My name's Jeanell and I'll be your instructor. Like many people, I was raised to see weeds in my garden as "the enemy."

Then, someone made me nettle soup. It was some of the best soup I had ever tasted and it changed my mind about "weeds" forever.

In the twenty years since then, through Permaculture training, Horticultural Therapy Certification, working in many farms and gardens, and through sitting in direct meditation with the plants, I've come to experience weeds as friends who are here to help. They now show up in my garden in just the right places at just the right times for what I need! I'm thrilled when my garden is filled with dandelions; I even purchased a variety of French dandelion seeds! I paid to plant weeds!

My medicine cabinet and kitchen are full of nutritive tinctures, teas, salves, vinegars, wines, soups and more, all from plants that mainstream advice says to throw away.

Imagine feeling this sense of support and abundance from what naturally occurs in your garden.

Imagine the weeds popping their heads above ground in early spring and instead of thinking,

"Oh no I have so much work to do to control them..."

you think

"YES! I've been waiting all winter for my medicine cabinet to come alive!"

Imagine that you know just what to do to harvest your weeds to make medicine for yourself AND improve the soil quality in your garden. Your enemies have become your friends!