Free Tele-Lecture with Guido Mase, (Pssst my fellow Springfield Sanctuary Apprentices studying Dandelion)

Urban Moonshine invites you to a free tele-lecture with Guido Mase!

Topics will include:
· Spring cleansing and detoxification from an herbal perspective
· Seasonal allergies 
· Digestive health
· Liver heath 
· Dandelion and the importance of bitter herbs in our modern diets
· Connecting to plants as medicine to heal ourselves & the earth!

visit the Urban Moonshine link for all the details. This is tomorrow folks, so you need to email them fast!

This is Guido’s great blog, A Radicle, and The Center for Integrative Herbalism he co-founded.

Urban Moonshine has some great past lectures and notes available on their site, including some wonderful bitters and tonic ones.

The Mountain Rose blog is running a great giveaway in connection with this event.

Herbal and Honey Hugs to all who visit Comfrey Cottages xxx

 

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The Ostara Issue of Pooka Pages is ready! Happy Spring Equinox!

Oh this Ostara issue of the Pooka pages is just wonderful! Darling coloring pages, craft ideas, gardening ideas, adventure quests, book suggestions, and a wonderful story! 

In case you missed last years issue click this link! And make sure to sign up for the mailing list and explore the rest of Lora’s wonderful site!

I want to mention that my friend Latisha has beautiful ideas for celebrating spring also! This is her post from last year with lots of ideas for you also to use to celebrate!

Herbal and Honey Hugs to all who visit Comfrey Cottages xx

(picture used with Lora Craig Gaddis’s permission) xx

An Introduction to Plant Identification – Free Webinar

The School of Modern Herbal Medicine is hosting a free webinar on learning plant identification. I know I have some readers that are new to identifying plants, and thought to share this in case they would like to sign up! This from the site:)

“It's great that modern herbalism allows us to purchase ready-made herbal products in capsules, tablets, tinctures and other forms. However, it's even more wonderful when you actually know how to harvest and use local plants. There's something magical about being able to pick a wild plant or even a common garden weed and process it into your own herbal medicine. It helps you to recognize the bounteous gifts of Nature that are available to us for free!
With the economic struggles many people are experiencing and the global problems that are happening, and are predicted to continue to happen, its also reassuring when you know how to turn to nature for food and medicine.
That's why we're offering a botany class via webinar. It's not that you have to be an expert in botany to know how to identify a plant, its just that understanding some basic botany, such as leaf and flower structures, types of roots and fruits and the characteristics of major botanical families really helps you when it comes to identifying plants.
In this free introduction to our Botany class, we're going to discuss basic flower parts and introduce the characteristics of several major botanical families. We're not only going to talk about the plant characteristics of these families, we're also going to discuss some of their basic chemistry and energetics.
Join us and start understanding plants as something more than a prepared herbal medicine in a bottle. Start to get to know the plants as the living creatures they are. You'll gain a whole new appreciation for Nature's medicines.
This is a webinar (a class taught via the internet). To register, to to: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/934694290
The class will be recorded and a link sent to everyone who registers to download the recording and handouts. So, even if you can't make the live class, you can still get the material if you register.”

Herbal and Honey Hugs to all who visit Comfrey Cottages xxx