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This week on Everything You Didn't Know About Herbalism, we are celebrating our passion for plants in honor of Valentine's Day with the profoundly knowledgeable educator, author, “herbal matchmaker”, and Director of the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine, CoreyPine Shane (RH). Tune in as Thomas and CoreyPine explore how herbalist practitioners utilize matchmaking tools to recommend botanicals that align with a patient's unique health goals, as well as how nervines and adaptogens can help us adapt to external stressors we experience throughout our ever-changing and evolving world. Leaning on our plant partners through stressful events, such as the recent devastation and displacement caused by Hurricane Helene, is something CoreyPine is no stranger to. As a member of the Appalachian Herb Collective—a grassroots effort providing on-the-ground assistance to those directly affected by the catastrophe, CoreyPine understands the impact behind establishing connections with plants to help heal a community from the inside out. As always, we thank you for joining us on another botanical adventure and are honored to have you tag along with us on this ride. Remember, we want to hear from you! Your questions, ideas, and who you want to hear from are an invaluable piece to our podcast. Send us an email at podcast@mountainroseherbs.com to let us know what solutions we should uncover within the vast world of herbalism next. Learn more about CoreyPine below! ⬇

This episode is brought to you by our HerbRally Schoolhouse members If you'd like to try your first month for free, use coupon code PODCAST at checkout! LEARN MORE & REGISTER | http://www.herbrally.com/schoolhouse In this episode of The Herbalist Hour I'm joined by CoreyPine Shane. CoreyPine is a holistic clinical herbalist and the director of the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine, which he founded in 1999.  We chat about how he got his name, discovering the world of herbalism, studying with his mentor 7Song, starting his school in his living room, herbs for insomnia and a whole lot more. Always great to catchup with CoreyPine! He's a wealth of knowledge and I know you're goin' to love this episode! Until next time,  ~Mason  LINKS & RESOURCES Blue Ridge School | BlueRidgeSchool.org Herbs for Insomnia | LEARN MORE & REGISTER CoreyPine on Instagram | @coreypineshane Appalachian Herb Collective | LEARN MORE Beloved Asheville | LEARN MORE Rural Organizing & Resilience | LEARN MORE

In this episode of the PREP Athletics Podcast, we sit down with Coach Cade Lemcke from Blue Ridge School. Cade dives into his journey from Rochester, New York, to Hargrave Military Academy, where he played alongside future NBA stars, and then on to the University of Virginia. With over a decade at Blue Ridge, Coach Lemcke shares his insights into developing high-level basketball talent within a rigorous academic setting. We explore the advantages of a post-grad year, the competitive dynamics of prep school basketball, and the unique aspects of a boarding school environment that goes beyond just athletics. Cade's passion for molding players' skills, character, and work ethic shines through in this conversation, making it a valuable listen for players, families, and coaches alike.

On November 16, 2024, join local herbalists and the herbal-curious in Burgaw, NC for a day of celebration, education and community at the inaugural Southeastern North Carolina Herbal ConferenceThis one day event will include an eco-conscious market with local vendors and food trucks, community activities, and a rich selection of herbal workshops with presenters featuring: Khetnu Nefer, herbalist and Founder/Director of the Gullah Geechee Herbal GatheringRobin Rose Bennett of  Wisewoman Healing WaysCoreyPine Shane Founder/Director of the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine With experienced teachers to provide instruction on how to work with medicinal plants, compassionate leaders to host fun and educational community activities, and earth-centric vendors to support the local  economy, the 2024 SENC Herbal Conference will leave participants feeling connected, inspired, and equipped to continue supporting their community's health – physically, emotionally, and economically. Surround yourself with other passionate, enthusiastic people who are excited to learn from one another and celebrate the rich ecosystem we call home! To Learn More Visit: https://sencherbalconference.com/ Support the showThanks for listening.xo-JackieWant to calm your mind, have better focus, and relieve inflammation in your body using organic plant medicine? Reach out to me at madreandthemuse@gmail.com or order directly from this link -https://jackiedeconti.greencompassglobal.com/Interested in taking the next yoga teacher training or working with me as your Ayurveda Health Counselor? Check out the Madre & The Muse website.www.madreandthemuse.comdeep gratitude to Jared Sales + ALLIN. for the intro/outro musicwww.tinkmusik.com

Daniel Ginsberg is the Co-Founder of Utrain , the #1 booking app for basketball trainers. Daniel was an assistant varsity basketball coach at the Blue Ridge School in Virginia from 2019 -2022. Prior to starting Utrain Daniel worked as a basketball trainer in China with Stronger Me, a Stephon Marbury and Ganon Baker collaboration.Daniel played professional basketball both in Isreal and the United States after completing his college career at Geen Mountain College in Vermont in 2017.If you're looking to improve your coaching please consider joining the Hoop Heads Mentorship Program. We believe that having a mentor is the best way to maximize your potential and become a transformational coach. By matching you up with one of our experienced mentors you'll develop a one on one relationship that will help your coaching, your team, your program, and your mindset. The Hoop Heads Mentorship Program delivers mentoring services to basketball coaches at all levels through our team of experienced Head Coaches. Find out more at hoopheadspod.com or shoot me an email directly mike@hoopheadspod.comFollow us on social media @hoopheadspod on Twitter and Instagram and be sure to check out the Hoop Heads Podcast Network for more great basketball content.Be sure to take down some notes as you listen to this episode with Daniel Ginsberg, Co-Founder of Utrain, the #1 booking app for basketball trainers.Website - https://www.utrainmobileapp.com/Email – danielginsberg@utrainmobileapp.comTwitter - @UtrainAppVisit our Sponsors!Dr. Dish BasketballMention the Hoop Heads Podcast when you place your order and get $300 off a brand new state of the art Dr. Dish Shooting Machine! Fast Model SportsFastModel Sports has the most compelling and intuitive basketball software out there! In addition to a great product, they also provide basketball coaching content and resources through their blog and playbank, which features over 8,000 free plays and drills from their online coaching community. For access to these plays and more information, visit fastmodelsports.com or follow them on Twitter @FastModel. Use Promo code HHP15 to save 15%The Coaching PortfolioYour first impression is everything when applying for a new coaching job. A professional coaching portfolio is the tool that highlights your coaching achievements and philosophies and, most of all, helps separate you and your abilities from the other applicants. Special Price of just $25 for all Hoop Heads Listeners.UtrainUtrain's mission is to provide a free all-in-one business management solution for basketball trainers everywhere. Utrain is the fastest rising basketball training app on the App Store today and provides a safe and secure marketplace for athletes and parents to find trainers anytime, anywhere. Likewise, Utrain gives trainers an opportunity to introduce themselves to a comprehensive basketball community of up and coming athletes. This mutual opportunity provides dedicated athletes a chance to elevate their game to a new

