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Time for an update! 2025 continues it's crazy trajectory and we've now hit full throttle!
People continue to hint at me writing books about our wild food and medicine escapades. The textbook idea is taking shape, and I've decided the herbal compendium will be a trip through history as we follow herbal medicine as far back as we can. Currently, that promises to be a food and medicine list of at least 217 foods, herbs and spices, just under half the current number of plants in my nutrtional/medicinal wholefood database.
Just today, someone hoped my foraging notebook had more in it than just the basics of how to forage for wild foods. So I may take parts of my "textbook" and build both a "herbs in the Central Okanagan" book, and either share in it or share in yet another book, the experiences we've had with using wild herbs as our pharmacy at home.
ANNOUNCEMENT TO CENTRAL OKANAGANITES!!!
The Advanced Foraging Workshop: Thistle Dip and Breaded Thistle spears, is coming up June 28th and we have two people already registered! The last day to register is June 7th. For those who like to pay in person, come see us at Booth 105 in the Vernon Rec Centre in the hallway between the Auditorium and the gym.
If you want to catch us in person before Creative Chaos, come to see us at the Rutland Flea Market on June 1st.
https://naturalhealthgodsway.c....a/2025/05/25/book-fa
We are a couple days away from the Arrowleaf Balsamroot Advanced Foraging Workshop on Saturday. Registration closed for this one back on May 3rd.
The next Advanced Foraging Workshop is June 28th, and will cover making yummy foods with the flower buds of Canada Thistle, and the leaf ribs of Scotch Thistle. Right now, early registrants for the Thistle workshop are in Vernon. As I do not know the trails around Vernon very well, I am open to anyone telling me where they've seen both canada Thistle and Scotch or Bull Thistle on public-use land.
Foraging has exploded this year. We are seeing evidence of other foragers, so for those reading this who also forage, remember the 5% rule! Never take more than 5% of any given patch so that animals and people coming behind you can avail themselves of the abundance too.
The textbook-writing idea is slowly taking shape. I've come to the conclusion that we are not traditional herbalists, we are phytotherapeutic herbalists! As I start writing my textbook dig up research to confirm what I want to say and verify or add to it, discovering why colleges teach backward herbalism, labelling it as Traditional, is a slap in the face and explains why so many believers are so wary of anyone who claims to be a Christian AND claims to be a herbalist or healer. My textbook will teach a version of Western Herbalism I am terming: The Phytotherapeutic Herbalist! The working title for the book is A Christian Perspective on Western Herbalism.
If you know people who would like to be kept in the loop about this book, tell them to register for this newsletter. They can visit the site to do that, or you can forward my newsletter emails to them and they can respond asking to register for the newsletter.
https://naturalhealthgodsway.c....a/2025/05/15/foragin
This devotional article just got a major update thanks to recent information shared by Faithwire Magazine! It would appear that biophotonics begin at conception and carry straight through to death of the body. We look at additional Scripture as well, that Faithwire offered as suggested reading.
https://naturalhealthgodsway.c....a/2024/02/17/is-your
This is why my infusions, whether they are oil, ACV or glycerine, are not officially sold on the website, and why the pre-order trailkit is sold with herb packets and instructions to make your own oils with the herb blends instead. On the one hand, its an opportunity for you learn how to do something new. On the other hand, there are people who don't have the time, or perhaps stay away from the stove for valid reasons, but would prefer the finished product sooner than later (a 4 to 6 week non-heated infusion time is more widely known). This pushes such products into black market or back door territory!
https://www.rebelnews.com/heal....th_canadas_crackdown
Well that was a week! We foraged in two private property zones last Monday, then we hit the rail trail on Thursday not far from us. The lawn patch at home is having a bumper year for dandelion! I got a major haul off it the week before, then today, got a full bag of nothing but dandelion stems! On Saturday, we scouted out several foraging zones getting ready for May 17th, when we do the Arrowleaf Balsamroot Glycerine Advanced Foraging Workshop.
If you have not yet registered, but really want to attend, it's imperative I have your registration fee sooner than later, because my windows for obtaining non-foraged ingredients are closing.
On Sunday, we were at the Lake Country Spring Market, and while traffic was uncharacteristically slow, we did eventually almost quadruple our table fee.
People are starting to tell me to write books too. I've begun brainstorming desired content for a western herbalism focus, and after the initial brainstorming session, I wonder if it will be one book, or an entire program instead. But this all falls into the dreams, courses and ideas I shared with you some time back. What's encouraging, is that people are asking for it now.
Unfortunately, some of these discussions have been taking place over on Gab.com, and as I am a free member using a VPN for freespeech reasons, I am now banned from being able to log in and interact until I either go Pro, or drop the VPN!
This is the reason for always having your own website and your own newsletter for your business, ministry, or non-profit organization. When social platforms change on a whim and knock you out of a space you thought was secure, your website and newsletter will continue to keep people in the loop with what is going on.
Enjoy the sunshine. Read the full update here:
https://naturalhealthgodsway.c....a/2025/05/05/foragin
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