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

25/04/2026

A big gratitude shoutout to our wonderful treasurer Caterina Miano, who had been one of the most consistently hard-working and present volunteers in The Elder Tree space since she started her role 10 months ago. She does a lot of the bookkeeping work that most of us don't have the interest or the skills for, and she does it with a smile.

She shows up to every event and a lot of the working bees, she's attentive and always brings a great attitude to her work.

We love having her in The Elder Tree family. We really rely on having solid crew like this to make our dreams come to life...

Thanks Cat, we love you!

23/04/2026

Check out this potent offering from one of our podcast presenters and core crew Stephanie Hazel Herbs.

For those of you that are members of The Elder Tree Trove, you can attend this for free!
www.patreon.com/TheElderTree
(It's only $8 per month and you get all kinds of exclusive content and discounts plus you get to support our podcast)

Message from Stephanie:

Hey FB community. After teaching this work for nearly 5 years to over 100 students, I've distilled the most important pearls down into a three hour workshop. I've designed it to be really practical and embodied, so you can walk away with new tools that empower you in your path as a plant person, plant listener, medicine path walker, etc. I'd love you to join me.
Enrol here: https://events.humanitix.com/embodied-plant-listening

If you've been feeling curious about my work in this world, now is your opportunity to join in.

May you have many plants on your path,
Stephanie Hazel

18/04/2026

Is anyone able to please water our gardens tomorrow morning so our babies don't dry out?
Also looking for someone who lives local to Mullumbimby that could go in and water once or twice a week while it's dry like this.
Thanks very much! 💙💙💙

Ps. While I have your attention, or next two working bees are at 8.30am on the next two Fridays. Please RSVP if you would like to join us.

18/04/2026

Exciting news! In this episode, Tatiana welcomes Cat Green from Everyday Empowered and Herbfest to become a co-host of the Herbal Education Segment. It seems only fitting as Cat has already been on the podcast 6 times! This episode is pretty much a herbally infused bundle of giggles so make sure you are in the right frame of mind to receive the transmission of silliness. There is a lot of wonderful info on herbs and stories shared in amongst the laughter, and there is a prize at the end. We are overjoyed to be having Cat formally join The Elder Tree Podcast family and bringing her wisdom and unique flavour to the melting pot.

We are now a team of 8 on the podcast- 6 presenters and 2 helpers. It is a big job bringing this offering through to the Australian Community and we do it with all the love in our hearts. If you come along to Herbfest on Sunshine Coast on 14th June, you will get to meet a lot of the crew there... come visit our stall and see Tatiana on a panel.

Listen to the episode here:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4IcG44SaTjr5PdfvUw9jmv?si=9dvwx9kZQjyMC1goY_stmg

Cat is a home herbalist and grassroots community herbal organiser and educator. She's passionate about making it easy -and normal - for people to make simple, effective herbal remedies at home. She believes home herbalism is all about reclaiming our capacity to care for ourselves and our families, as well as reconnecting more deeply with the earth. Through Everyday Empowered, she offers a wide range of practical ways for people to learn about herbs - HerbFest, monthly workshops through the Herb Folk group, DIY Herbal Remedy Kits and online courses in collaboration with Heidi Merika (for more about Heidi Merika check out interview #9).

SHOWNOTES

Herbfest 14th June 2026:
https://everydayempowered.com.au/herbfest/

To find out more about Everyday Empowered:
https://everydayempowered.com.au/
IG: .empowered

Herbal Starter Kits:
To purchase a Herbal Starter kit use this affiliate link and 15% of the sale will go to The Elder Tree!:
https://www.everydayempowered.com.au/?ref=xe741xvr

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** TATIANA's PERSONAL OFFERINGS **
Aside from founding and guiding The Elder Tree, Tatiana runs Alchemilla Herbals, and is a herbal educator and medicine maker. Find her here:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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Alchemilla Herbals

Episodes that Cat has appeared on:
33. Building a Culture of Collaboration in the Herbal Community: Cat Green on Herbal Education
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/33-building-a-culture-of-collaboration-in/id1646328719?i=1000613917180

48. Self care as a dynamic, seasonal, everyday practice: Cat Green on Self Care with Herbs
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/48-self-care-as-a-dynamic-seasonal-everyday/id1646328719?i=1000627003249

81. Subtropical Herbalism and Herbfest: Cat Green on Herbal Education
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/81-subtropical-herbalism-and-herbfest-cat-green-on/id1646328719?i=1000654822900

100. Health is Built Collectively: Cat Green on Self Care with Herbs
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/100-health-is-built-collectively-cat-green-on-self/id1646328719?i=1000670573626

117. Sage and The Power of Kitchen Medicine: Cat Green on Herbal Education
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/117-sage-and-the-power-of-kitchen-medicine-cat/id1646328719?i=1000687276809

160. Chamomile- Gentle Doesn't Mean Weak: Cat Green on Herbal Education
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/160-chamomile-gentle-doesnt-mean-weak-cat-green-on/id1646328719?i=1000742837843

15/04/2026

We excited to announce our second workshop in The Elder Tree Educational Medicine Garden:
🌿 Medicinal Plant Propagation Workshop 🌿

Join us for a hands-on day of Earth tending with herbs, hearts and community as we gather to create.

Learn how to propagate a selection of medicinal plants that grow well in the NNSW/SEQ region.

Suits beginners or experienced propagators seeking to refine their skills.

Facilitated by Annaliese Hordern.

** Date: Friday 20th May, 2026

** Times: 10am - 4pm

** Exchange: $25 - $55, as you can afford

Herbal tea provided + propagation material to take home

BYO Lunch or a plate to share.