If you've been following my herbal offerings for even a short time, you know that I'm not about focusing on fear. While some alternative health practitioners rally around toxins and pollutants, I'd rather focus on joy and the things that I do have control over. But unfortunately, environmental contaminants do exist, and we can't simply ignore them away. That's why I'm especially grateful to Sarah Sorci for coming on the show. She has taken it on to research important contamination issues for gardeners and foragers, and then shares that information in a way that's based on empowerment rather than fear. (Love that!)By the end of this episode, here's just a sprinkling of what you'll know:► As a forager, how can you navigate effectively around contamination concerns?► How can you address it if your garden soil has contaminants?► How can you navigate conversations with neighbors about using herbicides or pesticides on their property?► What simple and practical safety tips can you implement today when using your garden hose? (Don't forget to download your handout from Sarah!)Here is one of my favorite takeaways from our conversation: “We should all have access to being able to harvest clean and safe food and medicine, whether from our gardens or from our local communities. And I wanted to create a location where gardeners and foragers could find some answers to these [safety] questions in one easy location.”If you're not already familiar with Sarah, she is an herbal educator, writer, and the founder of Sweet Flag Herbs. She loves supporting folks who seek meaning, empowerment, and environmental sustainability by connecting with plants.Through her writing project, A Nourishing Harvest, Sarah explores environmental contamination issues that affect gardeners and foragers, translating scientific data into practical and approachable free articles. She also creates beautiful educational boxes that facilitate ancestral connection by way of the plant world. Sarah has offered hundreds of classes and plant walks throughout Western New York and beyond.Sarah came to herbalism by way of an Environmental Studies degree, farm work, and offering therapeutic gardening programming. She's a 2014 graduate of the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine's Holistic Herbalism program, and she's taken clinical herbalism classes with the Eclectic School of Herbal Medicine. Sarah is grateful to the unnamed elders, foragers, and tenders who have contributed to our collective herbal knowledge.Sarah lives and gardens with her partner in Chautauqua County, NY, homeland of the Seneca Nation of Indians (sni.org).If you'd like to hear more from Sarah, which I highly recommend, then head to the show notes where you can get easy links for her website and social media. You can also find the transcript for this episode in the show notes.I'm delighted to share our conversation with you today!----Get full show notes and more information at: herbswithrosaleepodcast.comFor more behind-the-scenes of this podcast, follow @rosaleedelaforet on Instagram!The secret to using herbs successfully begins with knowing who YOU are. Get started by taking my free Herbal Jumpstart course when you sign up for my newsletter.If you enjoy the Herbs with Rosalee podcast, we could use your support! Please consider leaving a 5-star rating and review and sharing the show with someone who needs to hear it!On the podcast, we explore the many ways plants heal, as food, as medicine, and through nature connection. Each week, I focus...

Blue Ridge School graduate, Retired Sergeant in the U.S. Army, stay-at-home dad turned Community Outreach Coordinator and Student Recruiter for the University of Illinois Chez Veterans Center tells his story of a post-September 11th war with humor and zero regrets. Listen as Garrett talks about 130-degree days in full body armor, marrying his now wife of 17-plus-years on a whim just days before deployment, trying to build relationships with Iraqis while never knowing a good guy from a bad guy with an AK-47 and how it wasn't uncommon for women and children to literally become human bombs in the name of their religion. In a few months Garrett would see and experience more pain than most will see in a lifetime, yet he lives with no regrets. He lights up when he talks about coaching at area schools, his daughters and his wife, local attorney, Sami. He tears up when he talks about a fellow soldier and friend who could never recover from the injuries that Garrett sustained in an ambush—a severely broken jaw and a lost arm. His friend, Sonny, blamed himself to the point of no return. Through all this pain and remembrance, he still maintains a positive disposition as he recounts the way he always has to face the door at a restaurant in an effort to maintain vigilance. As Memorial Day approaches, think of Garrett and all other soldiers who fought for our freedoms—some returned forever changed and some never returned. Across the Counter Across the Counter exists to create space for real people to have honest...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyI'd like to thank this episode's sponsor, Michelle's Bridal & Tuxedo in Urbana. Tuxes, bridal, formalwear, mother's dresses, bridal dresses. Your most special occasions warrant an investment in how you dress yourself that day. The image will live on in photos, in frames and on social media. Visit michellesbridalandtuxedo.com to book an appointment and follow on Instagram for inventory updates at michellesbridalandtuxedo. Thank you so much for listening! However your podcast host of choice allows, please positively: rate, review, comment and give all the stars! Don't forget to follow, subscribe, share and ring that notification bell so you know when the next episode drops! Also, search and follow hyperlocalscu on all social media. If I forgot anything or you need me, visit my website at HyperLocalsCU.com. Byee.

Episode 138! Sound Healing is becoming more and more popular and respected as a healing modality for stress, anxiety, energy clearing, and more. Today's guest Deanna Rose from Asheville NC is interested in all of this as well as Voice & Womb empowerment via sound healing and singing bowls. Listen, too, for deep medicine-woman wisdom on using sound healing to heal the waters, the earth, and to increase the energetic integrity of our lives. Deanna Rose was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, where she took singing lessons on world-renowned Music Row. Deanna now lives in the mountains of North Carolina. Deanna is a graduate of Warren Wilson College, where she earned a BA in Gender and Women's Studies, minor in Anthropology & Sociology and studied Herbalism. Deanna Rose is currently a professional teacher, singer, community organizer and holistic herbalist, certified by the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine. Through song, nature and ceremony, Deanna Rose aims to bring community together. She enjoys performing sound healing , leading song circles, and fostering connection for everyone including LGTBQ, BIPOC, All Ages & Genders. Website: https://www.deannarose.org Instagram: @deannarosemusic Join the Sacred Remembering Community at: https://www.sarahpoet.com/community THEMES: #empowerment #soundhealing #singingbowls #frequency #clearingdensity #resonance #soundasmedicine #reciprocity #womensvoices #healingstress #healinganxiety #toning #wombclearing #integrity

