Red Osier Dogwood: Collecting and how to take care of plants when you

A Year of Plant Walks

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Welcome!
Daylily (8:50)
Celandine: Using Ideas From Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy and Doctrine of Signatures (6:19)
Comparing Motherwort and Garlic Mustard (2:53)
Plantain ID and Use (3:37)
Wild Leeks/Ramps (3:07)
Lilac: Uses as a Flower Essence and Medicinal Oil (4:11)
Comparing and Contrasting Bur Oak, Linden and Ginkgo Trees (1:09)
Linden: ID, Uses and Edibility (3:05)
Flowering Creeping Charlie: Uses Part 1 (4:18)
Lady's Thumb: ID and Uses (2:45)
Northern White Cedar/ Arborvitae: ID and Use (6:38)
Poison Ivy and Virginia Creeper ID, With a Nod to Jewelweed, Goldenrod, Giant Ragweed and Raspberry Leaf (6:39)
Plantain: Using Ugly Plants and Not Washing the Gathered Material (2:42)
Calendula: More Uses and A Case History (6:39)
Burdock Root: Uses (11:45)

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Winter: Planning Your Herbal Year While The Plants Sleep

Welcome Letter
Anticipating The Harvesting Season: Wildcrafting Basics (41:43)
Preparing Your Supplies for Harvest (12:45)
Drying Herbs (13:57)
Learn Your Botanical Latin (20:51)

Guidelines and Technique for Harvesting and Preparing Barks as Medicine

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Lecture and Demo for Harvesting Medicinal Barks from Trees and Shrubs (20:07)

Very Early Spring Starts the Cycle of Outside Plant Walks: Before the Trees Have Leaves

Welcome Letter
Intro to Seeing Trees: White Oak Family and Linden Comparison (2:29)
Elm with a Brief Comparison to Oak (2:13)
Red Cedar/ Juniper Berry (2:33)
Thuja (0:57)
White Pine (3:09)
Ohio Buckeye (0:26)
Cottonwood (3:50)
Ginkgo (1:45)
Black Elderberry ID and Lore (6:51)
Red Elderberry (3:36)
River Birch (0:59)
Our Local Cramp Bark (Viburnum trilobum) (2:27)

Let's Get Into More Details about Uses of the Barks

WELCOME LETTER
Red Osier Dogwood Uses (9:50)
Red Osier Dogwood: Collecting and how to take care of plants when you collect them (3:30)
White Oak Family ID (8:02)
White Oak Family ID (2:56)
Emotional and Physical Uses of Oak (11:33)
Oak ID: Comparing Red and White Oak Family (2:36)
Prickly Ash ID and Uses (8:26)
Prickly Ash: Further ID (1:18)
Blooper of getting ready for the Bark Walk (1:37)

Early Spring Part 2: Beginning of April: Tender Edible and Medicinal Baby Plants are Emerging

Welcome Letter: Tender Edible and Medicinal Baby Plants Are Emerging
As A Beginner Lise Knew Nothing! (1:09)
Daylily (8:50)
Agrimony and Yarrow (1:12)
Wood Betony and Mullein (1:51)
Yarrow and A Nod to Queen Anne's Lace (7:41)
Red Osier Dogwood (1:05)
How Lise Uses a Wild Edible Field Guild As A Backup ID (0:39)
Creeping Charlie (1:26)
Comparing Daylily and Tulip (0:52)
Comparing Daylily to Iris (0:52)
Dandelion Flower Oil As Medicine (4:29)
Celandine: Using Ideas From Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy and Doctrine of Signatures (6:19)
Garlic Mustard: So Invasive! So Edible! Let's Eat Pasto! (7:44)
Iris (1:41)
Wintercress (4:19)
Wild Edible Harvesting and Making 9 Green Soup (1:53)
Sweetleaf, Goldenrod and Mullein (2:10)
Comparing Motherwort and Garlic Mustard (2:53)
Burdock- ID and Edibility of the Leaf (1:52)
Plantain (2:42)
Jewelweed With a Big Nod to Avens (3:43)
Watercress (6:20)
Goldenrod (0:56)
Stinging Nettles (5:39)

Early Spring Part 3: Later April: Plants Are Bursting Out All Over!

