Wild Wellness: A Journal for Medicinal Foraging
Wild Wellness: A Journal for Medicinal Foraging
Created by Clinical-Functional Herbalist Cameron Strouss, this journal for medicinal foraging is your companion for foraging and harvesting medicinal plants. This beautiful 158-page journal is spiral bound with a hard canvas cover (perfect for writing in the field!) and will support you in asking the right questions of the herbs you are harvesting.
Wild Wellness: A Journal for Medicinal Foraging contains resources, prompts, and beautiful design/ functionality that will guide you in finding the information you need and actually deeply getting to know 40 plants to the point where you are comfortable taking it home and using it.
What’s included in the journal:
Sustainable Foraging Practices
At Risk/Endangered Species List
Questions to Ask As We Harvest
When to Forage for What
Potency of Herbal Medicine
A Use Guide with Definitions
Harvesting Calendar
List of Plants Recorded
40 Plant Logs
Learning to forage is a massive undertaking and this helps to distill it down into small bite size moments of learning that build upon each other. By the time this journal is full you will have 30 plants in your tool kit that you feel comfortable identifying and utilizing.
Your Comprehensive Companion to Medicinal Foraging
When foraging for medicinal plants, there’s a lot more to consider than just plant identification and general usage. The prompts in this journal will help you to develop a deep understanding of best use and medicinal application of each plant you forage, building a bridge between foraging and herbal medicine making.
Journal Prompts Include:
Is the plant at risk in danger native invasive naturalized or cultivated - this ensures that you're not over foraging and at risk plant and if it is invasive you can with a clear conscience harvest as much of it is possible
What part of the plant to harvest
When to harvest the plant
Safe identification practices
Integration activities to help support the student in remembering the plant in the future
Dosage considerations
What medicine you can make
