Four Seasons Herbal Guild

Sang: A Child's Resilience Unearthed in the Heart of Appalachia "I had not only found 'sang' but also uncovered a newfound sense of resilience—a resilience that would carry me through the trials and triumphs of life."

NORTHEAST WASHINGTON FARMERS' MARKET SPRING MEETING

April 10th, 2024 at 10am at the Hunger Coalition meeting room, 347 W 2nd Ave Suite G here in Colville.

If you are planning on or considering setting up at the Market this year, please attend and have the oppotunity to meet the market's new manager, Kelli Lippert. She would appreciate knowing who wants to vend this year. You can email her at [email protected] or call her at 208-866-0639.

New vendors are encouraged to attend our spring meeting. If you have not been juried or have new products that need to be juried, you may bring samples of your work to the meeting.

Hey Spokane will you please help me spread the word about this? The Herbal Faire is such an incredible success in June, so many people ask for another one. But planning another two-day event like that seemed very arduous for the board, so instead we came up with a new idea, Spokane gets an Herbal Market!!
Join us at the West Central Abbey for our very first one on April 13th!
And help us spread the word please! Our Facebook was hacked, and now it sits with us unable to access it, and the almost 3,000 people that we had in our following are no longer getting updates from us...

So anyways, share this post with people that are interested! We will have a pop-up market in April with herbalists and three workshops!
Spring ephemerals with Mary Schmidt
Nettles and their power with Rachel Clark
Soil blocking as an alternative to seed starting, with Jessica Spurr.

See you there!

I love Mira Jacob’s book, “Good Talk.” I finished it in one day, and I still pick it up as a reminder and reference book.

This quote from her High Five interview is exactly what the book delivers:

“I wanted to talk about this very unglamorous, hard-to-define thing, which was how beautiful and hilarious and terrible and heartbreaking everyday conversations can be with the people you love.”

Somehow the hard-to-define messiness of everyday conversations feels better when you know you’re not alone. Thank you, Mira.

https://brenebrown.com/articles/2024/01/23/5-questions-with-mira-jacob/

📸 by Tanzila Ahmed

Weekly Offerings Listen to Podcasts and recordings of meeting meditations!

Fall Fire Cider Making!!

November 18th
Location: West Central Abbey
12-2
$10 suggested, non members
You Bring:
1 Onion
1/4 head of Garlic
Fist of Ginger Rt
1 good sized chunk of Horseradish
1 Lemon
1 Quart Jar & Ring
1 Jar lid sized piece of wax paper
1 jar of Apple Cider Vinegar
1 Cutting Board
1 Large and sharp knife

***Yes to Buying Organic your medicine is only as good as your ingredients***

We will Bring
Burdock Root!! and info about it!
The story of Fire Cider & information about why we love it.
Herbs 🌿💚🙏🏼

Board member, Earthly Apothecary will be teaching at the beautiful Harmony Woods starting this week!
Join her Wednesday night, and begin the journey with Elderberry, Tincture, Tea & Syrup!

Margi Flint has been interviewed by Mountain Rose and Rosalee de la Foret, both are great for entirely different reasons. With Rosalee we learn all about Burdock. With Thomas we learn about who Margi is, who William LeSassier is, and some gems of facial diagnostics.

Four Seasons Herbal Guild Mid Fall Update “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

We've all been so busy preparing for this!!
In Margi's own words:

"Reading the body’s colors, lines, facial, tongue and fingernail changes offers practitioners confirmation, or better still, initial direction for the herbs to be consumed. Some of these indications change when better health is achieved. To understand the importance of visual indications has been the foundation of my practice. Face, tongue and fingernails, toes, colors and the wide variety of lines and their depth is crucial for accurate understanding of energetic health. The physical body cannot be separated from the spiritual or mental aspects of self. Those skills taught by the late William LeSassier and then new indications from David Winston, and then Matthew Wood, have allowed me to find compliance with clients, narrow down the decisions about which herbs to employ with each client, and confirm my thoughts around which endocrine gland, organ system, or emotional state is under duress. The energetics appear on, in, and into words in unique ways with each person who sits before me. I do believe this skill needs to be introduced early in herbal studies