Welcome Letter
Review: Nod to Daylily, Virginia Waterleaf ID and Use (1:49)
Solomon Seal and False Solomon Seal ID and Edibility (2:48)
Wild Ginger: ID, Edibility and Uses of Root (6:17)
Sweetleaf/Beebalm ID (2:23)
Goldenrod (1:08)
Iris ID (0:45)
Daylily ID (1:07)
Mullein (2:32)
Plantain ID and Use (3:37)
Wild Leeks/Ramps (3:07)
Violet ID (2:13)
Tiny Plant Review: Violet, Cleavers, Jewelweed, Avens, Garlic Mustard and Creeping Charlie (4:11)
Compare Garlic Mustard, Creeping Charlie and Motherwort (3:37)
Female Gingko with Fruit (1:14)
Burdock ID (1:04)
Stinging Nettles ID (0:54)
Blue Vervain ID (1:32)
Comparing Red and Black Elderberry (1:41)

Spring: May!

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Garden Marshmallow (2:49)
Black Medic ID and A Nod to Violet (4:33)
Prickly Lettuce ID...So Staticy, But The Video Gets the Job Done (1:18)
Fleabane ID and Use (3:43)
Spontaneous Medicine Garden: Prickly Lettuce, Red Clover, Shepard's Purse (2:35)
Shepard's Purse Pt 1: ID and Uses (4:38)
Shepard's Purse Pt 2: More Uses (2:40)
Plantain: Native vs Introduced Species and Uses (5:42)
Lilac: Uses as a Flower Essence and Medicinal Oil (4:11)
Wild Ginger: What is a Flower Essence (3:48)
Wild Ginger: Making a Flower Essence Pt 1 (5:43)
Wild Ginger: Making a Flower Essence Pt 2 (7:05)
Comparing and Contrasting Bur Oak, Linden and Ginkgo Trees (1:09)
Linden: ID, Uses and Edibility (3:05)
Wood Sorrel : ID (1:14)
St John's: ID (2:20)
Tamarack/ American Larch: Flower Essence Use (3:46)
Motherwort: ID (2:15)
Trillium: ID and Flower Essence Use (4:17)
Burdock Leaf Pt 1: Uses (4:43)
Burdock Leaf Pt 2: More Uses (2:23)
Wild Medicine Garden: Jack in the Pulpit ID, Starry False Solomon's Seal, and Eating Wood Nettles (2:43)
Comparing Jack in the Pulpit and Skunk Cabbage (1:49)
Cleavers: ID and Uses (7:44)
Violet: Food and Medicine (8:42)
Why Wild Edibles? (2:57)
Greater Horsetail/ Scouring Rush: ID (3:31)

Late Spring/ Early Summer: Beginning of June

Welcome Letter
Iris Use with a Nod to Yarrow and Prickly Lettuce, Catmint and Day Lily (5:25)
Lilac: Medicinal Uses (2:21)
Behind the Scenes: Getting Ready for Creeping Charlie (0:26)
Flowering Creeping Charlie: Uses Part 1 (4:18)
Flowering Creeping Charlie: Uses Part 2 (6:11)
Flowering Celandine: Uses (6:58)
Flowering Black Medic Pt 1: Uses (7:30)
Flowering Black Medic Pt 2: More Uses and Collection (4:12)
Motherwort Pt 1 : ID and Uses (3:47)
Motherwort Pt 2 : Uses And Making a Tincture (9:29)
Sow Thistle: ID (2:32)
Prickly Lettuce Pt 1: Uses and Making a Tincture (5:07)
Prickly Lettuce Pt 2: Uses, Case Histories and Making a Tincture Continued (5:23)
Sweet Mellilot: ID and History (3:46)
Cinquefoil: ID and Uses (6:01)
Lady's Thumb: ID and Uses (2:45)
Chickweed Pt 1: ID and Uses (4:27)
Chickweed Pt 2: More Uses (2:14)
Pineapple Weed ID and Use, With a Nod to Common Ragweed (3:08)
Northern White Cedar/ Arborvitae: ID and Use (6:38)
Milkweed: Edible and Medicinal Uses (3:28)
Poison Ivy and Virginia Creeper ID, With a Nod to Jewelweed, Goldenrod, Giant Ragweed and Raspberry Leaf (6:39)
Jewelweed Pt 1: ID and Use (5:29)
Jewelweed Pt 2: Flower Essence and Other Medicinal Uses (5:08)
Common Grape Leaf: ID and Edibility (2:35)

