CoreyPine Shane RH (AHG), founder and Director of the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine near Asheville, NC, has spent over 25 years helping clients and teaching people by artfully blending Chinese and Western herbal traditions with a focus on local plants. His new book “Southeast Medicinal Plants” covers how to identify, ethically harvest, and use the wild plants of the Southeast. CoreyPine has taught across the United States and in Europe, at many national herb conferences, and is a Professional Member of the American Herbalists Guild.

In this talk, we will discuss this deep connection available to all of us, and talk about some ways in which we can more directly connect to the plant world around us. Whether you live in the city or out in the country, there are ways to directly connect to the living world of the plants.

The deepest healing of holistic herbalism is the recognition that our medicine is all around us. We are not strangers on this earth but intimate partners whose ancestors have used wild plants for food and medicine for tens of thousands of years. We don’t have to do it all ourselves, the woods and the wild have remedies to support us. We are not strangers on this earth, we are already home.