August 13, 2017, 12pm-1pm PST, 3pm-4pm EST

Sage Mountain Retreat Center & Native Plant Preserve is one of New England’s foremost learning centers for herbs and earth awareness. Join founder, Rosemary Gladstar for an hour of sharing stories about how to create a retreat center that is also a sanctuary for plants, animals and people. What are the key ingredients that go into making a place such as Sage Mountain a true sanctuary – a place of safety and sacredness?

Herbal gardens offer sanctuary for pollinators, people and elemental beings. Flowering plants and trees, hedgerows and pathways, arbors and benches, altars and bells add magical dimensions into a healing garden. A diversity of plants, blooming throughout the gardening season encourages a diversity of pollinators and birds. Hedgerows and bells are friends to Elemental beings. The biodynamic approach we use at Avena Botanical gardens helps create a sacred environment for all beings that enter the gardens.

May 21, 2017, 12pm-1pm PST, 3pm-4pm EST
Call in number:  1-805-309-2350 or 1-800-309-2350 (toll free)
Access code: 5771624#.

Designing a beautiful kitchen garden is one of the best ways to incorporate the sacred into your garden and ultimately your kitchen. In this teleseminar, we talk about the power of creating sanctuaries through gardens that allow the healing power of plants to be received. 

Join Kathleen Maier for an in-depth discussion of United Plant Savers’ Goldenseal Botanical Sanctuary which includes a living seed repository.  The United Plant Savers 360-acre Botanical Sanctuary sits in the Appalachian Foothills of Southeastern Ohio. Thanks to optimal soil conditions and unique topography, the Sanctuary is a refuge for wild medicinal plants which occur in abundance throughout the property. 

March 26, 2017, 10am-11am PST, 1pm-2pm EST

Call in number:  1-805-309-2350 or 1-800-309-2350 (toll free)
Access code: 5771624#.

Jennifer will be speaking about how our gardens, however elaborate or simple, offer sanctuary to pollinators.  There are many practical reasons to keep bees, like honey and pollination, but she encounters more and more people keeping Bees for the Bees--their presence and magic.