Interesting shift towards home herbalism

[Guest guest]

Having observed the primitive wilderness skills community for more

than 16 years while teaching at a class this weekend I noticed

something that may be of interest to those in this group. Of the 6

students, none of which were out of their twenties yet, 3 of them

brought herbal tinctures (one brought a bottle of homemade mugwort

beer) they had made to share with people and a 4th was great at

combining different blends of herbs to make delicious teas. This is

far different from 10 even 5 years ago when the word tincture was met

with a blank look.

I remarked about this to a visiting Cherokee elder and he smiled

and said, " Yep, 20 years ago if you knew anything at all it was a big

mystical secret, now the information is out there. "

We shared our carry kits and while there were " What do you carry

that for? " questions from each of us they weren't coming from a place

of ignorance about plant medicines, it was more of an excited sharing

of pet approaches. The girl that was getting the sniffles from some

sickness already knew what fire cider was and was happy that we had

some there she could draw upon for herbal support.

Probably statistically one class isn't much of an indicator

compared to mainstream society, even so I have never seen such a high

percentage of already practicing herbal hobbyists together in a

nonplant skills course. I think this shows how earth medicines know

how is spreading in the archetypical grassroot fashion. Internet info

like the stuff you all share so freely here is making a difference to

people out there. So everyone keep up the good work (or is it play, we

discussed it at the class do we have a word that combines the words

work and play? We made one up for this, plorking) gathering our own

experiences and sharing it with others. It makes a difference.

[Guest guest]

Very good news!!!!!!

Gayla

Interesting shift towards home herbalism

> Having observed the primitive wilderness skills community for more

> than 16 years while teaching at a class this weekend I noticed