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Half-day Adventure

This is an out-on-the-field, knowledge based adventure! I will exhaustively stress the three proofs of plant based medicine: Traditional, Scientific and The Doctrine of Signatures with wondrous wild plants - in season - across your nearest wilderness area. Participants will learn the basics and intricacies of identifying based on the ancient wisdom that holds deep historical and modern importance. Participants will be well introduced to the idea and capable to explore and identify plant based medicines. The Creators Gardens' half-day adventures a sure: "Foundation for Investigation" This adventure is available in every season.

Full-day(s) Adventure

The Creators Garden Adventure days will be out on the field exploring your traditional shorelines, harvesting areas, urban areas and everything possible that is in between. On the field I will identify medicines and explain each and every one of their linguistic, historical, cultural, edible ecological and medicinal significance through experience. The information given is very thorough. Throughout the day(s) we will get our harvest on to make teas and tools. Tactile hands on learning is the best way for most, this will be the most extensively used teaching method. We will be in our vehicles as least possible and trekking outside hopefully, rain or shine with the lovely bugs for a grueling, life changing 8 hour day full of inspiration and motivation.

The Legitimacy of Plant-Based Medicine Presentation

Participants will receive my world renown presentation called: "The Legitimacy of Plant-Based Medicine." This presentation goes through common food and traditional plants where I explain in great detail what are called the 3 proofs. First the traditional understanding, second the explicit empirical science proving the traditional wisdom and applications. Third, the ancient method of interpreting the medicinal use of plants called the Doctrine of Signatures.

The third is the most important, most significant and most emphasized. It is simple and easy to grasp for all ages. This will be the most important concept for participants to grasp and utilize. The Doctrine of Signatures uniqueness is what will give participants a significant edge in their identifying and applicable abilities. It is because I am the first to prove this ancient understanding on an international scale, why what I offer is different, unique and sought-after.

I have so much fun delivering this presentation. It is a really great introduction to the idea that plants is where we derive healing. I give plant based medicine all the legitimacy it needs for you the believe in it.

Tea Time

The Creators Garden Tea Times are a reveled favorite! A single or multiple pot(s) of a specified or unspecified tea is brewed for large and small crowds. While it is brewing I take you on an story-telling adventure through the brewee's linguistic, historical, cultural, edible, ecological and medicinal significance. Then we drink and partake in everything the always enjoyable plant has to give us. Tea times range between 2-4 hours.

I love going into communities and having this little events, they are usually quite successful! In Six Nations recently, we had 50 people register, expected 5 but 41. These numbers blew everyone away! This is pretty normal, and I think there are a few reasons for it.

- It is the thirst our people have traditional knowledge.

- It is the dire situation our people are in, we are a very sick people.

- It feels natural to know plant based medicine, so every opportunity people just jump on it, it doesn't matter if they have to miss The Young and the Restless!

I also really appreciate the opportunity I have had with our seniors centres! I absolutely adore our elders. The best thing that I get to do at these tea times is take them on a great trip down memory lane. We get to drink teas and experience different mixtures that they grew up with, or that they grew up learning about. What is so special about this is that they are things that a lot of them thought were consigned to the history books! When they get to experience them again its always heart warming. I also get to prove to them that plant based medicine is a legitimate practice. That plant based medicinal knowledge that they have or grew up hearing stories about are real, the practice itself is still something that modern science and billions of dollars worth of research is being dedicated to know what they knew, what their knowledge holders knew. It is truly an amazing experience to see our elders realize they have something special. They are always unforgettable experiences for both me and the participants.

Medicine Walks

We at Creators Garden are always available for a medicine walk anywhere at any time in any season including winter, whatever length, at any difficulty. We are willing and able to customize your experience with us, so tailor it to your schedule!

On our medicine walks we love to show you all the different plants and which medicine they are. We will show you how to interpret their medicinal use.

The goal of a medicine walk is to make the forest come alive. We want to introduce you to the stories these beautiful plants are telling, we want to teach you the names of the plants in the native language. The names of these plants are fascinating, they have so many meanings. In just the name you can understand where the plant grows, what it sounds like, what it tastes like and even its utility use! When you understand the plants in our language the forest comes alive.

Let me help you make sense of this, lets take a redundant plant like Scouring rush, its just a plant called �scouring rush� goes from being just a plant that probably doesn't mean much. You might have some trivial knowledge of this plant like: �Hey that is the plant that Sid the Sloth uses on Ice Age� or �Spike from land before time loves that plant!� and �When I was little I used to pretend were cigarettes.�

We will take you from a no or a trivial knowledge to a plant that is the most amazing medicine for increasing bone density and bringing relief to arthritis. From a plant called scouring rush to a plant called Gziibnashk, which means that it grows beside a river, makes a screaming sound, tastes sour and its used to 'scrub things down'. So that next time your driving by a forest or walking past this plant it has more 'life' in it, it has more meaning and you feel more connected to it. Emotions are what connect human beings to one another, understanding and experience is what connects human beings to creation. The more you are connected to something the less likely you are to hurt it.

