Edible and Medicinal Plants are Everywhere!
Come along while we trapse and taste all the goodies that surround you, whether you live in a city or rural area. I’m telling you. You are wealthy in so much food and medicine growing all around you for free!
This course is only available as a subscription, currently priced at $15/month.
As a practicing clinical herbalist in Minneapolis Minnesota, I have harvested the medicine for my own practice for 30 years. Over the course of the year, I will show you the plants growing throughout different seasons, teach you plant identification and harvesting techniques. I teach the uses of the plants through stories from my practice.
Curriculum available as videos are released
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- Please Read the 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Welcome Letter
- 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)
"Lise believes that plant wisdom is for everyone, and she lives that belief in her teaching."
In March 2020 - with all three kids back in the house full-time, and their dad, too - time to myself was suddenly a rare and precious thing. By some grace I ended up enrolling in Lise’s online Plant Walk series.
Throughout the Spring and Summer of 2020, these Plant Walks were a constant companion. I built a habit around watching a few segments during my afternoon tea break. It was always a highlight of my day! In perfectly manageable servings, Lise led us through the seasons, and I began to notice that the plants Lise was pointing out in the walks were doing the same things in my backyard. Fifteen minutes of screentime, plus endless hours walking in the neighborhood, around lakes, in the woods with my family - this was enough to carry my interest in herbalism through that chaotic year. I met plants underfoot I’d been stepping over for decades but hadn’t known before. I learned new uses for plants I’d known for years. And maybe most importantly, I began to trust that I could learn. This knowledge wasn’t beyond my reach just because my life was so full already. Lise gave me that confidence.
How did I get hooked? Lise is fun to watch. She is full of stories about the plants and the people they help. She manages to meet students wherever they’re at even in a recorded format (no small feat) and is fiercely dedicated to all her students’ success. Maybe most importantly, Lise believes that plant wisdom is for everyone, and lives this belief in her teaching.
The year after my “plant walk year”, I joined Lise’s Three Seasons program, and this was when working with herbs found a bigger and more insistent place in my life. But these Plant Walks were the beginning for me, and I credit them with changing the course of my life. For anyone herb-curious out there, especially those without a lot of time to spare, this series is a fabulous resource.
I can’t recommend Lise strongly enough!
Emily Pearson Ryan
Community Herbalist, Minneapolis, MN
