In collaboration with the nonprofit Arco Iris Earthcare Project, I founded what students call a "futuristic" school of herbal medicine that uses an award winning LMS out of Europe that enables "free-range learning" with a gaming feature. Additionally, the school is building a life-long support community for herbalists and other healers with a built-in alternative economy.
This came after 45 years of intensive herbal study and practice-- including living alone in a remote wilderness for ten years to work with and conserve native flora. While living in the wilderness I began giving workshops along with the naturalist, Kent Bonar, to a primitive wilderness school that hiked the trecherous trail to my home. Due to a fire I recently left the wilderness but continue to live off-grid in a forest known as the Buffalo River National Forest in Arkansas. I'm now a land steward for the Arco Iris Earthcare project which tends close to 600 acres of Ozark forest and I continue to give herb workshops. My students typically come from several nearby states and they asked me to create something online so they didn't have to travel so much. Thus, the Herbal Coaching Community was inspired and created earlier this year.
I'm also a seed saver associated with Conserving Arkansas' Agricultural Heritage project and am in a documentary they produced on saving heritage seed. I use forest gardening (no surprise there, eh?) and permaculture systems.
I have several sites online where I blog and curate. I'm a woman of many interests; science, spirituality, language, culture, literature, history and more. As a result, I developed a working relationship with a British knowledge management company called Open Intelligence and we work together to compile and analyze data in several areas such as the environment, energy, social media trends.
Now I'm writing ebooks, the first ofwhich is a series devoted to helping parents learn how easy and inexpensive it is to use natural products to treat injuries and common illnesses in their children.
I do believe there is a place for you in the Herbal Coaching Community, whether you're just beginning to learn or already have expertise in the field. The intention is bring healers together in support of each other, to ensure we have access to continuing education, to compare notes on what works, to help members make a living doing what they love.
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