Training

Intent: Teach maximum of 40 participants the basics and intricacies of identifying traditional medicines based on ancient significance and importance. This team will be well equipped to explore local and non-local areas to identify and even use traditional medicine.

Day one will be theory, done inside. Participants will receive my world renown presentation called the legitimacy of plant based medicine. This presentation goes through food and traditional medicines and explains in detail what are called the 3 proofs. Firstly the traditional understanding, second the explicit empirical science proving the ancient knowledge and applications. Third, the method of interpreting the medicinal use of plants called the Doctrine of Signatures.

The third is the most important and most significant. It is simple and easy to grasp for all ages, this will be the most important and most unique concept for participants to grasp and utilize. The Doctrine of Signatures uniqueness is what will give this team a significant edge in their identifying abilities. It is because I am the first to prove this on an international scale, why what I offer is different, unique and sought-after.

The rest of the days will be out on the field exploring local areas including shorelines, harvesting areas, urban areas and everything possible that is in between. Training programs are a minimum of 4 field days. On the field I will identify medicines and explain each and every one of their linguistic, historical, cultural, edible and medicinal significance through experience. The information given is very thorough. Throughout the week we will get our harvest on and make several teas and tools. Tactile hands on learning is the best way for most so, other than the first day this will be the most extensively used teaching method. We will be in our vehicles as least possible and trekking outside hopefully, rain or shine with the lovely bugs for grueling, life changing 8 hour days full of inspiration and motivation.

These days will be incredibly intensive, the end result will be a team of individuals that are well introduced to the idea of plant based medicine. The group will be able to go out into unknown territory and develop and provide a very unique inventory. The second goal with this program is to instill enough motivation so further independent local education is pursued.

This program is intensely tailored to fit the needs of the audience it is projected to. Tour guides, Traditional ecological knowledge trainee's, Child and Family Services and Health Care Professionals across Ontario are just a few examples of happy recipients of this program.

Bring 'Medicine that makes sense' your organization/community

Some of the most fun I have with our business is going into organizations and teaching about medicine. For most it is an introduction, and for some of our seasoned knowledge holders it is a 'refreshing more practical outlook'

Because we moved to Peterborough and are now surrounded by what we would consider 'local opportunity' we have created a program designed to touch everyone surrounding us.

Here are some of the things we have done in the past that were a huge success! We want to have the greatest impact possible when doing our work, we want your organization and community to feel transformed! What we have been doing lately and having wild success is having a hands on objective.

Since arthritis is the number one disease that affects First Nations People, the arthritis salve is obviously the activity of choice here. So we spend a few days together creating this salve, I will come with all the materials required to complete the salve.

We will come with the plants: Red oiser dogwood, Willow, Cedar, Spruce Gum and Poplar buds.

We will come with the tools: slow cookers, knives, jars, jelly bags, coconut oil, Stir spoons and sieves

Participants spend the week creating this infamous salve that has had success in my personal life to every form of arthritis (except JRA) and get a few jars at the end. It will take some work though, participants will be responsible for shaving the bark, proper cooking and straining each ingredient! Thats the fun part, but it doesnt end there!

Its so fun because at the beginning of the week I pass around a salve that I have already completed, so they get a taste of the final product, and so far 100% of the time that I have done this there has been someone who speaks out because the little sample of salve that they put on in the beginning of the day, they have some restored movement, pain gone, numbness gone etc. its really fun to be able to see participants effected like this so quickly, and serves as a great motivation for some hard work throughout the week!

So while we are making the salve I will go through an adapted presentation; The Legitimacy of Plant Based Medicine. A presentation designed for health care professionals like doctors, nurses, researchers etc.

We will also bring all of our medicine to teach about all week, so everyone will receive all of this amazing information and throughout the week we will be drinking at least 2 different kinds of tea each day and because I will have all my medicines with me we will be able to drink the medicine I am lecturing about and you will also be able to see, touch, smell and hear the sample jars I have.

This can all be done fairly quickly and easily. One thing that I highly suggest is a day of consultation. The reason for this is simple. I am going to be teaching that there is medicine out there to heal any issue, any sickness. I am going to be talking about all kinds of crazy stories that happened with me personally and many of these stories are of sickness that participants are dealing with, or their partners, children, siblings, parents etc. And at the end of our time together they want answers and direction. Many times participants are either too shy to ask their question for privacy sake or they just did not want to interrupt the teaching that was taking place. So we can solve all of this by doing a day of private consultations.

