Join local community herbalist and farmer AC Stauble-Hill for a Spring Plant Walk with an emphasis on wild medicinal and edible plants and fungi. We will start at the Gatehouse at 1pm to gather and then we will set out for a short walk around town to see what kinds of plants we can find, discussing some along the way. We'll work our way back to the Gatehouse to discuss the plants further in the coffee shop, laying out our plants on the table to go into greater detail about them.

AC will share some of her favorite recipes for delicious spring dishes like a wild greens pesto and parsnip, potato, nettle soup and burdock chips. She'll cover some basics of the lymphatic system and how the abundant spring plants work to wake up our lymphatic systems and digestion. Bring a notebook, pens or pencil, and clear tape if you'd like to start your own botanical plant identification journal.

$25 per person. No one turned away for lack of funds.

More about AC Stauble-Hill:

AC is an herb farmer, herbalist, product maker, educator and podcaster. She has been studying and growing herbs since 2012 and will continue to be a lifelong student of Nature. She's based on a small herb farm and homestead in West Edmeston, NY (about 20 minutes from the Gatehouse), where she grows hundreds of varieties of medicinal herbs, fruits, trees and fungi. Using her homegrown herbs, AC creates small batch, hand-made herbal remedies like skin soothing salve, muscle rub, tinctures, teas and more under the brand, Traveling Herb Farmer which you can check out at TravelingHerbFarmer.com and on Saturdays at the Cooperstown Farmers Market.

AC loves sharing the things she's learned over the years with others, especially in hands on, engaging ways. She teaches classes and hosts interns and is opening the doors to her own herb school, The Actaea Academy this year. Actaea will hold an in-person, nine day retreat in the Adirondacks at the stunning Bark Eater Inn Retreat Center which will cover many essential elements of herbalism and aromatherapy for a Herbal Summer School. The Actaea Institute also offers an online Sunday School held live on-line every Sunday from September 2025 to May 2026. Learn more at Actaea.org. She's the co-host of the Plant Cunning Podcast where she and her partner Isaac Hill interview some of the most interesting and inspiring herbalists, gardeners, astrologers, healers, and occultists of our time. You can listen to it on most podcast apps and You Tube. They also host an in-person conference, The Plant Cunning Conference.