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The Elder Tree, 156 Stuart st, Mullumbimby (2026)

01/04/2026

Sevensong⁠ is an American clinical herbalist, teacher, botanist and naturalist with over 40 years of experience in herbal medicine in USA. He is the founder and director of the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine and the Director of Holistic Medicine at the ⁠Ithaca Free Clinic⁠. His work focuses on practical, experience-based herbalism, integrating clinical care, plant identification, and medicine making to support accessible community healthcare. Known for his grounded and practical approach, 7Song has spent decades helping people access herbal medicine in real-world settings.

Listen to episode on The The Elder Tree Podcast here:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2WJeGKnacyaWoMLXXEQluv?si=GG9PhHTlQlqXaGBfniuLRg

In this episode, 7song shares the beginnings of his herbal journey being involved in social justice and activism, and wanting to make change. 7song learnt with Christopher Hobbs, Micheal Moore and other incredible minds, and went on to make his own school. 7song shares about what is often missing in the herbal education space in USA- mentorship and one on one apprenticeships. Through his school, this is something that he offers.There are two schools that offer herbal degrees, but as 7song shares, it can be difficult to make a decent income from being just a practitioner, and the better income opportunities are to be found in education. There is a lot more covered in this interview, you will jst have to listen to hear about it!There are some big changes coming with 7song preparing to close down his school, and change focus.

One of his amazing evolving current offerings is the Herbal Database which is an incredible free resource well worth checking out- see links in the shownotes below. 7song is a very generous teacher who has given a phenomenal amount of free resources online and runs many free classes.

SHOWNOTES:

Free upcoming anxiolytic class: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87242058218?pwd=43dQADVaXHKp2NPIR3lTbbEw2aJf8C.1

7Song's Herbal Database - https://7song.comI

Ithaca Free Clinic - https://ithacahealth.org

Herbal Medicine by 7Song (YouTube)- https://www.youtube.com/c/7SongHerbalist

Herbal Formulas - https://7song.com/herbal-formulas

Street Medic and First Aid Content by 7Song - https://7song.com/street-medic

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30/03/2026

A wonderful walkabout site meeting today with representatives of each community group. We got to walk around the site and hear each other's dreams visions and actions and deepen the collective bond of this beautiful community space that we co-inhabit.

We got to hear stories and challenges and victories. It made me (Tatiana) feel proud to be having our The Elder Tree project being woven into such a rich space with all the skills and strengths and wisdom of this space.

There was:
🌼Oriel and Andy from Mullum Food Co-op

🌼Larimar, Ben and Will from Mullumbimby Community Garden

🌼Tommy, Rachel and Simon from Seed Northern Rivers

🌼James from ReForest Now

🌼Ned from Mullumbimby Men's Shed

We also had Caress along for the ride, as a special kind of glue for the day.

Excited to keep weaving and collaborating in beautiful synergy with this collective.
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25/03/2026

Thanks to the beautiful souls who attended our Autumn Equinox AGM and Official Educational Medicine Garden Opening. Most of the people who weren't already members put up their hands to become members of The Elder Tree- thanks so much!

Please click on this link to complete your application:
https://www.jotform.com/form/251141211902844

Thank you for becoming a member of The Elder Tree, we are so excited to welcome you into our community! We are committed to creating a diverse array of accessible and affordable herbal medicine and health and wellness education opportunities for the local and national community. We rely on members and volunteers to achieve great things and we welcome you to come get involved.

What do you get as a general member?

🌳 Be formally part of our family

🌳 Recieve a quarterly newsletter around every equinox and solstice

🌳 Receive 20% off eligible events and workshops

🌳 Receive 20% off merchandise

🌳 Have a say at our AGM

🌳 Get The Elder Tree tshirts at cost price $35

How much is membership?

To become a member of The Elder Tree it is only $10 per month, or $100 per year.