Consultations

I teach that there is a plant to cure any illness. When I deliver my teachings I use almost exclusively personal stories of things that happened to me, and the medicine is plants that I harvested within an hours drive. I am not here to teach you about plants from a remote island in the Bermuda Triangle, and I am not going to teach you using tall-tale stories that I remember reading from an envelope I found on the streets a decade ago. I use stories that happened to me, and I do my best to use the most recent, and the most local to wherever I am teaching. I want to be real. I want people to realize that this can easily be them.

There is never an easier way to get overwhelmed with questions after a presentation than teaching that there is medicine to fix every illness using a very real, very relatable method. Sickness affects everyone. Everyone has their own illness, or their partner does, children, siblings, parents, grandparents etc. We all know someone who can use the help and when you receive real, relatable information about how amazing our medicine is you are going to want to know how to get on the healing train.

I have a ton of fun going into different organizations just to go through staff or clients delivering private consultations regarding medicine and health. It starts a wave in the workplace of perfect healing and allows happiness to thrive!

Salve Making Workshop

My grandmother remembers one season they had gardening issues and a failed crop, gardening was their family's sustenance. My great grandmother had to somehow gather up enough money to buy her food for the winter, her compromise, a salve. She spent a month making Minagan, a traditional mixture she resurrected through ancient inherited wisdom from pre-contact trading days. My gorgeous grandmother remembers that particular winter was the most luxurious winter, filled with some of the most lush foods. Her mothers salve had catapulted her family from famine to fortune for that winter and she will never forget it. This story is to illustrate just how valuable this salve was and is/should be today. There are 3 certain compound medicines that woodlands Algonquins were well known for:

Minagan - the salve, designed to heal anything topical.

Aabziitchagan - powdered tea, Esagamdek - liquid extract. Both designed to heal anything internal

Pkwenezagan - a smoke designed to clean the air, especially of human scent when hunting

Minagan is an ancient compound medicine that ranges from 6-40 different plants. This intense olden medicine is extremely important knowledge to revive and of course, practice once again. Salve making is definitely one of my most adored passions and as a result most heavily promoted.

This workshop session is a minimum of 4 days and capped at 25 days. A 4 day minimum session will result in our famous six ingredient concentrated arthritis salve. The yield is dependent on the amount of participants assisting. A 25 day maximum will result in the rare 35 ingredient, authentic Aanishnaabe Woodlands salve called: 'Minagan' and any other amount of days in between 4&25 will be just that much closer to the ancient Minagan.

These salve making days are incredibly intense but are absolutely invaluable. The end of the workshop sessions participants walk away with detailed instructional handouts and a portion of the salve created, but most of all, in-depth, hands on tactile experience to be able to pass down for generations.

Inventory/Environmental Impact Assessments, Traditional Ecological Knowledge style.

We also offer an inventory. If you have a beautiful property, a backyard or an entire reserve, we will walk every square inch and identify every medicinal plant and explain each of their linguistic, historical, cultural, edible and medicinal significance. I have also

We have lots of experience with inventory and are able to offer this program to just about any land mass.

In the end you will get a full report of as many photos from your property. The reports are loaded with stories depicting the significance of each plant whether it is medicinal, edible, utility, cultural, etc. So you will have a written document of all your properties significance. It's very eye opening to see a property you may have known your whole life suddenly come alive with a whole new perspective! 

These reports are also complete with a reference list and have even been through Ontario Municipal Board hearings where I was recognized as an expert witness, after going through cross examinations! 

Wildcrafted Withdrawal Symptom Management

This program is effective at delivering ancient knowledge designed to combat the top issues when going through addiction withdrawal. Here are a few of the top complaints: Nausea, Headaches, Itchiness, Night Terrors, Muscle Tension (anxiety) and Bowel Irregularity.

With understanding learned from local elders that constitute thousands of years of ancient wisdom and my recently enhanced method of interpreting the medicinal use of plants called The Doctrine of Signatures, I have developed various kits of a variety of different traditional medicines for treatment centers to implement a natural alternative, rather than the conventional, substitute.

Dandelion and Chicory Root Coffee

This is a very simple workshop that bypasses all the discombobulated information out there. We have done the research and have over a half a decade of experience of making the perfect roast. This workshop can be done just about anywhere.

We start with shovels and harvest the roots, clean, chop, dry, roast, grind and drink all in the same day!

This amazing coffee substitute has a rich chocolaty taste and contains all your body needs to completely regenerate your liver, and is also a huge help for diabetes sufferers out there. It also scrubs down the villi and microvilli in your small intestine that are responsible for absorbing 80% of all nutrients.

This is the perfect coffee substitute and you will make sure it is well hidden and only bring it out during the most special celebrations!

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