Length

1 hour 41 minutes

Class Description

A walk through the forest, fields & waterside at Chelsea Nature Center discussing the plants on site. Discussion will include plant identification, edibility & medicinal uses for plants, personal and clinical experiences with plants, harvesting, medicine making, story telling & notes on ecology.

About the Teacher

Cal Janae Wolfpack, is a clinical herbalist, botanist, farmer & plant educator located in the (formerly) prairie of the Midwest in the Raccoon River Watershed. They have been studying plants for their entire life: as a child they were led on plant and bird watching walks by their father before they could walk on their own. Later, they formalized their passion for the natural world and living sustainably in it with a degree in Ethnobotany from Drake University. Cal then studied and apprenticed with 7Song at the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine in Ithaca, NY where they then were employed and volunteered as a clinical herbalist at the Ithaca Free Clinic for several years. Cal currently works as an herb grower, a clinical herbalist & botanist in their private practice in which they offer sliding scale herbal consultations and provide herb kits to clients of Gentlyborne Midwifery. Cal is the creator of the herbal products line Profound Existence Herbs. In their free time Cal maintains a strong wanderlust and rapt interest in the botanical arts, bird watching & homesteading with their family.