Virtual Faire 2020
Links to classes will be posted here and on our Facebook page.
Put the kettle on, hope for a nice rain and sit back and enjoy the virtual faire! Just know that we would rather be enjoying that tea with you in Chelsea.
You can also take advantage of our virtual marketplace and past faire recordings that you have free access to over the weekend! All video classes will be available for streaming until September 27, 2020.
VIRTUAL HERB FAIRE SCHEDULE
(Eastern Standard Time)
September 12th, 2020
10:00 AM - Keynote talk with Ola Obasi: The Roots of Movement
11:30 AM - jim mcdonald: virtual herb walk
1:00 PM - Cal Janae: Making Herbal Infused Glycerites
2:15 PM - Talal Al Hamad: The history and modern day applications of Islamic herbal medicine
September 13th, 2020
10:00 AM - LIVE Keynote with Esstin McLeod
11:45 AM - Leah Wolfe: Stories of Herbal Resilience
1:15 PM - Erika Galentin: 5 Considerations for Setting Up your Herbal Practice
Put the kettle on, hope for a nice rain and sit back and enjoy the virtual faire! Just know that we would rather be enjoying that tea with you in Chelsea.
You can also take advantage of our virtual marketplace and past faire recordings that you have free access to over the weekend! All video classes will be available for streaming until September 27, 2020.
VIRTUAL HERB FAIRE SCHEDULE
(Eastern Standard Time)
September 12th, 2020
10:00 AM - Keynote talk with Ola Obasi: The Roots of Movement
11:30 AM - jim mcdonald: virtual herb walk
1:00 PM - Cal Janae: Making Herbal Infused Glycerites
2:15 PM - Talal Al Hamad: The history and modern day applications of Islamic herbal medicine
September 13th, 2020
10:00 AM - LIVE Keynote with Esstin McLeod
11:45 AM - Leah Wolfe: Stories of Herbal Resilience
1:15 PM - Erika Galentin: 5 Considerations for Setting Up your Herbal Practice
Please consider donating to our charity of choice this year!
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Healing by Choice! is a circle of Women and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color
health and healing practitioners, based in Detroit. They offer a range of healing modalities for self and community care for the reduction of racial harm in mind, body, spirit and institution. |
Keynote Speakers: Ola Obasi and Esstin McLeod
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Olatokunboh Obasi MSc, RH (AHG), CNS is a wellness professional in herbal medicine, nutrition and indigenous ways of practice. She is an educator/founder of Well of Indigenous Wisdom school for herbal medicine and African cosmology. Puerto Rico Coordinator for Herbalists without Borders International & Owner of Omaroti a wellness shop for wellbeing. Birth doula, yoga and dance instructor, author, presenter and healer, her devotion is to serve humanity and care-take the earth.
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Ola's Keynote Address:
The Roots of Movement
These are unprecedented times. An opportunity to provide a beautiful future for our children. The year 2020 has already passed halfway and looking around feels like the ground has been uprooted. It’s filled with false egos and many lie stories that have filled us and our ancestors for many generations. It’s a worldwide cleanse that only our
root medicines can purge. This is a discussion on roots, connecting with roots, restoring roots, healing roots and being roots.
The Roots of Movement
These are unprecedented times. An opportunity to provide a beautiful future for our children. The year 2020 has already passed halfway and looking around feels like the ground has been uprooted. It’s filled with false egos and many lie stories that have filled us and our ancestors for many generations. It’s a worldwide cleanse that only our
root medicines can purge. This is a discussion on roots, connecting with roots, restoring roots, healing roots and being roots.
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Esstin McLeod is a member of the Mississaugi First Nations. Esstin has been studying and practicing Aboriginal Healing Methods for the past 30 Years. She has facilitated “Traditional Healing” workshops promoting the benefits of Spiritual plant therapy a program designed with reference made to The Medicine Wheel Teachings. As a Traditional Medicine Practitioner she provides clinical consultations to various health organizations in northern and southern Ontario, her practice for herbal medicine stems from a spiritual energetic perspective. Esstin McLeod
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Esstin's Keynote will address COVID-19 and the relationship building with herbalists and Indigenous practices, plant medicines.
2020 Teachers
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Cal janaeMaking Herbal Infused Glycerites
by Cal Janae (they/them) Clinical Herbalist & Botanist This medicine making class covers the ins and outs of making glycerites, a sweet, alcohol-free form of herbal medicine. What is glycerine? Why make medicine from it? What are the benefits and downsides to this form of medicine? These are just some of the questions that this class will answer as Cal Janae demystifies the process of making glycerites from both fresh and dry plants. Class includes a fun soundtrack and info to ask Cal any questions that you may have regarding the class. |
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ERIKA GALENTIN
5 Considerations for Setting Up your Herbal Practice
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jim mcdonaldjim will lead you on a virtual herb walk into the fields and forests of Michigan. As always utilizing his incredible wealth of knowledge and his humor to make you want to keep walking!
