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July 22-27 (2012)
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2009 camper tasting the banana facial she made during an herbal spa session.
"Hi Chris. Bella had a wonderful time and said that Wolf Camp was even better this year and she felt like she learned so much! I forgot to ask you where you were looking for feedback which we will gladly give as we would love nothing more than many more years of Wolf Camp for both of our daughters." - Lori Faulkner, Seattle Parent of Camper in Wild Herbology 2009-10.
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Herbal House in the Big Woods
Spend the mornings with Linda Quintana, renown herbalist and proprietor of Wonderland Tea & Spice in Bellingham, WA. Her home herbal gardens are just a few minutes from Blue Mountain Farm, and it is a rare treat to spend time in her healing gardens which are wellsprings of beauty, health and wisdom. We will make teas, salves, oils, vinegars, and other medicines every morning with Linda, and you will return home with many gifts as well as knowledge from one of the most authentic, knowledgeable herbalists in the country.
We will continue on our daily journey by spending the afternoons at the home of Krista Rome who has been a herbal instructor at Wolf Camp since 2003 and who is also a most knowledgeable grower of organic beans, grains and other vegetables. We will help Krista cultivate her vegetable and herb gardens while also walking the land around her home to find wild edible and medicinal plants to cook for dinner. Krista will also share with us her expertise in cedar bark basketry so that you come home with a wonderful plant collecting basket.
We will return to Blue Mountain Farm in the evenings where your lead camp instructor Kim Chisholm will lead us to collect some of the Top 10 Most Important Plants for health and survival, including roasting fresh cattails over the fire, making a tasty pesto from nettles and pine nuts, baking ash cakes from acorn flour, and more. By the time this incredible week ends, you too will be one a knowledgeable herbalist!
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Some of the campers drying willow leaves for aspirin during Herbal Camp 2009.
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Camp Goals & Skills Covered:
The goal of this camp session is to help you begin your journey as an herbal healer, and in order to do so, you may take a proficiency challenge to demonstrate that you have become accomplished in the following skills:
• Recognize the identifying characteristics of the Top 10 Important Plant Groups.
• Understand the meaning of plant characteristics (astringents, etc.)
• Ability to make plant extractions (decoctions, essences, etc.)
• Ability to relate symptoms to all aspects of the Medicine Wheel.
• Ability to make traditional fire by friction and rock boil.
• Completion of Journal Entries on your healing plants, and on corresponding poisonous plants, using Wolf Journey Parts One & Three.
Goals for those who have studied herbalism in the past include bringing you to the next level as an herbalist, from merely working with the herbs on a physical level, to also understanding the mental, emotional, physical and social needs of your patients so that they may fully heal.
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Soaking our feet in herbs during one of our spa sessions back in 2003.
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Camp Schedule & Activities:
See below for Sunday, July 22, 2012 Arrival Times and Friday-Saturday-Sunday Departure and Weekend Stayover options between camps. Our schedule during the week includes morning wake-up, stretches, washing, and breakfast vary slightly depending on previous evening activities, but if all was quiet by 10:00 p.m. we would awake at 7:00, do warm-ups from 7:30-8:00, and have breakfast from 8:00-9:00 ... 9:00-12:00 is the morning session. 12:00-1:00 is lunch, and 1:00-2:00 is usually swimming or other recreational time. 2:00-5:00 is the afternoon session. 5:00-6:00 is dinner, and 6:00-7:00 is usually personal time. Evening sessions begin at 7:00, and bedtime varies according to the activity and the time of sunset.
Activities covered during this camp session include, but are not limited to the following list, and are somewhat dependent on weather, instructor descretion, camper desire, and serendipity:
• We'll cook in open fires and earthen pits, using rocks and clay like the ancients before us.
• Learn to make stone soup with rock boiling.
• Make rope from nettles, cedar bark, and various roots.
• Help cultivate our gardens which include wild plants.
• Make a medicine pouch.
• Design a cedar bark basket to hold herbs that you gather.
• Dry and store herbs to take home.
• Make salves or other medicines.
• Purify water naturally for cleansing wounds and making teas.
• Experience a natural steam lodge if the groups decides for purification of mind and body.
• Practice wilderness medicine emergency response scenarios.
• Make and maintain fire in any weather, and witness traditional fire by friction that our instructors are accomplished with.
• Keep in Shape with Daily Workouts.
• Sing Songs & Tell Stories.
• River Swimming
• Learn Easy Plant Drawing & Naturalist Journaling.
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Beautiful salmonberry collection in a basket made by one of our instructors
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Camp Storyline, Songs, Books, AV & Other Resources:
This session's storyline is Salmon Woman but may be modified by the instructor, and some of the songs you may learn this week include: Balm in Gilead, Circle of Life, Circle Song, I Give Thanks, Earth Angel, The Rose, We Shall Be Healers, Rainbow Friend, Edelweiss, Wild Mountain Thyme, Loch Lomond, Wade in the Water, Cockles & Mussels, The Trees Could Dance.
Books, AV & Other Resources this week include various hand-outs that campers will take home, and if you would like to prepare in advance, please consider studying the following resources we will be referencing:
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