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seeding earth wisdom since 1989 «•» In everything we do we aim to honor the ancient agreements with Nature. These agreements, which enabled our ancestors to survive and allow us to be here now, have largely been forgotten by western culture. We are re-membering Earth culture—sharing visions and teaching skills of traditional living—indigenous skills, herbalism, permaculture and sustainable building. As the seeds of wisdom inside us are watered and awaken, our connection grows and a more meaningful dimension is revealed. The World literally comes alive.
The Sacred GardenerSunday, April 22nd, 2018 at 2:40am
Ahhh... maple water!

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The Sacred GardenerThursday, April 19th, 2018 at 4:01am
From Steven:

This clip from the start of The Sacred Gardener’s Medicine Making Workshop addresses the increasingly tight legal restrictions on practicing traditional and shamanic herbalism.

Why the way modern scientific ‘standardized’ herbalism, that is practiced in the name of ‘safety’ is actually dangerous, and why the grassroots traditional and shamanic herbalism, which is being wiped out by regulators, is actually safe.

“These herbal regulations and standardizations have about as much to do with safety as forest management has to do with the health of the forest. Nothing. Both are completely driven by government-sanctioned corporate industry. Like sly devils, they fabricate a facade of concern and care, which are the very means to achieve their true economic imperative.

The pharmaceutical industry essentially found its footing in our culture by discrediting herbalism. From the late 1800s through to now, the medical associations have deliberately cast traditional health practices like midwifery and herbalism as ‘backward’ unscientific ’wive's tales’, or superstitious traditions. This was the best way to steal the herbalist's, midwive's and healer's clients. But with the rise in herbalism, Big Pharma is threatened and so has now created their own herbal brands, as well as pushed hard for government regulations to push out grassroots herbalism.

The regulations make it nearly impossible for small producers to make it because they can’t afford the time or money (testing and paperwork) for something that's totally unnecessary. It's clear that people working in the herbal industry do it for love because they’re grossly underpaid, forced to compete with the machinery of industrial growers and third world workers when plants need to be hand-picked. The only purpose for regulations is to drive small herbal producers under and to line the pockets of the regulators. They are totally unnecessary because as an herbalist, people who buy herbs from me come to trust in my advice and the herbal quality of what I make and sell them. If I sell them poor quality medicine and it doesn’t work, not only don’t they come back but they tell others about the bad experience.
On the Safety of Shamanic Herbalism

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The Sacred GardenerWednesday, April 18th, 2018 at 3:25am
We're covered yet again in a thick blanket of snow after quite a storm in our neck of the woods. Soon, though, the ephemerals will come, and the floodgates will open...

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Saturday, April 21st, 2018 at 11:41pm
Ahhh... maple water! https://t.co/4GZ7JDkajU
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Ahhh... maple water! https://t.co/4GZ7JDkajU
— SacredGardener (@SacredGardener) April 21, 2018

SacredGardener @SacredGardener
Thursday, April 19th, 2018 at 1:01am
I posted a new video to Facebook https://t.co/vpSnDfVEPO
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I posted a new video to Facebook https://t.co/vpSnDfVEPO
— SacredGardener (@SacredGardener) April 18, 2018

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Wednesday, April 18th, 2018 at 8:08am
Come visit us in Rankin next week! We'll have sauerkraut and wild leek miso, Gomasio (herbal salt), Bulk Herbs, herbal toner, cleansing grains, copies of Steven's books.. and more! https://t.co/ZhPpUJuIHO
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Come visit us in Rankin next week! We'll have sauerkraut and wild leek miso, Gomasio (herbal salt), Bulk Herbs, herbal toner, cleansing grains, copies of Steven's books.. and more! https://t.co/ZhPpUJuIHO
— SacredGardener (@SacredGardener) April 17, 2018

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Golden Lake, Ontario, Canada K0J 1X0
(613) 625-1106

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