1 hr 21 min
17. Creating Your Own Homegrown Dispensary: Sandra Parker on Herbal Education The Elder Tree Podcast
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In this episode, I had the great pleasure of interviewing a teacher of mine- Sandra Parker who has been a clinical herbalist since the 1980s and is based in the beautiful location of Deloraine in Tasmania.
Sandra is an incredibly wise and experienced herbalist who has been manufacturing herbal medicine since the year 2000. She had the amazing opportunity to learn from and work with the renowned Ken Atherton for 15 years and went on to offer his manufacturing seminars after he passed away. You may recall from previous interviews that Ken ran Pindari Farm in Tasmania, where he grew over 130 different medicinal plants and taught students how to harvest and prepare many different medicinal preparations from fresh plants for many years and this is the place where I met Sandra in 2015.
This interview gives a wonderful insight into Sandra's journey of working alongside Ken and then carrying on his legacy once he passed. She shares such valuable information about the importance of knowing the plants that you work with and having a deep connection with them.
I have an immense amount of respect for the fact that Sandra grows AND makes around 95% of all the medicines that she dispenses as a practitioner- in fact, she is the only herbalist that I know of in Australia who can make this claim. She has a high level of integrity with her medicines- and when she does have to purchase ingredients to use in her creams etc, she only sources local organic ingredients.
She is a passionate, precise, and meticulous teacher having received so much of her training from a pharmacist herbalist, and she has a high standard when it comes to ensuring the efficacy of her medicines.
I hope that you enjoy this wonderful interview. It brings me great pleasure to share these inspiring teachers with you all and I hope that it inspires all herbalists to deepen their connection to the medicines that they dispense.
You can find more about Sandra and see her beautiful handmade medicinal preparations here:
www.tasmanianherbalist.com/
You can find her on Facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057609152246
You can contact Sandra to be informed about upcoming medicine-making seminars here:
sparker.health@gmail.com
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To find out more about The Elder Tree visit the website here and donate to the crowdfunding campaign here.
You can also follow The Elder Tree on Facebook and Instagram and sign up to the newsletter.
Find out more about this podcast and the presenters here. Get in touch with The Elder Tree at: asktheeldertree@gmail.com
The intro and outro song is "Sing for the Earth" and was kindly donated by Chad Wilkins. You can find Chad's music here and here.
In this episode, I had the great pleasure of interviewing a teacher of mine- Sandra Parker who has been a clinical herbalist since the 1980s and is based in the beautiful location of Deloraine in Tasmania.
Sandra is an incredibly wise and experienced herbalist who has been manufacturing herbal medicine since the year 2000. She had the amazing opportunity to learn from and work with the renowned Ken Atherton for 15 years and went on to offer his manufacturing seminars after he passed away. You may recall from previous interviews that Ken ran Pindari Farm in Tasmania, where he grew over 130 different medicinal plants and taught students how to harvest and prepare many different medicinal preparations from fresh plants for many years and this is the place where I met Sandra in 2015.
This interview gives a wonderful insight into Sandra's journey of working alongside Ken and then carrying on his legacy once he passed. She shares such valuable information about the importance of knowing the plants that you work with and having a deep connection with them.
I have an immense amount of respect for the fact that Sandra grows AND makes around 95% of all the medicines that she dispenses as a practitioner- in fact, she is the only herbalist that I know of in Australia who can make this claim. She has a high level of integrity with her medicines- and when she does have to purchase ingredients to use in her creams etc, she only sources local organic ingredients.
She is a passionate, precise, and meticulous teacher having received so much of her training from a pharmacist herbalist, and she has a high standard when it comes to ensuring the efficacy of her medicines.
I hope that you enjoy this wonderful interview. It brings me great pleasure to share these inspiring teachers with you all and I hope that it inspires all herbalists to deepen their connection to the medicines that they dispense.
You can find more about Sandra and see her beautiful handmade medicinal preparations here:
www.tasmanianherbalist.com/
You can find her on Facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057609152246
You can contact Sandra to be informed about upcoming medicine-making seminars here:
sparker.health@gmail.com
.
To find out more about The Elder Tree visit the website here and donate to the crowdfunding campaign here.
You can also follow The Elder Tree on Facebook and Instagram and sign up to the newsletter.
Find out more about this podcast and the presenters here. Get in touch with The Elder Tree at: asktheeldertree@gmail.com
The intro and outro song is "Sing for the Earth" and was kindly donated by Chad Wilkins. You can find Chad's music here and here.
1 hr 21 min