Description
Join us for a guided plant walk and demonstration of how to prepare local medicinal plants to support your health as we enter the colder months. On the guided walk, we will learn to identify a variety of species and uncover the medicinal traditions and folklore woven into their histories. During the demonstration, we will learn how to prepare an infusion, decoction, and syrup using medicinal plants that can be found in our own backyards. This session offers a chance to understand how medicinal plants have been used for generations and what they have to teach us today.
We will spend part of the session outdoors and part indoors in an unheated room. Please come prepared, dressed in warm layers, for a chilly Autumn morning! A quick heads-up for anyone with allergies: this venue is home to barn cats, who will be in an enclosed area during the session.
Registration is required and opens one week in advance!
About the Presenters:
Jennifer Anne Tucker earned a BFA and MFA in photography from Penn State and met her herbal mentors, Evelyn Snook, Bill Russell and Keith Wilson in the early 1970’s. To this day Jennifer works at the intersection of diverse practices in herbalism, photography, teaching, consulting, yoga, shamanism, ethnobotany, and writing. She is the author of Evelyn’s Way: Cleansing and Nourishing with Plants (jennifer-tucker.com), a workbook of herbal remedies and practices devoted to the teachings of Evelyn Snook. Jennifer is co-founder of the annual Hawthorn Botanical Gathering at Rhoneymeade, PA.
Briel Beaty is a Traditional Western Herbalist, Reiki and Yoga instructor offering classes in the State College, PA area. Briel grew up embedded in the PA woods and dabbled in herbalism throughout her life until she began her formal herbal studies. She started her formal herbal studies with Susan Hess in 2014 with a year-long Homestead Herbalism Certificate course. Following that she moved on to study at the The Northeast School of Botanical Medicine with herbalist/botanist 7Song, taking his 400-hour Community Herbalism Intensive. After the course, she went on to apprentice with him through 2017.
Parking Details
Parking Information: park in the grass lot back by the barn
Reschedule Policy
Because of the frequency and nature of our wellness sessions, adventure hikes, and guided outings, we are unable to reschedule these events. For special-topic programs, we will make every effort to reschedule when possible. If a special-topic event is postponed, participants will be notified with updated details as soon as they are available.
All programs are held rain or shine. In the event of a cancellation for severe weather, registrants will be contacted by email and/or phone, and it will be announced on our website, Facebook, and Instagram.
RSVP Medicinal Plants
If you need to cancel your registration, please email us at info@centredoutdoors.org at least 24 hours before the event. Our programs often have limited capacity, and early cancellations allow us to offer your spot to another participant. Thank you for helping us keep our events accessible to all!
