Thought I would reblog this great interview I had with Dr Jeff Green Lynx & Bear Creek This was a live 1 hour radio interview with herbalist and plant spirit medicine practitioner Victoria Reddick that was held on July 2, 2012. It is now available on podcast. Go to Transformation Talk Radio archives or the Gaialogue radio show website (Link below). https://www.transformationtalkradio.com/show-details/gaialogue-radio-with-dr-jeff-leinaweaver,87.html Listen live online to Storyteller, Herbalist, Plant Spirit Medicine Practitioner Victoria Reddick on national a ..read more

July 29th Saturday  “Hands on Harvest to Distillation” All day  Come learn about the science and art of distilling aromatic plants into flower and plant waters better known as hydrosols with hands on harvest of grosso lavender, and other herbs for steam and hydro distillation. Students will learn to distill using copper alembic stills of different sizes from home garden size for personal use to semi-industrial. Working in small teams that rotate. Learn about the many wonderful uses for hydrosols, their care, and storage. At the end of class we will divide up the hydrosols we made so ..read more

“Beannacht / Blessing On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green, and azure blue come to awaken in you a meadow of delight. When the canvas frays in the currach of thought and a stain of ocean blackens beneath you, may there come across the waters a path of yellow moonlight to bring you safely home. May the nourishment of the earth be yours, may the clarity of light be yours, may the fluency of the ocean ..read more

Well If your anything like me these days in early spring I begin notice all the change going on outdoors from gentle pulses of life stirring under foot, the gradually longer days, and Gaia waking. Mother earth’s energy is definitely flowing upward now as we move past the spring equinox. My sleepy bear hibernating deep dreaming self that has up till now been focusing on personal interiority, rest, reading, and writing for most of the winter is now rousing. The outdoors is calling me to spend more time in the garden, wood, and in the world. Along my morning land meanderings I’ve begun taking not ..read more

It’s been 3 years since the “Fire Cider” controversy then movement began as a result of the copy write of that name by a company -Shire City Herbals. The recipe first used, taught, and shared by reknown herbalist Rosemary Gladstar in the early 1980s when she was teaching for the California School of Herbal Studies. Thirty or more other herbalists and herb companies some having used the name “Fire Cider”for decades began getting letters from Shire City company and thier lawyers asking them to stop using the name. Herbalists that had made, shared, and sold versions of this immune boosting formul ..read more

When challenged by scary, uncertain, stressful times, when everything we hold dear seems in deep jeopardy and it seems to be worse by the hour or the tweet we can turn our attention within and away from the news and social media. First things first go outside in nature and don’t bring your smart phone with you-Lol.. Wisdom from the plants is here to support us through the plethora of emotion we might be experiencing. This is not to say one cannot harness those emotions for good old fashioned fiesty motivation, (I support the full spectrum of feeling and processing). This not about stuffing dow ..read more

“What is this thing called life? I believe That the earth and the stars too, and the whole glittering universe, and rocks on the mountains have life, Only we do not call it so–I speak of the life That oxidizes fats and proteins and carbo- Hydrates to live on, and from that chemical energy Makes pleasure and pain, wonder, love, adoration, hatred and terror: how do these things grow From a chemical reaction? I think they were here already, I think the rocks And the earth and the other planets, and the stars and the galaxies have their various consciousness, all things are conscious; But the nerv ..read more

Is it just a slogan or new age woo woo.. It is our call to action. It has been a challenge for us to be awake to the darkness of our collective “American shadow material” and its many ugly faces. Americas dark day. The hidden shadow is laid bare naked out in the open now- blatant racisim, misogeny,  hating people for practicing the wrong religion, being the wrong gender, wrong color, loving the wrong people, being in the wrong income bracket, being immigrants from the wrong countries, or for  loving the earth. You fill in the blank. Which American values do you pick and choose to be ..read more

Numina What is terrior exactly? This word is certainly experiencing an appeal in the mainstream to describe all sorts of things in relationship to its surrounds. This word is of french origin and is used to describe the many variables in nature that make a unique and quality wine. This living landscape or the solar, hydro, earth, wind of a place and it’s effects on a plant; in the original case the wine grape. I just love the holism implied by this word and can see why it is so popular now. As we begin as a species to wake up and move away from the reductionist worldview that takes thin ..read more

Its Mars retrograde, Mercury retrograde, new moon just a couple days ago, as well as mercury transit the sun exact today. -Oh and it’s also close to the (Beltane sexy juicy fertility holiday), so what does a Lynx Raven Wolverine trickster spiral dancer creatrix like me decide to do?- Start a movement thats what! What the heck am I talking about you might ask? Well I have been nurturing this little seed corn kernel inside myself for a good while and now is when it wants to be planted. I first shared this at a lecture I gave at the Medicinal Herbs Growers and Marketing Conference in Port Townsen ..read more