Fall Workshops/Deadlines and Fall Fairs and Markets – Biblical Natural Health Coaching

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We are a couple days away from the Rock Creek Fall Fair, a regional fair in the Boundary area of BC, showcasing the area’s agriculture, cottage industry, skills and more.

We will be among the various handcrafted vendors with Ashley’s Ashtree Wildcrafting, featuring all 17 of her wildcrafted tea blends, some reusable clothing teabags in small and mini sizes, mini apothecaries, three of my books, our apothecary that we can use to make custom blends with, and some chokecherry syrup and jelly in three different jar sizes.

While we won’t have the database on my laptop, I may be able to use it on my phone. . . and failing that, our apothecary features several of the herbal medicine textbooks that we refer to for ourselves and that have helped inform my nutritional/medicinal database. So if you come by wanting to discuss any teas that can help “blank”, our experience plus our resources may be of assistance. Do note that because of Health Canada policies, we can’t encapsulate such discussions on our product labels. Which reminds me, we will also have a couple herbal infusions on the table, and again, we can’t put health use claims on the label.

We are also a couple days away from the final deadline to register for September 27th, the Personal Hygiene Advanced Foraging Workshop where we will learn how to make a few things we’d normally buy at the store. We have one registrant so far, with room for up to 9 more, BUT. . . the deadline is the 13th! After the 13th, I’ll be tallying up who all registered and using that number to go buy non-foraged ingredients, containers, etc.

Unfortunately, the early deadline of August 30th, required to secure an indoor space, did not pass with enough registrations to secure the indoor space. This means we will be setting up the field kitchen somewhere and doing it all outdoors. Don’t worry, if you are like me and sometimes have an active bladder, I do have a portable washroom that gets set up at one corner. There are also outdoor locations we can use with more permanent outhouses, I will be looking into options after the 13th passes.

If you are wanting to pay in person the weekend of the 13th, you’ll need to make a road trip to come check out the Rock Creek Fall Fair and find us in the vendor area. Look for the blue-topped canopy with our wooden tea sign out front.

After the Rock Creek Fall Fair, you’ll find us next on September 20th, at Schubert Centre’s Fall Craft Fair. We will be set up in the Emerald Room. If we didn’t sell out of our syrups and jellies in Rock Creek, we will have those on the table at Schubert as well. As fall goes along, we still need to be harvesting chokecherry leaf, and that comes with berries. So more syrups and jellies will be available until supplies run out. We are attempting to harvest 2 5 gallon buckets of crushed chokecherry leaf before the frosts hit! We’ve already stuffed the current one and dipping into it to get ready for Rock Creek.

In October, we have the Curly Dock Advanced Foraging Workshop on October 18th! If we get enough registrations before the deadline, we will set up to make curly dock pancakes, fir needle syrup, curly dock tortillas, and if time allows, maybe even curly dock fir chocolate chip cookies or fir curly dock cupcakes. Some of this is location dependant, so get your registrations in early!!! Cost is $70 and covers non-foraged ingredients, take home sheets, take-home containers, etc. An indoor venue may raise the fee, and that increase can be lowered the closer we get to 10 participants well in advance of the 18th.

Prior to that, October 4th will see us once again out in Joe Rich at the Joe Rich Fall Market held at the Joe Rich Firehall. This will be a morning market this time.

Then following the workshop, we’ll be at the Vernon Wellness Fair on the 25th and 26th. This will be a great time to stop by our table and get the jump on your Christmas shopping in a way that seriously benefits the health of those you buy for! Keep an eye on our Events Calendar, because November is turning out to be quite busy! Two more dates may show up, just waiting on confirmation first, while we wait to hear from a hoped-for third date to add to an already full month of craft fairs.

If you want to schedule a late fall/early winter foraging workshop and trail tour, please contact me to discuss your desired date, because it will more than likely have to be a weekday and most likely “out of band” for what we typically have on the promo card for this kind of workshop. But November will end with an advanced workshop for the kids, as they create rosehip garlands to hang in your home on November 26th.

That will be the end of the Advanced Foraging Workshops for 2025. What advanced foraging workshops would you like to see in 2026? These are taught with the assumption that you already know the basics of foraging, and curious about how to use the various wild herbs that you bring home. Those new to foraging should take the Foraging Workshop and Trail Tour at least once, if not more than once, because Advanced Foraging Workshops often have us heading out into the wilds to gather one or more herbs, then returning to the kitchen to create or use them in a particular way.

So if there was a subject you were hoping we’d cover this year that didn’t show up on the Advanced Foraging Workshop list, reply to the newsletter email address and share what you were hoping for. If you are seeing this article on a social platform, feel free to share in a comment, what you were hoping we’d cover and that you hope we’ll cover in 2026. In addition, share weekends that you have free in your calendar, when such a suggested workshop could take place. This requires you to know that the herbs to be used are harvestable over the weekends you are suggesting. If I pick your subject matter, registering as soon as you learn the date will tell me you are serious about the suggestion you’d made.

Remember, foraging for us is not a novelty, not a hobby, not a pasttime. It’s a way to eat and live healthier away from “the system”, away from “big pharma”, away from mainstream medicine, and away from “big agriculture” too. We are exchanging cash for time and effort. We are trading added chemicals and preservatives for fresher air and fewer chemicals. We are quite literally going shopping in the woods for food, medicine, hygiene and more. This is why my focus as your Biblical Natural Health Coach, is on wholefood as medicine that might grow outside your front door. We’re going back to how God intended food and medicine to be, using the phytochemicals and nutrients He has placed in wild food sources.

As fall ramps up, I look forward to hearing from you! As busy as life is going to get, I will respond to you! That’s a promise! If you decide to try to market me for something, you may get ignored, but if you are reaching out about workshops and such, wanting to work with me, etc, you will get responses from me. 🙂

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