

Chapter I Part I ~ A Grand Exploration
Hello kids! Meet Sir Cumberbun and Miss Jane, your companions on a great mapping adventure! Are you ready? It's time for your first...


Meet our Wildwood Quest Guides
Jennifer DeMoss...Bardic Guild Improv theater, storytelling, music, mischief and mayhem. Jen DeMoss, here! I live a hop skip and a jump...


Early Spring Edibles!
There are few experiences as empowering and deeply connecting as harvesting wild plants for food and medicine with loved ones. It is...


The Wonders of Sorrel
Have you seen this plant growing near you? I've known Sheep Sorrel as a delicious and nutritious edible for some time now, but recently...


Yellowroot
Yellowroot’s green buds are just beginning to leaf out atop tall slender stalks this time of year in the Southern Appalachians. And it’s...


House of Stories
Most days I go outside my house of stories to listen to the creek to greet the oak lit by the morning sun And my heart breaks open ...


From the Hemlock Coves
Reishi mushroom, Ganoderma tsugae, bears potent medicine from the dark, rich coves of our Appalachian forests. Upon the towering...


Tonic for the Spirit
Pedicularis canadensis, Wood Betony, Lousewort. If you are lucky enough to find a patch of this beautiful, fragrant plant growing in...


A Hidden Harmony
I heard the sound of a rushing creek - the flow, pound and patter of water, rock and soil, the pull of gravity, the shape of the valley...


Bloodroot Mountain Medicine
Magnificent Bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, never fails to take my breath away. I could barely keep my feet moving as we hiked along...