09/17/2026
As the Wheel turns, our relationship with the plants changes too.
Spring and Summer invite us outward — into the garden, the woods, and the fields. We observe, forage, harvest, process, and create.
But Autumn and Winter ask something different of us.
They ask us to slow down and listen.
This season’s Herbalism class is less about what can I go out and gather? and more about how do I learn to read the plants I already know?
We’ll talk about the ways traditional herbalists have understood relationships between plant, person, season, element, body, and cosmos — while practicing discernment about what is traditional correspondence, what is observation, and what we can actually substantiate.
This isn’t about memorizing a list of herbs and what they’re “good for.”
It’s about learning how to pay attention.
“Plants speak, when we know how to listen.”
— Lauren G. Koch
🍁 And if you want to begin with the plants themselves…
Join my friend Blake Leaf the evening before, September 19 at 5 PM, for:
🌿 Foraging for Fall & Winter 🌿
Go out into the landscape, learn what is available to us in this season, and explore the plants that become our companions as the year turns inward.
Friday: Foraging for Fall & Winter with Blake Leaf — 5 PM
Saturday: Herbalism for Autumn & Winter with Lauren — 1 PM
Two different ways of meeting the plants.
One beautiful seasonal conversation. 🍂
Come for one or come for both.
Keeper of the Old Ways
Seek the Magic in the Mundane & Trust the Inner Knowing