Episode 132! Do you feel that no matter what you "do" as a woman, that something depletes you? Do you feel that you have to do certain things to keep men happy or you risk losing security? Do you recognize that you've had s3xual partners in the past (or present) that seem to suck you dry more than fill you back up?? These are all issues of Womb Sovereignty - which is in my opinion the most important topic of our times. This is the root of the root of the issues, women, and when we rise from here, we truly RISE into our sovereign power, returned. Here are the women practitioners in this roundtable & where to find us: Carmen Nash: Holy Womb Chakra Sessions, Sacred Relating, Active Surrender Carmen is a Ceremonial Priestess and Oracle of Sacred Relating and Creating. Teaching from her own practice of active surrender, she guides people in learning to hear and trust their inner loving voice. This allows people to feel and respond from a deep place of knowing within themselves to bring forth the truth and wisdom of their soul as their greatest gift in the world. Learn more & schedule here: http://www.nashreconnectivehealing.com Thea Satrom: Quantum timeline repair & Sovereign Womb Sessions Thea is a licensed massage therapist and quantum healer who believes the body has the power to heal itself. She has been on a lifelong journey to health since she was in a car accident when she was 11 years old resulting in migraines, chronic back pain and menstrual disorders. Her knowledge and techniques come from the wisdom and ancient teachings of Maya Abdominal Therapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and from grandmothers, midwives and Shaman healers. She offers programs for women and men and it is her mission to inspire individuals to claim their power through body literacy, hands on healing, and energy healing. Schedule sessions with Thea here: https://theasatrom.simplybook.me Deanna Rose: Sound Healing, Womb Clearing & Herbalism Deanna was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, where she took singing lessons on world-renowned Music Row. Deanna Rose is currently a professional teacher, singer, community organizer and holistic herbalist, certified by the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine. Through song, nature and ceremony, Deanna Rose aims to bring community together. She offers Sound Healing for individuals, couples, and groups for restoration, replenishment, voice opening, energy clearing, and for the clearing of the womb! Home clearings are wonderful for calling in new energy, birth & death doula support, and healing ceremonies. If you are local to the Asheville NC area, she will travel to your home. Learn more & schedule with Deanna at www.deannarose.org Christina Bertelli: Yoni Steaming Consultations, Vaginal Ecology Blueprint, Womb Clearing ​​​​​​​Christina has been a student of esoteric womb wisdom for 11 years and walking the path of clinical herbalism for 18 years. She has formal training in clinical herbalism, integrative nutrition for pelvic health, Mayan abdominal massage in the folk tradition of Miss Beatrice, and multiple vaginal steam programs. Her most powerful insights come directly from wild earth magic, and observing plant intelligence. Christina has facilitated community yoni steam circles since 2014, and now offers in person and virtual herbal sessions. She is the creator of V-School, a program to guide women in regenerating their vaginal microbiome. Book with Christina: https://app.paperbell.com/checkout/packages?provider_id=9769 Sarah Poet: Womb Sovereignty Sessions in the Unified Field Sarah is passionate about supporting those on a journey of awakening to align to your soul's original blueprint. Through accessing the Unified Field of Creation and Oneness, we can intend and see the steps to the alignment of the soul's original and crystalline architecture. The womb also has a memory or original encoding of sovereignty, pre-patriarchy, which we can now access and restore. Book a Sovereignty Session via www.sarahpoet.com/book MORE LINKS: Listen to all episodes of the Sacred Remembering Podcast at www.sarahpoet.com/podcast Join the Sacred Remembering Community at www.sarahpoet.com/community

Explore the healing plants of the Southeast with CoreyPine Shane, including mimosa and sweet gum trees. Also, how to discover a plant's personality so you can become an herbal matchmaker. This is a great episode for all you wildcrafters.CoreyPine Shane is a Holistic Clinical Herbalist who founded the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine in 1999. He is the author of Southeast Medicinal Plants: 106 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness and has taught at schools and conferences across the country and in Europe. CoreyPine has written extensively on herbal medicine and is a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild. CoreyPine says, “Herbal medicine is your medicine. Not that you own it but that you inherited it because your grandparents or maybe your great grandparents used plants to heal themselves. Even if they didn't call it herbal medicine. This is just a remembering and a reconnection.”Visit CoreyPine at PinesHerbals.com and BlueRidgeSchool.org

