Teachers and Workshops

Here is an incredible selection of teachers and over 30 workshops for all levels of interest:

Cascade Anderson Geller | Rosita Arvigo | Julie Bailey | Jane Bothwell | Ryan Drum PhD. | Peter Gail PhD. | Colette Gardiner | Jo Jenner ND | Kathi Keville | Robyn Klein | Elise Krohn | Solveig de Laissardiere | Krista Olson | Adam Seller | Forest Shomer | Ed Smith | James Snow | Sharol Tilgner ND | Jonathan Treasure

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Cascade Anderson Geller
Cascade Anderson Geller grew up always on the lookout for wild muscadine grapes and picking wild greens. With a family background steeped in Appalachian mountain people's self-reliance and herbal knowledge, she continued her quest for understanding the intricate relationships between plants and people through more formal herb studies on the West Coast with herbal elders such as Ella Birzneck at Dominion Herbal College, Norma Meyers of Alert Bay, B.C. Her studies continue with travel to areas of the world where people embrace a lifestyle that respects and directly uses plants in all aspects of life. Cascade has served on the faculty of naturopathic colleges throughout the U.S., as well as having an herbal practice and offering an educational program open to all students. She continues with her passion for oral teaching and getting people and plants together on herb walks as she has done for nearly three decades. She is currently devoting time as an activist in water and public land politics.

Workshops by Cascade Anderson Geller:

• Herb Hike in the Ancient Forest
  Friday, Morning
  One of the many assets that Breitenbush offers, is the close proximity to an ancient forest. Forests with giant, mature trees are, unfortunately, rare now throughout the world, so it is a great honor to be able to visit one of these areas. The Willamette National Forest, who controls most of the forest land in the area, has the reputation of providing some of the highest yield of timber in the country. The ancient forest in the Breitenbush vicinity is a result of perseverant activism led by the Breitenbush community. Participants should be prepared for a trail hike of several miles with proper footgear, clothing and water. We'll see many native plants on the walk and do demonstrations and discuss their uses. A recommended text for the walk is Plants of the Pacific NW Coast by Pojar and MacKinnon.
  
• Golden Boughs: Celebrating Medicinal Trees
  Saturday, Early Afternoon
  Medicinal trees- anecdotes, clinical uses and general information. Ash, cherry, elder, hazel, holly, olive, willow and others are discussed.
  

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Rosita Arvigo
Dr. Rosita Arvigo is a naprapathic physician, herbalist, international lecturer and author. She has lived in Central America for over 30 years where she studied with traditional healer, the most notable of whom was Don Elijio Panti, the renowned Maya Shaman of Belize. She is the founder and director of Ix Chel Tropical Research Foundation in San Ignacio, Belize, an organization dedicated to the preservation and study of medicinal rainforest plants. She is founder and President of The Traditional Healers' Foundation in Belize, which works to support traditional healers. She maintains her private practice in Belize and travels extensively offering workshops in the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Massage.

She is the author of several books, including: Spiritual Bathing: Healing Rituals & Traditions From Around The World; with Nadine Epstein (Ten Speed Press, 2003) SASTUN: My Apprenticeship With A Maya Healer (Harper Collins, 1994) RAINFOREST REMEDIES: 100 Healing Plants of Belize; with Michael Balick (Lotus Press, 1994) RAINFOREST HOME REMEDIES: The Maya Way to Heal Your Body and Replenish Your Soul; with Nadine Epstein (Harper Collins, 2001)

Workshops by Rosita Arvigo:

• Uncommon Uses for Common Plants
  Friday, Late Afternoon
  A great opportunity to learn how indigenous peoples of Central America make home remedies from many of our most common plants such as marigold, rue, basil, ginger, garlic, oregano, cinnamon, hibiscus and many more.
• Spiritual Bathing and Sacred Waters (Keynote Address)
  Friday, Evening
  An introduction to the spiritual bathing practices around the world and throughout the ages. Maya healing incorporates the use of herbal baths for spiritual healing. We will discuss the most commonly used plants, such as Rue, Marigold, Roses that are used in herbal bathing to promote spiritual healing.
  
