Sparrow Rose Soap & Herbs Company

02/05/2026

Both fit.

01/30/2026

01/21/2026

I will be teaching at:
🌿 The 15th Annual Great Lakes Foragers Gathering 🌿

Tickets on sale now!
Date: June 18–21, 2026
📍 Frog Holler Farm
Southern Michigan · Irish Hills Region

🌱 The Largest Annual Wild Food Gathering in the Great Lakes Region🌱

Join hundreds of foragers, wild food enthusiasts, herbalists, and nature lovers for four unforgettable days of learning, feasting, and community.
The Great Lakes Foragers Gathering is more than an event—it’s a living, learning village rooted in wild foods, shared knowledge, and connection to the land.

🍄 What You’ll Experience 🍄
Hands-on classes & workshops covering:
• Foraging & wild food identification
• Cooking with wild foods
• Herbal medicine & wildcrafting
• Ecology & sustainability
• Bushcraft & wilderness skills
• Edible & medicinal plant walks
• Mushroom identification & ecology
• Kid-friendly & family-focused programming

Every meal features incredible wild food dishes, with opportunities to taste, learn, and celebrate seasonal abundance together.

🔥 Beyond the Classes — A True Community 🔥

This gathering is about participation, creativity, and shared experience. All attendees are encouraged to join in:
• Group foraging excursions
• Community potluck
• Scavenger hunt
• Multiple wild food cooking contests
• Open mic nights
• Weekend-long collaborative projects
• Participant vending & skill sharing

Whether you’re a beginner or a lifelong forager, there’s a place for you here.

🎤 2026 Keynote Speaker -
Gabrielle Cerberville
Author of Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting and the Seasonal Life!
Gabrielle brings a powerful voice to the modern foraging movement, weaving together food, seasonality, culture, and connection to place.

🌲 Who Should Attend? 🌲
• Herbalists & wildcrafters
• Naturalists & ecologists
• Hunters, trappers & bushcrafters
• Wild foodies & lifestyle foragers
• Families & curious beginners
• Anyone drawn to land-based skills and community

🌾 Come for the Knowledge. Stay for the Community.
Learn. Feast. Gather. Connect.

11/30/2025

Registration is now open for the Great Lakes Foragers Gathering. I hope to see you there!!

10/08/2025

Ryan and I will be bringing axe throwing to the Fall Colors Festival this weekend!!

No blindfold required. 😉🪓

Come join in the fun at this free, family-friendly event!! There are tons of great activities on the agenda.

Experience autumn in full color at McCloud Days: Fall Colors Festival!

Enjoy a day packed with vibrant festivities including live music, local vendors, archery, axe throwing, hayrides, a cozy bonfire, and picture-perfect photo ops.

Step back in time with our Pioneer Days stations—featuring hands-on experiences like fire cooking, butter churning, letter writing, and more old-fashioned fun for all ages.

When: Saturday, October 11, 2025 10-3pm ET.

Where: McCloud Nature Park,
8518 Hughes Rd, North Salem, IN 46165

08/08/2025

I’ll be teaching axe throwing, slingshot shooting, and fire crafting at the Great Lakes Primitives Gathering in Chelsea, MI next week! It’ll be a blast, and I’d love to see you there!

See details in comments

08/03/2025

Midway through my 5th year an an Advanced Indiana Master Naturalist.

08/03/2025

Ryan and I will be teaching Axe Throwing and Fire crafting at the Great Lakes Primitives Gathering in Michigan Aug 13-16, 2025. We hop e to see you there.

05/06/2025

New addition to my library.