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Leah WolfeStories of Herbal Resilience
Herbalist and Street Medic, Leah Wolfe shares lessons learned and stories about how she learned to build resilience. This photo webinar traces Leah's journeys through disasters, protests, and encampments. The challenges experienced demonstrate how resilience ebbs and flows, how it can be lost and found, and some practical strategies for building personal resilience. The webinar augments Leah's free online class, Herbal Resilience in Uncertain Times, which includes more stories, recipes, and ideas for herbs as a tool to build resilience. |
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Talal Al-Hamad
The history and modern day applications of Islamic herbal medicine
Talal Al-Hamad is a man of many talents. He is an herbalist with a diverse background in many natural healing modalities. He utilizes a unique east meets west approach to imbalances and disease, with great efficacy. He has been a student of various holistic modalities including: -Traditional Western Herbalism -Islamic Herbalism -Ayurveda -Homeopathy -Alchemy -Flower essence therapy & Aromatherapy -Yoga (Pranayama, Mudras & Asana) -Nutrition Herbalist by day and jazz guitarist / fanatical foodie by night, Talal has an innate passion for healing and has devoted his life to developing his treatment protocols and furthering his knowledge of medicinal herbs. Having conquered his own health challenges with his knowledge, it is easy to see how his passion for healing others is truly sincere. |
Thank you to Our Wonderful Sponsors for Making This Year's Faire Possible!
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A Special Note from Our Organizers
By: Tina Stone
We are aware as organizers of the Great Lakes Herb Faire of this crucial time in history and the important shifts that are going on in our region, country, and world. The hour is late and much of this work to break down systemic injustice is so overdue. The pain of systemic injustice and racism have had such a long and destructive trajectory that is hard to enter these realms and face and deal with all of the atrocities that have elevated the voices, careers, bodies, education, safety, and lives of white people at the absolutely devastating cost to other ethnicities. So much work is being done at present around raising awareness of the value and dignity of black lives, but also native indigenous peoples have experienced so many atrocities at the hands of white culture - as well as so many others.
As organizers of the GLHF we acknowledge that systemic racism and injustice have been involved in our country’s origin and at play to this day. We grieve and pause, thinking of all the ways that our ancestors created destructive systems and patterns. And while we (speaking for the white organizers of the herb faire) may not have purposefully done anything outright or hateful to another, we have all been complicit and benefitting from systems that elevate white voices and culture in multiple ways that we want to acknowledge and mindfully change.
At this time we desire to find ways to shift systems and organizations within our power for change. This means using our white privilege (since at this point most of the organizing team is white) to create space and to share space and to elevate voices that haven’t had the centerstage. This means empowering the next generation of herbalists through making space for different voices from a variety of cultures so that young aspiring herbalists can see teachers and participants at the faire from their ancestry and ethnicity (as best as we can foster). This also means creating an advisory council of people of color of diverse ethnicities to advise the herb faire on how to increase the diversity of teachers, attendees and decisions around the faire (location, welcoming folk herbalism tracks, etc.) to make it welcoming, safe, and approachable for diverse communities.
We desire to center people of color at the online version of the GLHF this year and to elevate their voices as we move forward. We desire to create space on the organizing team and in as many ways as we can think of to make the herb faire a healthy and beautifully diverse culture. We plan to pay the POC advisers and POC teachers that we are centering who will help us establish some of these important shifts.
Please consider being a part of this culture we desire to create. We welcome your voice and your insights.
We believe that herbalism is a beautiful lens with which to look at ethnicity and culture where we value elders, traditions, cuisines (food as our medicine), and herbal medicine with a connection to the land. As we value the uniqueness and preservation of each different ethnic tradition of medicine and we can support each culture present at the faire preserving its practices and also enjoying and learning from one another.
This creates a beautiful table of sharing - enjoying the feast of sharing food, culture and medicine admist great respect, love, and delight. Please join us at this table.
As organizers of the GLHF we acknowledge that systemic racism and injustice have been involved in our country’s origin and at play to this day. We grieve and pause, thinking of all the ways that our ancestors created destructive systems and patterns. And while we (speaking for the white organizers of the herb faire) may not have purposefully done anything outright or hateful to another, we have all been complicit and benefitting from systems that elevate white voices and culture in multiple ways that we want to acknowledge and mindfully change.
At this time we desire to find ways to shift systems and organizations within our power for change. This means using our white privilege (since at this point most of the organizing team is white) to create space and to share space and to elevate voices that haven’t had the centerstage. This means empowering the next generation of herbalists through making space for different voices from a variety of cultures so that young aspiring herbalists can see teachers and participants at the faire from their ancestry and ethnicity (as best as we can foster). This also means creating an advisory council of people of color of diverse ethnicities to advise the herb faire on how to increase the diversity of teachers, attendees and decisions around the faire (location, welcoming folk herbalism tracks, etc.) to make it welcoming, safe, and approachable for diverse communities.
We desire to center people of color at the online version of the GLHF this year and to elevate their voices as we move forward. We desire to create space on the organizing team and in as many ways as we can think of to make the herb faire a healthy and beautifully diverse culture. We plan to pay the POC advisers and POC teachers that we are centering who will help us establish some of these important shifts.
Please consider being a part of this culture we desire to create. We welcome your voice and your insights.
We believe that herbalism is a beautiful lens with which to look at ethnicity and culture where we value elders, traditions, cuisines (food as our medicine), and herbal medicine with a connection to the land. As we value the uniqueness and preservation of each different ethnic tradition of medicine and we can support each culture present at the faire preserving its practices and also enjoying and learning from one another.
This creates a beautiful table of sharing - enjoying the feast of sharing food, culture and medicine admist great respect, love, and delight. Please join us at this table.