• Women's Health Care with Maya Abdominal Massage: The Benefits of Uterine Massage and Botanicals for Restoring and Maintaining Health
  Saturday, Morning
  Learn the fundamentals of Maya Abdominal and Uterine Massage that addresses over 30 common reproductive symptoms to restore health and wellness. Common botanicals to support this healing massage will be discussed. There are no hands on demonstrations in this workshop.
  

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Julie Bailey
Co-Owner of Mountain Rose Herbs (mountainroseherbs.com) since 1991. Julie has been intimately involved with healing plants since her childhood in England. After an herbal apprenticeship and classes in botany, nutrition, anatomy, physiology, psychiatric and general medicine; Julie managed the herb departments of health food stores and, vegetarian & vegan restaurants. Other adventures include: leading wilderness backpack trips, running a native and medicinal plant nursery and, front desk and herbal consultant at the local medical clinic. Julie has been teaching classes and leading herb walks since 1988. She loves to inform and enlighten people about herbs; empower them to make their own medicines, grow organic gardens and participate in their own healing and that of their home - Earth.

Workshop by Julie Bailey:

• Herbal Business: Tools for Sustainability and Success
  Sunday, Morning
  From encouraging self-empowerment, educating your customer/clients, creating community and promoting organic agriculture to marketing, micro-management, stress and regulatory agencies. This is likely to be enjoyed by existing and aspiring small business owners, managers, employees and, those who are running an herbal or holistic/health practice. And, of course those of us who thought they'd be out of doors amongst the trees and plants more - instead of sitting at a computer so much. A soak or/and tree hug will be recommended as a postscript perspective at the end of class.
  

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Jane Bothwell
Jane Bothwell is dedicated to empowering people with the knowledge and wisdom necessary to use plants wisely as food, medicine, and spiritual support. With this learning comes a fuller appreciation of the bounty of creation and a greater ability and desire to care for oneself, one's family, and our universe. She brings to you 20 years of working with clients, teaching herb classes and generally immersing herself in plants. Jane Bothwell directs The Dandelion Herbal Center (www.dandelionherb.com)a rural herbal education center in the coastal hills of Northern California, 70 miles from the Oregon border.

Workshops by Jane Bothwell:

• Digestive System
  Friday Late Afternoon
  Improving digestion can greatly enhance your well being. A healthy digestive system means a healthy body. Learn tools to enhance digestion and help you return to vibrant health! How well do you assimilate the nutrients in your food, your herbs, and your life? Specific formulas will be given as well as general guidelines for healthy digestion.
  
• Healing with the Flower Essences
  Saturday Morning
  Come experience the healing power of flowers as offered by the Bach and California systems of flower essence therapy. We will create healing essences for each other. You will leave with a personal flower essence formula, a bottle of Rescue Remedy, and a deeper understanding of the numerous applications of flower essence therapy.
  

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Ryan Drum
Ryan Drum, PhD. has been a professional wildcrafter, herbal educator, and practicing medical herbalist for over 25 years after a successful career as an academic research scientist. He has degrees in chemistry BS and phycology, PhD from Iowa State University. He studied herbal medicine with Ella Birzneck at Dominion Herbal College from 1972 to 84, he has taught at their summer seminar for over 25 years. He lives on an isolated island hilltop homestead in the San Juan Islands, WA where he moved in 1976. He has been professionally wildcrafting medicinal plants and sea vegetables since 1977. As a medical herbalist he specializes in seaweed therapies, thyroid problems, and men's health issues. He believes passionately in true patient autonomy, the complete freedom to choose one's caregivers no matter what their credentials, and that true pleasure is the driving force of the universe.

