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The Benefits and Uses of Oregon Grape with Shana Lipner Grover Sep 29, 2021

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Join clinical herbalist, field botanist, and nutrition educator, Shana Lipner Grover, as she brings us to Mount Pisgah Arboretum to discuss one of her favorite plants in the Berberidaceae family: Oregon grape. Shana loves Oregon grape for its bitter tannins and its affinity for liver and gut health. This wonderful western North American plant ally can be harvested sustainably and can be easily identified by its spiny leaves, blue berries, and golden flowers. Shana was a student of award-winning author Michael Moore and also one of our favorite herbalists, Howie Brounstein. Today, she is the director and primary educator of Sage Country Herbs School of Botanical Studies in San Diego, CA.

You can learn more about Shana and the Sage Country Herbs School by visiting www.SageCountryHerbs.com or by visiting her on Instagram @sagecountryherbs

Watch the YouTube video of Shana exploring Oregon Grape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4d5MVB4qm4

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How to Make Homemade Chocolate with Maca and Bee Pollen Sep 24, 2021

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We love good chocolate, but we don't always love the cost and we'd like to have a little more control about what goes into our chocolate bars. So, we're really excited about this easy, delicious, homemade chocolate bar recipe that has just a few pure ingredients! Join Mountain Rose Herbs' own chocolate-making enthusiast, Mason, as he shows us how to customize homemade chocolate with organic cacao, peanut butter, maca, and bee pollen—and all for less money than store-bought chocolate. Whether you're craving a basic chocolate bar, or you want to up the flavor profile, this is the recipe for your inner chocolate lover.

View Mason's full chocolate bar recipe here:

https://mrh.life/ChocolateRecipe

Watch along with the YouTube video of Mason making this recipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4d5MVB4qm4

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Organoleptics & Phytochemical Connections with Lisa Ganora | Tea Talks with Jiling Sep 16, 2021

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Enjoy Lisa Ganora's conversational storytelling as she explores the connection between our ancient organoleptic skills as mammalian creatures, and modern research in phytochemistry. We touch on herbalists' roles as land stewards and water protectors during our climate change crisis. We laugh as Lisa demonstrates her scratch, snort, sniff, savor, and spit method of organoleptic connections. We discuss the simple yet important role that sitting with plants has, before reading plant textbooks.

Lisa Ganora began studying traditional Western herbalism in the early '80s. After practicing as a Wise Woman tradition community herbalist for a decade, Lisa returned to UNCA and graduated summa cum laude with multiple awards in biology and chemistry. After graduation she focused on studying herbal constituents (pharmacognosy and phytochemistry).

You might know Lisa Ganora as the author of Herbal Constituents, 2nd Ed., a popular textbook on herbal phytochemistry for natural health practitioners. Or, she might be a familiar name from herbal conferences, or as the 2012-2020 director of the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism. Learn about Lisa's new projects stewarding Elderberry's Farm, a Rocky Mountain Herbal Education Center in Paonia, CO. Lisa also teaches a comprehensive distance learning course on herbal constituents and formulates for the dietary supplements industry.

Visit Lisa Ganora at:

HerbalConstituents.com

ElderberrysFarm.com

Contact Jiling Lin, LAc at:

JilingLin.com

Instagram @LinJiling

Facebook @JilingLAc

Herbal Nourishment, with Linda Conroy | Tea Talks with Jiling Sep 03, 2021

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Linda Conroy dedicates her life to connecting with the green world. She is a practicing herbalist and avid forager, providing herbal education, workshops, apprenticeships, individual consultations, and small-batch herbal products.

Linda asks, "What if nourishment works?" Introduced to herbalism by the vibrancy of living plants in the natural world, Linda now guides spontaneous learning experiences for apprentices, and curates collaborative leadership opportunities through Moonwise Herbs, The Midwest Women's Herbal Conference and Mycelium Mysteries Women's Mushroom Conference.

We explore nourishing life, foraging, food as medicine, and some of Linda's favorite mushrooms for the kitchen and apothecary. Learn about the importance of dirt time, belly botany, critical thinking, observation, experience, welcoming plants as teachers, and the simple medicine of doing nothing and allowing yourself to be woven into the web of life.

Visit Linda Conroy at:

MoonWiseHerbs.com

MidwestWomensHerbal.com

Contact Jiling Lin, LAc at:

JilingLin.com

Instagram @LinJiling

Facebook @JilingLAc

Here's some of Linda's book recommendations:

"Botany in a Day," by Thomas Elpel

"Weeds Heal," by Isla Burgess

"Start Mushrooming," by Stan Tekiela

Doctor & Herbalist: Bridging the Divide, with Ingrid Bauer, MD | Tea Talks with Jiling Aug 26, 2021

