Connecting Plant People to Build Resiliency from the Roots Up

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Visit our new website to learn more at plantcunningconference.com!

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Keynote Speaker

Matthew Wood, is a western herbalist, educator and author with over forty years of experience. His influential herbals are considered modern day classics and has written 10 books including The Book of Herbal Medicine, The Earthwise Herbal Repertory, and Holistic Medicine and the Extracellular Matrix. He teaches online through the Matthew Wood Institute of Herbalism.

Sunnyfield Herb Farm

Matthew Wood Institute of Herbalism

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Featuring…

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Clinical herbalist, flower essence practitioner, Ayurvedic lifestyle consultant, and teacher for over thirty years. Proprietor of Woodland Essence Herbal Products.

Woodland Essence - Connecting you with the Healing Wonders of Nature

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Peasant Herbalist, Writer, Plant Healing Artist, and author of the forthcoming book “Della Medicina: Plants of Italian American Folk Medicine (Inner Traditions, 2023)

The Root Circle

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Through working with over 40,000 people, as a certified herbalist, herb shop proprietor, and practitioner of Astrological Therapy, Aemen has seen that there is always a way to heal, always another option, and that natural healing brings not only relief but freedom as well.

ARTEMIS RISING HERBS

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ZamboniFunk is a professional astrologer, herbalist, musician, charmer, & weirdo. Zamboni utilizes his expertise in multiple modalities to help folks understand and shape the course of their lives.

ZamboniFunk

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Olga has been foraging mushrooms and plants for food and medicine for many years, and started Rochester, NY based Smugtown Mushrooms in 2011 offering up fresh fungi, extracts, educational events, & fungi tours.

Smugtown Mushrooms

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Isaac is a permaculturist, musician, plant person, astrologer, esotericist, and co-host of the Plant Cunning Podcast.

Plant Cunning Podcast | creating Podcasts with people wise to the ways of nature | Patreon

Plant Cunning Podcast

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Britt is a sustainable food systems educator experienced in permaculture design, regenerative agriculture, food service operations and educational program development. She is working currently at Farm to Institution helping to plan events and programming.

Home | Farm to Institution New England

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JoAnna is the host of the Coffee and Divination podcast, and the co-founder of the North Wyldewood Tradition of Witchcraft. She is a full-time professional violinist, and also practices a form of oracular divination inspired by the trance traditions of ancient Greece. On her farm in northern VT, she combines her deep love of ecology and Pagan animism through permaculture, and shares her homestead with her husband and their many farm animals.

Podcast | Coffee & Divination

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Kahlil Jade is a multi-genre vocalist, musician, and songwriter. She will be gracing the Plant Cunning Conference stage with her sweet sounds Saturday night.

In addition to her music Kahlil is creating a sacred womb healing space at the conference. Khalil Jade is a level 1 Moon Mother, offering individual womb blessings and healings at the conference. She seeks to empower women about their womb wisdom and how to embrace their cyclic nature. 🌄

Instagram (@khaliljademusic)

Darrell is a permaculturist, farmer and educator with over thirty years of experience in Western PA, has written Bioshelter: Market Garden and co-written The Food Forest Handbook.

Three Sisters Permaculture

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Brian is an author/poet, diviner, and teacher of qigong in a Northern Wu Style Taijiquan lineage. As a part of their practice, they engage with the form (or other qigong sequences) to become aware of our constant connectedness to the world we are in: in other words, we are doing Tai Chi with trees. Brian is offering a morning movement class at the conference with offer a short sequence with that keeps that goal of interconnectedness in mind. It’s accommodating to all different types of bodies, and he’s happy to modify the activity to fit anyone's physical needs.

Brian Wilkins

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Hannah is a Certified Eastern Herbologist, gardener, and yoga instructor. She is a practitioner of several branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine, with a recent focus on Qi Gong. Hannah specializes in aerial and prenatal Yoga, and will be leading us through a morning movement meditation to energize our bodies and minds through intentional yoga.

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What to expect at this conference:

<aside> 🌄 Partially outdoor and partially indoor or under tent event but lots of time in Nature.

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<aside> 🪕 Live music Saturday night with local and traveling musicians.

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<aside> 🏕️ Camping is encouraged, come Friday night after 4pm to set up and pack up Sunday afternoon for a $25 camping fee.

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<aside> đź«– Herbal Tea all day at the Tea Bar

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