Workshops by Ryan Drum:

• Seaweeds for Food and Medicine
  Saturday, Morning
  In this class we will study and prepare simple seaweed foods and medicines. Internal and external therapies will be used; lots of samples.
  
• Herbs for Men's Health
  Saturday, Early Afternoon
  We'll discuss herbs used for common male ailments, and lifestyle factors in detail.
  

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Peter Gail, Ph.D
Dr. Peter Gail is an ethnobotanist who has been studying how ethnics use backyard weeds for food and medicine for the last 43 years. He received his Ph.D. in Botany, spent 25 years in University teaching and research, and then, in 1988, founded Goosefoot Acres Center for Resourceful Living, through which he conducts seminars and workshops designed to reawaken modern Americans to the resources surrounding them and teach them how to use them. Good Morning America called him "The Wizard of Weeds"; USA Today dubbed him "The King of Dandelions" He is the author of numerous books and articles on creative living and edible wild plants, and the operator of the National Dandelion Cookoff. His column "On the Trail of the Volunteer Vegetable" was a popular feature in The Business of Herbs for over 10 years. In 2002, he was inducted into the National Wild Foods Association Hall of Fame.
Web site: www.edibleweeds.com and www.dandyblend.com

Workshops by Peter Gail, Ph.D:

• The Amish Way of Treating Ills
  Friday, Late Afternoon
  Back in the early 20th century, when someone got sick, Grandma would go out in the yard, find the appropriate plant, make a poultice, tea or salve, and solve the problem. This is still happening among the Amish. Modern Amish healers use traditional remedies brought from Europe, supplemented with folk and herbal remedies from other cultures, traditions, and modern herbal science. Dr. Peter Gail, editor and publisher of Plain and Happy Living: Amish Recipes and Remedies (Goosefoot Acres Press, Cleveland OH 1991), the first book written by a practicing Old Order Amish member for the non-Amish reader, has first hand knowledge and experience with these traditions, and will share them with us in this workshop. Included will be a discussion of Amish culture and practices, stories and examples of Amish healing practices and their effectiveness, and an examination of typical Amish materia medica.
  
• All Vegetables Were Once Wild: A History of Food Traditions and the Importance of Reconnecting with Them
  Saturday, Late Afternoon
  Eighty percent of the plants we call "weeds" are really vegetables and medicines, brought here by immigrants, that escaped from cultivation and landed in the yards of people who had no idea about their value. Two wild plant educators, Solveig de Laissardiere from France and Dr. Peter Gail from the United States, are attempting to bring knowledge about the basic wild plant food resources that we walk over every day to as broad an audience as possible. In this workshop, Dr. Gail and Ms. De Laissardiere share, through pictures and actual specimens, the plants they consider most important and why, introduce you to the cultural history and the health properties of these plants through some fascinating and often humorous stories, and provide food samples so that you can experience their taste, texture and personality. When you leave, you will have the resources needed to join them in sharing this knowledge with those you teach so that they, too, will know how to supplement their diet with these wild foods on a regular basis and/or in any crisis or emergency, which might befall them.
  (Co-teacher:Solveig de Laissardiere)
  

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Colette Gardiner
Colette Gardiner is an herbalist with over twenty years experience learning and teaching in the green world. She has offered apprenticeships and intensives since 1989. She has been a featured writer for We'Moon Almanac for many years as well as other periodicals. She also enjoys sharing her perspective through ritual, political action and gardening. Cofounder of the Women's Herbalist Conference 1985-1995, a member of Black Cross Health Collective, and is a Wilderness First Responder. She also works with Reclaiming Tradition.

Workshops by Colette Gardiner:

• Herbs as Plant Allies - Herb Walk
  Friday, Early Afternoon
  An interactive session using intuitive & observational skills to deepen our knowledge of herbs.
  
• Working with Clients
  Friday, Late Afternoon
  For those making the leap from student to community practitioner, or for those who would like another perspective on their practice.

