Students will discuss and practice all phases of plant processing - from the garden to the press, and everything in between. Business issues are covered including liabilities, labeling, and marketing strategies. All products made will supply Dreamtime Clinic's Apothecary. All plant materials will come from Dreamtime's own biodynamic gardens, native plant sites or will be consciously harvested from the wild. Requirement for the internship is completion of Foundations.
Stewards develop an eye for detecting the health of an ecosystem.
Just as the practitioner must understand the functions of the body's organ systems, the medicine harvester must understand the ecotones within the landscape. Wetlands, vernal pools, ponds, streams and springs hold the essential life-giving energy of water. The woods according to their orientation, elevation and stage of succession afford the powerful medicine of trees both evergreen and deciduous. In meadows, we learn the land of butterflies, of light, of constant change. All of these systems will be explored through the apprenticeships described below.