Southside Shiatsu

When I join people for a plant 🌱 walk I like to say,

“i’m going to meet some old friends, who I’d like to introduce you to.”

Plants are not things, not inanimate objects.

They are beings born in the space of deep time, hundreds of millions of years before our species arrived on the scene.

Our Neolithic ancestors were buried with Yarrow before it was called Yarrow.

Before many of my ancestors began speaking with it in Gaelic, calling it

Athair thalún

or “Earth Father.”

People ask me, what is “Celtic herbalism?”

Well it’s an herbalism born out of how the Celtic peoples related to plants traditionally.

But it’s also how Celtic peoples relate with these ancient beings today.

It’s a living breathing thing.

It’s how I use Blue Violet to heal skin disorders.

How Elecampagne, a great lung ally just showed up in the yard in 2019, just as the pandemic hit,

It’s not something you’d find in a museum.

It’s a living breathing tradition that we add to when we remember that we too speak the many languages of plants.

So come along, bring the kids, bring the old ones, on my next plant 🌱 walk:

Sunday May 31st
Holland Lake - Lebanon Hills Park District
3-5 pm

Register at the link in bio…scholarships available, no questions asked.

I’m out gathering Witch Hazel blossoms to make an astringent mouth wash. Join in the first in person plant 🌱 walk of 2026. This coming Sunday at 3 pm at Holland Lake. Sign up at link in Bio.

Make 2026 your Year in Plants 🌿
✨ Deepen your relationship with the land
✨ Learn how to identify and work with plants of the prairie, woodlands, and wetlands.
✨ Learn the folk traditions of working from a Celtic Cultural Perspective.
✨ Your membership includes 30 minute monthly check-ins to ask questions during your year-in-plants.
✨ You’re invited to seasonal plant walks in the Twin Cities metro area led by herbalist David Miller.
✨ A Year in Plants is a 12 month online herbalism course taught by David Miller.
🌿 To register and learn more visit the 🔗 in profile.

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Make 2026 your Year in Plants 🌿
✨ Deepen your relationship with the land
✨ Learn how to identify and work with plants of the prairie, woodlands, and wetlands.
✨ Learn the folk traditions of working from a Celtic Cultural Perspective
✨ Your membership includes 30 minute monthly check-ins to ask questions during your year-in-plants.
✨ You’re invited to seasonal plant walks in the Twin Cities metro area led by herbalist David Miller.
✨ A Year in Plants is a 12 month online herbalism course taught by David Miller.
🌿 To register and learn more visit the 🔗 in profile.