--- title: Free Herbalism Project May 2020 description: Enjoy a recording of the May 29, 2020 Online Free Herbalism Project featuring Bevin Clare, Christine Rice, and Steven Yeager with music from Rising Appalachia. image: https://info.mountainroseherbs.com/hubfs/Bevin_Christine_May2020.jpg --- [![Mountain Rose Herbs](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-8466dwhhql/images/stencil/360x360/mrh_logo_1581627335__84854.original.png) ](https://mountainroseherbs.com/) search_icon [Cart $0.00 navigation primary cart navigation primary cart 0 ](https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/cart.php) [** ](https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/login.php) [ Log In ](https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/login.php) Logout [ ORDERS ](https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/account.php) [ WISHLISTS ](https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/wishlist.php) [ SETTINGS ](https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/account.php?action=account_details) [ Log out](https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/login.php?action=logout) # past free herbalism project events May 29, 2020 ## [Watch the recording!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTJFc_o29D8&t=3123s) ## Online Event Schedule Rising Appalachia| Live Music The Missions of the American Herbalists Guild and the United Plant Saver| Bevin Clare Exploring Aromatherapy & Essential Oils | Christine Rice Virtual Plant Walk | Steven Yeager   [![Bevin-Clare-Featured-Image-within-post](https://info.mountainroseherbs.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Bevin-Clare-Featured-Image-within-post.jpg?width=422&name=Bevin-Clare-Featured-Image-within-post.jpg "Bevin-Clare-Featured-Image-within-post")](http://dougelliott.com/) ## Bevin Clare --- ### [website](http://www.bevinclare.com) ## The Missions of the American Herbalists Guild and the United Plant Saver Bevin Clare is a clinical herbalist, nutritionist, mother, plant lover, and a professor of herbalism at the Maryland University of Integrative Health. An herbalist and educator, Bevin is the Program Director of the MS in Clinical Herbal Medicine at MUIH, and brings herbs into the lives of many students, clients, and practitioners with her national and international presentations. She holds a MSc in Infectious Disease from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has studied herbal medicine around the world through her global wanderings, blending her knowledge of traditional uses of plants with modern science and contemporary healthcare strategies. She is a board member of the United Plant Savers, a group working to protect at-risk medicinal plants in North America. Bevin is the current President of the American Herbalists Guild where she works to promote clinical herbalism accessibility and professionalism.    [![rising](https://info.mountainroseherbs.com/hs-fs/hubfs/rising.jpg?width=2048&name=rising.jpg "rising")](https://www.facebook.com/TheSugarBeets/) ## Rising Appalachia --- ### [WEbsite ](https://www.risingappalachia.com/)  --- ## Live Music by Rising Appalachia **Rising Appalachia** was founded by sisters Leah and Chloe Smith of Atlanta, Georgia. The sisters work with an array of international musicians and they incorporate a variety of sounds inspired by their world travels merged with the music influences of their own southern roots. Although Leah and Chloe consider their voices as their primary instrument, Leah also plays banjo and bodhran on their newest album *Leylines*, while Chloe plays guitar, fiddle, and banjo.   [![christine](https://info.mountainroseherbs.com/hs-fs/hubfs/christine.jpg?width=960&name=christine.jpg "christine")](https://www.sagecountryherbs.com/) ## Christine Rice --- ### [WEBSITE ](https://blog.mountainroseherbs.com/author/christine?hsLang=en)     Exploring Aromatherapy and Essential Oils Join Certified Aromatherapist Christine Rice as she covers aromatherapy and essential oil basics. Topics include: what are essential oils and how they are made, safety and storage, dilutions and appropriate use, basic blending, and easy ways to incorporate essential oils into your daily life.  **[DOWNLOAD SLIDES](https://info.mountainroseherbs.com/hubfs/Exploring%20Aromatherapy%20and%20Essential%20Oils.pdf?hsLang=en) ****Christine** is the Mountain Rose Herbs Director of Product Development and Products as well as our staff Certified Aromatherapist. A longtime team member with over a decade at MRH under her belt, Christine oversees the quality and approval of the essential oils and hydrosols that Mountain Rose Herbs offers. She manages and knows the intimate details of all our current products (no small task with over 3,000 offerings!), and she also researches and selects new and exciting herbal goodies to keep our customers inspired. Born and raised in the Midwest, Christine has considered Oregon a home since 2000. When away from the office, she enjoys gardening, running around with her energetic little one, canning and food preservation, homebrewing beer and wine, and spending time outdoors.   [![steven-3](https://info.mountainroseherbs.com/hs-fs/hubfs/steven-3.jpg?width=960&name=steven-3.jpg "steven-3")](http://www.botanicalstudies.net) ## Steven Yeager --- ### [WEBSITE](https://botanicalstudies.net/) ## Botanically Speaking (Virtual Plant Walk)  As part of our first ever ONLINE Free Herbalism Project, we're releasing a special feature "from the field"—an interpretive plant walk with herbal educator and award-winning Director of Quality here at Mountain Rose Herbs, Steven Yeager! Follow along as Steven educates and entertains us through the trails of the beautiful Mount Pisgah Arboretum, covering an engaging mix of topics including botanical terminology, plant identification, basics herbal uses, and edible vs. poisonous plants, depending on what we find along the path. 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