Early Summer: Garden Plants: Third Week of June

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Lady's Mantle: ID, Collection and Uses (8:57)
St John's Wort: ID and Collection (6:49)
Black Elder Flower: ID, Collection and Uses (7:20)
Lamb's Quarter: ID and Ediblity (3:18)
Blooper with Red Clover (0:22)
Red Clover: Food and Medicine (3:20)
Blooper with Day lily (0:31)
Day Lily: Flower and Bud as Food (2:30)
Flowering Yarrow: Collection and Uses (5:21)
Plantain Gone to Seed: Uses (2:35)
Plantain Leaf: ID and More Uses (2:25)
Plantain: Using Ugly Plants and Not Washing the Gathered Material (2:42)
Comfrey: Flower Essence Uses (3:32)
Motherwort: ID, Collection and Uses (9:05)
Agrimony: ID and Uses (2:43)
Linden Blossom: Collection and Uses (7:41)
Serviceberry: ID and Deliciousness (4:06)
Comparing Making a Tincture Vs An Infused Oil (11:26)

Summer: A Mix of Garden Plants and Not Garden Plants: Mid July

Welcome Letter
Calendula Flowers As Food And Medicine, With a Nod to Lady's Thumb (4:58)
Decanting (Straining) Motherwort Tincture Pt 1 (4:59)
Decanting (Straining) A Tincture Pt 2 (4:46)
Flowering Mullein: ID and Use (6:33)
Flowering Hoary and Blue Vervain Pt 1: ID and Case History (3:49)
Flowering Hoary and Blue Vervain Pt 2: Uses, Personality Profile and a Little More ID (7:32)
Flowering Sweetleaf/ Beebalm: ID, Collection and Uses (7:28)
Flowering Grindelia: ID, Collection and Use (4:24)
Amaranth, With Nod to Lamb's Quarter: ID and Edibility (4:04)
Flowering Pleurisy Root/ Butterfly Weed, With a Nod to Flowering Milkweed: ID, Uses and Edibility (8:16)
Flowering Borage: ID, Harvest, Uses Both Medicinal and Edible (6:29)
Elecampane: ID, Use and Case History (6:53)
Echinacea: ID, Flower Essence and Medicinal Uses (Not to Stop a Cold!) (6:37)
Garden Sage: ID, Uses (3:02)
Black Cohosh: ID and Uses (3:55)
Teasel: ID and Use (5:00)
Fleabane: ID, Use and Case History (4:51)
Chicory: ID, Uses and Food and Flower Essence (5:03)
Queen Anne's Lace: ID, Preparation and Use (7:44)

Mid Summer: More Mid July

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Wood Sorrel as Medicine, With a Nod to Motherwort, Sweeleaf/ Beebalm, Lady's Thumb, Iris, Calamus and Wild Rose (10:36)
Flowering Wood Betony: Collection and Uses, with a Nod to Goldenrod, Flowering Agrimony and Boneset (8:57)
Flowering Agrimony: ID, Collection and Psychological Uses (10:39)
Common Ragweed: Collection and Uses, with a Nod to Black Medic and Sweetleaf (8:12)
Poor Man's Pepper: ID and Uses (2:36)
Wild/ False Indigo Pt 1: ID, Collection and Use (6:30)
Wild/ False Indigo Pt 2: Case Histories (7:37)
Buckthorn: ID and Uses (6:37)

