In The Field Herbal First Aid
Learn how to tend to wounds and ailments with the wild plants that grow right there in the field.
Join us for an in the field 3-hour workshop to learn to identify medicinal plants and how to use them for immediate first aid when you’re in the field.
In this workshop we’ll meet some of the best wild medicinal healing plants in this area, and we’ll learn how you could use each of them for ailments that pop up when you’re out galivanting in the wild. Some of the plants we’ll meet and work with include:
Plantain
Goldenrod
Mallow
Grindelia
Burdock
Prickly Pear
Yarrow
Monarda
Willow
In addition to a gentle plant ID walk in the mountains, we’ll also learn preparation techniques like making a poultice and wild teas to utilize these remedies in the field.
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
This workshop will include a gentle 2 mile plant ID walk and talk, as well as some time with hands-on preparations. Exact location will be sent once registration is complete but will be in the hills just west of Boulder, CO.
This is a gentle hike, but will be in the wilderness. So please be prepared with proper clothing, footwear, water and snacks.
You’ll receive a printout of the plants we’ll cover in our walk.
I'm offering this workshop on sliding scale from $65-$80. The sliding scale is intended to make this offering more accessible to all, and appropriately respond to the wide range of access to financial resources within our community. Please pay what you can reasonably afford knowing that your willingness to do so makes it possible for others to attend.
Your Guide:
Mandy Bishop is a nature-based guide, mentor, and founder of Old Ways Wisdom—a place where ritual art, ancestral skills, and Sacred Storywork weave together to bring us back into relationship with ourselves, the land, and the wisdom of our ancestors. Mandy has a deep relationship with and life-long apprenticeship to the plants and the wisdom of the land.
For over 20 years, Mandy has been intimately involved with the green ones in many forms, including foraging wild foods and wildcrafting medicines in the front range of Colorado. She’s a native plant master, an organic farmer and a folk herbalist having learned most of what she knows from elders, wisdom keepers and her own ancestors. She’s also a certified Wilderness First Responder.