文 WEN BARN & GARDENS

WEN Barn has closed temporarily in 2010 - but WEN Gardens is open on July 24 and August 21 for two special events.

Lightning hit our farmhouse in 2008 and rendered us without water and electricity and out of a house for 15 months. Please stay posted - and sign up for our e-newsletter with WEN insight, Green Yoga tips, and announcements. We will be greener than ever once we re-open.

An Introduction to Wild Food and Medicinal Plants:

Weed Walk with HILLARY THING

at WEN Barn & Gardens

Saturday, July 24, 10 am-noon

Potluck, noon-1 pm

Discover the medicine and culinary delights that grow beneath your feet in high summer.

To launch Deena Wade's Collective Wisdom Community Learning Series, Hillary will walk us through the WEN grounds and woods so we can learn to identify some of earth's most bountiful medicinal herbs and wild foods that we otherwise might think of as weeds. You will learn each herb's uses so you can stock your natural medicine cabinet and pantry herb shelf. A potluck lunch follows.

Who: Please join us and up to 11 others (space limited to 12!)
When: Saturday, July 24, 10 am-noon, Potluck, 12-1 pm

Arrive by 9:45 am. Walk begins promptly at 10 am.
Where: WEN Barn & Gardens at 156 Upper Whitfield Rd. Accord, NY

Directions: Click here for directions or use Mapquest. ph: 679.9441

Why: Because it's a pleasurable and economical form of health care and food-making

Cost & Pre-Registration: $10-30 sliding scale. Pay online, or pay cash upon arrival. However you pay, pre-registration is required. To secure your place, contact Deena at deenakw@gmail.com or call 845.332.7522.

Dress: Comfortably for outdoors (hats, sun block, walking shoes)
Bring: water, journal, pen
Do not bring: Dogs or other pets, please.
Potluck: Bring food to eat/share for picnic after walk. Cooler w/ice will be provided.

To learn more: Contact Deena at deenakw@gmail.com or call 845.332.7522.

The First WEN Gardens
WORK & LEARN DAY
Saturday, August 21, 9 am-1:30 pm
(includes lunch and herb talk)

Help birth WEN's and Hillary's Teaching Gardens! Commune with your neighbors and fellow earth-lovers as we break soil on the first bed of Hillary's Medicinal Herb Teaching Gardens. Each of us will have a simple task depending upon our preferences, talents, and the garden's needs. Once we complete the bed, we'll relax in the shade, eat and drink, commune as Hillary teaches us about the properties of the herbs we've been planting as well as the vision for the gardens and the community.

Pre-Registration: No fee, but please RSVP soon by calling 845.679.9441 or emailing hillthing@aol.com. The earlier you RSVP, the better we can make plans for the group.

Where: WEN Barn & Gardens, 156 Upper Whitfield Rd., Accord, NY 12404. We will be working on the back side of the pond accessible most easily from the wood gate off of Upper Whitfield. Signs will be posted. Please park head in in the driveway or tight on the side of the road.

Time: You must arrive before 9 am. If this is your first time to WEN, please check directions here or on Mapquest to assure early arrival (Back roads can be tricky.). Thank you for making the effort.

Bring: If you have them, please bring shovels, hand trowels, etc Thank you! Notebook and pen if you wish.

Do not bring: Dogs and other pets, please.

Hillary Thing, MS, LAc., is founder of Earthbound Herbs & Acupuncture, Kingston’s premier Community Acupuncture clinic, where she has practiced acupuncture & herbalism for 12 years. She has trained extensively with Jeffrey Yuen, renowned Taoist Master and has also studied animal tracking, bird language, primitive living skills and natural history at Tom Brown Jr.’s school. She has a Certification in Gardening with a specialty in Native Plant Species from the Institute of Ecosystem Studies. She lives with her husband Jeffrey Davis and her daughter Dahlia in Accord, NY where she grows medicinal herbs and makes Earthbound brand teas and herbal products.