Episode #65 of the Ground Shots Podcast is a conversation with Dave Meesters and Janet Kent of the Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine out of Madison County, North Carolina. https://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com/podcastblog/terrasylvaschool After trying to get together for a conversation all summer, we finally met up in the early fall at Dave and Janet's herbalism school classroom at the Marshall High Studios, in Marshall, North Carolina. It was a frigid fall day and when I arrived, they had tea going and snacks out on a table in their beautifully lit and decorated studio space. It was obviously curated and inhabited by herbalists. Dave and Janet run the Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine with Jen Stovall, and have a clinical herbalism practice in the rural area where they live and the nearby city of Asheville, NC. Dave Meesters grew up in Miami, Florida and attended college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He moved to Asheville, North Carolina in the winter of 1998. In 2003, his formal herbal training began with an apprenticeship with CoreyPine Shane at the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine, and since then his experience has included organizing and staffing a free clinic in New Orleans in the months after hurricane Katrina, and starting and practicing at a free clinic in Asheville's homeless day shelter. Dave has plans to be involved with another herbal free or low-cost clinic in the future, but until then he sees clients privately and provides care to the mountain folks in his rural Appalachian neighborhood, most of whom would rather see an herbalist than a doctor. From 2013 to 2016, Dave was, with Janet, the director and primary instructor at the Terra Sylva School's summer apprenticeship program, which was held on the communal mountain land where he resides before the school moved to Marshall. He and Janet are the founders of Medicine County Herbs, an herb apothecary, medicinal plant nursery, and blog. Dave sees herbalism as a way to provide a more appropriate, accessible, pleasurable, and effective form of health care than the dominant model, and as a means to bond and integrate ourselves with plants, the garden, and the wilds. His herbalism is wedded to a life-long resistance to the forces of domination and alienation, especially domination of and alienation from Nature. His practice and his teaching reflect a deep evolving holism attained by listening to, honoring, embracing, and collaborating with the whole of Nature, and by his study of the threads connecting holistic physiology, energetics, ecology, gardening, systems theory, magic, alchemy and permaculture.   Janet Kent is a clinical and community herbalist, educator, gardener and writer. The child of two naturalists, Janet grew up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains, learning the amazing diversity of regional wild flowers at an early age. She began studying the medicinal uses of plants when she moved to a rich Appalachian cove high in the mountains of Madison county, North Carolina fifteen years ago. She did not set out to become an herbalist, but as she learned over the years in her forest home, if we are open, we do not change the land we inhabit as much as it changes us. The transformative healing power of the plants around her turned an interest into a calling. The vast power to heal through reconnection is the medicine she most seeks to share. Whenever possible, she encourages her students and clients to grow their own herbs, to make their own medicine, and most of all, to experience the more-than-human world first hand. Here is where deep, foundational healing is most profound. Janet views herbal medicine as a means of reconnecting to the long tradition of plant medicine in rural Appalachia. This tradition has become more relevant with the ailing state of the dominant health care system and the rising cost of herbal medicine. Janet considers herbalism the best option for addressing injustice in health care. Herbalists, being outside the biomedical system, can avoid its inequalities. Affordable care, medicine and education are central to this paradigm. In addition to being co-founder and a core faculty member at the Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine, Janet also runs a medicinal and native plant nursery, apothecary and blog, Medicine County Herbs with Dave. Terra Sylva combines the experience of herbalists who've done their work in very different regions: rural Appalachia and the city of New Orleans. Dave Meesters and Janet Kent founded and run Medicine County Herbs in the mountains of North Carolina and publish the Radical Vitalism blog, while Jen Stovall is one of the herbalists behind the Crescent City's Maypop Community Herb Shop. Despite the geographical separation, this team have been partners in herbalism for over a decade, going back to the first herb classes Jen & Dave taught together in New Orleans in 2004. The Terra Sylva School fulfills a dream we've nurtured for a long time, to meld our diverse strengths and perspectives to create a comprehensive, dynamic program well-suited to equip and inspire the next generation of herbalists to practice in the 21st century. Our teaching reflects both Janet & Dave's land-based herbalism practiced in a rural setting and Jen's experience caring for folks in the big city.   In this conversation with Dave and Janet, we talk about:   some of the culture of the holler Dave and Janet live in deep in southern Appalachia pros and cons of living remotely in Appalachia how herbalism tied them to the land they live on and kept them there when other folks involved in the land project didn't stay teaching herbalism online vs. in person the magic of tuning into one small piece of land year after year Dave and Janet's wild-tending and land-tending work over 20 years in Madison county the problem with human misanthropy in punk culture or the ‘humans suck' mentality the importance of human tending on land and Appalachia specifically the effects of capitalism on wild harvest of medicinal plants and the complex nuances of this, and effects Michael Moore's books and teachings had on wild plant populations like Yerba Mansa we geek out on Pedicularis as an example of a plant that is tricky to wildcraft because of its inability to be cultivated some of Dave and Janet's views on ‘invasive plants' and land-tending and the responsibility of human engagement why it is important to ask where the garden begins and ends? how land-tending and restoration can't be about going back to a past that is impossible to recreate due to loss of topsoil and keystone species (think Chestnuts in the east) but about working with a compass of creating diversity and resilience in a rapidly changing world, tending to baselines of the past and ever-shifting baselines of present What can disempowering the engines of disruption with other disruption look like? some thoughts on changes in ‘western' herbalism from a focus on the individual to a focus on the collective and cultural mending using ‘biomedicine' vs. ‘allopathic' to describe mainstream western medicine and some history around the use of these words Dave and Janet's podcast ‘The Book on Fire,' what it focuses on and why they facilitate it we do a mini overview of the book ‘The Caliban and the Witch,' a book they review and deconstruct on their podcast (book linked in Link list below)   Links: Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine Radical Vitalism essay by Janet and Dave on their underlying philosophy To Fulfill the Promise of Herbalism Dave's piece on the power and potential for grassroots herbalism Uncontrollable Night: Herbs for Grief Janet's piece on working with herbs to ease the phases of grief The Book on Fire podcast “The Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation” book by Silvia Federici mentioned on the podcast, reviewed in detail by Dave and Janet on their podcast ‘The Book on Fire' “Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World” by Emma Marris, briefly mentioned in the podcast, also mentioned in GSP Episode #53 :  Wild Tending Series / Gabe and Kelly on ecological history, anthropogenic landscapes and the negative side of conservation Mountain Gardens, a regional Appalachian botanical sanctuary run by Joe Hollis mentioned on the podcast Mountain Gardens Youtube Channel, mentioned on the podcast Donna Haraway “Staying with the Trouble”, mentioned in the podcast, a book Dave and Janet review on their podcast ‘The Book on Fire'       Support the podcast on Patreon to contribute monthly to our grassroots self-funding of this project  For one time donations to support this podcast: Paypal : paypal.me/petitfawn VENMO: @kelly-moody-6 Cashapp: cash.app/$groundshotsproject   Our website with an archive of podcast episodes, educational resources, past travelogues and more: http://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com  Our Instagram pages: @goldenberries / @groundshotspodcast Join the Ground Shots Podcast Facebook Group to discuss the episodes Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on the Ground Shots Project Theme music: 'Sweat and Splinters' by Mother Marrow Guest music: Little Wind and Sea by Village of Spaces This episode hosted by: Kelly Moody Produced by: Kelly Moody

This week we talk about the huge Western Albemarle versus Louisa County clash Friday. We’re also handing out the usual awards, offensive and defensive players of the week and the C&G Paving Road Grader of the Week.  

This week we sit down with Western Albemarle’s Joey Burch, the Warriors’ football/wrestling/baseball standout who has made big plays in all phases of the game to help spark the Warriors to a 4-0 start. We’re also handing out the usual awards, offensive and defensive players of the week and the C&G Paving Road Grader of […]

A tough week for local squads, but we’ve got the awards segment with Offensive players of the week, defensive players of the week and the C&G Road Grader of the Week. Then, discussion about the week and three matchups to watch this week as Louisa and Fluvanna square off, the Battle for the Blue Ridge […]

