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Workshops, Wild Plant ID/Foraging & More

Upcoming Classes & Workshops

CANCELLATION POLICY:  If you cancel your registration for classes, workshop, or plant/mushroom walk two or more weeks or more prior to the scheduled event, you will receive a 90% refund. If you cancel within two weeks prior to the event, your registration is non-refundable. 

I HAVE 3 DISCOUNTED TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR THIS OCTOBER’S GOOD MEDICINE CONFLUENCE BOTANICAL CONFERENCE AT GHOST RANCH IN NEW MEXICO.

1/3 off, so $318 instead of $475 for 4 fabulous days of plants, plant people, celebration, deep learning and lots of fun.

“Herban” Plant Walk – Summer

Saturday August 15th in Durango. 9-10:30am in town. Donation-based/PWYW (pay what you want.) Please email marija@osadha.com to sign up. limited to 12 people. 

Meet edible, medicinal, and toxic plants that grow around us. Plant identification, uses, and more.

Four Seasons of Wild Foods & Medicines – Autumn

Workshop. Saturday September 26th in Durango. 11am-1pm. $55 cash, check, or venmo. Please email marija@osadha.com to sign up. There will be a free herb walk nearby at 9am for workshop participants.  

Come learn what wild foods and medicines are ready to harvest on the Western Slope during the autumn. Get hands-on time in the kitchen preparing your own herbal medicine to take home and with a group project prepping  a wild foods recipe that we’ll nosh on during the afternoon. We’ll dive into autumn plant/mushroom uses, how to process them and make medicine, some folklore, and a tiny bit of science, along with the do’s and don’ts of harvesting herbs and fungi.    The Winter workshop will be Saturday February 6th; Spring, Saturday April 24th; and Summer, Saturday July 24.    

Identification walks – Local edible, medicinal, and toxic plants and fungi

Date TBA – Winter edible and medicinal plant walk in Durango. I’m offering this through the San Juan Mountains Association. There’s a suggested $10 donation to the association. Keep an eye on their Events Page for more information and to sign up. Just because it’s winter doesn’t mean that there’s nothing available. Though people have to be mindful in harvesting berries available in winter, as wildlife depends on those for food. You’ll meed a variety of plants on our short jaunt and learn how to identify them, how they’re used and what they’re used for. 

Some Online Offerings on Herbalist Lise Wolff’s site:

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18th Annual Good Medicine Confluence

Join an incredible group of teachers and participants for a gathering at Ghost Ranch steeped in plant and mushroom medicine, folklore, science, magic, and fun. October 12-15th, 2026.  

I’m excited to be back teaching this year after missing last year. I’m offering the following workshops/classes:

“You got mushrooms in my herb formula! How to partner mushrooms and herbs for effective blends”

“Medicine and Folklore of Rue: a plant of contradictions”

“An Herbalist’s Journey with ADHD: Sharing what’s helped and what hasn’t” 

For more info on the conference, please visit www.goodmedicineconfluence.com 

Supporting Joints, Naturally

Live Zoom class through Albuquerque Herbalism. Saturday November 14th, 2026, 10am-1pm Mountain Time. Register here. 

                                                                                                                                                                    Maybe you’re starting feel stiff after standing up from a chair. Maybe opening a jar lid isn’t as easy as it used to be. Maybe your knees are beginning to hurt for the first several minutes of a jog or walk, and then again after you cool down. All of these are signs of arthritis—joint inflammation. Osteoarthritis is when the shock absorber between bones is breaking down, resulting in pain and inflammation. Other tissues in the joint may also become “angry,” such as tendons and ligaments. Osteoarthritis is associated with repetitive use/overuse, injury, genetics that impact our structure, or simply from wear and tear born of aging. Rheumatoid arthritis, in contrast, is an autoimmune issue where joint damage comes from targeting by a “confused” immune system. For both, there is support to be had via nutrition, plants, and mushrooms. Short of a new joint, there aren’t any cures, but there are steps we can take using nutrition, supportive movement, plants, and mushrooms to promote joint health and ease discomfort, and also mitigate the effects of NSAIDS commonly used for the pain. All of which will be the topic of this class. Attendees will be able to pick up a supportive blend of powdered herbs to sample (in Albuquerque or Durango – Sorry, we don’t ship them.) (If on prescription medications, check with your pharmacist or doc before combining with the herbs.) (Photo is of Red-Belted Conk, great topically as an infused oil.)

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Backyard Botanical Survey

Find yourself asking, “What’s that growing behind my shed? Can I eat it? Can I use it for anything?”  Contact me at marija (at) osadha (dot) com and I’ll come over and identify the edible and medicinal plants (and fungi) that have “volunteered” in your yard. We’ll get into their uses, how to prepare them, with a bit of science and folklore thrown in.  $100 for an hour and a half of botanical adventure. (Available for folks within a an hour’s drive of Durango.)

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Recorded Classes

Recording link will be sent within 2 business days of payment. 

Herb-Drug Interactions

RECORDING of live, interactive Zoom class.  $30

On average, in any given month nearly half of the US population uses at least 1 prescription drug (CDC). Approximately 76% of the adult population in the US used at least 1 herbal supplement in 2017 (Choi & Song, 2021). It is difficult to wade through the available information regarding herb-drug interactions for multiple reasons that include bias (folks publishing information on this are often not trained in botanical medicine or phytochemistry), sensationalism (fear-mongering newspaper headlines and clickbait), the growing ingredient complexity of supplements, and polypharmacy (the use of multiple medications concurrently that greatly increases the rate of adverse drug reactions).

This class takes a critical, evidence-base approach at looking at herb-drug interactions. The focus will be on individual herbs, and will include data from critically evaluated case studies, clinical studies, and practitioner experience.  The most likely categories of herbs to interact with medications will be highlighted, as will well-documented interactions. The class is appropriate for multiple types of healthcare provider as well as for folks who take herbs and want to know more about the topic of interactions.