13. Informal Education and the Dream for Inherited Learning: Sam Marsh on Herbal Education

In this episode, Tatiana Dawn interviews her partner Sam Marsh who has been running wild plant foraging walks and tincture-making workshops for the past 3 years at their permaculture farm in Ravenshoe, QLD. Sam shares his mentors and inspirations such as Koa Windsong, Kevin Kossowan, Arthur Haines, and even Tatiana.   He speaks of his biggest inspirations being people who have deep connections to local ecology.  He shares the difficulties he has faced being primarily self-taught due to there being a lack of face-to-face teachers of wild medicine. Sam became a herbal educator out of necessity to fulfil a need in the local Far North QLD community.  He shares his passion for helping show people how to feel more a part of nature and find their place in the ecology, to assist people to feel empowered to identify and utilise food and medicine growing all around them. They discuss self-sufficiency VS community-sufficiency and also earth-sufficiency.  Sam shares his wisdom around the weakness we create by being over-reliant on the modern healthcare system. He shares his vision for the "Earth Skills School" which will be set up at The Elder Tree, and they also discuss our unified dreams for the future of herbal medicine education. We hope that you all enjoy.  You can find Sam's offerings at the following links: INNATELY WILD: www.innatelywild.com www.facebook.com/innatelywildaustralia/ www.instagram.com/innately.wild/ PRIMAL HUMANNESS: www.primalhumanness.com www.facebook.com/primalhumanness www.instagram.com/primalhumanness The book that was mentioned in the interview: Botany in a Day- The Patterns Method of Plant Identification:  Thomas. J. Elpel