award will be presented to Mary L. Hardy, MD. Some of you will remember Dr. Hardy as a presenter at the 2018 Ojai Herbal Symposium.
For more than 25 years, in both her practice and research, Dr. Hardy has combined complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) with Western medicine. |
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