Wild Herb Academy

Quenepa, Limoncillo, (Melicoccus bijugatus) from the northern coast of Colombia. These beautful women harvested the fruit 💚 all along the shore of the northern coast of Colombia there is fresh fruit from many native trees 💚🌎💚

We, humans, are waking up to the fact that what we need and what we have ALWAYS needed is FREE!

Learn Wild Herbs!

Cheers to the weekend with a drink that benefits and support the liver! Learn how to make this Mimosa syrup -https://www.wildherbacademy.com/opt-in-free-mimosaflowersyrup

Listen to Wild Herb Podcast, Episode #20, How to Connect with the Divine Feminine during Beltane with ordained Priestess Kate Murphy! Kate Murphy

Kate shares what it means to walk the path of the priestess and shares with you a few ways for you to connect with your divine feminine energy during the month of May.

You can listen to the Wild Herb Podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Just type in Wild Herb Podcast in the search section. You don't want to miss episode #20.

Kate is a gem lighting the path for many women to step into their divine feminine power! I hope you learn more and get to know Kate's medicine.
https://www.wildherbacademy.com/podcasts/wild-herbs-with-april/episodes/2148637992

Image by Suzanne Ferrara-Harris at the Native Plant Fedtival at Old Santee Canal Park.

Under the live oaks we gathered with one common purpose, to return to wild food and medicine and love the Earth more 🦋

I am beyond excited to offer four NEW events in May. I LOVE connecting and facilitating plant-love connections through the In Season membership online, but I also want to connect with you in person. I want to witness first-hand the plant-human connection and see the glow in your eyes when you fall in love with a new wild herb.

I am offering two forage walks and two wild herb infused ceremonies. I have limited class size for a more intimate connection. If you want to connect with wild herbs and drop more into your body and heart, save your spot.

Go to: https://wildherbevents.com/services to reserve your space. I hope to see you there.

The oldest medicinal flower in the Southeast-Magnolia grandiflora!

Learn more in an upcoming FREE Masterclass-“Take Charge of Your Health: Learn How to Heal with Wild Herbs”

https://www.wildherbacademy.com/healwithwildherbsmasterclass

Come learn a few coastal wild herbs and wild herbs that you can use as an incense to clear negative energy. We will gather on the New Moon, May 7th, to forage, join together in ceremony, and make smudge sticks with intention for the New Moon.

May 7th, 2024, 6PM-8PM. Limited to 10 people. Save your spot
https://wildherbevents.com/services/ola/services/forage-your-smudge-and-new-moon-ceremony

This is an anticancer plate of food! This is a plate of food that will feed my microbiome!
Five plants that wouldn’t have been in my diet if I relied on vegetables at the grocery store.
Five plants that will nourish my body!
Learn Wild Herbs!

https://www.wildherbacademy.com/learnwildherbs

This plate will be combined with a free range egg -lunch

Cattail Season! Cattails are featured in our monthly membership this May💚

I feel SO blessed to guide and facilitate people’s connection with wild herbs! And grateful for Athena Herder sharing her cattail wisdom this month!

We are all re-remembering our sacred connection with the Earth and we know it feels better than the shopping mall!

https://www.wildherbacademy.com/learnwildherbs

Keep your eyes open for loquats!!! They are fresh right now and super tasty 💚they have shown to be anticancer given their high antioxidant content.

Stay young and free with Mulberry (Morus alba)!

Young at heart, and free from dis-ease.

Watch a FREE In Season Video on mulberry here, so you can start making mulberry matcha tea:

https://www.wildherbacademy.com/freemulberryvideo

Check your inbox for the email and confirm your email and you will receive the video!

Happy Foraging! Stay Wild!

I am so excited that Gretchen Manzer founded Edisto Island Herbals! Gretchen plans to add wild herbs to her products.

Gretchen Manzer has been excelling in our wild herb membership, In Season.

She gave us a beautiful testimonial:
"I cannot count the number of ways I’ve been blessed by the In Season membership. It’s thrilling to be able to identify so many wild, medicinal plants every time I step outside. Knowing how to property utilize them to better ourselves and our community is empowerment we are all meant to have. It’s inspired me to start an herbal products company focused on local medicinal herbs and flowers. Thank you, April, for offering us such an informative and affordable way to reconnect with the knowledge we’ve forgotten."