In today’s Patreon-fueled shout-out: Help support black-owned business in the Charlottesville area. Check out the Charlottesville Black Business Directory at cvilleblackbiz.com and choose between a variety of goods and services, ranging from beauty supplies, professional services, and e-commerce. Visit cvilleblackbiz.com as soon as you can to get started. On today’s show:The Crozet Community Advisory Committee weighs in on the master plan update The Downtown Crozet Initiative unveils its vision for a public plazaThe Community Climate Collaborative unveils the winners of its Better Business ChallengeToday’s show focuses on Crozet in western Albemarle County. Crozet is not a town, but it is a designated growth area under the county’s growth management policy. But it is a place with traditions. Here’s an announcement made at the June 9, 2021 meeting of the Crozet Community Advisory Committee about an event coming up on Saturday, July 3. “I’m Tim Tolson, president of the Crozet Community Association, and along with other civic groups in Crozet we’re hosting the annual Crozet Independence Day celebration parade at 5:00 p.m. as part of the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department that ends at the Crozet Park where the celebration will take part, take place. We’ll have fireworks around 9:30 or quarter to 10 when it gets dark.” The Crozet Community Association is seeking donations to cover the cost of the fireworks. Visit their website to learn more. The Albemarle Planning Commission will take up the Crozet Master Plan at a work session on Tuesday, June 22. At the June 9 CAC meeting, committee members and participating residents got a presentation on the implementation of projects intended to bolster Crozet’s urban character. They also had the chance to comment on the plan update to date.  But first, the implementation projects. The master plan is a large overview of the entire area, and further studies are suggested. The draft implementation chapter shows a list of ten potential topics ranging from a Downtown Neighborhood Architectural and Cultural Study to a stream health study for Parrot Branch, a local waterway. Initial feedback has already been submitted and planner Tori Kanellopoulos gave the rundown for how planning projects scored.“The top ranked projects were the Crozet Avenue Shared-Use Path feasibility study, the Three Notch’d Trail feasibility study, and the Route 250 West design guidelines,” Kanellopoulos said. “And then the policy projects were also ranked and the top priority was updating residential zoning designations to allow for more preservation of natural resources.”Potential capital projects were also ranked. Kanellopoulos said the highest ranking projects are the completion of Eastern Avenue, downtown Crozet intersection improvements, and sidewalk connections. Let’s hear more about that Three Notch’d Trail.“Lately there’s been a lot more focus and attention on the potential Three Notch’d Trail which would ideally connect from the Blue Ridge Tunnel along Crozet and over to Charlottesville,” Kanellopoulos said. “A feasibility study would look at this alignment and there are opportunities to partner with [the Virginia Department of Transportation] and the Planning District Commission and trails groups to look at the feasibility study for the alignment.” Supervisor Ann Mallek said later in the meeting that VDOT planning may not have staff to conduct that feasibility study this year, but community work can be done now to prepare for that work possibly in 2022. “And the other blessing that goes along with that is 2022 is when [Virginia] is going to take over the rail access right of way from CSX and therefore that increases greatly the possibility that we will be able to have a trail beside the rail,” Mallek said. Another “catalyst” project now in the implementation chapter is Western Park, which has long been called for in the plan and for which the county received 36 acres in 2010 as part of the Old Trail rezoning. A master plan for that project was created in 2018 that identified three phases. The first is recommended for funding, a decision which would be made by the entire Board of Supervisors during the budget process.“This phase one would include the access road with parking, a playground, and additional support of infrastructure and utilities,” Kanellopoulos said.Committee member Sandy Hausman noted the rankings were based on responses from fewer than a hundred people. “I wonder if anybody feels like this there needs to be a bit more outreach, like a mass mailing to everyone who lives in Crozet,” Hausman said. “It just feels to me that this is a relatively small group of people who tend to be paying attention to this stuff and everybody else will be unpleasantly surprised in a year or two when things start happening.”Committee member Joe Fore said he wanted to see all three phases of Western Park listed as catalyst projects, meaning they would be prioritized first.“I think just given the fact that it’s been in the works for so long, that the phases of at least getting started, the land is already there,” Fore said. “I understand it's expensive but it’s not an Eastern Avenue or Lickinghole Creek bridge expensive.” Fore also said he would support the creation of a special taxation district to help pay for new infrastructure. The Albemarle Board of Supervisors has previously been briefed on how service districts or a “business improvement district” could be levied in certain areas to fund amenities. “I looked through currently, and this may be a comment for the full draft, there’s only one mention of service districts in the entire draft and that’s in reference to funding ongoing activities and services at the plaza and downtown,” Fore  said. “But I would like to see maybe a little bit more and maybe a full suggestion saying maybe this is something we should explore in Crozet to fund some of these capital projects so we’re not constantly having these be projects are ten years out.” The Board of Supervisors last had a formal presentation on service districts at their meeting on December 7, 2016. (presentation) (story)Fore has looked up the section of Virginia code that allows for the creation of such districts.“It’s a pretty broad statute as I read it,” Fore said. “Things like sidewalks, roads, programming, cultural events, economic development, beautification and landscaping. It’s a very broad statute. It seems to me you could raise money for most of the kinds of projects that we’re looking at.  When we look at the list of priorities and say, yikes! Where are we going to get all the money for this? Well, rather than say let’s raise taxes on everybody in the county, you might be able to say let’s raise funds specifically from Crozet that would stay in Crozet for some of these projects we want to see in Crozet.”CAC member David Mitchell is skeptical of the idea and said it would lead to Crozet receiving fewer direct funds from the county.“Over time we will start to be looked at by the other Supervisors as ‘they have their own money, they can do their own thing’ and you’re going to slowly over time lose your share of the general fund,” Mitchell said. Supervisor Mallek agreed.“I would really discourage our citizenry from burdening themselves because I think David is right,” Mallek said. “We need to go to toe to toe, to say, this is a need that’s been on the books.”Mallek singled out the Eastern Avenue connector road that will provide north-south travel. A major obstacle is the cost of a bridge required to cross Lickinghole Creek. “We have made all of these zoning changes prior to 2007 that were counting on that bridge and we absolutely have a moral obligation to build it,” Mallek said. Eastern Avenue is ranked #8 on the county’s transportation priority list and there was an update in May. There’s not yet a full cost estimate on what it will cost, but engineering work is underway. “This project is currently being evaluated through an alignment study and conceptual design which is funded through the Transportation Leveraging Fund in the [Capital Improvement Program],” reads the update. “The alignment report was presented to the Board in January and the preferred alignment was selected. This project is being considered for a Revenue Sharing Grant application.”Allie Pesch, the chair of the CAC, said she wanted Eastern Avenue to be the top implementation priority.“I like seeing Eastern Avenue at the top of that list,” Pesch said. “That is a priority for everyone in our area and just so overdue.”After this discussion of implementation, county planner Rachel Falkenstein turned the conversation to the working draft of the master plan. The draft that will be reviewed by the Planning Commission at their work session on Tuesday incorporates feedback from the June 9 CAC meeting. (download the draft) “We still have a couple of steps to go before we get to our public hearings and we’ll continue to accept feedback and make revisions to the chapters and to the content,” Falkenstein said. A work session with the Board of Supervisors will take place in August. (Watch the CAC meeting on YouTube)You’re reading Charlottesville Community Engagement. On June 22 at 7 p.m., the Jefferson Madison Regional Library and the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society gives a glimpse into the cemeteries at Pen Park in Charlottesville. Tucked behind the Meadowcreek clubhouse are three, enclosed, family cemeteries, with the oldest dating back to the Colonial era. Outside the enclosures of the family plots, the city has confirmed the presence of 40 or more unmarked graves, all likely those of people enslaved at Pen Park. Join us as a panel of three professionals discuss what led to the examination of this site, the process of the investigation, and the efforts to identify and commemorate those buried there. Register on the JMRL website.  A few days after the CAC meeting, the Downtown Crozet Initiative held a public meeting to talk about a 30,000 square foot plaza intended to be located at the former Barnes Lumberyard. The plaza would anchor a mixed-use building and a hotel through a public-private partnership. The idea involves construction of a connector road using revenue-sharing funds from VDOT. That process requires a local match. Frank Stoner is a principal at Milestone Partners which seeks to redevelop the space. They’re putting up $2 million to serve as that match. “This project started in 2014,” Stoner said. “We developed this road plan in 2016, 2017. Most of the design elements of the road have been resolved. We felt strongly and I think the community felt strongly and the county felt strongly that the streets had to be appropriate for the small town that is Crozet and not be a highway through the middle of downtown which is kind of where VDOT wanted to go with it.” Albemarle County has contributed $1.6 million in cash to the project, and will provide another $1.6 million in rebates through a process known as tax increment financing. (read the June 2019 performance agreement)Stoner said the idea is to build an urban plaza, not a park. “And most importantly we wanted this plaza to be the heart not just of the neighborhood but the Crozet community,” Stoner said. Credit: Downtown Crozet InitiativeVDOT is contributing $2.5 million and the Downtown Crozet Initiative is seeking to raise over a million in private funds. “Which will be used to fund essentially the furniture, fixtures and equipment, sculpture, artwork, seating, all of that kind of stuff that goes in the plaza,” Stoner said. The designs aren’t close to final yet, but Stoner wanted to get feedback from the community. There are also no identified tenants for any of the spaces yet. “We haven’t really been in the position to take commitments because there have been so many unknowns because of the VDOT plans and then we had some stormwater issues we had to work through and so it has just been one obstacle after another,” Stoner said. Stoner said if all goes according to plan, construction could get underway next year. To Stoner, success means making sure it’s a place to expand what already makes Crozet Crozet.“If we can’t create a place that’s affordable for local businesses, then we’re not going to succeed,” Stoner said. In April 2020, the firm Downtown Strategies unveiled their report on a Downtown Strategic Vision for Crozet. Stoner suggested interested parties might take a look. (take a look)Nearby there is a separate VDOT project to rebuild the existing Square to add sidewalks and address ongoing stormwater issues. (watch the June 14 presentation)Finally today, last week the Community Climate Collaborative handed out the latest awards in its Better Business Challenge. Around 75 local businesses took part in an effort to reduce energy and water use. Two groups were Momentum Medalists for their work to investigate energy-use and to make changes to lighting. The Legal Aid Justice Center came up with a plan to replace their heating, ventilation and air conditioning system at their headquarters and a plan to replace internal lighting. Loaves and Fishes, a food pantry on Lambs Road, looked at increasing energy efficiency and began plans to install solar in the future. Jane Colony Mills accepted the award. “We also kind of did this last year because we were adding two additional walk-in refrigerators, and we knew that they were going to add to our energy burn, so we wanted to reduce what we were burning in the warehouse,” Colony Mills said. The Iron Pillar award was granted “for perseverance through uncertain times” and went to the upscale resale boutique Twice as Nice. Sara Guerre is the assistant manager. “The pandemic caused a lot of disruption but we took that opportunity to use the time to focus on as doing as many actions as we could no matter how small,” Guerre said. “And all of those little actions add up.” The Changemaker Award went to an entity for “the strategic pursuit of an action with long-term impact.” Steve Haske teaches Studio Art at the Renaissance School, and also handles Facilities and Information Technology. The student Earth Club wanted changes. “We put all new windows in this very old building here in downtown Charlottesville,” Haske said. “At the pushing of a lot of the students about being cleaner and more efficient, especially in winter time, getting the windows updated so they could open and close and actually seal.”The Schools Champion award went to the Blue Ridge School, a boarding school in Greene County. Cory Woods is the Director of Natural Resources and assistant director of outdoor education. “The Challenge provided us the opportunity to showcase some projects that were already underway like new LED lights and energy efficient windows in our dormitories and motivated us to explore some new opportunities,” Woods said. One of those ideas was a composting program to reduce material that ends up in a landfill. Six entities wound up as the Better Business Champions for scoring the most points in efforts to increase efficiency. In one of two Small Business awards, the Center at Belvedere was one of the winners. Scott Hilles is the director of finance and operations at the Center. “The Center at Belvedere has created a brand new building and it has allowed us to provide a beautiful setting that promotes healthy living in its programs,” Hilles said. For the new building, the Center entered into a purchase agreement with Sun Tribe Solar and have over 400 panels at the new location. “That agreement has allowed us to provide 50 percent of our energy needs through the panels,” Hilles said. “It also allows us to mitigate risk by planning our costs pertaining to energy.”For the other Small Business champion, Scivera transitioned entirely to a home-office based workplace during the pandemic, a move that will continue in 2021. “We normally set up our office in Vault Virginia on the Downtown Mall but because of the pandemic we all had to like so many people scatter to our own home offices and get things going and it ended up working really well,” said Joseph Rinkevich. Rinkevich said only a third of the company’s employees are based in Charlottesville, and going forward there could be less travel for regular internal meetings. One of the medium-sized business awards went to ReadyKids for their work to install low-flow toilets and to begin the process of planning for a solar installation. Ashley Branch is an administrative specialist.“We are very proud and have seen a tremendous saving from our action of doing work on the toilets and now we’re not wasting water, and it has shown profoundly in our water bill each month after we have made those changes,” Branch said. SunTribe Solar was the other medium-sized business champion created an internal sustainability team and had its employees participate with C3’s Home Energy Challenge. Here’s their marketing manager, Summer Rain Ursomarso. “First, we’re trying to help our team be empowered to be more sustainable so that means putting tools in place and providing enough resources to be more sustainable in their day to day actions,” Ursomarso said. “But it also means educating them to take that sustainability and those initiatives home so they can help their friends and family and community be more sustainable.”On to the large entity champion. One of these awards goes to the City of Charlottesville. Kirk Vizzier is the energy management coordinator in the Public Works Department. “Sustainability is something that the city has been very interested in coordinating what we do,” Vizzier said. “We have obviously a lot of municipal operations and services that we want and there are a lot of opportunities to improve those and embed sustainability in the way we do business.” The city created an engagement program for employees called WE to reduce water and energy use. They’re also working on setting up an energy saving performance contract to help speed up the implementation of energy-efficiency measures in city buildings. Finally, Sigora Solar received the other large business award for their plan to convert their fleet of vehicles to either electric or hybrid. Sarah Nerette is the company’s Director of Energy Efficiency and Sustainability. “We’re actually going to be transitioning some of the sedans in our fleet to hybrid and electric vehicles,” Nerette said. “This is going to help make our fleet overall more efficient and more green in general.”For more on the initiative, look up all the award winners at C3’s website.At the DCI meeting, no members of the CAC were on the call because it was not an official meeting. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe

