by chris marano | Sep 5, 2017 | Medicinal Herbs
Four times a year, Clearpath School of Herbal Medicine offers a Materia Medica course, an in-depth exploration of fifteen herbs spread out over three Wednesday evenings. During a typical class we cover five herbs, describing them and their medicinal value in great...
by chris marano | Aug 8, 2017 | Herbal Medicine Gardens
This Sunday’s Plant Attunement at Clearpath Herbals Medicine Gardens in Montague was sweet, successful and sublime. I am hard pressed to think of a better thing to do on a sultry Sunday afternoon, sitting in a garden bursting with color, listening to the transporting...
by chris marano | Jul 30, 2017 | Herbal Medicine Gardens
I have been doing and facilitating plant attunements for many years now, on my own, and with students from Clearpath School of Herbal Medicine and UMass-Five Colleges. Plant Attunement is a term used to describe sitting with a plant, and settling the chatting and...
by chris marano | Apr 7, 2017 | Herbalist Training, Local Harmony, Wildcrafting
Kauai Work Retreat Day-by-Day Summary Day One of the Kauai Work Retreat we spent at good friends on the North Shore, who have a very special site on their land that needs constant attention. The North Shore of Kauai is among the rainiest, most lush places on...
by chris marano | Mar 29, 2017 | Herbalist Training, Local Harmony
Local Harmony and Kauai Work Retreat I’m heading home from Kauai after spending three weeks in the sweet, soft Hawaiian air, rejuvenating from a usual, atypical western MA winter. The second week of my stay was spent facilitating – along with Owen Wormser – our second...