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2010 Schedule
Chapel
Lectures Schedule:
Edible Delights:
Herbs, Flowers and Vegetables 11:00 am
Janet Gross
All about Dill
– Herb of the Year
12:00 pm
Susanna Reppert
Medicinal
Herbs
1:00 pm
Maureen Rogers
The Sacred Hopi Labyrinth...Tapu'at...Mother & Child
2:00 pm
Antonio Carpenter
Speaker
Bios
Janet Gross
has officially been a Master Gardener for 5 years, but has always
puttered around in gardens. She grew up sitting in trees reading
her father's herbals and helping him with his beekeeping. She has
taught landscape design and gardening classes for continuing
education at CCBC, is a Master Composter and certified native plants
expert. She has a huge interest in herbs and landscape design.
Janet grows both culinary and medicinal herbs on an acre and a
quarter in Catonsville. On another part of the wellness continuum,
she is also a licensed massage therapist and is honored to
facilitate others' healing. She enjoys educating people about their
bodies and how to treat them well. She believes that Gardening
touches on all aspects of healing, including mental, emotional,
spiritual and physical health.
Susanna
Reppert
is owner of the family run herb
business, The Rosemary House, Mechanicsburg, PA. The Rosemary House
is celebrating its 40th year in business this year and Susanna
having grown up in the herb gardens behind the shop, she has been
there for all of them. She lives with her herbalist husband David
Brill and their three little herbs Zachery, Angelica and Cedar.
Maureen Rogers
has been in the herb industry for 30 years. She currently is the
Director for The Herb Growing & Marketing Network, a trade
association for the industry, since 1990. She edits The Herbal
Green Pages Online, a resource guide for the herb industry and
the online Bu$iness of Herbs. She is also the creator of
HerbNET.com and the editor of Herbalpedia, one of the most
comprehensive digital encyclopedias on herbs available. At one time
or another she has had a retail herb shop, manufactured herbal
fragrance and body care products, been the business manager for a
wholesale flower and herb farm and consulted as an herbal
practitioner. She lectures to groups around the country on herbs
and the business of herbs. She hosts and designs websites
specializing in herb related ones. She is a Certified Public
Accountant, a Certified Management Accountant and a Certified
Massage Therapist.
Antonio Carpenter
has spent a lifetime
studying herbs, the ways of nature…& becoming a caretaker of the
Sacred Earth. He is of Cherokee descent, having done his Vision
Quest with Cherokee Medicine Man, Hawk Littlejohn. He is the
LodgeKeeper of the Ancient Wisdom Teachings Spiritual
Lodge(AWTSL) , a Fellowship of Wisdom Teachings of
Indigenous Cultures.
AWTSL
is creating a Native American Heritage Sacred Space in the
beautiful Open Space and the adjacent woodland area, adjacent to the
Crimea Mansion (Orianda House). The Sacred Space contains a Stone
Hopi Labyrinth (Tapu’at) for Meditative walks, a Tai
Chi/Sacred Dance Ground, a Stone Cherokee Ceremonial
Arbor for Meditation and Ceremonies, a Magnolia Grove, &
a pristine woodland where a footpath loop will be laid down,
and a Cherokee Roundhouse will be constructed.
He facilitates Tibetan White Crane Tai Chi, Meditation, conducts
Labyrinth Walks, & facilitates Native American ceremonies that
celebrate the natural cycles of sunrise/ sunset, new moon/ full
moon, Spring & Fall Equinoxes & Summer & Winter Solstices.
He is Exec. Dir. of the Multicultural Education Training &
Research Organization (METARO), a consultant organization that
provides Research-based, Training & Workshops in Transformation ,
Cultural Competency, Healthy Lifestyles/Stress Management, & Youth
Development. He was a Research Biochemist at Johns Hopkins
University School of Public Health, and taught Developmental Biology
at Morgan State University.
Bands:
1. Durham Station Bluegrass Band
2. Ella's Umbrella (formerly Art of Meaning)
Chesapeake & Allegheny Live Steamers (CALS), Website:
http://calslivesteam.org ,
Train rides at Leakin Park
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