Thank you, Gretchen!

Definitely keep your eyes open for Gretchen's herbal products, I have her facial moisturizer and it is out of this world! A*o, I love the Echinacea, thyme, and elderberry glycerin that leaves your mouth tingling, in a good way.

If you want to learn wild herbs too, I'd love to connect with you and serve as your guide into the healing world of plants. The plants really do all the talking:).
https://www.wildherbacademy.com/forage-monthly

Do you want to learn how to dye with natural dye plants, such as avocado? If so, definitely take a listen to this week's podcast episode with Liz Spencer, Founder and Artist of The Dogwood Dyer

Liz shares how to dye naturally with avocado and shares how to reduce your fashion footprint to be a better steward of Mother Earth!

Save those avocado peels and pits!

You can find the Wild Herb Podcast by typing in Wild Herbs in Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

You can listen here too:
https://www.wildherbacademy.com/podcasts/wild-herbs-with-april/episodes/2148577700

Sisters and Brothers!
Let me tell you how I am feeling
You have given me such a blessing
I LOVE you so!

Liz Ramirez
Angeline Montoya Powell
Mystic Healing Arts
Flow into Yoga
Serenity Yoga
Vasily Punsalan

Spring Medicine Revival Retreat

Almost everytime I get tired and need inspiration, an In Season Member or a Medical Botany student will share an image with me of what they foraged, medicine they made, or them out foraging with their family. These images are waves of inspiration that help keep me on the teaching path and give me energy to keep showing up.

Thank you Suzanne's Natural Foods

You are a gem! Suzanne shared this image and said it was her girl's picture of their foraged forest finds.

In Season Behind the Scenes! Nora LuceCritical Ritualcame to the herbal kitchen to teach electuaries💚 This medicine making video will be released in April. Members will get to watch it and make their own relaxing and uplifting electuaries.
Also, members will get to learn and make medicine and/or food with:
Sassafras
White mulberry
Smooth spiderwort
& Sow Thistle

Learn Wild Herbs

The In Season membership opens in 8 days 💚

https://www.wildherbacademy.com/forage-monthly

Thank you to Kimbosha McIntire for capturing the footage

In Season Members inspire me SO much when they share their foraged creations and they give me the energy I need to show up and teach wild herbs 💜 Thank you Katie Weinberger

Come join us on Spring Equinox. Spring Equinox is a time when light and night are equal in length and masculine and feminine energies are balanced. It is the perfect time to meditate and gather in community to renew your energy and life purpose on this planet.

We will gather together in community and ceremony to harness the energy of this sacred day.

Grateful for Sacred Sand Art, Liza Ramirez Sounds, Angeline Powell, and Critical Ritual for bringing their energy to the circle. Sacred Sand Art is going to do a mandala in the sand and we will gather around the mandala to give thanks for life and the new Spring Season!

Time to unfurl! This is a FREE community event. Share with your friends and family. Kids and all are welcome.

With Love!

Location, Lighthouse Inlet Heritage Preserve, walk past the driftwood trees, to the open expansive beach. 3/19/24, 4-6pm.

Make sure to forage white clovers! They are beneficial for women, learn more by downloading your free guide, click the link below:
https://www.wildherbacademy.com/whiteclovertea

Come forage with me and make wild food! In Person Wild Herb Forage, 3/13/24, 4:30PM, meet at Medway Gardens in Riverland Terrace
https://wildherbevents.com/services

Forage wild mustard (Brassica juncea) and sauté and it will look and taste similar to broccolini-just with a little more kick.

Have you ever been to a Cacao Ceremony? Angeline Montoya Powell creates a beautiful Cacao Ceremony that will have your heart completely open ready to receive.

Angeline will lead a Cacao Ceremony at the Spring Medicine Revival Retreat. This retreat will take place on 140-acres of wild land. The intention of the retreat is to unfurl into the spring season. To completely let go of what no longer serves us so we can be open to receive the spring and summer sun.

At the retreat, there will be:
1. Foraging Walks
2. Medicine Making Circles
3. Amazing Nutritious Food
4. Kundalini Yoga in the Mornings
5. Cacao Ceremony
6. Soundbathe
7. Fire Circles and Ceremony
8. Stargazing

Date: March 29th-April 1st, Location: Hortense, Georgia.