What do membership fees get used for?
Membership fees help us with the day-to-day running of a not-for-profit organisation. It helps us to purchase materials required for creating our medicine garden, paying for our necessary online platforms for our website and podcast, design and create our courses and community events, helps us to get the word out there with locally printed and locally made signs, plus other important fees we must pay to be registered as an organisation. If you would like to make a larger donation to go toward a particular project within The Elder Tree, then get in touch!!! All donations are tax deductible.

Thanks for doing your bit to support this vision!
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PS. Thanks so much to Anna who made this wonderful photo board of the gardens journeys so far. A lot of love and effort went into this.

23/03/2026

What a wonderful day on the Autumn Equinox, celebrating the official opening of our educational medicine garden and also having an AGM and updating the community on our progress.
Some lovely folk stuck around to help us plant out lots of medicinal plants.
Thanks to everyone who came and made it a lovely day. Thanks to our solid crew for making it happen- you all know who you are- a lot of hard work has gone into this event and also into the gardens.

We also had around 10 people spontaneously sign up as members of The Elder Tree, great to see the family growing. We will be sending an email out to all of you, but for now the easiest way to sign up ads a member is via this link:

https://form.jotform.com/251141211902844

A special thanks to Mudbrick Herb Cottage for being a wonderful new sponsor and providing an abundance of herbal medicine plants for our garden.
Thanks to James Frizelle Charitable Foundation for your grant for our garden- it couldn't have happened without you.
Thanks to Seed Northern Rivers for letting us use the stage area for our gathering and also for inviting us in to be part of this vibrant community at the Mullum Gardens Eco-Hub.

We are very excited for this next chapter, many exciting things are in store! Get in touch if you would love to get on board and support is with our vision. In particular currently we are looking for more members on our admin team and on our funding team.

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22/03/2026

🌳Today marks the release of our third Elder Tree Newsletter!! 🌳Whoohoo! We launched our first issue on the Spring Equinox last year and honestly, we couldn’t be prouder of our little news rag. The Elder Tree in a nutshell is all about putting the medicine in the hands of the people and this newsletter aims to do just that - to have a finger on the pulse of grassroots herbalism in Oz and to share that knowledge as far and wide as we can.

This is an offering not just for The Elder Tree crew but for the national herbal community. It features an array of wonderful and informative articles and recipes from fantastic and inspiring herb folk around Australia (and one in NZ) as well as a national herbal directory.

This newsletter is free to our members, and $5 to the broader public. Link is in bio to purchase your copy.

Become a member here:
https://www.theeldertree.org/becomeamember

We feel really fortunate to have a great selection of contributors from around the country, who are each doing wonderful things in their own communities, as well as rippling out with big impact.

They represent different voices and perspectives, and as our newsletter grows we hope to include articles from even more leaders, educators, growers and community herbalists, in turn helping us to provide free education to the national community and to support all of the wonderful teachers around the country.

We would like to give a special thanks to our regular contributors:

🌳Cat Green - from Everyday Empowered and Herbfest.

🌳Heidi Merika - from Heidi Merika Botanical.

🌳Christopher Smith - Christopher Smith from Mountain Herbs .au

🌳Penelope Maguire - 'Penelope Maguire from Botanical Kitchen. .kitchen

🌳Taj Scicluna - Taj Scicluna of Botanical Education.

🌳Lily Aagren aka Lily of the Herbs.

🌳Benjamin Turale - Director of The Temple of Mercury.

A huge thanks to our epic co-editor team- .dyan and Tatiana Dawn . A lot of love and hard work goes into this newsletter!

Enjoy the rest of this day folks!!!

21/03/2026

🌳Today marks the release of our third Elder Tree Newsletter!! 🌳Whoohoo! We launched our first issue on the Spring Equinox last year and honestly, we couldn’t be prouder of our little news rag. The Elder Tree in a nutshell is all about putting the medicine in the hands of the people and this newsletter aims to do just that - to have a finger on the pulse of grassroots herbalism in Oz and to share that knowledge as far and wide as we can.

