Healers Harvest

07/07/2024

🌿🌸 Discover the Magic of Wild Roses! 🌸🌿

Did you know that wild roses are more than just beautiful blooms? These delicate flowers are powerful allies in herbal medicine, offering a host of benefits to support your well-being.

🌹 Medicinal Marvels: Wild roses are renowned for their soothing properties. They are energetically cooling, making them perfect for calming inflammation and heat in the body.

🌿 Astringent Action: The astringent properties of wild roses help tone and tighten tissues, making them an excellent choice for skincare and digestive health.

Whether you’re sipping on rose petal tea or using a rose-infused oil, these blossoms bring nature’s wisdom into your daily routine. Embrace the gentle yet potent energy of wild roses and let their beauty heal you from the inside out. 🌿✨

06/21/2024

Meet Melanie!

Melanie Rose Scofield is a Clinical Herbalist located in
Rockport, ME, who works primarily with herbs, nutrition, healing movement, flower essences, supplements, and guided meditation. She provides custom herbal blends made only from organic, ethically wild-crafted, and home-grown herbs. Melanie works with people who are looking to address anxiety, depression, digestive issues, hormonal imbalances, chronic illnesses, fatigue, and many other health concerns. Melanie has recently completed a year-long intensive in the modality of Compassionate Inquiry with highly acclaimed physician Dr. Gabor Mate. She provides therapy to those looking for a multi-dimensional approach to talk-therapy based on compassion, energy awareness and deep self-exploration. Melanie is the founder and director of the Earthwalk School of Herbal Traditions, which is in its 9th year running. She also assists clients with psychedelic integration and is an active member of Psanctuary Church, which allows her to safely sit with those seeking healing from sacred mushrooms. To learn more about Melanie’s background and offerings, please visit earthwalkherbalschool.com

Reclaiming a Collective Trust in Plant Medicine:

Our ancestors deeply relied on the natural world and trusted that nature would provide food, shelter, clothing, and also medicine in order to live and heal. Now we live in a time where there is a large distrust of plant medicines. Join Melanie for a brief historical overview on how we got to this place, and how we can re-open our hearts to the green world. What would it look like for us to be in “right relationship” with all the modern world has to offer us in terms of pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and traditional plant medicines?



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06/21/2024

Meet Tamar!

Tamar Helfen is a (W)holistic health guide and herbalist, a gemstone practitioner, kabbalistic dance facilitator, plant medicine photographer, poet, flower lover, women’s circle musician, and intentional healing clothing curateur. 
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She expresses her passion about plants, healing and helping others through sharing her broad knowledge, stories of personal transformation and through facilitating personal growth and creative community collaborations.
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She uses her personal study and experience of over three decades in many healing and creative modalities combined with co-directing a spiritual and educational non-profit Chabad House* along with her husband for twelve years, bringing a wealth of nourishment for the body and soul to her community, friends and family near and far.

Embodied Plant Poetry

Creative energy is at the core of both plants and humans.
This session offers an opportunity to develop a deeper connection, appreciation and understanding of plants through somatic meditation and creative expression. Tamar will guide participants in a plant sensory meditation, using focused awareness of internal sensations, intuition and visualization. When we pay close attention, we can discover unexpected beauty, resonance, and healing that bridges the language of the land to the body and soul. The art of poetry invites us to further explore our inner and outer landscapes, to journey into stories past and present, and to generously offer our voices in gratitude for the green gifts of the field. We will create individual and collective words sharing and bearing witness to the wonder of our plant-human community cohort. No meditation or writing experience necessary.


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06/20/2024

Meet Jade!

Jade Alicandro weaves a love of bio-regionally abundant herbs and kitchen medicine into her work as a community and clinical herbalist. She makes her home in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts where she runs a small herb school with both in-person and online learning opportunities and offers heartfelt herbal consultations. Forever in love with the weeds, her current favorite plants are Wild Rose (Rosamultiflora), Japanese Knotweed (Fallopia japonica) and Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). Learn more about her work at or www.milkandhoneyherbs.com

Creating a Bioregional Materia Medica for the Northeast

Bioregional Herbalism is the practice of working with the medicinal plants abundant in the fabric of the landscape and bioregion you call home. It doesn’t have to look like working with solely native plants, rather, it’s about learning which plants are abundant enough locally to be worked with and harvested sustainably, and often these are non-
native, weedy, and even cultivated garden herbs. In this class Jade will share herbal actions no apothecary is complete without and match her favorite bio-regionally abundant herbs with these actions to build a northeast bioregional materia medica. The idea is to give participants the tools to create their own home apothecary full of local herbal medicines that can address a wide variety of health conditions and issues. She’ll share insights and tips to help participants create their own unique northeast materia medica based on their family’s and community’s needs, versatility, accessibility, and more.











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06/19/2024

Meet Maria!

Maria Noël Groves, RH (AHG), clinical herbalist, runs Wintergreen Botanicals, nestled in the pine forests of New Hampshire. Her business is devoted to education and
empowerment via classes, health consultations, and
writing with the foundational belief that good health grows in nature. She is the author of the award-winning, best-selling Body into Balance: An Herbal Guide to Holistic Self Care, Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies, and the new Herbal Remedies for Sleep. Learn more about Maria
and herbs at WintergreenBotanicals.com

Bedtime Basics: Herbal & Lifestyle Sleep Tips

Sleep is foundational to optimal health and wellbeing. In this class, Maria will cover a few of the most important tips to get a good quality night sleep and three core materia medica for sleep: chamomile, lemon balm, and passionflower, with some pros and cons about valerian. We’ll discuss each herb’s attributes, pitfalls, dosing, formulation, and growing tips. These topics are
covered in ever greater detail in Maria’s newly released book Herbal Remedies for Sleep. Maria will sign and sell her books after the talk.



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06/18/2024

Meet Nico!

Nico Lebreux (she/they) is a community herbalist and self care advocate who recently created Wild Heart Herb
House, an herbal apothecary and community gathering space, in coastal New Bedford, Massachusetts on
sovereign Wampanoag land. She specializes in teaching people how to deeply connect with their multidimensional selves and the living world within and around them through simple everyday techniques that are available to all.

In Nico’s offerings there are no expectations and no judgments. She holds space for her students to strengthen their intuition, commune with the earth, and connect with source energy whatever that looks like and feels like for them.

Herbalism for Radical Self Care:

You are a multidimensional being that needs and deserves deep self care. In this class we will explore ways to nourish and support your spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical selves through simple herbalism practices that are sustainable and available to all. Learn about nourishing tonic herbal infusions, smoke medicine, and herbal body oiling and how to incorporate these self care techniques into your day to live your most vibrant, restorative, and pleasure filled life!
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06/15/2024