2000 Herbal Almanac (Annuals - Herbal Almanac)
Llewellyn Publications has grown and expanded into new areas of personal growth and transformation since it began as the Portland School of Astrology in 1901. Along with the strong line of astrology books the company was founded upon, Llewellyn publishes books on everything from alternative health and healing, Wicca and Paganism, to metaphysics and the paranormal-and since 1994 has published a growing list of Spanish-language titles.Llewellyn has long been know as one of America's leading publishers of New Age books, producing a wide variety of valuable tools for transformation of the mind, body and spirit. Reach for the Moon-and discover that self-help and spiritual growth is what Llewellyn is all about.As an alternative healing therapist, Bernyce Barlow has used the principles and energy of sacred sites  in the healing of hundreds of abused youths.  Currently she is expanding her research in the form of Sacred Site Seminars, which deal with healing and in-depth ecology.In early 1987, Penny Kelly and her husband, Jim, purchased fifty-seven acres of land, complete with a 100-year-old house, a dilapidated barn, and two small vineyards. At the time they knew nothing about raising grapes.<br><br>Since then, they have remodeled the house into a rental property, and turned the barn into their home, office, and small learning center. They are in the process of restoring the soil, vineyards, and some of the natural habitat that had been lost. In addition to her BA, Penny has earned a degree in naturopathic medicine, and is working toward a Ph.D. in nutrition. <br>Pamela Spence holds a degree in English with a minor in philosophy from the Pontifical College Josephinium, Columbus, Ohio. Course work in commercial beekeeping at Ohio State University, however led to a chronic bout with "bee fever," an obsessive passion about honeybees for which there is no known or desired cure. In 1986, she founded the American Mead Association (AMA) to stimulate interest in an alternative market for honey. The association, through its publications, the Meadmaker's Journal and Mead Letters, served as a clearinghouse of information for amateur and commercial meadmakers worldwide.<br><br>Spence has contributed articles on beekeeping and meadmaking to the Llewellyn Organic Gardening Almanac and various beekeeping and wine trade publications. During her tenure as AMA director, she conducted numerous workshops, lectures, tastings, and mead judgins. In addition to her mead activities, she is also a poet and storyteller, and currently lives on the banks of a creek in Central Ohio with her husband and their family of children, dogs, and bees.<br>