Join us for a wild medicinal herb workshop, find all-natural herbal products and learn about life in America’s Great Boreal Forest

UPDATED: CHECK OUR 2009 WORKSHOP & RETREAT SCHEDULE

VISIT OUR NEW HERBAL REMEDIES STORE: Giving Ground's Herbal Remedies

NEW RECIPES: Special Herbal Teas Rose Hip Cordial

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Have a Giving Ground Wild-Herb
Adventure and learn to think like an
herbalist!

Giving Ground is an 80-acre forested herbal retreat in the
Superior National Forest, 60 miles north of Duluth,
Minnesota. At Giving Ground you'll learn to identify,
choose and prepare medicinal plants for yourself, your
family and friends.

You'll feel, taste and learn about the therapeutic properties
of herbs that not only grow in America's great boreal forest
but often in your own backyard.

For thousands of years, people the world over have
used wild herbs as food, medicine and cosmetics.
The native peoples of the boreal forest, and the immigrant
homesteaders after them, had to learn what the stony,
stubborn lands provided for food and medicine.

Our forests offer us a wealth of hardy plants and trees.
Compounds from their roots, leaves, flowers and berries
have been used for centuries to nourish, support, comfort
and heal.

Today, knowing about wild herbs and how they can help us is especially important; we are all concerned about the safety of the drugs we take, the food we eat and the cosmetics we use. Every day at Giving Ground we field questions about which herbs can help promote healing, maintain wellness, improve the food we eat and enhance our skin as we mature.

Our website offers information about Giving Ground's year-round workshops, our all-natural herbal remedies and what we've been thinking lately about herbs and life. We hope you'll stop by often:

-- Click here to learn about attending a Giving Ground Herbal Retreat or Workshop.

-- Click here to find all natural herbal products in our online store.

-- Click here to gather an herbal recipe or two.

-- Click here to read about life in this wonderful wilderness region of Minnesota..

WELCOME TO 2009

Last year was so exciting for Giving Ground.
Many guests came and tramped with us through
woods, along streams and up hills. We canoed,
snowshoed and, of course learned about herbs and
each other. I had the wonderful pleasure of teaching
apprentices (see below,) presenting at more than a
dozen conferences and teaching many classes in
Duluth, Minnesota. As you'll read, I have a
full schedule available for 2009 and Giving Ground is
again accepting applications for Herbal Apprentices.
I hope you'll email me (info@givingground.com) with
questions and your thoughts about the importance
of herbal medicine in our lives.

HERBAL APPRENTICESHIPS CONTINUE AT GIVING GROUND

After a successful year during which Giving Ground hosted three wonderful apprentices, I am extending an invitation to you to consider applying for a herbal apprenticeship in 2009. Read more ...

UPDATED! ENJOY OUR LATEST ESSAYS

"The Kitchen Cabinet" (at this very political time) - or - Kitchen Herbs:
Ancient Winter Medicine: We think of herb and food combinations, such as "salmon and dill" or "lamb and mint," with familiarity and possibly with nostalgia for our mothers' "Sunday cooking". But truly, such combinations of kitchen herbs and meat, fish or poultry had their ancient roots in very practical biology. Read more …

A Sense of Wonder: May I propose that children aren't born with a sense of wonder? And if they are very lucky, they may acquire one by their middle 30's? I think we are born bored … Read more

READ ABOUT GIVING GROUND'S VERY FAMOUS BOREAL FOREST TRIPLE ANTIBIOTIC OINTMENT AND ITS TRAVELS TO AFRICA AND CENTRAL
AMERICA!

Calling the Circle: In mid-winter here, a nurse at the University of Minnesota at Duluth's Student Health Services asked me if I would consider packaging up 50 small pots of my winter-made, wild-herb Boreal Forest Triple Antibiotic Ointment (see my herbal store, this website), for her medical team to take on a volunteer medical mission to Kenya, to isolated, outlying communities there. The University's health clinic has had …. Read more

UPDATED: Check out our links page for "Essential Life," a Minnesota company that provides services and goods for healthy body, home and life.