Chesapeake Herb Gathering Sept. 27-28

Centro Ashé Farm hosts annual Chesapeake Herb Gathering on September 27-28, 2014August 6, 2014 – Centro Ashé Herbs & Education Center, a medicinal plant sanctuary, homestead, and education center based in Bryans Road, Md., has organized the annual Chesapeake Herb Gathering on September 27- 28, 2014 from noon overnight through noon the following day. The event will feature two days of workshops, a marketplace, and networking with local herbalists, farmers, naturalists, birthkeepers, botanists, holistic wellness community, teachers, natural healers, and more. The event is a fundraiser for United Plant Savers working to conserve native medicinal plants in the US, executive director Susan Leopold will be presenting the key note address. Registration is $65 and is now open throughSeptember 15, 2014 by visiting www.CentroAshe.org. The event will be held at Melwood Recreation Center located at 9035 Ironsides Road, Nanjemoy, MD 20662, about one hour south of Washington DC.
Sponsored by Centro Ashé, Mountain Rose Herbs and Marble Arch Gardens, the event will offer communities of the DC-Maryland-Virginia area a unique opportunity to celebrate herbal medicine as medicine of the people. More than a dozen experts will be leading classes on sustainable living, herbal medicine, urban farming, and homesteading projects. The weekend will also camping and cabin accomodations, bonfire, barter market, and a vendor bazaar with handmade goods.

Instructors include Molly Meehan of Centro Ashé, Susan Leopold of United Plant Savers, and herbalists Ayo Ngozi, Suzanna Stone, Mae Wright, Yuma Bellomee, Mimi Hernandez of theAmerican Herbalists Guild, Eric Kelly of Charm City Farms and many more!
Centro Ashé director and herbalist Molly Meehan explains, “The goal of the Chesapeake Herb Gathering and the work of Centro Ashé is to provide accessible opportunities for communities to learn about shared herbal and plant traditions. As local food movements continue to gain strength, the opportunity to look toward our gardens and forests as local medicine is ever present.”
To learn more about Chesapeake Herb Gathering and to purchase tickets for the rain-or-shine event, visit www.CentroAshe.org
About Centro AshéCentro Ashé is a community rooted education center, farmstead, and medicinal plant sanctuary in Southern Maryland just south of Washington DC as well as Talamanca, Costa Rica. We seek to engage community through organizing educational activities that celebrate the art, tradition, and culture of herbalism, and that cultivate meaningful connections with the earth and eachother. We offer 6 month Grassroot Herbalist Program, our Four Season Herbal CSA, herbal wellness consultations, plant walks, annual trips to Costa Rica focusing on traditional herbal medicine and farming, weekend workshops on various subjects, and much more! The land is home to hundreds of species of medicinal and native plants, open pasture and forest, fruit trees, and more. In our gardens we grow incredible medicines & food, we grow and save non-gmo heirloom seeds, we have an herbal apothecary and provide customized hand crafted herbal formulations and consultations to our community.
Press Contact: Molly Meehan, 240-581-0484 info@centroshe.org


Full Schedule Below:2014 Chesapeake Herb Gathering Schedule & ClassesSaturday and Sunday September 27-28, 2014
SATURDAY Sept. 27
11:00 Arrival, Camping Set Up, Registration12:00 - 1:30- Open Welcome &Planting the Future Keynote with Susan Leopold of United Plant Savers
1:45-3:00 - Workshop Session 1Medicinal Herb Walk: Healing Herbs at Your Doorstep with Holly Poole-KavanaHolistic Approaches To Using Herbs with Maribel RodriguezFilling Your Medicine Bag - Herbs for First Aid with Suzanna StoneBasketweaving - Youth Workshop with Katie Neptune
3:00-4:00 - Break ~ Vendor Market
4:00-5:15 - Workshop Session 2 Patterns in Astrology & Herbology with Mimi HernandezThe Magic of Making & Taking Bitters with Olivia FiteRespectful, Chemical-Free Beekeeping with Stefano BriguglioHerbal Popcorn for Kids - Youth Workshop with Jillian Carnrick
5:30-6:45 - Workshop Session 3Making Medicine Delicious with Herbal Cordials with Betsy CostelloManaging Menstruation Sustainably for Vibrant Reproductive Health with Heidi Smith BriguglioSeasonal Transitions: Herbs & Healing Practices that Support the Immune System with Charlene MuhammadObserving Patterns in Nature with Eric KellyYouth Nature Mandala with Kristyn Hewitt
6:45-7:45 - Local Foods Feast Dinner ~ Vendor Market 8:00 Evening Campfire
SUNDAY Sept. 28
7:05-7:40 - Sunrise Plant Spirit Yoga with April Rameé
7:45-8:30 - Breakfast / Pack Up
8:30 - 11:30 - Morning IntensivesGettin’ Down with Appalacian Roots with Mimi HernandezCannabis: Potent Medicine with Mae WrightHerb & Roots - Western Herbalism, History & Culture with Ayo NgoziYouth & Earth Connection Experience - with Yuma “Dr. Yew” Bellomee
11:30-12 - Final Clean Up - Leave Melwood by 12 noon