Wildcrafting With Ila

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[b]Ila’s 2009 SCHEDULE


FEBRUARY
February 7, Townsend, TN Winter Heritage Festival Feb. 5-8
“Traditional Mountain Remedies” 10 -11 AM Talley-Ho Inn
For more information call: Townsend Visitors Center, 1-800/448-6134
www.smokymountains.org

APRIL
April 5-11 “The Nature of Appalachia” Field trips to Waterfalls, Museums, Sacred Sites; studying the abundant natural resources that have sustained human history.
John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC. 1-800/365-5724
www.folkschool.org

April 18 –“Incredible Edibles & Traditional Medicinals”
Smoky Mountain Field School Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Cherokee, NC entrance – Oconaluftee Visitors Center
865/974-0150 www.outreach.utk.edu/smoky

April 22 –26 “Wildflower Folklore” indoor program and Field Trip Leader for “WildcraftingWalk” , “HerbLore of Appalachia” , “Forest Foods & Farmacy”, and “Walk the Medicinal Path”. Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage - Gatlinburg, TN 865/436-7318 ext222 www.SpringWildflowerPilgrimage.org

MAY
May 1 Great Smoky Mountains National Park 75th Anniversary
Naturalist Walk studying the resources available to the families of the Farmstead at Oconaluftee 9am –Noon Park entrance at Cherokee, NC.
For more information call Nancy Gray 865/436-1208
www.greatsmokies75th.org

May 17-22 – “The Appalachians” (Elderhostel)
Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center, Lake Junaluska, NC 828-452-2881
www.lakejunaluska.com/elderhostel.aspx

JUNE
June 6 – “Incredible Edibles & Traditional Medicinals”
Smoky Mountain Field School Gatlinburg, TN 865/974-0150 www.outreach.utk.edu/smoky

June 20 - “Women’s Work” Demonstration Day at the Mountain Farm Museum in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Cherokee, NC entrance)
Home Remedies, Hearth Cooking, Soap Making, Hominy, Cornshuck Dolls, etc.
828-497-1904

JULY
July 22-25 – Cullowhee Native Plant Conference Field Trips, Indoor Sessions, and Plant Sales based at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC.
(I lead a Field Trip through Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest -Wed. July 22)
www.westerngrad.com/5033.asp Hensley@email.wcu.edu


AUGUST
August 29 – “Incredible Edibles & Traditional Medicinals”
Smoky Mountain Field School Gatlinburg, TN 865/974-0150 www.outreach.utk.edu/smoky

SEPTEMBER
Sept. 19 Mountain Life Festival - Mountain Farm at Oconaluftee Visitors Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Cherokee, NC
1880’s Homestead comes alive with demonstrations of Hominy, Apple Cider, Home Remedies, Hearth Cookin’ and making Sorghum Syrup.
828/497-1904

OCTOBER
Oct. 10 – “Incredible Edibles & Traditional Medicinals of the Cherokee” Smoky Mountain Field School, Great Smoky Mountains National Park Cherokee, NC 865/974-0150 www.outreach.utk.edu/smoky

NOVEMBER
Nov. 5-8 – Indian Festival and Pow-Wow Stone Mountain Park, Atlanta, GA
Multi-Tribal Fair and Native Skills Demonstrations
www.stonemountainpark.com



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