Spend one hour each week in our wild gardens learning to identify plants using basic sensory skills.

We will be guided by the living plants and learning directly from them, discovering how they are used for food, medicine and pleasure.

The class includes practical information on harvest and preparation.

Who is this for?

This series is for beginners as well as for more experienced plant people who want to practice and develop their plant identification skills. Folks currently enrolled in herbal classes and herb class graduates can reinforce and expand their “hands on” plant knowledge. This is a useful course for outdoor education instructors as well.

About the Wild Gardens:

This class takes place entirely outdoors in our gardens (and a bit in the surrounding meadows and woods).

The gardens, for the most part, are no-till, permanent beds, with year-round mulch that contain over two-hundred diverse species of annuals, perennial herbs, bushes, trees, vines and poultry.

The wild flora are welcome and encouraged in the gardens. We are drawn to these gardening techniques that work with nature to create lively, productive, beautiful gardens with less work.

Another goal along these lines has been to maintain the gardens without the use of any chemical inputs: pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides, etc. – which we have succeeded in doing (from our point of view) throughout the gardens’ lifetime. Our homestead serves as an herbal teaching site and botanical apothecary.

Please note: This course does not include lab projects, cooking, or any indoor classroom time.

Program Information:

For:  Limited to 15 adults

Dates: Every Wednesday (18 sessions) from May 23 thru Sept 19 (we skip Aug
15)
Time: 5 – 6pm
Location: The lovely hamlet of Lyonsville, Stone Ridge, NY
Cost: $200 ($100 deposit by April 25)

Note: All payments are non-refundable and non-transferable.

Dina Falconi is a clinical herbalist with a strong focus on food activism and nutritional healing. She has been teaching classes about the use of herbs for food, medicine, and pleasure, including wild-food foraging and cooking, for over twenty years. She produces Falcon Formulations natural body care products and Earthly Extracts medicinal tinctures. She is a founding member of the Northeast Herbal Association, a chapter leader of the Weston A. Price Foundation and on the board of Slow Food-Hudson Valley. An avid gardener and wildcrafter, Dina is passionate about ecological agriculture and has completed the Permaculture Design Certificate Course. She is the author of Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Personal Care for Everybody.

with Rolando Negoita and Josh Roberts

Make a traditional one piece hickory or white oak bow under the instruction of master craftsman Rolando Negoita. Over the course of four classes you will shape a wooden stave into a beautiful, fully functional bow.

You’ll be learning the proper use of traditional tools and methods such as:

• Lay out and shaping
• Rasping
• Tillering

Followed by some target practice with your new bow!

Tools and materials will be provided.

Dates and Times: 5pm – 8pm Tuesdays & Thursdays

• Tues May 15th
• Thurs May 17th
• Tues May 22nd
• Thurs May 24th

Ages: 12 and up

Cost: $360 per person

Location: Accord, NY

Come explore the beauty and the bounty of the gardens, fields and woods in this six month comprehensive course.  We will cover a vast amount of information encouraging the daily use of herbs for food, medicine and pleasure.  This course is designed to provide inspiring, practical and thorough “hands on” herbal information that can easily be incorporated into one’s life.

Topics include:

• Herbal Therapeutics
• Wild Plant Identification and Application
• Wild Food Foraging and Culinary Preparations
• Medicine Making
• Herbal Skin Care
• Nutritional Healing… and More

A significant amount of class time will be spent outdoors studying wild and cultivated plants. We will then bring these plants into our kitchen-classroom and transform them into food, medicine and various other preparations.  As part of our learning experience, we will prepare and enjoy a primarily “wild” delicious meal influenced by the plants that are in season.  Everyone will make an abundance of preparations to bring home and begin to create their own medicine chests.  In the last part of each class we will focus on a particular organ system, health topic or special project.

Program Information

Dates: One Saturday every month, May thru October 2012 (May 5, June 2, July 7, Aug 4, Sept 8 & Oct 13)

Time: Saturdays, 10:00AM to 4:00 PM

Location: The lovely hamlet of Lyonsville, Stone Ridge, NY

Cost: $600, includes material fee, $150 deposit due with registration, final balance due by April 1 (Note: All payments are non-refundable and non-transferable for this program).

Herbal Intensive with Dina Falconi is FULL.

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Dina Falconi, is a clinical herbalist with a strong focus on food activism and nutritional healing.  She has been teaching classes about the use of herbs for food, medicine and pleasure, including wild food foraging and cooking, for over twenty years.  She produces Falcon Formulations natural bodycare products and Earthly Extracts medicinal tinctures. She is a founding member of the Northeast Herbal Association, a chapter leader of the Weston A. Price Foundation & on the board of Slow Food-Hudson Valley.  An avid gardener and wildcrafter, Dina is passionate about ecological agriculture and has completed the Permaculture Design Certificate course.  She is author of Earthy Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Personal Care for Everybody.

Still have a question?  Please call Dina Falconi at 845-687-8938 with questions about the content of this program, or contact David Brownstein at david@wildearthprograms.org or call 845-256-9830 with questions about registration.