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Rachel Lord, MH, RN, AHG, author of a one of a kind textbook for herbalists, CLINICAL HERBALISM: PLANT WISDOM FROM EAST AND WEST (Elsevier)
Rachel photographing Pedicularis in Pike National Forest for her Clinical Herbalism book
Rachel displaying her hard-won Osha root
Authors of the best plant guide book
Mary O'Brien, Teacher and Herbalist, and Karen Vail, Botanist, have published a beautiful new plant book called "EDIBLE & MEDICINAL PLANTS of the Southern Rockies: Foothills to Alpine in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho" including their beloved Yampa Valley area plants around Steamboat Springs, Colorado, an extraordinary ecosystem for plants and herbs. The book has gorgeous photos, excellent descriptions, medicinal uses, gardening tips, and other great information about the plants. Available NOW! Click on Books tab for more information on the book and email me to order one or go to their publishing website: www.leaningtreetales.com
Mary O'Brien of BLACK BEAR EARTH ARTS offers herbal medicine classes, wildflower walks, sacred plant relationship, healing gardens & permaculture.
CONTACT Mary O'Brien @ herbalmob@gmail.com
Karen Vail, above, and Mary O'Brien, below, of Steamboat, Colorado have authored a beautiful plant book on edible and medicinal uses of plants in the steamboat area and those that grow throughout the Southern Rockies, from Denver foothills, west to Utah, south to Santa Fe and north into Wyoming. this is an excellent new field guide for herbalists and all who love to be out in nature.
Macy Jozsef, Living From The Heart, a pioneer in Dolphin Therapy
Living From The Heart, The Dolphin Experience. A non-profit organization since 1988. Macy Jozsef is a pioneer in Dolphin Therapy. Also, see Macy's wonderful children's book, LEFTY The Left Pawed Cat by Macy & Lefty & Friends: click here or on Books link on sidebar menu or at the bottom of this page.
Macy, right, who founded Living From The Heart, The Dolphin Experience, sits by the creek with Lefty, about whom she wrote the fun children's book, LEFTY The Left Pawed Cat.
Herb Class Walk Brigitte Mars Boulder 6-13-13
Brigitte Mars Herb Class Walk in Boulder 7-13-13 for Just for Health School of Reflexology and Healing Arts Master Herbalist certification program: Botanical Medicine - East and West. Brigitte was teaching the Western Herbs portion of the program for the school in Englewood, Colorado that year.
Joan's herb walk 6-22-13 Sugar Creek Rd
Joan Zinn Herb Class Walk in Pike National Forest 6-22-13 for Just for Health School of Reflexology and Healing Arts Master Herbalist certification program: Botanical Medicine - East and West. This was the first field trip for this class, who graduated in March 2014.
Stone Shelter Boulder class walk
Incredibly cool stone shelter on Brigitte Mars' instructional and fascinating 7-13-13 misty, sometimes rainy, Boulder Herb Walk with the herb class gathered for a group photo. Rachel Lord, founder and director of the school is 4th from left and Brigitte, Herbalist and Nutritionist for over 40 years, then teaching for the school, sits next to Rachel in black.
Mushroom hunting time, usually in the Fall. As early as July, we got this gigantic puffball mushroom from a friend's private land, 100 acres in Colorado Springs. We carefully cut away any brown parts and sautéed the rest in butter, then froze them individually. Mmmmmm!
Cool mushroom pictures (I have no idea what kind they are) on an herb walk mid-August with apprentice Sarah Street on Guanella Pass Road, 3-mile Creek Trail, a ways in from Grant. Guanella 8-15-13
Mushroom cluster 3-mile trail Guanella 8-15-13
Puffball Mushroom July 2013
Puffball mushroom sliced and ready to cook in butter. Bountiful!