ZOOM Classes in September!

The Pandemic Garden

The Crisis Bug Out/Get Home Bag

Special Guest Lectures:

Survival Water Supply

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Welcome

Hi!

Classes offered online via ZOOM during the pandemic.

Checkout COVID-19 Prevention Recommendations and FREE! COVID-19 Video Lecture

Curandero Clients, Limpias, & Other Classes by Arrangement

Classes Offered

The Pandemic Garden

* Classes on ZOOM! *

Rose Single Petals by Roane
Bleeding Heart Rose

Bugout Kit 2020 Zoom Lecture Series Plantain plant
Yarrow Plantain-White Clover

Raspberry in Flower

A six week course on Fridays with repeat classes on Saturdays, beginning September 25th at 4:45 pm PDT.

Plan ahead with a garden to meet your emergency needs, including the use of fresh herbs and the preservation of dry herbs.

Want to know about hygiene in the herbal garden? Washing your hair with plants?

Learn which herbs might bring in more bees, what to do with leftover herbs, which herbs to plant together.

A bonus class will offer the opportunity to ask questions about your garden, or other questions you might have, or to share your stories.

Starting: Friday September 25th & Saturday September 26th
Times: 4:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. (Pacific Time)
Location: ZOOM! online
Duration: Five (5) Sessions +1 Bonus Q&A Session!

Pandemic Garden Class Plan

Chamomile Plants in Flower Lemon Balm plants
Chamomile Lemon Balm

Aconite Plant Comfrey Plants
Aconite - Monkshood Comfrey

Strawberry Plants in Flower California Poppy in Flower
Strawberry in Flower California Poppy

Class 1 - Location-Location-Location!

Does your garden have to be on the ground? Absolutely not. Gardens in other continents have evolved to using pots, jars, troughs, porches and windowsills. Learn about these and pick the one right for you.

Class 2 - Grow Local, Go Native

You don't have to grow every medicinal plant in the world. Grow and propagate native and local plants plus those you've decided are most efficacious.

Class 3 - Folklore

Folklore and healing. Herbal books are great but sometimes we should listen to the stories our grandparents shared, especially if they came from their grandparents. Use these stories to decide which plants you might want.

Class 4 - To Every Herb There is a Season

When to harvest and how to process.

Class 5 - Healing Uses

Common illnesses and injuries and use of uncommon plants. This may be the most important class in this series. So be sure to take thorough notes.

Bonus! - Q & A!

Class: Not mandatory but a freebie for anyone who has lasted through this. A Q & A session with no holds barred. If you desire we can cover everything from anemia to enemas. Be afraid, be very afraid!

These classes will be recorded.

Cost: $150*
*Students who missed the original classes and are paid in full may take this course at no further cost.

Advance registration is required.
Prepayment: Paypal.curandero50@gmail.com
Register via e-mail: curandero50@gmail.com

COVID-19 Information

lavender in bloom - antiseptic!
chicken matazh ball soup ©2020 by Roane

chicken soup w/ garlic - antiviral

! COVID-19 PREVENTION Recommendations !

We recommend:

– Wash your hands frequently (lavender oil is antiseptic!)
– Stay hydrated (drink lots of water.)
– Avoid close contact with others.
– Take it easy (catch up on your reading.)
– Sleep a lot!

– Keep your energy up (see our recipes!)
– Immune system support (rosehip tea, mustard greens.)
– Chicken soup (garlic, ginger, rosemary, sage, thyme.)
These herbs are addressed in the COVID-19 video!

HH – Free!! COVID-19 HERBAL CARE Lecture

Chuck is speaking quietly –
we recommend clicking the CC button or using headphones.

HH – Thursdays 4:30 PM PT
Interactive ZOOM Lecture Series

Thursday Topics

Bugout Kit 2020 Zoom Lecture Series
Bugout Kit Contents

Chuck with Sierra Cup 2020 Zoom Lecture Series
Demonstrating the Sierra Cup

June 25th - The Herb Garden
May 28th - The Bugout Kit and Herbs
May 21st - Blackberry Leaf
May 07th - Lemon Balm
April 02nd - Long-Term Disaster Herbs

raspberry with tulip and hyacinth Coltsfoot Plants
Raspberry Canes with Tulip & Hyacinths Coltsfoot

Recent Classes

In Person Classes Postponed due to CA quarantines

! Advanced Disaster Herbalism !

kitchen labeled bottles
Herbal Preparations

Five Sessions. A five-week course continuing on the use of herbal medicine in long-term disaster situations, such as earthquakes, social upheaval, wildfires, power outages, and perhaps a zombie apocalypse! (Not really.)

Heavy on practical hands on training. We will cover the use of local and common herbs found in the San Francisco Bay area.

Students will also create their own survival tins!

Discussion will include support for the homeless, disadvantaged populations, the Spanish Flu of 1918-19 and the current novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.

Students wil be instructed in serious hygiene, the mixing and use of essential oils to avoid secondary infection, saging tents with white sage smoke, found to be effective against other viruses that are airborne.

In-Person Classes Postponed due to California Quarantine

Starting: In-Person TBA - see ZOOM Lecture Series Thursday evenings
Times: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Location: 2801 Lincoln Ave, Richmond, CA
Duration: Five (5) Sessions

Cost: $175.25
Advance registration is required.
Prepayment: Paypal.curandero50@gmail.com
Register via e-mail: curandero50@gmail.com

More Classes

From your suggestions, courses on request. For example:

Native Plants!

An experimental course focusing only on the plants used by California Natives, with less input from European herbs. This will be hands on.

California Poppy at Shell Beach by Dixie Green Sharp Feb 2016
California Poppies by the Ocean

Survivalists? Preppers!

Especially for the Prepper and Survivalist Community, because you can only stock up so much medicine for so long until it goes bad! From Co-Director Lori Pino, this course will be an Intensive based on the survival techniques in Forever Faire and the sequel Return to Faire.

Chuck's Early Morning Garden 5-27-2014
Container Herb Garden on the Back Deck

Our Purpose

image of Lori and Chuck march 2012 from Alejandra Palos

Lori and Charles March 2012

The California School of Hispanic Herbalism officially opened its doors in January of 1998 in the San Francisco East Bay city of Richmond, California, to teach and preserve the healing traditions of the Hispanic curanderos and curanderas (folk healers) of California. Many of these classes had been informally taught for two years prior to the creation of the school.

Primarily offering classes in herbalism, the school also stresses an understanding of Curanderismo, the healing techniques and philosophies of Native-Hispanic California. The cross-cultural influences of European and Asian herbs, along with the use of native plants, made California Curanderismo a unique and potent healing medium. These practices also include the use of intuitive diagnosis skills, psychoactive plants, ritual and magic.

Charles and Lori will also perform ritual healings based on the folklore rites of curanderismo, for those unfortunates who feel their illness is of a spiritual nature. They also investigate some paranormal activities, and may attempt a "limpia" (cleansing) of a person or place if absolutely necessary. We do not video tape our rituals or limpias for the privacy of our clients and their family. We do not use psychics or mediums in our cases again for reasons of privacy. We do use scientific equipment to help us determine if any paranormal activity is present.

Contact Us

Contact

e-mail: curandero50@gmail.com
phone: (510) 672 7849

Please leave clear phone messages. Do not rush through.
Your call will be returned in time.

Founded January 1998

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