She has been following the work of many of the world’s leading health gurus including Daniel Vitalis, Dr. Mercola, and David Wolfe. She has also been to the longevity conference and other retreats with a direct focus on leading edge health strategies.
She also ran a raw chocolate and elixir-crafting business, Starlight Whisper. Recently she has been involved in the exploration and study of herbalism with Susun Weed, and wild foods with Laura Reeves. She is also passionate about other dimensions of health including fitness, meditation, and yoga. She currently teaches yoga and parenting classes in Winnipeg.
Chad Cornell, Master Herbalist and owner of Hollow Reed Holistic, is a fourth generation Manitoban who holds a passion for the role of natural healing and the holistic model. He is a graduate of the Wild Rose College of Natural Healing in Calgary, Alberta. Wild Rose, founded by Dr. Terry Willard, is one of the worlds leading natural healing colleges. He has been practicing natural healing methods full-time since.
After spending many years on Canada’s West Coast, Chad now lives in Winnipeg where he operates the apothecary and natural medicine center Hollow Reed Holistic. Chad has been invited for the past 3 years to lecture as a part of the Integrative Medicine Program at the U of M Health Sciences Center Campus. He believes that by studying some common themes in various traditional healing styles, and interweaving them with innovative modern research, we are embarking on an exciting and insightful era of natural and integrative medicine.
Chad’s goal is to provide healing and educational programs that awaken, inspire, and empower. His mission as an Herbalist is to renew our inherent connection to the natural world that surrounds us, and the healing power within us all.
I have been a stay at home mama for six years. For me homesteading and homemaking have gone hand in hand. I have been striving to learn and master techniques from simpler times.
I am a lover of sewing, soap making, gardening, canning, cooking from scratch, cheese making, hunting and animal husbandry.
Solar Dehydrator
Ken has combined his professional and instructional expertise in delivering over 350 practical, hands-on forestry and tree-related seminars, workshops, bus tours and field days across Manitoba.
His array of seminars includes Proper Pruning of Landscape and Apple Trees, Proper Tree Planting, Christmas Tree Growing, Insects and Diseases of Trees, Sawmilling and Adding Value to Your Trees, Making Manitoba Maple Syrup and Growing Mushrooms in Your Backyard.
Ken actively manages his woodlot in southeast Manitoba. There he uses his woodlot as his hands-on laboratory to grow Christmas trees, produce firewood, cultivate trees and shrubs, produce Manitoba maple syrup and grow nutritious organic mushrooms.
He has worked for many different wilderness therapy and guide companies over the years and found his passion teaching people in the wilderness. His first love is for the primitive survival skills, and since growing his family has become passionate about homesteading survival and learning to do things in a way that doesn’t rely on technology and convenience.
He currently works as the Director of Staffing and Outdoor Education for Camp Arnes just north of Gimli with his wife Jahna and two children Aurora Cadence and Josiah Rivers.
I spent from fall of 2008, until spring of 2011 actively searching step by step for a parcel of land that would be ideal for my plans of growing fruit and doing woodworking. There were a few backtracks and false starts, but I have begun to prepare the site for my plans. It has been a long time coming but a rewarding experience.
Betty grew up on a farm in Southern Manitoba and later worked at the Morden Research Station, and for local farmers. She then took a diploma course in Agriculture at the University of Manitoba. During the time she was attending university, she met Bob, her future husband. With their collective commitment to organic agriculture, and their ability to work together, they decided to join forces.
For the last 30 years, Bob and Betty have worked to create a 40 acre “Garden of Eden” in the Interlake, which they named Plum Ridge Farm. They planted thousands of trees through the years and had a shrub and tree nursery for a dozen years. Betty grafted an acre of apples and plums. The backbone of Plum Ridge Farm was always strawberries, but they also grow raspberries, saskatoons, currants, cherries, asparagus and a whole garden of vegetables. Betty and Bob learned a myriad of skills: cultivation of plants, composting, harvesting, preserving, making suitable clothes, building, pruning, marketing, teaching young people, making wine, and a lot of doing more with less. In 1997, Plum Ridge Farm received an Award of Excellence for sustainability in a small business. After 30 years, they are finally spending less time working on the land.
Christopher has worked for Mb Agriculture as a Hive inspector and got his start keeping bees by taking the U of M Beekeeping for Hobbyists course and volunteering at a commercial apiary to gain hands-on experience. Lindsay grew up on a farm in Southern Alberta.
Different Course
I grew up in East St. Paul, Manitoba where I spent a lot of time exploring the local fields and woods, learning what the local plants were and watching the animals.
When I was 12, I started reading books by Canadian wildlife biologist, R.D. Lawrence, and I dreamed of being just like him, spending my time outdoors, studying wildlife. I continued to work toward this goal and, in 1997, I graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Science (Botany).
Since 1994, I have worked for the Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie Preserve, conducting plant surveys and monitoring the effects of both weather and management activities on plants and their habitats. I have taken eight courses from Tom Brown’s Tracking, Nature and Wilderness Survival School in New Jersey and am currently enrolled in the Kamana Naturalist Training Program with Wilderness Awareness School, based out of Washington.
She farms with her husband Rene and son Stefan. They sell their produce through CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture ), Farmers’ Markets, and to organic stores. She grows an interesting variety of herbs to be used for culinary purposes and for herbal teas. They have 8 varieties of herbal infusions all grown on the farm with no fillers or additives.
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