Later Summer: Early August

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Mountain Ash/ Rowan Berries: ID, Collection and Uses for Food and Medicine (3:17)
Flowering Lobelia ID, Collection and Uses with a Nod to Joe Pye and Blue Vervain (9:05)
Greater Blue Lobelia Flowering: ID (1:42)
Flowering Comfrey: Uses and Case Histories (8:48)
Black Walnut Blooper (0:20)
Black Walnut Pt 1: ID, Collection, Uses for Food and Medicine, with a Nod to 2nd Year Burdock (3:58)
Black Walnut Pt 2: Medicinal and Flower Essence Uses with Case Histories (7:08)
Wild Cherry Pt 1: ID and Collection (8:10)
Wild Cherry Pt 2: Uses (4:59)
St John's: Medicinal Oil Uses (5:45)
Agrimony Take 2: ID, Uses and Case Histories: Some Repeat, But Also Additional Uses and Case Histories (11:57)
Flowering White Snakeroot ID and Use, with a Nod to Boneset (4:59)
Flowering Boneset: ID, Collection and Uses (8:41)
Blooper...Fatigue (0:47)
Lady's Thumb: ID, Collection and Uses (10:13)
Joe Pye Weed/ Gravel Root: ID, Collection and Uses (6:41)
Calendula: More Uses and A Case History (6:39)

Late Summer: End of August : Berries!

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Leafy Prickly Ash: ID and Uses (3:08)
Crampbark Berries/ Highbush Cranberry: ID, Collection and Uses (4:32)
Staghorn Sumac Berries: ID and Uses for Food and Medicine (4:56)
Virginia Creeper Berries: ID and Story (4:04)
Greater Horsetail: ID, Collection and Uses (7:39)
Flowering Goldenrod Pt 1: With a Nod to Dandelion: ID, Collection and Uses (9:03)
Flowering Goldenrod Pt 2: An Unusual Use (4:06)
Black Elderberry Pt I: ID, Collection and Uses (7:34)
Black Elderberry Pt 2: Preparation and Unusual Uses (7:12)

Winter Health Using Preventative Folk Medicine

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Part 1: Your body is smart. Don't stop a cold! (21:24)
Part 2: Elderberry; research and how and what to make; Fall foods as immunomodulators and the innate immune response (22:10)
Part 3: Many food and non-food options (not supplements!) to enhance the immune response (21:02)
Part 4: Non food options to enhance the immune response (25:00)
Part 5: Inflammation and Tissues States. Food sources to encourage flow and strengthen your vital force, including making garlic honey and fire cider (24:40)

Fall: Mid-October: Roots!

Welcome Letter
Garden Thyme: Collection and Uses (4:01)
Wild Ginger Root: Collection and Uses Review (6:44)
Pleurisy Root Seed Pods and An Interesting Case Using Baptisia (and Chickweed) (4:17)
Solomon Seal Foliage and a Node to Celandine (4:43)
Digging Real and False Solomon seal (8:02)
False and Real Solomon Seal Uses and Case Histories (7:14)
Burdock Root: Uses (11:45)
Burdock Burs: Use (2:22)
Ginkgo: ID, Collection and Uses (5:09)
Ginkgo Fruit: Edibility and Preparation (4:14)
Ginkgo Fruit Blooper (0:29)
Ohio Buckeye: Use (2:33)
Yellow Dock Root: ID and Uses (13:02)
Dandelion Root: Uses (4:56)
Hydrangea Root: Uses (1:09)

November: Late Fall

Welcome Letter
Hawthorn Berries: ID, Collection and Uses (9:01)
Slideshow: Agrimony, Cinquefoil, Artemisia, Tansy, Bird's Foot Trefoil, Red Cohosh, American Spikenard, White Snakeroot, Wild Carrot Gone to Seed, Field Horsetail, Usnea, Hawthorn, Wild Cherry and so many more (10:30)

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