West Coast Herbs

Classes

Fall Herbal Gathering and Medicine Making Course

September 19th to 22nd

We focus on techniques for propagating wild native medicinal herbs. These techniques give you the knowledge to help reestablish healthy populations of these beautiful, healing herbs.

As in all of our classes we pay strict attention to proper identification of plants.

Classes

Classes are from 10am to 4pm on each of the 4 days.

What to bring to class: You should bring a notebook, a plant guide book for this area, large lunches. Long sleeved shirts and long pants are the best for wild crafting, but you can certainly wear shorts and teeshirts for the lectures and medicine making labs. You should have available gumboots and full raingear.

Cost

The price for the class is $450.00. This includes all medicines made and our field trip transportation costs.

Accommodation

Denman Island is very accessible from Courtenay, Campbell River,Qualicum, Parksville, Nanaimo and Hornby Island. So people from these places may want to commute every day. There are several accommodation options available to you. You can stay at the Denman Guest House. Here in this hostel like atmosphere you can meet travellers from around the world. Full kitchen facilities available. It is close to all amenities, bakery, 2 stores, community hall and ferry. The cost is $20.00 per night. We have a beautiful provincial campground, right on the beach, that may be Denman’s best kept secret. Here you can set up a tent or camp in your van or RV.

About Sheelagh

Sheelagh grew up in Mill Bay and spent her childhood in the forests collecting leaves and berries and searching for lady slippers. Later she studied to receive a B.A. in Anthropology and Environmental Studies from the University of Victoria, hiking the West Coast forests often when she was supposed to be in the library. She completed a documentary film course for anthropologists in Santa Fe New Mexico. After the birth of her first child she studied therapeutic herbalism and started West Coast Herbs, a herbal medicine making company. Lately it has occurred to Sheelagh that she does now that which she used to do as a child an this brings her much joy, as it always has. She has been known to break out into folkloric dance and song at unscheduled intervals.

Herbally Yours, Sheelagh Mackenzie.

Sheelagh can be reached by phone: 250-335-1061
e-mail: wcherbs@telus.net

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