CoreyPine Shane, RH (AHG), is Founder of the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine in Asheville, NC, and has spent over 25 years teaching and helping clients by artfully blending Chinese and Western herbal traditions with a focus on local plants. As a seasoned wildcrafter he has extensive knowledge of wild plants as well as medicine making, which he has put into his forthcoming book, “Southeast Medicinal Plants.” He is also the author of an e-book, “Herbs for Pain,” has taught at many national herb conferences, and is a Professional Member of the American Herbalists Guild. In this episode, CoreyPine introduces us to the world of herbal + holistic first aid, sharing some of his favorite herbs to help support in times of accidents, bumps, bruises, and traumas. We discuss a multitude of herbs, including Saint John's Wort, comfrey, yarrow, and even a handful of common kitchen spices! CoreyPine covers a number of different situations, his go-to's, and different applications for each herb. Connect with CoreyPine via his school or herbal tincture business: Instagram: @blueridgeschoolherbalmedicine or @pinesherbals Websites: www.blueridgeschool.org, www.pinesherbals.com ----more---- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Your support means so much!! If this show has spoken to you or inspired you in some way, please consider subscribing to the podcast and leaving a review and rating so that others can find it more easily.   This podcast is a labor of love, and every little bit helps to keep the show going. If you'd like to make a one-time contribution to show your support, you can use this Venmo link to enter and send your preferred dollar amount. ----more---- STAY CONNECTED SUBSCRIBE: Sign up for the Dancing Sage newsletter and save 15% on your first purchase or consultation! Connect with Anna Claire and Dancing Sage Wellness: Website Instagram Learn more about my upcoming Peru Wellness Retreat HERE!