The Herbal Fairw day one was so much fun! So many incredible people and things to take pictures of. Wonderful classes, wonderful teachers, some technical difficulties, but we made it through! Thank you to everyone that we saw on day one, and now we are looking forward to day two! (More pix to come!)
10:00 fire cider workshop!
11:00 herbs for COVID
12:15 how to be open heart d with rose medicine
2:00 making layered plant medicine
2:00 the medicinal herb garden

See you there!
1823 West Dean 10-4

It's Faire Weekend!!! Welcome everyone to our beautiful, family friendly, educational, fun event!
Today we feature several amazing talks, including Margi Flint of Earth song Herbals, she will be joining us via Zoom at 1:00!!

Good morning spokane! We are so excited that our fair is this weekend! Unfortunately our face painter had to drop out at the last minute, we are still really hoping for a face painter to join our fair this weekend! Can't tell you how incredibly magical it is to have all the children running around with painted faces and of course some of us adults too. Send us a private message or comment here if your available!

Just a day away!!
We are so pleased to announce Margi Flint, of Earth Song Herbals, author of The Practicing Herbalist, will be joining us Saturday, LIVE, via zoom at 1:00 for an interview and teaser of her upcoming Oct two day workshop, Reading The Body.

See you at the Faire!

Amazing event!!!

See you in the Meadow in just a few days—Remember to look over our website for all the packing and directions updates!

https://www.nwherbalfair.com

Lung Health A Vitalist Perspective Saturday, May 27th West Central Abbey $10 suggested

~Presenter Spotlight~ ⁣
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We are honored and grateful for the opportunity to learn from NWHF Alumni Elisa Moon at this year’s MOSAIC: 14th NW Herbal Fair happening June 8-11th, 2023 at Skalitude Retreat Center in Twisp, WA.
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Elisa's two 75 minute learnshops will be called “East-Asian Perspectives on Medicinal Mushrooms” & “Earth-Based Medicine and Ancestral Integrity” ⁣⁣⁣
Elisa “Moon” Yeen (they/she) is a q***r settler of Chinese, Ashkenazi Jewish, and Irish ancestry. A naturalist, poet, medicine maker, dancer, martial art practitioner, and liberation acupuncturist, they find endless inspiration in the mystery of nature and the ancestral forces that create us. They give thanks to the Lummi and Nooksack people, where they explore the intersections of diaspora, settler responsibility, grief, ecology of human anatomy, and our cultural-emotional (dis)connection from the beyond-human world. They examine how we might find belonging in an ever-changing world by remembering our hearts, and our kin while practicing, teaching and writing about East Asian medicine, ancestral integrity, and herbal medicine of plants and fungi.
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𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰-Saturday Day Passes for Locals/Off-Site along with a new 30% off-partial work trade passes. ⁣
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𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. If you’ve been holding out now is the time to purchase! This is an ~200 person weekend experience. We can’t wait to see you in the Meadow!⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

Lung Health, A Vitalist Perspective

Rachel Clark is a certified clinical herbalist with over 1,500 hrs of formal training and 200 hours of clinical experience. She specializes in GI support, lung health, pain and surgery support. You can find out more about her Spokane practice and latest offerings and events at https://rachelclarkherbalist.com/ on Instagram

Lung Health A Vitalist Perspective Saturday, May 27th West Central Abbey $10 suggested

This Saturday!!
Our own guild board member Rachel Clark of Five Elements Herbals, LLC will be presenting an amazing class on the health and balance of lungs, with fire season on the way there are plenty of useful pieces of information here. Come join us and learn!
$10 non members, free for guild members.
1:00
West Central Abbey

Learn how to support lung health from a Vitalist point of view. We'll cover basic biology, nutrition, lifestyle and herbs (materia medica) specific for the lungs and collaborate to make a take-home tincture to support lung health.

Rachel Clark is a certified clinical herbalist with over 1,500 hrs of formal training and 200 hours of clinical experience. She specializes in GI support, lung health, pain and surgery support. You can find out more about her Spokane practice and latest offerings and events at https://rachelclarkherbalist.com/ on Instagram