Guest guest Posted January 21, 2001 Report Share Posted January 21, 2001 Hi Penny... I guess I should respond to your post here before i post much more... Thanks for the welcome...I tend to not introduce myself, but more usually just barge in... I am NOT a practicing herbalist...and hope that is Okay... I have thought a lot over the last 30 years now of going and studying formally for a certification in such...but have not for one reason or other...but usually because i tend to focus more on plants and their uses than on people and their physical problems. Not that i do not do that on an informal basis...but I would have a hard time charging people for what i do, and it tends to drain me...as I tend to approach healing on an intuitive basis, and would fear messing up if I did it for pay. I have lots more thought on this...but not for now... I am more of a woods woman person...and a mainly self taught botanist, read all the herbals available back in the 70's (as well as through Rosemary Gladstar's first herbal course material), hung out with botanists and herbalguys...sold herbs to and with people like Steven Foster and Doug Elliot when they were still teenagers and living in VW's painted to look like trees...but mostly learned about herbs by tasting those that grew around me. More lately I have been working with the University of New Hampshire Agriculture Extension service..I am a Master Gardener and Tree Steward and I forget what other titles I have...but I answer questions for the public and research a lot of plant-based and other questions..and give a few slide shows ands classes on the uses of wild plants....I am trying to break open some closed systems..educational systems, Extension service and public school and others, to accept the stuff about the uses and properties of plants that i know...I teach field botany to first graders, and always stick some of this in...I once spent an entire day just teaching about one plant, the dandelion, to a bunch of school kids... But...I tend not to get paid for all this, and just got passed over for a paid job with extension that was given instead to a rather clueless and rude person with political connections...so I am moving on from there...not sure what next, but I am still giving classes and writing articles on plants and environmental topics for extensioAAAAbut am no longer the woman on the other side of an 800 number answering questions about every home and garden question you can think of.... I figure I may as well just stay home and save the gas money and answer questions at home until I find a " real " job...or maybe go back to school and get a " real " degree...I do not know....Joanie >Dear Joannie Mc Phee, > Catching up on EMail I came across your very interesting first >contribution to the list. > Firstly, Welcome. !!!!Hope to hear a lot more from you..... > Very interesting about aroma's!!!! >Wish they used mustard instead of irradiation to stop food spoiling. > .....Good post....Are you a practicing Herbalist? > ....Love Penny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 21, 2001 Report Share Posted January 21, 2001 >>I am NOT a practicing herbalist... >I beg to differ? I saw you saying that you make balms and potions >Qualifies for ME <g> Hmmm...well so do " witches " make balms and potions...<G> I guess I meant i do not get paid....nor am I on the list of Naturopaths that I referred people to when they would call me at extension asking for a " herbalist " nor do I have the proper certification. I guess if I called myself a practicing herbalist I would feel more comfortable telling people how to heal themselves when they asked. Instead I tell stories. True stories, but still stories. My great grandmother Mary Martin (NOT " Peter Pan " ) was a herbal healer in Canada. My Finnish Grandmother taught me about plants when i was very young. My Grandfather came from the Lapland area of Finland, and I always fancy myself related to some old shaman up there. The MacPhee part of me is related to the " seal women " of mythology..and fairies from the Isle of Skye. But me...I am not yet sure what i am...Joanie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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