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Jo Jenner, ND
Jo Jenner, Herbalist and Naturopathic Physician, has been inspiring individuals with the use of Herbs and Hydrotherapy for 17 years. She taught Hydrotherapy at National College of Naturopathic Medicine and a variety of Natural Healing classes to her community. Her Motto is: Health begins at home.

Workshops by Jo Jenner, ND:

• Combine Herbs and Hydrotherapy to Invoke the Healing Response
  Friday, Morning
  What is Hydrotherapy and how can it accentuate the effects of Botanical Medicine? This class is designed to inspire creative uses of water treatments. The possibilities are boundless. Use Hydrotherapy confidently, frequently and successfully.
  
• Practical Applications of Herbs and Hydrotherapy
  Saturday, Late Afternoon
  Join us for a lively discussion and demonstration of diverse applications of water to the body. Bring home new ideas to treat disease, develop resistance and maintain vitality.
  

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Kathi Keville
Kathi Keville brings the art of the herbalism and aromatherapy to life in the spirited seminars she teaches throughout the US and at her Grass Valley home, surrounded by her landscaped herb gardens. An herbalist and aromatherapist for 35 years, she has written over 200 magazine articles and12 books, including Herbs for Health and Healing, Herbs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, and Aromatherapy: The Complete Guide to the Healing Arts. Kathi is director of the American Herb Association www.ahaherb.com. She is also a consultant for aromatherapy and cosmetic companies and owns the mail-order herb and aromatherapy company Oak Valley Herb Farm.

Workshops by Kathi Keville:

• Herbs for Woman's Health
  Saturday, Early Afternoon
  Simple herbal and aromatherapy lotions and potions to help women deal with PMS, Menstruation & Menopause. Kathi has just finished updating a new edition of Women's Herbs, Women's Health (with Christopher Hobbs) and will present the latest research. Intermediate Level.
  
• Sniff Your Way to Good Health
  Sunday, Morning
  How to choose quality essential oils and how to choose the most appropriate ones. What are the differences among the chamomiles, lavenders, and many other oils that are available as different species, varieties and chemotypes? And, how do their uses to mend body and mind vary? Learn what uncommon oils work well as substitutes for more expensive ones.
  

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Robyn Klein
Robyn Klein, A.H.G., M.S. is a western herbalist and medical botanist whose focus is in on plant identification, plant constituents, and the medicinal plants of the Northern Rocky Mountains. She is currently teaching six courses at Montana State University: Herbal Medicine, Herbal Medicine Laboratory, Medicinal Plants of Montana, Medical Botany, Flowering Plants of the Northern Rocky Mountains, and Plants, People, & Health.
Web site: www.rrreading.com

Workshops by Robyn Klein:

• Plant Biochemistry for Beginners
  Friday, Early Afternoon
  explaining how plants make compounds from photosynthesis (a brief overview) and the three main pathways of plant compounds.
  
• Evolution of Plant Compounds
  Saturday, Morning
  and how they have evolved as messenger signals telling the plant/human body what is happening in the environment and how best to respond.
  

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Elise Krohn
Elise Krohn is an Olympia community herbalist who feels passionate about the affinity between plants and people. She has an eclectic background in herbal studies including constitutional medicine, plant energetics, phytochemistry and ethnobotany. In 1995 she graduated from Michael Moore's Southwest School of Botanical Medicine and has since studied with diverse teachers including Cascade Anderson Geller, Adam Seller, Joyce Netishen and elders in Belize. She is currently collaborating with tribal elders in teaching botanical medicine, is an herbalist at Radiance, maintains a private practice and teaches in the community. Elise believes that plant medicine should be in the hands of the people and is dedicated to empowering others in practical herbal medicine.

Workshops by Elise Krohn:

• Wild Rose and Western Red Cedar
  Friday, Morning
  Invoke your senses as we touch, taste and smell Rose and Cedar. We will embark on a journey to understand these plants in a deeper way. Biochemistry, therapeutic actions, traditional uses, stories and personal experiences will be shared. We will sample and prepare herbal baths, body oil, honey and cordial made with these two revered medicines.
  
