Michigan Herbal Conference

04/07/2026

This weekend! If you like the Michigan Herbal Conference, and you just happen to be able to drive a *few* hours, then you'll love this conference!

02/02/2026

How many of you lost power in the recent past weather? If so, what Wilderness Skills did you utilize? How many didn't, but wished you did so you could practice some newly learned wilderness skills?

02/01/2026

Enjoy a mind expanding weekend in northeastern Alabama. So. Much. Fun!

08/07/2025

Join 9+ natural health professionals near Kalamazoo, MI for a weekend of herbal walks and talks, natural health, homesteading, and outdoor survival. There will be both indoor and outdoor classes where you will learn how to identify, forage, and use the wild plants in your own back yard. Five meals are included in the price. Get your tickets right away:

MICHIGAN HERBAL CONFERENCE The Science of Herbalism August 22-24, 2025 Scotts, Michigan It’s time for the Annual Michigan Herbal Conference! Join us for a weekend of herbal discovery at Tillers International in Scotts, Michigan, which includes foraging wild edible and medicinal herbs, many health ...

05/14/2025

Who likes to forage for wild ramps? How do you like to use them? These are going in the freeze dryer, and then will be made into smoked ramps salt. It's like onion salt or garlic salt on steroids.

04/13/2025

Eeeeeee! Can you guess what's starting to bloom?

08/22/2024

We have a few spots left for the Michigan Herbal Conference this weekend. Who wants to come? Please tag people you think might want to join us in the "Summer camp for adults".

https://michiganherbalconference.com/register/

Or call 269-455-9396 for more information.

08/15/2024

The 17th annual Michigan Herbal Conference is only a week away! Please purchase your tickets no later than Sunday August 18 so that we can have a solid head count to the chef and lots of delicious victuals for us all to enjoy.

Here's the link: https://michiganherbalconference.com/register/

An annual conference offering classes from over ten professionals on foraging wild edible and medicinal herbs, mushrooms, Bushcraft (a more positive term for “survivalism”), flint knapping, fire making, homesteading, and science backed herbalism.

08/12/2024

Some of the herbal classes offer at this year's conference:
* Herbs for gut health
* Herbs for kids
* Herbs for pain and anflammation
* Eat the invasives
* Herbs to prevent parasites
* Many herb walks!

08/08/2024

SPEAKER PROFILE: Lila Young grew up on 35 acres where she, her friends, and her siblings could play outside all they cared to. They gardened and canned and ate a few wild foraged foods such as fiddle head ferns, mints, and lilac infused water. They foraged wild raspberries to make jam and cordials (for the adults). As a teen she moved to a farm where she liked to nibble on the clover while bailing hay, and she spent a lot of time admiring many of the “weeds”.

Her son married a lovely Chinese woman who liked to take walks after dinner with them. She would often ask which plants they could eat as they ambled along the trails. Lila was more than delighted in their shared interest in wild edibles.

About this time she discovered books by Theresa Marrone and Sam Thayer, and she enlarged her wild food pantry. Then she started following Maggie Conklin around on her herb walks and realized that so many of these plants are medicinal as well.

Lila has a small garden as well as larger wild areas where she’s sown seeds and transplanted weeds to harvest as food and medicine.

Classes: Eat the Invasives; Garbling Foraged Herbs.