Edible and Medicinal Plants and Trees with Spencer Bolejack

This is a fun class that highlights many of Spencer's favorite plants for survival.     Spencer lived three years in the woods and studied these forest friends during all seasons and for many purposes. The author is not a doctor, so nothing in this video is intended to treat, cure, diagnose or otherwise substitute for professional certified medical advice!  This is a look at history, Cherokee lore, Appalachian tales, and folk uses of plants for health and wellness.  The information is geared toward ethical use and understanding, survival, and relationship with the natural world.  This is a video version of Spencer's popular class offered through Land of the Sky Wilderness School in Western NC.   students will learn about different preparation methods and can identify using color slides and detailed photos with key features. Woods for tools, flowers, fruit, roots, bark, and fungus get a treatment in this class.

Spencer explain not just which plants are which, but ways to recognize them from a distance and know where they like to grow. If you are interested in a knowledge and wisdom hidden from the American educational system by a for profit health industry, there’s a lot to cover, but this class is a great first step.

Furthermore the supply chain disruptions in recent year have highlighted the need to know some basic of food and home sourced provisions. In this class we also cover proper plant materials for making cordage, snares, and trap triggers from wood - what they look like too - although the detail is of course a separate class.