Plant Cunning Podcast

Get tickets for the Plant Cunning Conference: www.plantcunningconference.com Find Jen at: https://www.brigidsway.com/ Jen Frey is a Healer, Mentor, Earth Advocate and Voice of the Plants. She is the Founder of Heart Springs Sanctuary, where she helps people deepen their connection with Nature through Plant communication. With over 20 years of experience with Plant essences, energy work, and herbal practices her private consultations and Plant based protocols are known for helping clients through emotional life transitions, physical health crises, and chronic pain conditions.

TICKETS FOR THE PLANT CUNNING CONFERENCE: www.plantcunningconference.com Arborvitae School of Traditional Herbalism: https://www.arborvitaeny.com/ Claudia is a clinical herbalist and flower essence therapist with an additional specialty in food and nutrition therapy. She has a private practice in Germantown NY (Columbia county) and in Manhattan, NY since 1999. Claudia also teaches regularly about herbs, flower essences and traditional foods in practitioner study groups, workshops and conferences and offers private mentoring for clinical practice.

Plant Cunning Conference: https://plantcunningconference.com/ New Moon Mycology Summit: https://www.themyceliumunderground.com/nmms Smugtown Mushrooms: https://www.smugtownmushrooms.com/ In 2011, Smugtown Mushrooms was established because there was a need for mushrooms & growing supplies, workshops, events & community based science in her area. While learning more & embracing the never-ending, unlocked potential mushrooms & fungi have to help heal both people, planet & soul. Olga teaches workshops throughout the continent about wild mushroom identification, medicinal mushrooms, biology, and mushroom cultivation. She was a core organizer for the 2016 Radical Mycology Convergence and the MycoSymbiotics Festival from 2015-17. In 2018, Olga help co-create the New Moon Mycology Summit, a justice-focused, mycology centered event, linking many disciplines extending throughout the living world.

EARLY BIRD TICKETS FOR THE PLANT CUNNING CONFERENCE END JULY 28th! (find them here: https://buildwithmaple.notion.site/Plant-Cunning-Conference-Sept-9-10-2023-b7b505f1d48b414ebc02e7eb75ea54b0 ) Find Barbara and the Herb Society UK here: https://herbsociety.org.uk/ Barbara is a third-generation herbalist and runs The Springfield Clinic of Natural Healing in Cheshire. She is an advocate of cultivating the use of plants in everyday life and keen to empower people with the confidence to embrace food as medicine. She qualified as a Consultant Medical Herbalist in 2012, becoming a member of the Unified Register of Herbal Practitioners, and the College of Medicine and Integrated Health. As well as running her own practice, Barbara has been a Trustee for The Herb Society since 2014 and has appeared as a guest speaker at numerous events and conferences. She has had an allotment for over 28 years, where she grows both food and medicine.

Last chance for Plant Cunning Conference Early Bird tickets: https://buildwithmaple.notion.site/Plant-Cunning-Conference-Sept-9-10-2023-b7b505f1d48b414ebc02e7eb75ea54b0

Find Brandon at http://cosmicartifacts.com/

Find Salicrow here: https://www.salicrow.com/ Her new book is "Spirit Speaker: A Medium's Guide to Death and Dying", available most places. Last chance for Early Bird tickets for the Plant Cunning Conference here: https://buildwithmaple.notion.site/Plant-Cunning-Conference-Sept-9-10-2023-b7b505f1d48b414ebc02e7eb75ea54b0 In this episode we speak with psychic, medium and author Salicrow about growing up psychic, honoring and communicating with the spirits of the dead, working with land spirits, devas and earth energies, and a big picture look at the future. #psychicmedium #psychic #ancestors #occult #magic #landspirits #devas

Get your Early Bird tickets to the Plant Cunning Conference here: https://buildwithmaple.notion.site/Plant-Cunning-Conference-Sept-9-10-2023-b7b505f1d48b414ebc02e7eb75ea54b0 Find Mychal at: https://oraculosastrology.com/ In this episode we talk with Mychal about traditional western, tropical astrology. How he taught himself and learned from the best, why practice makes perfect, why planets are more important than signs, why he uses Regiomontanus house system, and much more!

#astrology, #traditionalastrology, #medicalastrology, #plantcunning

Plant Cunning Conference Info: https://buildwithmaple.notion.site/Plant-Cunning-Conference-Sept-9-10-2023-b7b505f1d48b414ebc02e7eb75ea54b0 In this episode we interview Ken Asmus of the legendary Oikos Tree Crops. Find him here: https://oikostreecrops.com/

Early Bird tickets to the Plant Cunning Conference available now: https://buildwithmaple.notion.site/Plant-Cunning-Conference-Sept-9-10-2023-b7b505f1d48b414ebc02e7eb75ea54b0 Use the code HH20 to get 20% off Stephen's book! at https://www.aeonbooks.co.uk/product/the-humoral-herbal-a-practical-guide-to-the-western-energetic-system-of-health-lifestyle-and-herbs/93719/ Herbalist Stephen Taylor regales us with stories and wisdom regarding the West's traditional system of energetics!