CoreyPine Shane runs the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine (www.blueridgeschool.org) and Pine's Herbals in Asheville, United States since the 1990s, training hundreds of students and doing consults for hundreds of other people. ~ We talk about plants that really work to improve overall health and therefore sexual vitality, as well as specific sexual tonics for long-term (like the adaptogen ashwagandha from Indian Ayurvedic medicine) and day-of/evening-of use (like the Brazilian "potency wood" muira puama and Mexican damiana). He shares an understanding of how these plants work with the circulatory, hormonal and other systems of our bodies, more safely and sustainably than pills based on chemicals that are either synthetic or taken out of their natural origin and super-concentrated. ~ There's info here on where to find these plants in nature or at the store, how to grow them, and some inspirations for making your own love potions with rose, cacao, cinnamon or other foods and herbs you might already have at home. There are some book resources, including Diana De Luca's Botanica Erotica all about this very topic for you to enjoy. And maybe most importantly, inspiration to craft your own love rituals using delicious and arousing drinks and foods. ~ Thanks CoreyPine for sharing your passion and experience for help us develop whole-body awareness and vibrancy. ~ Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

In this episode Ellen and Jennifer are going to continue talking about one of the ideas that they spoke about last week when they were chatting about the book “A Weedwifes Remedy” (Episode 22) which is the role that stories play in herbalism, with special guest, local herbalist Deanna Rose.

Today we’re talking about Placenta Encapsulation! Our guest today is Michaela Shaw, the woman behind Ostara Birthwork & Botanicals. Michaela is a full spectrum doula serving families in Central & Eastern Massachusetts as well as Rhode Island. She is also a graduate of the Holistic Herbalism Program at Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine, Asheville, NC and has studied permaculture + sustainable cultivation practices throughout Central America and the US, and is a practicing herbalist. Placenta Encapsulation is a form of placentophagy, which is the act of consuming part or all of the afterbirth following birth and believe it or not, this behavior is characteristic of the birth giver in the majority of placental mammals. The use of placenta preparations can be traced back to historical and traditional practices in Western and Asian medicine but not necessarily as an individual postpartum remedy for the birth giver. The Centers for Disease Control issued a warning about this practice, which we discuss in this episode, as well.   Families continue to encapsulate placentas and encapsulators continue to argue that the benefits outweigh any potential risks.  We will talk with our guest today about the two main ways to prepare a placenta for encapsulation, safety, training of encapsulators, two to go about getting your placenta to take home if you give birth in a hospital, other times in life where one might ingest placenta capsules or tincture and other ways to honor one's placenta.If you would like to learn more about Michaela and her birth work, botanicals and placenta services, visit ostaracare.com. Her website also includes some additional reading and resources on this topic!

In this episode, we discuss several categories of tonics and 5 of our guest's favorite plants. We also chat about ways to make you stronger by bridging cultures, plants and people. Today I want to introduce to you CoreyPine Shane, a North Carolina herbalist, director of the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine, medicine maker, wild crafter and so much more.  Show Notes and a gift for you: https://plantloveradio.com/78 To get CoreyPine's Guide to his Favorite Tonics visit show notes, and look for Let me send you a gift prompt. This episode is supported by Mountain Rose Herbs, to learn more visit https://plantloveradio.com/mountainroseherbs

EB and Coach Dane are joined by famed lacrosse coach Dom Starsia, who led Virginia men's lacrosse to four National Championships (1999, 2003, 2006, 2011). Starsia has coached in the Premier Lacrosse League and recently took over head coaching duties at the prestigious Blue Ridge School in Saint George, Virginia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

EB and Coach Dane are joined by famed lacrosse coach Dom Starsia, who led Virginia men's lacrosse to four National Championships (1999, 2003, 2006, 2011). Starsia has coached in the Premier Lacrosse League and recently took over head coaching duties at the prestigious Blue Ridge School in Saint George, Virginia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we’ll hear from herbalist herbalist Lupo Passero. This episode is part of module one in The Art of Flower Essence Therapy Online Course. HerbRally listeners receive 15% off the course with coupon code HERBRALLY This is the first training of its kind! A unique and accessible opportunity to learn from Herbalist and Flower Essence Practitioner Lupo Passero and her 20+ years of experience. This is a visually stunning self-directed course, and you can take your time exploring the different lessons. The Art of Flower Essence Therapy is a botanically splendid offering consisting of 24 gorgeous films crafted by Heather Wright, a previous graduate of the program. These films combine in depth lectures taught by Lupo with beautiful images and videos. These stunning films tell the story of how flower essences can transform people’s lives. They bring the practice to life in a way no other online offering has before. There has never been a more important time to study these potent remedies that address numerous conditions such as fear, anxiety and heartbreak. Learn how these powerful remedies can help you and your family in these uncertain times. LEARN MORE Lupo Passero was classically trained as an Herbalist in the late 90’s. She has worked with some of the most prestigious Flower Essence companies in the world including Flower Essence Services in Nevada City California and The Bach Centre in the UK. She has taught The Art of Flower Essence Therapy course since the early 2000’s and offers flower essence practitioner trainings annually in the U.S. as well as in France, England, and Costa Rica. Lupo has taught at various learning institutions throughout the country including The Appalachian School of Holistic Herbalism, The Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine, Wild Ginger Herbal Center, The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Western Connecticut State University, Yale University and The Graduate Institute. In 2009 Lupo opened Twin Star Herbal Education and Community Apothecary in New Milford, CT and has lovingly served her community along side of the plants and flowers ever since.

