The Wildcraft series starts today

This is my most comprehensive Wildcraft teaching to date

Photo by The British library

Today is the first installment of my online Wildcraft series. This series has videos, pictures and written material and is my most comprehensive wild plant course to date.

This course is available for paid Substack subscribers. You can subscribe yearly or monthly. Yearly subscribers get two free months per year! You can also subscribe for sessions you are interested in then unsubscribe for others. You can also do a 7 day free trial to see if you like it.

I have been out in the blazing sun in 36 degree heat filming content, there was literally blood, sweat and tears. So, so much sweat and luckily just a bit of blood and tears but I got there in the end after losing a whole day of filming due to audio problems and having to do it all again! These are the learning curves we face as content creators!

I was out there shooting Cobbler’s pegs and some of the main energetic qualities of cobbler’s pegs are persistence, tenacity and not giving up when things feel too hard. I had to dig deep and ask this plant for help to get through this process under what felt like difficult physical and emotional circumstances for a variety of reasons. But I’m so happy with what we got in the end and think its such useful content. I hope you think so too

Today’s video has detailed information on Cobblers pegs plant identification plus there are photos of similar species that may be confused with cobblers pegs so you can differentiate them. I’m sending out that first video to all my free subscribers as well for a bit of a sneak peak behind the paywall. So check your inbox for Plant ID for Cobblers pegs email.

Next week is all about harvesting and then over the next two weeks we will be looking at ways of using them  fresh, as a juice, tea or gel or dried as a tea of powder.

For those of you not wanting to subscribe but keen to use try cobblers pegs for yourself here is one of my favorite ways to use it.

Cobblers pegs apple, cucumber and mint juice

I love using this juice for people with bacterial infections, cancer or blood sugar disorders like diabetes or hypoglycemia, it even helps with pre-menstrual sugar cravings. (If you are very sensitive to sugar you may need to leave out the apple.)

3 cups of fresh cobblers pegs leaves and stems roughly chopped into 2-3cm peices

2 apples

1 cucumber

1 sprig of mint

1/4 cup of water

Chop the cobblers pegs and core and chop the apple and cucumber so they will fit in your juicer. If you don’t have a juicer you can make this in a blender and drink it like a smoothie with all the health benefits of all that beautiful fiber!

drink fresh.

The ideal Christmas presents

Herbal starter Kits

Taking a food as medicine approach, this kit teaches you how to use herbs beyond just tea. You’ll get practice in a variety of common herbal techniques such making herb-infused oils, salves and ointments, teas, infused honeys and vinegar’s and food-as-medicine recipes.

This is the ideal kit for making Christmas presents for friends and family, buying as a gift or buying one for a summer holiday activity to get the kids of the screens and do something fun creative and useful.

Stocks are limited and orders close this Friday the 8th December.

The Everyday Empowered shop will be closed between the 8th Dec and 8th of Jan because business run by women respect work life balance, the cycles of the year and the fact the inner work is just as important as outer work. (Preach!)

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I acknowledge the Kubbi Kubbi/Gubbi Gubbi people of the Sunshine coast on who’s lands I live and work. I pay my respects to the elders, past, present and emerging and acknowledge that this is aboriginal land. May we all strive to live with respect and harmony towards each other and all beings.