• Preserving Our Herbal Traditions (Roundtable)
  Saturday, Evening
  Update on licensure issues, GPM's and cultural appropriation. This is something we must be talking about as a community.
  

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Solveig de Laissardiere
Ms. de Laissardiere holds a B.S. degree in Agriculture Technology. She studied Wild Gastronomy and Soft Survival Training with Francois Couplan in France, and then, to learn more about wild and medicinal plants, travelled for a year and a half in North and South America, studying with Tim Blakley, Rosemary Gladstar, and Shatoiya de la Tour. She capped her experience in Ecuador working with native peoples, followed by six weeks assisting Dr. Peter Gail at Goosefoot Acres. After returning to France, she trained as a Massage Therapist and in Natural Cosmetics. She now runs Solswan Company, through which she does seminars and workshops on wild plant gastronomy, and teaches classes on Natural Cosmetics and baby massage.

Workshops by Solveig de Laissardiere:

• Natural Cosmetic Making
  Saturday, Early Afternoon
  Soothing herb balms, creams-- even lipsticks, facials and shampoos are easily made by people who know what to use and how to craft them into wonderful and refreshing products. This workshop will present the information needed to select the appropriate ingredients, discuss the qualities of essential and carrier oils, and provide hands on experience in preparing and using some recipes. Recipes for a variety of natural cosmetics, which can be easily made, will be available so that participants can try them out at home.
  
• All Vegetables Were Once Wild: A History of Food Traditions and the Importance of Reconnecting with Them
  Saturday, Late Afternoon
  Eighty percent of the plants we call "weeds" are really vegetables and medicines, brought here by immigrants, that escaped from cultivation and landed in the yards of people who had no idea about their value. Two wild plant educators, Solveig de Laissardiere from France and Dr. Peter Gail from the United States, are attempting to bring knowledge about the basic wild plant food resources that we walk over every day to as broad an audience as possible. In this workshop, Dr. Gail and Ms. De Laissardiere share, through pictures and actual specimens, the plants they consider most important and why, introduce you to the cultural history and the health properties of these plants through some fascinating and often humorous stories, and provide food samples so that you can experience their taste, texture and personality. When you leave, you will have the resources needed to join them in sharing this knowledge with those you teach so that they, too, will know how to supplement their diet with these wild foods on a regular basis and/or in any crisis or emergency, which might befall them.
  (Co-teacher:Peter Gail, Ph.D)
  

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Krista Olson
Krista Olson lives with her family on a five-acre farm in Kealakekua, Hawaii. She works for the Malama a Ho'opili Pono public health project, teaches, and provides herbal support and care to birthing women at home and in the hospital. In her years as an herbalist and community health worker in Oregon, Krista was a founding member of Black Cross Health Collective, a faculty member at Birthingway College of Midwifery, and created and taught the Common Roots Herbal Education program with Tracy Bosnian. A longtime student of the plants of Western forests and deserts of the U.S. and Mexico, she is now immersed in study of the unique plant communities and healing traditions of Hawaii. While awestruck by the botanical richness of the tropics, she is still happiest when she finds her old friend plantain growing up recklessly through a crack in the pavement.

Workshops by Krista Olson:

• Herbal Care in Pregnancy and Birth
  Friday, Morning
  Explore ways that herbs may be used safely and effectively to nurture mama and babe during pregnancy and birth. We will consider the actions of common herbs within the framework of prenatal physiology and take a careful look at the reasons many herbs are contraindicated in pregnancy. Participants will gain tools to guide them in developing a common-sense approach to herbal therapy in the childbearing year. This class offers the experienced herbal practitioner evidence-based insights to assist in making safe and effective choices in treatment of the pregnant woman. Birth attendants and expectant parents will gain a strong foundation for choosing plant allies wisely and confidently during pregnancy.
  
