My name is Cameron Strouss and I am a Clinical/Functional Herbalist, Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild, Certified Aromatherapist, Master Gardener, medicine maker extraordinaire, forager of 14 years and clinician of 9 years. (If you want my extended nerdy credentials click here.)

Whenever I take steps back into a place of quiet inquiry I am always quickly lead back to the deep nourishment of wild foods and herbal medicines, foraging, ancestral food/medicine ways, and the utter joy and sense of rightness that foraging brings me. I (and if I am allowed we) so often feel lost, alone, out of place and time, lacking deep connection with self, place, and community.

Little else in my life brings me such clarity - and so quickly - as spending an hour collecting food or medicine, with friends in woods, gardens, parks, and neighborhoods. It scratches this human-animal itch that is much like the ache of scratching poison ivy. It is the most satisfying feeling I can express.

It somehow simplifies and distills the great questions of life with ease into Zen like answers are far beyond my meditation practice.

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