This is an offering not just for The Elder Tree crew but for the national herbal community. It features an array of wonderful and informative articles and recipes from fantastic and inspiring herb folk around Australia (and one in NZ) as well as a national herbal directory.

This newsletter is free to our members, and $5 to the broader public. Purchase your copy here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uUyMqcIguU77jSouePaapKefGIGhM4nQ/view?usp=sharing

Become a member here:
https://www.theeldertree.org/becomeamember

We feel really fortunate to have a great selection of contributors from around the country, who are each doing wonderful things in their own communities, as well as rippling out with big impact. They represent different voices and perspectives, and as our newsletter grows we hope to include articles from even more leaders, educators, growers and community herbalists, in turn helping us to provide free education to the national community and to support all of the wonderful teachers around the country.
We would like to give a special thanks to our regular contributors.

Cat Green - from Everyday Empowered is a community herbalist on a mission to bring herbs back where they belong… to our homes, gardens and communities. . Every year on the Sunshine Coast she hosts Herb Fest, which is Australia’s only large gathering focused solely on herbal medicine (It’s also an epically fun day out). She runs regular community herbal medicine workshops and teaches online and in-person courses on herbal medicine so people can care for themselves and family more naturally. A long-time friend of The Elder Tree, she has been both host and interviewee on the podcast and recently signed on as a co-host of the Herbal Education segment alongside Tatiana. Check out HerbFest 2026 for the next amazing event in June this year.

Heidi Merika - Heidi Merika Botanical resides on Gubbi Gubbi country on the Sunshine Coast, and is an experienced naturopath, medical herbalist, teacher and author with a passion for wild medicinal and nutritional plants. She has authored two brilliant books - Wildcraft: The science and spirit of wild plants for food and medicine (2019) and From the Wild: An essential companion to identifying, cooking and enjoying common wild plants for health and healing.(2024) She also regularly runs popular workshops on herbal medicine and foraging for wild plants.

Christopher Smith - Christopher Smith from Mountain Herbs is a Conservation Herbalist committed to transforming our relationship to Medicinal plants. He is the creator of HERBOLOGY HUB an online subscription program for fostering Medicinal Herb Growers in Australia and he is also an Australian grower of select rare and endangered herbs such as Golden Seal, Solomons Seal and Arnica. We also think he is a really cool guy.
Penelope Maguire - 'Penelope Maguire from Botanical Kitchen is a New Zealand based Herbalist and Naturopath with a passion for educating folk on wild and edible herbs and the incredible gifts they offer us. She joyfully shares the most beautiful, nourishing and supportive herbal recipes with us and we love having her onboard.

Taj Scicluna - Taj Scicluna resides on Wurundjeri land in the Naarm/ Melbourne region of Victoria and is a Botanical Educator, bioregional Herbalist and Awe Seeker. Founder of Botanical Education, her work is dedicated to processes that foster healing and that honour science and tradition. She is one of the leading voices in plant phytochemistry and herbal constituents in Australia and has talent for weaving together science, ecological literacy, cultural awareness, and a deep reverence for the living world. She is also a co-presenter of the permaculture segment on The Elder Tree Podcast.

As of this edition, we have two new amazing contributors:

Lily Aagren aka Lily of the Herbs - Lily Aagren is a wild herbalist residing on Wurundjeri Country by the Birranrung River, in Warrandyte, VIC. Lily has been running workshops and teaching herbalism for 10 years and runs the School of Elemental Herbalism. She dreams of bringing back the dirt, the flowers and the leaves to learning.

Benjamin Turale - is the Director of The Temple of Mercury, a Hermetic mystery school based in Victoria, Australia in Ballarat (Waddawarung country). He also serves on the International Alchemy Guild as Director of Education. He is arguably one of the leading Alchemy teachers in Australia and gives us a unique insight into this often misunderstood tradition.
We have also had contributions from other interesting herb folks such as

And our casual contributors who contributed to the last edition but not this one, though will contribute to future editions:

Tamara Clements - of From The Soil Herbal who is based on Wadandi Boodjar in South Western Australia, where she practices as a community herbalist, medicine maker, workshop facilitator and herb grower - whilst completing her training in Clinical Western Herbalism.