• Accessing Plant Allies for Trailside First Aid Emergencies
  Saturday, Late Afternoon
  Wander through the woods with an experienced wilderness medic and herbalist and ask your favorite "wilderness worst-case scenario" questions. We will take time to connect with common trailside plants, and we will discuss emergency care for injuries and illnesses that happen in the backcountry. Building upon your own knowledge of first aid, you will learn to incorporate medicinal plants of the Cascades in your treatment strategies for everything from fractures to bee stings. This class draws on the instructor's training as a Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician and a Clinical Herbalist to assist you in integrating wild plants into sound backcountry health care.
  

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Adam Seller
Adam Seller, is an herbalist and director of Pacific School of Herbal Medicine (www.pshm.org), of Hungarian-American descent with twenty one years experience providing health care professionally, nineteen of them practicing herbal medicine, working as a client advocate, wildcrafting, making medicines, teaching people about plants outdoors and community health organizing. He still makes house calls. His clinical work emphasizes a constitutional approach based in western physiology, and a client centered harm reduction model of care. He has been a visiting lecturer and staff at many schools, conferences and programs. He has published in Nosh, Mudflap, and 3 Dollar Bill and has done consulting for numerous periodicals including Mother Jones, Time, Newsweek, and E Magazine. The greater part of his unofficial education came through working closely with community and public health workers in the San Francisco Bay area. He can often be found staring at weeds in vacant lots.

Workshops by Adam Seller:

• Herb Walk/Ramble
  Saturday, Early Afternoon
  The best way to learn about herbs- on their own turf. A time to open our senses and intellect to the plants. Plenty of clinical detail and physiology. We are more likely to cover just a few plants in great detail- Actaea will take at least an hour if we are lucky enough to find it. A good walk for herb geeks and those with practitioner orientations.
  
• Oxytocin: Deficiency in Western Physiologic Constitutional Therapeutics
  Saturday, Late Afternoon
  We will explore the systemic role of oxytocin in immune regulation, tissue function, central nervous system function including learning , memory , and pain perception, and renal function in all genders, including the usually covered gonadal effects, including fertility both male ,and female and menstruation. We will discuss the role of oxytocin in chronic pain, and special the special needs of alcoholics. Emphasizing constitutional pattern recognition, we will explore treatment strategies for oxytocin deficiency in acute and chronic disease.
  

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Forest Shomer
Forest Shomer has been a full-time Northwest seedsman since 1973, presenting at Breitenbush herbal conferences since 1983. The originator and director of Abundant Life Seed Foundation, he organized five annual Herbal Retreats in WA and BC. Forest has operated Inside Passage Seeds & Native Plant Services, (www.insidepassageseeds.com) in Port Townsend, Washington since 1992. He currently wildcrafts seed of up to 200 Northwest native species per year, including trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and grasses.

Workshops by Forest Shomer:

• Medicinal Plants in the Maritime Northwest Landscape
  Friday, Early Afternoon
  Native landscaping is the emergent alternative to outright loss of native flora in inhabited area. We can consciously include native medicinals in these plantings.
  
• Wildcrafting for Seeds
  Sunday, Morning
  We'll explore Breitenbush for seasonal native and cultivated seeds.
  

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Ed Smith
Ed Smith ("Herbal Ed") is the founder and co-owner of Herb Pharm (www.herb-pharm.com), and is an internationally known teacher and lecturer on herbs and herbal healthcare who appears at many herbal gatherings, symposiums and expositions throughout the world. His work and teachings incorporate old-world herbal folk knowledge with modern herbal sciences, and also express his love for Nature and her healing plants. Ed taught at The California School of Herbal Studies for eleven years, and is a regular guest lecturer at the naturopathic medical schools, Bastyr University and National College of Naturopathic Medicine. In his constant search for herbal knowledge, Ed travels extensively throughout the world gathering information on indigenous medicinal herbs and their proper cultivation, harvest, and therapeutic uses.

