Connect deeply with the world of edible and medicinal plants in the Annapolis Valley with Benna, a 5th generation Nova Scotian, Registered Herbalist and Biologist. Engage your senses to uncover clues about herbal uses in this hands-on experience. Embark on this embodied way to learn about plants and connect with them.
Highlights:
This experience is available in a shorter duration or various locations by request. Please reach out to Benna at ramblewoodherbals@gmail.com or through Food Art Nature.
Location:
West Brooklyn Hall. 410 West Brooklyn Mountain Road
2025 Dates:
May 24
June 10 & 21
July 8 & 19
August 5 & 16
September 13 & 16
October 14 & 25
November 8
Time:
10 - 1:30pm
Price:
$90 per person (age 8+)
Price is subject to a 6% booking fee*
Giving back to our community:
5% from every registration fee will be donated to Save Our Old Forests (SOOF)
Find out more https://saveouroldforests.ca/
Good to know:
Ramblewood Herbal’s Botanical Medicine discovery is also available as a mobile experience. If you have interest in a specific area or would like an herbal experience closer to where you are staying, Benna is well versed in the beautiful parks in Wolfville, Kentville and Aylesford. She is available to shift the experience according to your needs. Contact Benna directly to enquire about holding the ‘Botanical Medicine in the Annapolis Valley’ in a different location.
*an online booking platform called FareHarbor helps us manage our bookings.
As a Biologist and Registered Herbal Therapist with the Herbalist Association of Nova Scotia, Benna has a deep love for nature and our place as part of the natural world.
She is a 5th generation Nova Scotian with deep roots in the ecology and landscapes that she feels lucky to live with.
Benna has spent time travelling and volunteering in the Amazonian Peru, the UK, British Columbia and across Europe. She has appreciated finding special personal experiences in each of these places, giving her a sense of what is important when we travel responsibly.
She gained her herbal training through apprenticeship work in the fields and forest of Nova Scotia followed by one of North America’s most comprehensive programs at Pacific Rim College in British Columbia.
Since her graduation and return to Nova Scotia, Benna has operated a vibrant herbal clinic, created and taught many workshops along with a year long intensive herbal course. She grows her own herbs where possible and creates many herbal preparations for her family, friends and, on occasion, for sale.
Benna loves sharing herbs and nature time with her daughter. Teaching and sharing with the next generation brings her great joy. She firmly believes that Herbal Medicine can be a strong conduit to reunite humans to plants and the natural world in a way that has generally been forgotten. This alone can be an immensely healing experience for both human and nature itself. Once we have a sense of deeper connection with the earth, we tend to have a stronger sense of belonging and purpose, plus more drive to understand and protect the planet we live on.
This is where Benna’s passion lies and where she will facilitate you in this experience of Nova Scotia’s botanical life and story.
