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

HERBAL APPRENTICESHIPS NOW AVAILABLE AT GIVING GROUND

Many people have asked me to offer herbal apprenticeship programs here at Giving Ground. I feel that the time has come for me to be able to set up such an extended study approach, that my own herbal experiences have been rich and varied, and that my responsibility now is to begin to hand on what I know to be true. Read more ...

UPDATED! ENJOY OUR LATEST ESSAYS

The Garden in Winter: Every time we have a below zero night now, gardening catalogs bloom in the mailbox, gently insulated by IRS tax forms. It is an ignominious beginning. 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 very soon to Central America also ...)

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 a new link about Choosing Safe Cosmetics on our links page.

NEW! CHECK OUR 2008 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..