Workshops by Ed Smith:

• Maca Root: Ancient Andean Energy Food and Sexual Tonic of the Incas
  Friday, Early Afternoon
  This class will cover the history of Maca root from an ancient fertility food to a modern herbal pharmaceutical; traditional cultivation & harvest of Maca roots in Peru, and standards for quality; using Maca to increase energy and stamina, and to improve sexual function and fertility; modern medical and pharmaceutical research on Maca; folk medicine use of Maca to treat infertility, menopause, rheumatism, alcoholism, respiratory ailments, etc. Class will be accompanied by a colorful photo presentation of a Peruvian Maca harvest, and the International Maca Festival in Junin, Peru.
  
• Thai Cuisine as Medicine: The Healing Powers of the Fruits, Vegetables and Spices of Thailand
  Sunday, Morning
  This class will cover the chemistry and healing properties of the traditional foods and spices of Thailand, with recipes and instruction for their preparation at home. Class will be accompanied by a colorful photo presentation of Thai food and spice markets, and various fruits, veggies, spices, and traditional Thai dishes.
  

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James Snow
James Snow has worked with herbs since 1987. In 1994, after graduating from the California School of Herbal Studies and the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, he began private clinical practice. From 1998-2000 he practiced at the Santa Rosa Medical Group, an integrated medical center in Northern California. From 2000-2002 he helped in the running of the herbal clinic at Sonoma County Indian Health Services and was the primary clinical instructor for the California School of Herbal Studies. In 2002 he moved to Maryland where he is chair of the herbal division for the Tai Sophia Institute's M.A. in Botanical Healing program. He has a private practice in Laurel, MD.

Workshops by James Snow:

• Herb Walk
  Friday, Late Afternoon
  TBA

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Sharol Tilgner, ND
Sharol Tilgner, ND is owner, and teacher at Wise Acres Herbal Educational Center in Pleasant Hill Oregon. She has produced the book Herbal Medicine From the Heart of the Earth as well as the herbal video series Edible and Medicinal Herbs, Volume 1, and Edible and Medicinal Herbs, Volume II. She is currently the editor of Herbal Transitions Ezine, and associate editor of Medical Herbalism. Her past includes founder and president of Wise Woman Herbals for 14 years as well as the Pacific NW Herbal Symposium.
Web site: www.herbaltransitions.com

Workshops by Sharol Tilgner, ND:

• Biodynamic Farming & The Medicinal Herbs Used in the Biodynamic Preparations
  Friday, Early Afternoon
  Description of what a biodynamic farm is, and a discussion of the importance of intention in biodynamic farming. We will discuss how the herbs, horsetail, chamomile, valerian, dandelion, nettles, yarrow and oak bark are used in biodynamic preparations as well as the medicinal uses of these herbs.
  
• Medicinal Herb Walk
  Saturday, Morning
  Meet the herbs one on one. Learn the habitat they prefer, how to identify them, what parts are used medicinally, how to harvest and when it is best to harvest, how to process for immediate use or storage for later use and the herbs most common effects on humans/animals health.
  

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Jonathan Treasure, MNIMH, AHG.
Jonathan Treasure is a British medical herbalist who studied medical sciences at Cambridge University and herbal medicine at the UK School of Phytotherapy, now resident in Ashland, Southern Oregon. Trained as a cancer guide at the Center for Mind Body Medicine, his clinical practice focuses on integrative treatment strategies for people with cancer. He is still writing a textbook on herb-drug and nutrient-drug interactions for Churchill Livingstone.
Web site: www.herbological.com

Workshops by Jonathan Treasure:

• Herb Drug Interactions - Fact, Fiction and Fantasy
  Friday, Morning
  TBA
  
• Food Medicine and Poison - From Hippocrates to Cancer Chemoprevention and Treatment
  Saturday, Late Afternoon
  TBA
  

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