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Welcome to your Spring issue of Plant Healer Magazine Things are crazy busy here, with us working hard on all the many publishing and event tasks, while giving much of every hour to tending our now 3 month old willful wildling Aelfyn. And excitement grows, with there only being 3 months until over 400 of you will gather with us for the 9th annual international Plant Healer gathering! We have more changes in this magazine to announce, as it continues to evolve to reflect new times and new needs... beginning with the announced retirement of Herbal Rebel: “It has been 8 years now,” Paul Bergner recently wrote Kiva and I to say, “and you guys have changed the history of herbalism in the U.S., caused the AHG to try to completely realign its relationship with the larger community, and brought a generation of new teachers to the fore – I am glad to have been an inspirateur/ participant.” Our friend and loyal supporter will instead be focusing on implementing an automated clinical herbal course, preserving his vast knowledge for those new students of herbs who will continue this work into the future. Fare ever so well, Pablo, you well earned our respect, support, and unending thanks. At the same time, we are thrilled to announce a total of 3 new quarterly Plant Healer columns!: “Psyche & Substance: Plant Medicine in The Bush of Ghosts” by Kenneth Proefrock There may be no one whose perspectives, explorations, interests, and priorities are more kindred to and resonant with the style and aims of Plant Healer Magazine and events, than Kenneth’s. This herbalist, naturopath, and visionary, deftly and excitingly weaves together a warp of folkloric, historic, mythological, magical, and spiritual elements, with a weft of critical analysis, personal experience, medical knowledge, and latest scientific understandings – for the purpose of healing not only bodies but psyches, communities, damaged ecosystems, and our increasingly denatured and daft society. You can count on amazingly inspiring explorations of all topics related to this multiverse of healing, as he focuses each quarter on those considerations and topics that 3personally excite him the most.
Our second new column delves into all matters related to healthy pregnancy and childbirth, from an empowering, and refreshingly nontypical perspective – authored by Colorado herbalist, midwife, event organizer, and mother Astrid: “BirthRoot: ReDiscovering Birth, Reclaiming Autonomy” Astrid Grove And please welcome our third premier, a quarterly commitment by the incredibly wise and wholly down-to-earth Juliette, packed with the practical info and attitude needed for the self empowered treatment of family and friends: “Heart & Hearth: Radical Family Herbalism” Juliette Abigail Carr Besides these 3 wonderful new columns, we have also launched another new Plant Healer department, one that will feature articles by a wide variety of epicurean herbalist contributors, covering all matter of health-supporting cuisine, locavore tips and ethics, and tasty recipes that you can make yourselves: “Delicious: Foods For Health & Pleasure” The next generation of teachers that Bergner credits Kiva and I with bringing to the fore, include many of the 70 who are teaching at this year’s Good Medicine Confluence, and the exciting new voices you will increasingly see shared in these pages. This magazine and Plant Healer’s annual events have always served each other, with their shared participants and goals. We tend to invite our amazing writers to teach for us ahead of a general call for proposals, and we ask our Confluence teachers to write the best articles they can for our compilation books and you PHM readers. This issue makes this synergy all the more clear, with the unprecedented number of 2018 teachers contributing inspiring writings for many of our regular PHM columns and departments. Those of you attending in May in Durango, will have a better sense ahead of time of some of the topics you want to see being covered at the gathering, and those unable to attend will have learned much anyway about the subjects and perspectives you are most interested in. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Consider Sending Announcement Cards to Your Clients & Customers For The Good Medicine Confluence We received a second box of postcard sized announcements of our gathering in May, you can help us by getting them into outgoing orders. Just email to tell us how many you can use. Thank you much! PlantHealer@PlantHealer.org ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
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–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Available to Download – Plant Healer’s Free Guide to Herbs & Herbal Medicines Suppliers Helpful Articles & Profiled Businesses If you didn’t already get yours when it was released to the Herbaria subscriber list, you can now download our special 73 pages-long PDF guide to buying from online, farm, and brick & mortar businesses selling bulk herbs, components and supplies, and herbal preparations: Plant Healer Guide to Herbs & Herbal Medicines Suppliers –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share What You Know: Submit Your Proposals For PHM Articles Your experience and perspective are unique, and we want to encourage you to trust you have insights and information that would be of interest and use to others in our community. We happily consider original, previously unpublished articles for this magazine, and submissions of articles (previously published or not) for Plant Healer’s free Herbaria Monthly ezine and its many thousands of readers. Submission Guidelines The new deadline for the Summer Issue of Plant Healer Magazine is Aug. 1st. There is no deadline for submitting to Herbaria Monthly. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Advertising Specs & Pricing For Networking Your Offerings in Plant Healer Publications Advertising space in Plant Healer Magazine and Herbaria Newsletter is provided mainly as a service, and prices are kept down for the sake of low-income herbalists and businesses that are just starting... costing between 1/2 and 1/10th of what other publications with similar subscriber numbers charge. Plant Healer & Herbaria Advertising Info –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– PHM Release Dates Shifting Your Summer Issue Will Be Released First Week of July We had to move our Confluence to mid-May due to the fire danger and monsoons prevalent in later months. This, in turn, has made it crazy to try and put together the Summer issues in the high pressure weeks right before the event, and the two weeks following when we are so tired and there are so many post-event tasks to tend to. To remedy this, we are shifting the magazine release dates to the first Monday of the following months: July, October, January, and April. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5
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The Migrations of Plants & People!! Ardently Alkaloids! ! ! ! Wild Mead Making for Plant Healers!
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Plant Lore: The Mythos & Stories of Medicinal Plants !
Story is Medicine: Mythic Imagination
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Et Tu, Brute?: The Ceasar’s Amanita Complex
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When Things Fall Apart
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