Karen is a medicine-maker and has been making herbal and mushroom medicines since 1995. She loves making things with her hands and is a nerd about plants, mushrooms, spagyrics, food, natural dyeing, colors, resins, bees, books. People, not so much.
She is the organizer of the Fall Northern California Women’s Herbal Symposium and was a past organizer of NCWHS for over 2 decades. She is also on staff teaching medicine making at the California School of Herbal Studies since 1998 and teaches various medicine-making, medicinal mushroom, natural dyeing, classes throughout Northern California.
2019 Session 3
- Practical Herbal Pharmacy; The Use of Animal in Making Medicine ~ all levels
2017 Session 3
- Medicinal Mushrooms
2014 Session 1
- Edible and Medicinal Mushroom Cultivation, part 1 beginning
- Edible and Medicinal Mushroom Cultivation, part 2 beginning
2013 Session 1
- Making Herbal Medicine, part 1
- Making Herbal Medicine, part 2
2011 Session 1 and 2
- A Beginner’s Orientation: The Insiders Guide to Fun and Frolic at NCWHS, beginning
2010 Session 3
- Beginning Herbal Medicine Making, part 1 beginning
- Beginning Herbal Medicine Making, part 2 beginning
- Medicine Making The Old Hag Way: Using Solvents and Techniques Effectively intermediate/advanced