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Trail of Adventure

🌿 A home for herbal dreamers, slow creatives, and rhythm-seekers.

Rooted in the boreal forest seasons, we offer plant teachings, creative rituals, and soft structure for your wild year.

03/29/2026

Some days I think I’m a plant weirdo and then others I hang out with my mom and we forage and harvest p***y willows together… and I remember where I learned it and that I come by it, honestly 😂❤️

03/27/2026

Our Balm of Gilhead is a handcrafted salve made with wild-harvested poplar buds (Populus spp.), infused slowly to capture their naturally aromatic resin. Long treasured in folk traditions, poplar buds offer a rich, forest-scented base for this salve, a sensory experience that feels both grounding and soothing.

This small-batch balm blends local beeswax and organic plant oils, creating a soft, smooth texture ideal for everyday care. Many love it as part of their ritual after time spent in wind, sun, or soil, perfect for hands, elbows, knees, or wherever your skin connects with the elements.

find it on our shop
👉🏻 www.trailofadventure.com (limited stock available)

03/25/2026

Check out our shelf over at Just Peachy Arts and Crafts... we've got the winter essentials still there - but soon to make a change for spring!

03/25/2026

There’s something about spring that asks us to come back into relationship - slowly, gently, one plant at a time 🌱

This season in Herb Club, we’ll move with the rhythm of the land:
✨ April - nourishing ourselves with stinging nettle, fresh and mineral-rich after winter
✨ May - exploring rhubarb beyond the pie, into ferments, syrups, and creative kitchen medicine
✨ June - gathering in community for our annual plant & seed swap, sharing what’s growing and abundant

These evenings are simple, hands-on, and rooted in real life, learning plants through taste, touch, and conversation. No perfection, no pressure. Just a return to the kitchen, the garden, and each other.

If you’ve been craving connection to plants, to food, to community - this is your place.

🌿 Mayerthorpe Public Library
🌿 7:00–9:00 PM
🌿 Come as you are

RSVP links available at trailofadventure.com

03/22/2026

My cup is overflowing…from the people, learning, science and field trips of this week at the Canadian Herb Conference spring intensive.

Grateful to be included in organizing and enjoying these experiences. There’s more work to do at home in the apothecary but these conversations live in my heart for a long time after this.

Lots to play with and digest from botany, processing and testing, herbarium pressing, SOPs and much more….

Stay wild, Holly

03/17/2026

I’ve been out searching for spring on the doorstep of the spring equinox and I can say solidly in my backyard we are not there yet - the snow is still abundant and we are still solidly in our winter woollies. I was out snowshoeing last weekend and the catkins and resinous poplars buds were just starting to form and not sticky yet!

Imagine my surprise to plop down in the +14C and the rain in Vancouver this week for a training and I kept seeing the green green grass and the magnolias and other trees in full bloom and beginning to bloom.

Glad to know it’s spring somewhere! Have you seen any signs of spring where you live yet?

03/14/2026

Working quietly on a few projects…still contemplating, moving slowly as we inch our way towards the spring equinox. Some will come together this year, some will take longer.

1/ sketching and watching land curves and enthusiastic puppy playing in the snow

2/ contemplating cobb ovens and cordwood constructions

3/ designing foraging cards - one plant at a time

03/12/2026

Tonight’s the night!

We will be meeting up for this month’s Herb Club tonight starting at 7pm at Mayerthorpe Public Library.

Come learn soil blocking and plant a few seeds! Still space available.

03/02/2026

Light returned the same weekend the hall filled.

All winter we’ve been carrying that long northern darkness, the kind that presses gently but persistently on the edges of the spirit. And then, almost without announcement, the mornings began arriving earlier. A thin wash of apricot at the horizon. A pale gold seam stitched between earth and sky. Not dramatic. Just enough to notice if you were paying attention.

And inside the hall, something similar was happening.

Sangudo RegenFest wasn’t loud in the way festivals sometimes are. It was bright in a different register: the brightness of people leaning toward each other. Conversations sparking beside coffee urns. Hands moving instinctively to demonstrate, explain, offer. Knowledge passing from one person to another the way flame moves between candles: nothing lost, only more light.

I kept thinking about how winter teaches us to conserve. The moose steps carefully. The trees pull their sap inward. We grow quiet, thoughtful, inward-facing. But when light returns, even just a little, everything begins to lean again - toward warmth, toward colour, toward one another.

That’s what the weekend felt like. Not a grand opening. A turning.

You could see it in the way strangers spoke like neighbours. In the way elders were listened to. In the way people said yes to ideas before they knew exactly how they’d work. It wasn’t performance. It was participation. The kind that only happens when a community decides, consciously or not, to wake up together.

Outside, frost still held the ground each morning. Winter hasn’t released us yet.

But the sun is rising earlier now.
And after this weekend, so are we.

02/23/2026

Life with two teenagers, sports schedules, and planning events is busy in a way that fills every corner of the day. There are practices to drive to, meetings to hold, meals to make, plans layered on plans. I love the fullness of community in my life, the weaving of people and projects, but some weeks have a way of quietly testing my capacity, like this one.

I’ve gotten better at saying no. Better at asking for help when I actually need it and having a list of people to call when I'm there. And still, there’s that familiar pull in me to go big or go home, to stretch myself just a little further than is wise because the ideas feel alive and the people matter.

What I’m learning, again and again, is that rest and forest time has to balance out the screen time and the family time. Not as a luxury, but as a necessity. The trees and land steady me. The quiet recalibrates something that gets scrambled by too many tabs open, too many voices asking for attention.

This balance isn’t something I solve once and move on from. It’s a living practice. Some weeks I get it right. Other weeks I notice I’ve drifted and gently course correct. I’m learning to let community be nourishing instead of depleting, to let rest be part of the rhythm instead of the reward at the end.

I’m still finding my way. But I’m finding it with more honesty now, more grace, and a deeper trust that tending my own capacity is what allows me to show up fully, for my kids, for my work, and for the wider circle that holds me.

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