Former University of Virginia player and current Head Coach at Blue Ridge School, Cade Lemcke, joins Colin on the podcast.

Welcome to the latest episode of The Panel, where with the help of sponsors like Blue Ridge School, Physical Therapy at ACAC, Taylor’s Auto Body and Mincer’s we’re going to dive into the Top 5 or Top 10 players in a certain sport or at a certain position in the classes of 2010-2020, the breadth […]

Susan Stimart, Executive Director of the Thomas Jefferson Community Land Trust, joined me live on The I Love CVille Show! The I Love CVille Show headlines (Friday, November 13) 1. Charlottesville: An island of low covid cases. https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/articles/charlottesville-area-becomes-an-island-of-low-covid-cases-while-the-rest-of-virginia-surges/ 2. State Farm will not renew their lease on Pantops. https://www.nbc29.com/2020/11/12/state-farm-location-albemarle-co-cease-in-person-work-operations/ 3. Dom Starsia is the new head coach of the Blue Ridge School lacrosse team. https://www.blueridgeschool.com/about/news/starsia-brs-coach/?fbclid=IwAR0X40sZ1AkIbsnj0qfHmDxXsqQvYwz9hsg6J7NKu11tRu3pJeb1L2y6Tx0 4. Mark Mincer Twitter update. Show pic. 5. President Elect Joe Biden is being advised not to do a nationwide covid lockdown https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/13/biden-advisor-dr-gounder-says-covid-advisory-panel-doesnt-support-full-us-lockdown.html 6. Is Live Nation solving the world's covid challenges with big groups? https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/touring/9481166/ticketmaster-vaccine-check-concerts-plan 7. Can the Golden State Warriors help the world? https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30308543/golden-state-warriors-submit-plan-home-game-testing-allow-50-percent-fan-capacity 8. 8 Tennessee football assistants refuse to take pay cuts due to covid. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30310193/eight-tennessee-football-assistant-coaches-decline-take-pay-cuts 9. #9 Miami at VA Tech, 12 pm, (-2 VT) https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401234641 10. Louisville (2-5) at UVA (2-4), 3:30 pm, ACC Network. UVA -3.5 points. https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401257934 The I Love CVille Show airs live before a worldwide audience Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network. The I Love CVille Show is powered by four generation strong Intrastate Inc., trusted limo company Camryn Limousine, the talented Dr. Scott Wagner of Scott Wagner Chiropractic and Sports Medicine, custom home builder John Kerber of Dominion Custom Homes and entrepreneur Patricia Boden Zeller's Animal Connection – All Natural Store for Healthy Pets.

The SP Podcast hands out the weekly awards, breaks down the Goochland/Hopewell state final four matchup and takes a look at six teams in different situations in basketball season. Minute by minute: Weekly Awards including the Road Grader of the Week — Goochland’s Connor Duncan and Khalil Holman (:00-3:05), Offensive Player of the Week — […]

The SP Podcast hands out the weekly awards and takes a look at the second round region playoff matchups with three teams locally left alive.   Minute by minute: Weekly Awards including the Road Grader of the Week — Louisa County’s Adrain Williams (:00-5:00), Offensive Players of the Week — Goochland’s Devin McCray and Buckingham’s […]

The SP Podcast hands out the weekly awards and takes a look at the paths a number of teams face as they try and wedge their way into the playoffs.   Minute by minute: Weekly Awards including the Road Grader of the Week — Nelson County’s Alcindor Barnett (:00-5:20), Offensive Players of the Week — […]

Episode eight of the Ground Shots Podcast.     A conversation with Naturopathic doctor and herbalist Mario Tarasco on working with low-income & at-risk populations as a Naturopathic doctor, taking the harm reduction and non-shaming approach to working with addiction, the current opiate crisis in the U.S., herbal apprenticeships and more.       We talk about:   How Oregon's laws make it easier than in other states for Naturopathic doctors to provide care for low-income and at-risk populations like trans youth, migrant workers, and more.   Navigating how Naturopathic Medicine can be inaccessible and different techniques for working with people where they are culturally, financially, physically, etc.   Mario's experiences working at the Rainbow gathering's first aid station while apprenticing for herbalists Corey-Pine Shane of the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine and Sevensong of the Northeast School of Herbal Medicine and how these experiences in the field influenced the trajectory of his work.   Taking the harm-reduction approach to providing care for folks with addiction and the importance of non-shaming and meeting people where they are and where they want to be with their health.   Links:  Mario on Instagram: @amtarasco Mario's email if you have any questions: atarasco@nunm.edu Meet the Residents page on National University of Naturopathic Medicine's website featuring Mario and other current residents   ************************************     Support the podcast on Patreon  Visit our website Of Sedge and Salt Our Instagram page @goldenberries Join the Ground Shots Podcast Facebook Group to discuss the episodes Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on the Ground Shots Project Theme music: Mother Marrow Produced by: Opia Creative

Asia Suler is a writer, teacher, mystic and herbalist who lives in the blue folds of the southern Appalachian mountains. She is the creator and concoctress of—One Willow Apothecaries—an Appalachian-grown company that offers lovingly handcrafted medicines and alchemical gateways of education. Asia’s work is a unique combination of western and energetic herbalism, stone medicine, earth-centered shamanism and intuitive healing. She holds a B.A in English, Anthropology and Native American studies from Vassar College and a Reiki Master degree. Her training includes work with shamanic dream teacher Robert Moss, psychiatrist Brian Weiss, and Chinese stone medicine practitioner Sarah Thomas of the Jade Purity Lineage. She teaches locally for The Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine, The Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine and Ashevillage as well as at her apothecary studio on The Island in Marshall, NC. Asia offers divine ONLINE and in person learnings and retreats. (Both Christine and Emma have been past participants in her online offerings, and were impressed by the depth and beauty Asia brings to her work.)  In this episode Asia shares some of her journey into healing and plant-based medicine after living with chronic pain. She credits the experience with, leading "her to the altar of the green world." We talk about the creative energy behind her blog post, Nice Girls vs. Kind Women, and it's viral impact on so many women as she defines what true kindness is about. Oh yeah, and, we also talk about embracing silliness as a form of self care that turns everything on its head. Visit Asia's website https://onewillowapothecaries.com  For more information of the Solstice offering from Christine and Emma https://awakenedwomanselfcare.com/sacred-self-care-a-solstice-special-event/