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“Remember, you are not alone as you gather herbs. Birds, butterflies, insects, other animals, and elemental beings may be nearby, sometimes visible and sometimes not.”— DEB SOULEIn this webinar, Deb Soule shares her journey following the southern migration of the ruby-throated hummingbird, and what inspired her. Deb and Pam will also discuss how herbal gardens offer sanctuary for pollinators. Flowering plants and trees, hedgerows and pathways, arbors and benches, altars and bells add magical dimensions into a healing garden. A diversity of plants, blooming throughout the gardening season encourages a diversity of pollinators and birds.. The biodynamic approach that Deb uses at Avena Botanical gardens helps create a sacred environment for all beings that enter the gardens. Deb Soule is an herbalist, gardener, teacher, and author of The Woman's Handbook of Healing Herbs, How to Move Like a Gardener and The Healing Garden. Deb began organic gardening and studying the medicinal uses of herbs at age 16. Her faith in the healing qualities of plants includes a desire to make organic herbs easily accessible to women and families living in rural areas. In the fall of 1985, with her first mail-order catalog and a small selection of herbal extracts and teas, Deb launched Avena Botanicals, an apothecary that now serves thousands of customers. Deb has a special connection to the hummingbirds and has traveled part of the migratory path.Pam Montgomery has been investigating plants and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than three decades. As an author, teacher, and practitioner she has passionately embraced her role as a spokesperson for the plants who are guiding us in our spiritual evolution. She is the author of Partner Earth; A Spiritual Ecology and the best-selling Plant Spirit Healing; A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness. She teaches internationally on plant spirit healing, spiritual ecology, and people as Nature Evolutionaries. Her latest research is on the light and sound of plants which are foundational means of communication in the biological world. Pam is the founder of ONE. She has dedicated herself to co-creative partnership with all of life and feels the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries is a way to make this partnership manifest.Support the show
In this interview, Deb Soule shares about her journey of becoming an herbalist and learning the profound healing nature of plants. Deb describes her experience of founding an herbal apothecary Avena Botanicals and helping others to find healing and transformation through plant medicines and deep relationship with the plant world as well as with the pollinators such as hummingbirds and butterflies. She discusses her latest book Healing Gardens: Herbs for Health and Wellness that supports others in starting their own gardens and working with the healing energies of herbs and plant allies. Deb Soule's website: debsoule.com Avena Botanicals: avenabotanicals.com Heather's website: risingmoonhealingcenter.com
Do you have a top ten herb list? Is yarrow on your list? Some herbs have such a broad compass that they border on constructing a complete kitchen medicine cabinet. Yarrow is one of these herbs. We talk all about it in this materia medica monograph. Herbrally - herbal monographs, podcast and much more Latin Name: Achillea millefollium Henriette’s Herbal: Photos of Yarrow Sources for Yarrow: Mountain Rose Herbs : dried leaf & flower, powdered leaf & flower, seeds Rosemary’s Garden: dried leaf & flower ZacK Woods Herb Farm: fresh & dried Avena Botanicals: tincture, soak & salve Healing Spirits Herb Farm: oil & salve Herbalist & Alchemist: tinctures Floracopeia: essential Oil Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com. Original music by Dylan Rice --- CONNECT WITH DINA --- Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback. Send me a message, voice or write an email, my email is dina@theherbalbakeshoppe.com. I look forward to hearing from you! To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review. --- ABOUT DINA --- Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.
