Thank you so much for a wonderful 13th International Herb Symposium! You can purchase recordings of many of the classes at www.treefarmtapes.com.
You are joyfully invited to join us in June 2019 for the next convergence of international plant wisdom. We gather together in the spirit of the green to share knowledge and celebrate healing plant traditions from around the world.
OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Robin Wall Kimmerer
“What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all and yet there was something you needed to say? Wouldn’t you dance it? Wouldn’t you act it out? Wouldn’t your every movement tell the story? In time you would be so eloquent that just to gaze upon you would reveal it all. And so it is with these silent green lives.” – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her first book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. Her latest book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, was released in 2013 and awarded the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award. As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. Her writings have appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She lives in Fabius, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. In collaboration with tribal partners, she and her students have an active research program in the ecology and restoration of plants of cultural significance to Native people.
We are honored and delighted to have Robin Wall Kimmerer join us as our keynote speaker.
Learn from an extraordinary gathering of herbal teachers, elders, and healers from around the world representing diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Over 40 highly respected teachers from twelve countries:
Rocio Alarcon (Ecuador), Mary Ayodele (Africa), Aku Dunyo Richter (Ghana/Canada), Jacquelin Guiteau (Haiti), Marcela Ibieta (Chile), Swanie Simon (Germany), Dinah Veeris (Curaçao), Rosa Tupina Yaotonalcuauhtli (Mexico), Wolf-Dieter Storl (Germany), Rafael Ocampo (Costa Rica), Mary Bove, Phyllis Light, Tieraona Low Dog, MD, Tradd Cotter, Daniel Gagnon, Thomas Avery Garran, Amikaeyla Gaston, Rosemary Gladstar, Dr. Christopher Hobbs, Dr. Aviva Romm, Karyn Sanders, Deb Soule, Kevin Spelman, David Winston, 7Song, Larken Bunce, Kate Clearlight, Rosalee de la Foret, Sajah Popham, Guido Masé, Richard Mandelbaum, Steven Yeager, Nancy & Michael Phillips, Jim McDonald, Andrea & Matthias Reisen, and many more!
A Variety of Workshops for All Levels of Experience & Interest
There are a large variety of workshops for all levels of herbal interest from beginner to practitioner. Our Veterinarian Botanical Medicine Track is very popular. New this year is the Medicine Growers Track.
‘The Greatest Ever’ Herbal Product Contest
All Symposium participants are invited to participate in the Herbal Products Contest! Bring along your best homemade herbal product(s).
Located at gorgeous Wheaton College near Boston, MA and Providence, RI
The Campus itself is endowed with a variety of beautiful old specimen trees, and beautiful wild spaces for reflective time in nature or informative herb walks. Wheaton is ideally situated between Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island.
The International 
Herb Symposium is a benefit for United Plant Savers
Join us in helping to protect native medicinal plants.
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Soul stirring, inspirational, foot tapping, entertainment all weekend long
