How Plants Move Us

Wild Teas & Garden Weaves

Spend a full day working with late-summer plants!

While foraging for wild teas and weaving garden structures, we'll explore how the physical skills required for harvesting, processing, and shaping plant materials shape the way we move, work, and live on the land.

Experience Type: Immersive Field Day
Location: Lanark Highlands/South Frontenac (TBD)
Date: August 29th, 2026 (10a.m.-4 p.m.)

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Our Ancestors Just Called It "Life"

A cup of tea, a woven fence, dried herbs in a jar...

Modern life lets us encounter useful plants mostly at the end of the process - as convenient building materials or ingredients to be used and consumed.

What often gets lost is everything in between: the walking, harvesting, carrying, sorting, stripping, drying, and shaping that were once part of daily life.

In this workshop, we step back into these ancestral skills, working with late-summer plants from harvest to use while exploring all the movement opportunities built into each step along the way.

Workshop Focus

In this hands-on field day, we’ll work with late-summer plants from harvest to use, while exploring the movement opportunities present in foraging for teas and weaving simple garden structures you can make at home.

Over the course of the day, we’ll step into a more ancestral relationship with plants and our bodies, including:

walking and navigating uneven terrain
identifying, harvesting, and learning about plants like wild stinging nettle, raspberry, basswood, and willow*
carrying materials back to camp
processing them into usable parts
transforming them into food, medicine, or craft

We will pay special attention to the movement patterns and physical skills involved, learning how to work with plants in ways that are efficient, adaptable, and grounded in life on the land.

*Because this workshop takes place on real landscapes with changing conditions, the exact plants and materials we work with may vary.

What We’ll Explore

how to identify, harvest, and work with late-summer plants (safely and ethically)
how to process and use plant materials for garden weaving, food, and medicine
how to carry, handle, and work with plant materials safely and sustainably
how to adapt your movement based on terrain, conditions, and the plants you're working with
how to recognize and use the movement opportunities built into everyday land-based tasks
how plants fit into a larger system of food, medicine, materials, and movement
how to work with plants from start to finish - and how your body becomes part of that process

Workshop Details

We’ll move between focused teaching, hands-on work, and periods of strategic rest, with plenty of natural pauses for observation, conversation, and “movement snacks” throughout the day.

This rhythm is part of the learning - not separate from it.

What We'll Do:

Throughout the day, we’ll move through the full process of working with plants, from finding and harvesting to processing and use.

This may include:

walking and navigating uneven terrain to reach harvest areas
identifying and harvesting plants that are in season
working with different harvest positions and techniques
carrying materials back to camp
processing plant materials for tea, drying, and preparation
working with previously dried materials to explore garbling
weaving simple garden structures using flexible plant materials
sharing food, conversation, and quiet time on the land throughout the day

Date: August 29th, 2026

Time: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Location: We are still choosing between hosting this experience at Amber's native medicine garden sanctuary in Lanark Highlands, or at Britt and Oggi's forest edge homestead near Frontenac Provincial Park (exact address provided after registration)

You'll Leave With: Worksheets and notes to support continued learning, hands-on experience working with local plants, and wild teas to take home, along with the movement skills to work with plants from harvest to use while feeling good in your body.

Value: $240

We also offer a limited number of supported spots for those who would benefit from attending but can’t access the full price right now. If that’s you, you’re welcome to reach out.

About Your Teachers

Photo: of the 3 of us

Met in permaculture course, worked together for camps and homeschool classes, friends ever since.

Amber's love of plants can be seen through sanctuary, herbalism, and how she moves through the natural world.

Oggi brings his love of movement, culture, wholistic approach to life and calling

Britt ND nature nerd who never grew out of it. Instead of collecting comic books she explores the superpower feeling through collection of skills and intense hobbies. You'll never find her in the same place.