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Doctor Ingrid Bauer, MD bridges conventional and alternative medical paradigms to expand access to holistic healthcare. Learn about her journey from farmgirl to street medic, and onwards to co-founding Five Flavors Herbs, then becoming an internal medicine physician at a community healthcare clinic in rural northern California. Enjoy Ingrid's insights on when she prefers herbs to drugs, common red flags for herbalists, and the realities of weaving integrative medicine into a formal western medical setting. Ingrid Bauer, MD emphasizes affordable, effective, natural therapies with her patients. Board certified in Internal Medicine, Ingrid has been studying and practicing herbal medicine and nutrition for nearly 20 years. She enjoys teaching about herbal medicine for Western medical practitioners, and delights in sharing Western medical knowledge with the herbal community. Learn more about Ingrid Bauer, MD at:

Five Flavors Herbs

Paeonia Integrative Medicine

Contact Jiling Lin, LAc at:

JilingLin.com

Instagram @LinJiling

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Rudbeckia, Plant Walk with Howie Brounstein and Steven Yeager Aug 17, 2021

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Join botanically inclined herbalists Howie Brounstein and Steven Yeager as they venture out to the meadows in the middle elevation zones of the Western Cascades. Here, you will learn about Rudbeckia occidentalis, commonly called Western Cone Flower. You may be familiar with Rudbeckia's close garden relative, Black-Eyed Susan. Rudbeckia is both a helpful supportive herb and a great lesson in etymology. The roots can be used similarly to echinacea or dandelion and are a lovely alterative ally.

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Ceanothus, Plant Walk with Howie Brounstein and Steven Yeager Aug 12, 2021

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Join botanically inclined herbalists Howie Brounstein and Steven Yeager as they again venture out to the lava beds in the middle elevation zones of the Western Cascades. This time you will learn about Ceanothus velutinus, commonly called Red Root or Sticky Laurel. Ceanothus is not only a delicious pleasure tea and fragrant leaf used in hydrosols, but it is also a crucial plant in our ecosystem. It has nitrogen-fixing roots that work to correct the nitrogen levels in our soils, especially in areas after a clear-cut or large wildfire. CLICK HERE to watch the original YouTube video>>

Western Herbs in East Asian Medicine, with Ben Zappin | Tea Talks with Jiling Aug 02, 2021

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Enjoy a rich conversation on approaching western herbs from East Asian medicine perspectives, using botanical analogues in commerce as substitutes for popular at- risk wild plants, sustainable and accessible herbalism, and the adventurous twists and turns of a botanically- inspired life. Enjoy a special song at the end from the multi- talented Benjamin!

Benjamin Zappin, LAc is a herbalist and Licensed Acupuncturist from California. He has been practicing an integration of Western and East Asian herbal medicine for over 25 years. Ben owns and operates Five Flavors Herbs, an herbal extract line, wholesaler and contract manufacturer, and herbal pharmacy, with his wife Ingrid Bauer, MD in Oakland & Nevada City. They also have a small farm, two great kids, and can be found cooking, farming, and playing music.

Learn more:

- Five Flavors Herbs

- Integrated Medicine for the Underserved

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JilingLin.com

Instagram @LinJiling

Facebook @JilingLAc

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The Many Faces of Herbalists in Today's World | Althea Northage-Orr Jul 20, 2021

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Today's episode is a recording of Althea Northage-Orr's keynote speech at the 2019 Great Lakes Herb Faire. This year, they are hosting a virtual conference with an amazing lineup of presenters! Be sure to check them out at GreatLakesHerbFaire.org.

Great Lakes Herb Faire September 10 - 12, 2021 LEARN MORE

KEYNOTE DESCRIPTION

Althea will talk about the vital role that we all can play in bringing knowledge of plants back into the mainstream. From the basic home skills that our grandmothers and grandfathers possessed, to the clinical practitioner, we all have pieces to bring to the table. As cooks, gardeners, medicine makers, educators and healers, our spiritual connections to the plants can enrich the lives of everyone around us; and as health care becomes more expensive and less founded in the day to day skills that enhance and create wellness, Herbalism can reconnect and empower us. She will talk about the many ways we can all become "herbal messengers," bringing back health care to the home, office and institutions that make up our world.

Meet the Herbalist with Bevin Clare | Featuring jim mcdonald Jul 13, 2021

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In today's episode of Meet the Herbalist with Bevin Clare, we're joined by the one and only jim mcdonald. Let's listen in to find out what he's been up to lately, a little bit of his backstory, stories of being a teacher, his advice to aspiring herbalists and much more! This is such a fun episode, we hope you enjoy! In 1996, jim mcdonald's life changed when he drank tea from a wild plant he harvested from the land he lived upon. Since those first sips of strange tea, his life in the woods and meadows of southeast Michigan has been centered on the plants & ecosystems of that land, and how he might share their virtues to restore wellness with those around him. jim's approach to herbcraft blends traditional folk and indigenous influences with 19th century eclectic and physiomedical vitalism, which he conveys with story, experience, humour, common sense and lore to students, clients, random passersby, and readers of his website www.herbcraft.org. He's taught classes throughout north america and is currently alternately writing "Foundational Herbcraft" and the "A Great Lakes Herbal", in addition to articles for journals and other publications. jim is a community herbalist, a manic wildcrafter and medicine maker, and has been an ardent student of the most learned teachers of herbcraft… the plants themselves. Learn more about Bevin at BevinClare.com

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