Description:
Join Sean Croke on an intricate journey through the herbal lifeworlds of the pacific northwest bioregion over the course of a year. Geological time, bioregional animism, and phytochemistry are but a few hallmarks of this unique Herbal.
Brief description: Sean Croke is a wildcrafter, medicine maker, clinician, and gardener who has been working with the plants of the Pacific Northwest for more than a decade. He is the founder of the Hawthorn School, and the primary teacher for most classes. He is a co-founder of Understory Apothecary which produces small batch tinctures of local herbs, is the founder of the Hawthorn School of Plant Medicine, and is also involved in Cascadia Terroir, which produces small batches of essential oils from garden grown and sustainably harvestable native plants. Sean is a graduate of The Evergreen State College with a BA/BS where he focused on Ethnobotany and Organic Chemistry.Sean has studied wildcrafting and plant spirit medicine primarily with the plants as his teachers, and has also studied with GaChing Kong and Scott Kloos. Through his botanical medicine business Understory Apothecary, he makes ethically harvested herbal products for the community. Sean was the main medicine maker as well as a clinician for the Olympia Free Herbal Clinic, and has been teaching about Pacific Northwest healing plants since 2012. He still sees clients on a sliding scale down to free in the continued spirit of the free clinic. Sean lives on Chehalis land in the prairies along the Black River just outside of Olympia with his partner, their kids, several dear friends, a sweet goofy dog, and too many houseplants.
Review Quotes:
"Interweaving slowly infused herbal wisdom with relevant scientific and historical information, Sean offers remedies for people struggling against the tidal pull of the over-culture in all of its life-diminishing forms. Read this book and learn how working with plants can help us remember our intimacy with life and guide us toward generative and mutually beneficial ways of interconnected human existence." -Scott Kloos, founder and managing director of the School of Forest Medicine and owner of Cascadia Folk Medicine.