Join us in Bay Area parks for an enjoyable 1-2 mile stroll. It’s your chance to learn about the medicinal properties of the herbs that grow right in your backyard. A new batch of gentle and effective healers will be ready to help you with sunburn, bee stings and other ‘outside problems.’ Learn to recognize and use these plants where you need them most and experience them as living companions...
Our next study group meeting to prepare for the AHG exam will be on Tuesday, July 27 from 6-8 pm at the Ohlone Herbal Center in Berkeley accessible by North Berkeley BART station.We will revisit the 10 herbs from the last session of the AHG Study Guide and our case study topic again is: Anxiety, Panic attacks with an eye to meds and their contra-indications w/ herbs (i.e. benzodiazepines, etc.). ...
A city herbwalk:
I am student at the Ohlone Herbal Center of Herbal Studies in Berkeley and am leading a medicinal/edible plant walk in Glen Canyon Park, in the Glen Park neighborhood of San Francisco. Glen Canyon is a ~70 acre park that is a combination of native plant and disturbed habitats, ranging from woodland, riparian, grassland and coastal scrub. Islais Creek runs through the canyon and, though tiny,...