Wellness Insider Network: Healthier Life with Herbs, Food, Self-Care Techniques
My today's guest to speak with me. Her name is Deb Soule. Deb is an herbalist, gardener, teacher and author. One of her dreams and desires is to make organic herbs easily accessible to women and families living in rural areas. In the fall of 1985, with her first mail order catalog and a small selection of herbal extracts and teas, Deb launched Avena Botanicals in Windsor, Maine. Deb's passion for plants, gardens and healing and her commitment to sharing herbal knowledge with others is central to her work. Show Notes: https://plantloveradio.com/30
We invite you to join our FREE Group Energized Mama Tribe. Please join the group by following the link: goo.gl/QiVGvm Be sure to register for our FREE Energized Mama Masterclass: goo.gl/idrLdH Also, we are offering a Free Introductory Coaching Session to get you jumpstarted to a life of more energy, productivity and quality time with your loved ones. You can schedule your session here www.maiaandmichaela.com/apply ON THIS EPISODE: Mischa Schuler is an herbal practitioner and medicine maker offering herbal consultations in Portland, Maine in her private practice Wild Carrot Herbs. She has a zest for Life and a playful, caring attitude, which she brings to her practice. She specializes in anxiety support, as well as women's reproductive health and children's digestive, respiratory and skin health. Her herbal studies have been through apprenticeship with Deb Soule of Avena Botanicals, in Rockport, Maine and clinically at the Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland where she earned a Master of Science degree in Herbal Medicine during a three year course of clinical study. Her herbal apothecary and practice, Wild Carrot Herbs, is stocked with powders, tinctures and teas, which she formulates specifically to individual needs with the intention of healing the vitality of underlying tissues so that acute and chronic conditions resolve without recurrence. Mischa’s Speciality: Working with women who want to conceive, who are currently pregnant, who are recently postpartum - anything related to menstrual and gynecological health, thyroid, or anxiety. Define happiness: Feeling connected to what is bigger than ourselves. Morning Routine: Snuggle with my cat I walk into the kitchen and feed that cat and make tea I walk into my herb room and go over to my alter and offer the spirits that I work with each a pistachio Finish with a prayer and then have a nice breakfast Evening Routine: Brush my teeth Make my tea I will drink throughout the day Go back to the altar and thank them for the day Then I get in bed to read an herb book and fall asleep 3 Self Care practices you can’t live without: Walking in the woods Sitting in front of my alter everyday Getting a massage every 2 or 3 weeks
Deb Soule's biodynamic approach at Avena Botanical gardens helps create a sacred environment for all beings that enter the gardens. As humans, let's be respectful and welcoming to the seen and unseen ones whose presence in our gardens and woodlands brings harmony, balance, and joy. Herbal gardens offer sanctuary for pollinators, people, and elemental beings. Flowering plants and trees, hedgerows and pathways, arbors and benches, altars, and bells add magical dimensions into a healing garden. A diversity of plants, blooming throughout the gardening season encourages a diversity of pollinators and birds. Hedgerows and bells are friends to Elemental beings. Deb Soule practices as an herbalist, educator, and biodynamic gardener and is the author of The Woman’s Handbook of Healing Herbs and How To Move Like A Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines from Plants. Raised in a small town in western Maine, Deb began organic gardening and studying the medicinal uses of herbs at age 16. Her faith in the healing qualities of plants and her love of gardening led Deb to found Avena Botanicals Herbal Apothecary in 1985. Five years earlier, Deb lived in Nepal near three Tibetan monasteries and was deeply moved by the Tibetan people’s commitment to ease physical ailments and mental and emotional upsets through the use of plants, prayer, and other spiritual practices. Deb received a B.A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic in 1981. Since then she has devoted her life to working with and understanding the healing gifts medicinal plants and pollinators offer individuals, families, and landscapes. She focuses on using nourishing herbs, flower remedies, whole foods, and meditation as part of her consulting practice. Avena Botanicals’ three-acre medicinal gardens are open to the public year-round, Monday-Friday. Avena is the first Demeter certified biodynamic farm in Maine.Support the show (https://www.natureevolutionaries.com/donations)
Deb Soule, herbalist and founder of Avena Botanicals in Midcoast Maine, joins The Farm Report to talk about her practice as an herbalist and biodynamic grower. Deb also delves into the challenges herbalists face in of complying with the FDA–which regulates herbs as part of a broad category of dietary supplements–including touching upon the tools necessary for helping future herbalists and small-scale herb producers navigate FDA regulation.
Producer/Host: C.J. Walke Engineer: Amy Browne Issue: Organic Food and Farming in Maine Program Topic: Biodynamic Farming Key Discussion Points: a) History of biodynamics b) Philosophy of biodynamics c) Biodynamic practices and techniques Guests: Deb Soule, Avena Botanicals, Rockport, ME Tom Griffin, Hope's Edge Farm, Hope, ME The post Common Ground Radio 3/6/15 first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.
What does it mean to have a beautiful body? Mainstream media sources might have us believe that a beautiful body is one that is simultaneously voluptuous and meagre; buff, toned and taut. Ultimately, however, beautiful bodies are ones whose owner inhabit their own skin comfortably. This week's show includes interviews with: Dr. Ed Jaccoma, Medical Director of Akari Beauty Salon, Deb Soule of Avena Botanicals and Anne Belden of Hardy Girls, Healthy Women. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/2012/01/body-beautiful-18/
Host Karyn Sanders talks with Deb Soule of Avena Botanicals about herbs and their propagators. The post The Herbal Highway – August 23, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.