Upcoming Herb Walks Events
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Herbalist Jess Starwood has been on a mushroom mission.
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Tasting the Wild with Jess Starwood on Saturday, February 9
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Jess Starwood, clinical herbalist and forager of wild medicine, will return on Saturday, February 9, for her second Herb Walks workshop in Ojai. Jess is the owner of SunRaven Apothecary in Thousand Oaks, California where she can be found brewing up herbal elixirs, crafting gourmet wild foods, and teaching classes and workshops on medicinal and edible plants and mushrooms.
In this class, you will identify and experience several wild winter plants and mushrooms to be found in Southern California locales this time of year. In the kitchen, Jess will share for the first time her wildly popular medicinal mushroom chocolate truffle recipe and all participants will go home with some truffles they made by hand themselves, just in time for Valentine's Day.
Read more and register at
this link.
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San Antonio Creek should have more water and more life than we've seen in a few years.
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Presidents' Day Herb Walk on San Antonio Creek |
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Scheduled on a Monday for the weekend warriors, this affordable, family-friendly walk will include identifying demonstrating and discussing the many uses of wild plants by foragers, herbalists, and naturalists seeking them out for food, first aid, home remedies, survival, crafts, ceremony and more. Poisonous plants will also be identified.
Trailside discussion will include humankind’s role in the ecological balance, sustainable harvesting, Chumash plant uses, and other topics generated by the participants. This slow-paced walk is suitable for hikers of all levels able to walk less than 2 miles round-trip and stand for periods of time.
Read more and register at
this link.
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Please click on the screenshot to visit HerbWalks.com and let me know what you think. |
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A new look at the HerbWalks
website!
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The
HerbWalks.com website, born in 2011, now has a new "responsive" look. I'd like your input so here's what I'm offering to the first 5 people who respond: If you will send a few sentences of feedback to
lanny@herbwalks.com, I will send you a FREE* copy of Milt McAuley's epic illustrated flora,
Wildflowers of the Santa Monica Mountains. You can email me first to see if you are still within the first 5. I will post the names of the winners in the next newsletter.
*The only charge is the cost of shipping by media mail or you can pick up your copy at the next Herb Walks event.
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Alena of Earth Tide Botanicals holding a jar of their local, organic farmgrown Chamomile flowers.
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Our friends Alena and Daniel of Earth Tide Botanicals just announced that shares in their new Herbal CSA will become available in late March.
Read more and get in on the organic action at
this link. |
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Christopher Nyerges teaching on the trail.
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Christopher Nyerges' first Ojai class in 40 years!
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Join me and very special guest Christopher Nyerges for an Ojai field workshop on Saturday, March 9, to learn foraging and survival skills.
Christopher Nyerges is an author, forager, survivalist and ethnobotanist who has been teaching classes and leading field trips since 1974 to over 40,000 students.
Nyerges has authored nearly two dozen books, including
Guide to Wild Foods,
Foraging California,
Nuts and Berries of California,
How to Survive Anywhere,
Extreme Simplicity, and many others.
Read more and register at
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Elderberry juice made fresh in June can be frozen or canned for winter use.
Photo: Lanny Kaufer
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Excellent Elderberry Article by the Ethno Herbalist
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Dr. Kevin Curran is a biology professor at the University of San Diego who teaches classes on Cell Biology and Ethnobotany.
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Call to action in the forest!
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Can you imagine my shock and dismay when I saw this headline in a Los Padres Forest Watch newsletter? "Forest Service Approves First Commercial Logging Project in Los Padres National Forest in Decades" Read it and weep (or get angry and do something) at
this link. |
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