Naomi Ingleton - is a maker and grower of traditional foods and plant medicine on Waywurru country in North Eastern Victoria , where she has a micro herb farm, food garden, an apothecary and runs workshops. She is also the driving force behind FarmacyCo and also Herb Connect, which is an online space where growers and buyers can meet directly, reconnecting people to the source of their medicine. Herb Connect will open doors for small-scale herb farmers, backyard growers and wild foragers to create new possibilities for buyers who want to know exactly where their plants come from. It’s a vision rooted in respect for the land and the people who care for it, and one which the Elder Tree is really happy to be a involved with.

This newsletter is published quarterly, seasonally, every solstice and equinox. If you would like to submit an article, small or long. Herbal Medicine focused, please reach out to us.
The sky is the limit - poetry, art, a fictional story, medicine making or growing, crafting - we would love to hear all about it. We put a lot of love, time and hope for the future into this newsletter. It’s free to our valued members & patrons, then available for $5 to the broader public.

A huge thanks to our epic co-editor team- Cait Moore and Tatiana Dawn. A lot of love and hard work goes into this newsletter!

Enjoy the rest of this day folks!!!

20/03/2026

GOOD Morning! Today is our big day! Yay!
As it turns out, our event is happening at the same time as Mullum markets so we have to arrive via an alternate route.
See attached map. Follow the white line to the parking area then follow the orange line on foot.

🌳DIRECTIONS 🌳
Go to carpark on corner of Cedar st and Byron st. Look for the sneaky spot where you can drive across the grass alongside the tennis courts to get to the community gardens car park.
Park and walk in via the Mullum Community Gardens entrance.

🌳 Please arrive at 1.30 to allow time to walk in and get settled to start at 2pm.

🌳. Here is a pin drop to the exact location of our gardens.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/c5w7ME1JHueg9wm88

🌳. Walk past the gardens to meet at the Lilypad stage which is where we will be for the first half of our gathering:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/QkHX93e3o87KocN78

So excited for this. It is going to be a wonderful day. Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Any questions, email Tatiana:
info@theeldertree.org

PS. Please come prepared for all weather conditions. If you feel to, bring a handful of herbs to put in the communitea pot for us to all brew and drink together in the afternoon.

For all other details regarding the dat, please look at the event page:
Autumn Equinox AGM and Official Educational Medicine Garden Opening

20/03/2026

Come join in the fun!!! All are welcome. Here are the dates for our next 4 working bees, come grow potent medicine with us...

☀️Thurs 2nd April
☀️Sun 5th April
☀️Thurs 9th April

8.30am-11.30.
(then we have morning tea- some people like to stick around after morning tea and do more gardening or medicine processing)

** Please bring some food or drink to share for morning tea if you can **

We are having one afternoon session:
☀️Sun 29th March
2pm

Let us know if you would like to come join in.
Send a PM or email:
info@theeldertree.org
💙🌳💙

We meet here:
https://goo.gl/maps/k5VzRRvKdAiNrZVu7
(Please park out on the road and walk in)

At The Elder Tree, we will hold regular classes, courses, workshops and events and the medicine garden will be an educational garden for students. We will also produce medicine from the garden that will go to volunteers and surplus will be gifted to those in need/sold at a low cost for fundraising.
We are so excited to be doing our part in building community resilience and coherence and connection.

Also, we have a Whatsapp group for volunteers so let us know if you want to be added to that.

We are looking for donations of garden tools and landscaping resources and things like bark mulch, frames to set up shade etc etc.