Flower essences, lyme disease, herbal medicine, tick protocol, and the herbal scene with Kate Gilday Find Kate at: https://woodlandessence.com/ Early Bird tickets for the in person Plant Cunning Podcast drop next week, May 23rd, so follow us on FB, IG or sign up for our email list at info at plantcunning dot com to catch the link.

In this episode we speak with herbalist Nick Cavanaugh about Burlington VT based Rail Yard Apothecary, which is a worker-owned co-op. There are a lot of benefits to structuring a business this way, as well as obstacles, and we talk about them all. You can find them here: https://www.railyardapothecary.com/

Find Camille at: https://www.camillefreeman.com/ Link to Pam Montgomery's class: https://www.wakeuptonature.com/co-creative-partnership-with-nature/?affiliate=plantcunning In this episode we have an amazing conversation with herbalist, nutritionist and mentor Camille Freeman about how to simplify your recommendations to be more effective, how to stand out and start getting referrals as an up-and-coming practitioner, the importance of a group of peers and mentors, and much more!

In this episode we speak with author and visionary artist Howard Charing about the amazing Pablo Amaringo, about communicating with plants, what angels are, and some of the interesting encounters he's had with the spirit world. Find him at: https://www.hgcharing.com/

You can find "Trees with Edible Leaves" free here: https://perennialagriculture.institute/2023/01/10/trees-with-edible-leaves-pais-latest-publication/ And Eric's website is: http://www.perennialsolutions.org/

In this episode we speak with permaculturist, plant geek, and author Eric Toensmeier about some of the amazing trees with edible leaves that are grown throughout the world, why tree leaves are so nutritious, and the best way to manage them for productivity, such as coppicing and pollarding.

#permaculture, #foodforest #perennialvegetables

In this episode we talk with herbalist, scholar, writer and multidisciplinary educator Kaitlin Smith about the importance of stories in connecting with place, and GaiaHub, a digital tool for tracking and connecting with earth knowledge. The tool uses Notion, an amazing software that combines word documents with databases and is a great tool for project management. We explore how herbalists can use the GaiaHub for tracking their apothecary recipes and what is in stock, keeping their materia medica plant knowledge, client information and booking, and tracking whatever classes they may be taking or teaching themselves. It's pretty comprehensive and pretty amazing, but if you aren't going to use it we dive into the details around the 30:00 minute mark. You can find her at: https://www.storiedgrounds.com/about

Find Freedom at https://www.scienceoflight.net/ ! 

 In this episode we talk about Vedic astrology, or Jyotish, why it's is so important for the practice of Ayurveda, about remediation, planetary charity, the nature of karma, and the relationship between deities and planetary archetypes.

#Ayurveda #Astrology #Vedic Astrology #Jyotish

In this episode we speak with Central New York herbalist Lisa Fazio about place, lineage, community, and Italian folk magic and medicine. You can find her at https://therootcircle.com/

#Italianfolkmedicine #Italianfolkmagic #Herbalism

Stone circles, the Secret of Solomon's Temple, ley lines, feng shui, radionics, cosmiculture pipes - in this episode we explore earth energies with John Michael Greer, and spill some secrets for how to grow a gangbusters garden.

In this episode we speak with aspiring farmer and researcher Mattie B on his work looking in to how Indigenous Microorganism (IMO) in Korean Natural Farming work, and how they compare to other soil amendments such as compost, mycogrow and others. Check out his work here: https://unadillacommunityfarm.org/imo/

This material is based upon work supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, through the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program under subaward number FNE22-001. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In this episode, we bring the village witch of Asheville, North Carolina herself, Byron Ballard, back on the show! We have a wonderful time chatting with Byron, and explore all sorts of topics. Grab a cup of tea and join us!

In this episode, we speak with 7Song, who was on episode 6 of the podcast, about first aid at the Rainbow Gatherings, staph infections, mental health herbs, and much more. Find him at 7song.com!

In this episode AC and Isaac talk about their summer, the good and the bad, and what's to come.

In this episode we speak with Zamboni Funk (Check out his new podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCycn7mSrOqaUpEdnH7nzfPA)  about fall 2022! We talk about Mars being in Gemini from August until  March, about the Lunar Eclipse in Taurus on election day, about the  Saturn Uranus square that doesn't quite perfect, and much more.

In this episode we speak with herbalist, entrepreneur and teacher Ben  LeVine about the science behind why and how adaptogens work, the common  chemistry behind many of these herbs, about going from dumpster diving,  to working at Celestial Seasonings, to co-founding Rasa, an herbal  company that provides coffee alternatives that are "obsessively  sustainable" - and we get into what that means, and how to actually  scale up herbalism in a way that helps heal the earth.

If you're interested in attending sliding-scale priced classes on herbalism with AC this month (May 2022) visit her website, www.travelingherbfarmer.com/education to learn more and register.