Upcoming Class & Workshop Offerings

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The practice of herbalism has deepened every aspect of what it means to be human on this planet, while teaching me how essential it is to our health & well-being to live in rhythm with the ever-changing cycles of the seasons.

For the past three years, I’ve offered the Herbal Compass CSA as an 8-session journey from March through October. This year, I’m excited to complete the wheel with you by extending the journey into winter with four additional sessions.

This four-part online series follows a similar format to our in-person Herbal Compass CSA, with each session exploring seasonal plant medicine, herbal allies, & practices for supporting well-being through the darker months. Together, we’ll move through winter with greater grace & reverence, learning from the plants & from one another through community discussion.

Offered in collaboration with clinical herbalist, educator, & organic herbal medicine grower Amy Boldt of Wild Women Medicine.

Each participant will receive a kit of local organically grown herbs from Eclipta Herbal Sanctuary & Barefoot Medicine Farm. Kits will include the herbs we’ll work with throughout the series, an Herbal Compass Zine along with downloaded PDF instructions for each session. Herb kit pickup will be available, with shipping offered for an additional cost. Participants will also need a few basic kitchen tools & supplies, which will not be provided. 

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Instead of a conventional CSA of farm share veggies to be picked up & prepared on your own at home our Herbal Compass CSA is all about growing & harvesting plant medicine that doubles as a medicine making instructional class. These sessions are not only an excellent way to build a stronger human community but also focuses on cultivating deep awareness of seasonal shifts & cycles of the earth body in relationship with the inner rhythms of your own human body. Each turn of the calendar wheel we call on our allies, the plants, as our healing compass. Traditionally, herbal medicine was always made collectively; from seed saving, cultivation, harvesting & preparation. Learn to integrate herbs into your daily life while experiencing a unique opportunity to "drop in" to our ever growing urban healing sanctuary as we study the incredible benefits of these wild botanicals which we can cultivate in abundance right here in Baltimore City. Most herbalists will tell you that the plant most appropriate for what ails you is a plant that grows right outside your door (or within your bio-region). The earth body & the human body are one-in-the-same!

Join us as we tap into this earth wisdom for optimal health & vitality!

"We can support the earth by staying solid in our cycles, as much as we can, with those of the earth, moon & sun." - Judith Berger, Herbal Ritual

This is an in-person medicinal plant tour held at our 0.7 acre herbal sanctuary located in Northeast Baltimore (the full address is sent to all who register). As we stroll we will meet various herbal allies to discuss parts of their botany & their amazing therapeutic gifts. 

The Eclipta sanctuary is now home to more than 100 different medicinal plants who are a mix of native, naturalized & non-native species. We pride ourselves on being one of the most biodiverse ecosystems within the city & specialize in habit restoration which considers, soil health, climate change instability & the cultivation of both flood & drought tolerant plants. 

What does it mean to know the land? Why learn about the land around you? Learning the land where you live is about cultivating a relationship with the external & internal environment which then allows you to rise to the challenges of life by emotionally, physically & spiritually rooting to the earth under your feet. It is also about the importance of place based education as a radical act of climate change reversal.“Our severance from nature leaves us feeling as if we do not belong in the world, & that can be a source of anxiety & deep despair.” The simple act of working with local herbs on a daily bases can be a means of harnessing this connection again. “If we no longer feel nurtured by the Earth, we no longer belong to it, & because we do not belong to it, we do not feel responsible for it.”

This virtual class is offered as part of the Herbal Compass 8 month series yet is offered separately in order to give you an idea of what the series is like & to get a better understanding of the symbols & various guide posts which we will follow throughout the year. Nearly every culture around the world which had or still has a connection to their land-based wisdom practices will utilize an medicine wheel of some kind.

Are you searching for a way to reconnect with the rhythmic changes of the seasons & reawaken your wild roots? Orienting yourself within the compass is a way of honoring yourself as part of the web of life & our relationship with the dynamic 5 phases of Mama Earth. Healing is ultimately an act of compassion.  Compass = compassion, guidance, orientation. Where am I? What am I? You can’t enact genuine compassion & healing, for yourself & others, without intentional grounding & orientation.  

This 5 phase/element (earth, fire, metal, water & wood) medicine wheel was created from aspects of both Celtic & Chinese land based traditions.