This was a private retreat for In Season Members only, but I am opening it to 6 beautiful souls that want to come. Could that be you? Let me know if you have any questions, [email protected]

Click the link below to register.

https://www.wildherbacademy.com/springmedicinerevival

Did you know that there are fern allies on this Earth that hold special medicine? The fern allies are "living fossils" that have survived and lived for millions of years.

This is a botanical illustration of Lycopodium clavatum, running clubmoss. I just reviewed the medicinal properties of this herb in Medical Botany 1.

It is important for us to know the wide breadth of medicinal plants, so we can connect with wild herbs.

Registration for Medical Botany 2 will open in September 2024. Medical Botany 1 will reopen in February 2025. If you are like, April, what is Medical Botany? Check out our recent podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/13-the-inside-scoop-on-medical-botany/id1716790019?i=1000647574877

Super excited for the Spring Medicine Revival Retreat March 29th-April 1st, 2024. This retreat is an offering for In Season Wild Herb Members and the community.

It’s a time for us to connect deeply with the Earth and unfurl into the Spring.

There will be foraging walks, medicine making, ceremonies, and kundalini yoga by the beautiful Mystic Leger💚Mystic Healing Arts

All-purpose salve! Good for wound healing, scratches, and bug bites.

This is the salve I will teach In Season members how to make in March💚

https://www.wildherbacademy.com/rewild

If you want to start foraging and making wild medicine, the membership is open for the next two weeks. Go to the link above to learn more.

Image of Kim McIntire, Wild Herb Videographer 💚thank you Kim💚for making the videos come out awesome! Bosha Videography

We have to shift our current paradigm. Over half of our nutrients and calories from plants comes from only 3 plant species-wheat, corn, and rice! We are extremely intelligent beings, capable of foraging up to hundreds to thousands of wild plants. Definitely take the time to learn wild herbs and diversify your diet. Go to wildherbacademy.com to learn more and download this free year-round forage guide to get started today :https://www.wildherbacademy.com/forage-guide
Stay Wild! Stay Human!

Why do we consume only a tiny fraction of the world's edible plants? With over 200,000 edible plant species on earth, why do we concentrate on so few?

Tomorrow -Herbal Walk along the Charleston Greenway-February 15th, 2024, come join us, it’s only $8💚register here https://charlestonparksconservancy.salsalabs.org/herbalwalkinthepark-february/index.html

Right before opening registration for Medical Botany 1, my daughter got really sick with the flu and a double ear infection.

I had plans to do a free Pine Medicine Immersion and Webinars, etc., to let people know how powerful wild herbs can be when you connect fully and to announce Medical Botany; let people know about this in depth offering.

All of that-the plans-were off the table. Annarose's health was my main focus for two weeks. I didn't offer any immersion or webinars.

I called upon almost all of my plant allies, of which, 96% were wild herbs I foraged and most within 2 miles of my home.

So, although, Medical Botany didn't get a big runaway, I did realize even more why I show up to do this work.

Medical Botany was in ACTION. And I learned A LOT. I learned to trust my instinct, I learned how to build the body with wild herbs instead of weakening the body with Western Medicine.

I was reminded that the diagnostics for Western Medicine are awesome, but wild plant medicine can heal the body more gently and efficiently.

I was reminded why I am here typing this announcement for Medical Botany.

This is the course that I put my heart and soul into. This is my purpose. This is my calling. This is my Dharma. I am thankful.

I invite you to join me in knowing the depth, diversity, and extent of Wild Herb Medicine.

I invite you to join me in Medical Botany 1.

Registration will be open for 2 more days.

https://www.wildherbacademy.com/medicalbotany

Medical Botany | a 12-week online course with Wild Herb Academy

🗓 2.13.24 until 5.7.24

This course is for you if:

You want to forage wild herbs for yourself, family, and community.
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You want to understand the specific phytochemicals and medicine in plants that bring healing.
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You want a systematic way for learning wild herbs.
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You have a desire to become a confident forager, herbalist, ethnobotanist, healer, and maybe even a field botanist.
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You want to be able to recognize wild herbs worldwide.
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You are a dedicated student and are honouring your path by going deeper into the botanical healing world.
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You want to learn field botany so you are confident wildcrafting.

➡CLICK the 🌼link🌼 to get more information & sign up today! https://www.wildherbacademy.com/medicalbotany