Get in touch if you have some resources to share: info@theeldertree.org

The Elder Tree is a registered not for profit (charity) and we welcome financial contributions. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation, please let us know!

To find out more about The Elder Tree, go to www.theeldertree.org

19/03/2026

Good morning everyone, only one sleep to go!!! It has come to our attention that the Mullum markets are on tomorrow which means that there is no vehicle access to our Autumn Equinox AGM and Official Educational Medicine Garden Opening until after the event starts.
Don't worry we are onto it and organising a possible alternate vehicle access. Please do check in on the event page tomorrow though just to make sure you know where to access and park.

We would love for everyone to please arrive by 1.45 if possible to start at 2pm as we have a lot of great stuff planned and would be wonderful to start on time.

Feel free to bring a handful of herbs to put in the communi-tea pot for us to brew and drink together.

So excited for our big day tomorrow!!! Thanks to all of our AMAZING volunteers that have been working hard to make it happen.

11/03/2026

We welcome you to join us for the official opening of The Elder Tree Educational Medicine Garden, which is nestled in the larger Mullum Gardens Eco Hub in Mullumbimby. We will also be having our autumn equinox AGM (annual general meeting) at the same time.

This is a very exciting time for us as we have been working hard since September last year to get the plan, structure and flow of the garden complete so that it is ready to plant lots of potent medicine for our community!

It feels far from “complete” but nature is cyclic and ever expanding and evolving so come join us for one moment in time to celebrate and love up the gardens!

All are welcome and we will provide afternoon tea and herbal beverages.

At The Elder Tree Educational Medicine Garden, we will hold regular classes, courses, workshops and events and the medicine garden will be an educational garden for students. We will also produce medicine from the garden that will go to volunteers and surplus will be gifted to those in need/sold at a low cost for fundraising.

We are so excited to be doing our part in building community resilience through herbal medicine education and potent medicine availability.

1.45pm: Arrive
2.00: Welcome, serve herbal tea, introductions
2.30: Plant meditation with Stephanie Hazel
2.45: AGM (Annual General Meeting)
3.45: Afternoon tea
4.15: Group prayer and intention setting with the Communitea pot
5.15: Sharing circle- share a bit more about the vision and plans for TET and welcome community input and questions.
We encourage everyone to bring herb cuttings/plants for the garden and also any they might like to sell or trade on the day.

Please RSVP by email so that we know you are coming (this is very important):
info@theeldertree.org

Also RSVP on the event page to be kept up to date:
Autumn Equinox AGM and Official Educational Medicine Garden Opening

Please get in touch if there is something special you want to bring to the day or if you want to help with set up/ pack up/ food. we are all volunteers and many hands make light work.

Hope to see you there!
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PLEASE LOOK AT RECENT POST ON EVENT PAGE as we are accessing the site via an alternate route for todays event.

PS. If you don't already know, we are also having a Herb Spiral Garden Workshop next Thursday which is almost booked out so check it out if you want to join us.

PPS. We are having working bees in the garden this Sunday and next Wednesday... get in touch if you would like to help out.

11/03/2026

🌳 THEMED MEDICINE BEDS 🌳
This is our founder Tatiana Dawn sharing about our themed beds being created in The Elder Tree Educational Medicine Garden. Everything is in full swing co-creating our little patch of potent herbs. We have a couple of working bees over this coming week before our official opening day on the Autum Equinox: 21st March.
We would love for you to come and get involved, get in touch if you are interested in supporting the vision as many hands and hearts make light work and play.
Email to see how you can be involved:
info@theeldertree.org

Check out the links in our bio to learn more about what we are up to... it's pretty exciting!

10/03/2026

We would really love a couple of extra hands and hearts at our working bee 🐝 tomorrow morning as most of our crew can't make it and we have only 2 more working bees until our Autumn Equinox AGM and Official Educational Medicine Garden Opening. Come help us grow lots of potent medicine. 🌿
Please get in touch to RSVP if you can make it.
Info@theeldertree.org

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