Purchase tickets here:
https://events.humanitix.com/medicinal-plant-propagation-workshop-2026

And RSVP on the event page here to be kept up to date:
Medicinal Plant Propagation Workshop

We will cover :

🌿 Botanical identification

🌿 Uses of Herbs

🌿 Parts of the plant to propagate and plant selection

🌿 How to pot up plant parts

🌿 Watering and nursery care

🌿 Plant connection and gratitude

Medicinal herbs we will aim to propagate include examples such as : comfrey, basil, rosemary, sambung nawa, galalngal, turmeric, sage, lemongrass and so much more.

Lead Facilitator ~ Annaliese Hordern

🍃 Women's Change Makers Permaculture Design Course Director

🍃 Green Harvest Organic Gardening 4 yrs nursery & propagation experience with edible medical plants

🍃 Happy Herb Company 15 years experience.

🍃 Custodian of ‘Tea Haven’ 1 acre Permaculture property on Sunny Coast, has grown over 100 varieties of edible plants.

🍃 @ Annaliese Hordern on FB

Support Facilitator ~ Tatiana Lustre Dawn (Twiggy)

🍃 Herbalist, herbal medicine teacher

🍃 Founder of The Elder Tree

🍃 Founder of Alchemilla Herbals

🍃 Previous owner and manager of Shady Grove

🍃 Ran a large community garden and permaculture farm for 7 years

🍃 on FB and IG

Contact for more information:

Tatiana Dawn info@theeldertree.org

Annaliese Hordern - inspireveryone@yahoo.co.uk

This workshop will be the second workshop to be held at The Elder Tree Educational Medicine Garden, which is nestled within a larger community called the Mullum Gardens Eco-Hub.

Bring a hat, water bottle, and your love of gardening

Book your tickets here:
https://events.humanitix.com/herb-spiral-garden-building-workshop

And RSVP on event page to be kept up to date here:
Medicinal Plant Propagation Workshop

Higher donations toward the garden are gratefully received. Please specify if you would like to give a tax deductible donation.

More about The Elder Tree:
www.theeldertree.org

More about Annaliese:
Creative Director of the Change Makers PDC, Annaliese, is passionate about permaculture, sustainability and community development with a strong focus on ethnobotanical research and plant-based lifestyle. Annaliese is coming all the way from the Sunshine Coast to share her valuable wisdom and ways with us, and we are most grateful.

And RSVP on event page here to be kept up to date:
Medicinal Plant Propagation Workshop

05/04/2026

Come along to our regular working bees at The Elder Tree Educational Medicine Garden and get involved!!!

OUR NEXT WORKING BEE DATES:
🌳 Friday 10th April
🌳 Sat 18th April
🌳 Fri 24th April
🌳 Fri 1st May

8.30am- 11.30am

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

Please RSVP for each working bee that you would like to attend. You can RSVP by PM or email: info@theeldertree.org

Here is a pin drop for our location. (Please park out on the road and walk in)
https://goo.gl/maps/k5VzRRvKdAiNrZVu7

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

We are always looking for donations of garden tools and landscaping resources and things like bark mulch, soil, garden edging, etc.

Get in touch if you have some resources to share.

🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

The Elder Tree Educational Medicine Garden is located in Mullumbimby, at the Mullum Gardens Eco-Hub alongside other powerful earth warriors and change makers such as Reforest Now, The Mullumbimby Community Gardens, The Men’s Shed, The Mullum Food Coop, and other powerful individuals and visionaries inspired to grow together and educate about growing sustainable food and medicine.

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

The garden is a space to cultivate and evolve deep connection to and understanding of herbs. It is a small living library that will eventually become a botanical garden once we are on a larger patch of land.

We are so excited to be doing our part in building community resilience and coherence and connection.

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

Follow us at The Elder Tree and .elder.tree

04/04/2026

🌳Would you be interested in volunteering for The Elder Tree?
🌳We are looking for rad new team leaders to help us make a difference in the herbal medicine education realms. (We are creating Australia's only grassroots herbal medicine school with residential facilities!)
🌳Must be trustworthy, reliable, a good communicator and show initiative/be proactive
🌳Role involves 2-4 hours per week managing a small team and attending monthly online or in person meetings. Can be done remotely. All training provided.
🌳Please get in touch to find out more: info@theeldertree.org

We also have other roles available that are not management positions- where you can volunteer for 2 hours per week on certain tasks. Just get in touch to find out what kind of roles we have available in our beautiful growing family of passionate herbies!

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🌳More about the management roles 🌳
The Elder Tree is forming our OPERATIONS COMMITTEE which consists of managers of teams. We currently have 5 teams:

1. FUNDING /RESOURCES: Grant writing/major donors/sponsors/manages resources/ manages all donations

2. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: Info stalls/marketing/social media/newsletter etc)

3. PODCAST: Trove/social media/newsletter/promotions

4. MEMBER MANAGEMENT: Takes care of sign up process/monitoring members/monitoring payments/updating website/promotions. Also oversees volunteers in various departments

5. EDUCATIONAL MEDICINE GARDEN: The crew caring for our beautiful patch of Earth in Mullumbimby

The two management roles to be filled are the "Member Management" team manager role and the "Community Engagement" team manager role.

These two roles are very important for the thriving of The Elder Tree mission! A big part of your role would be onboarding new volunteers to your team, assign them their tasks and monitor their progress. You would need to also attend a monthly Operations Committee team meeting with the other managers to chat about how each other is going with their teams.

It is important that you have a positive outlook and love working with people and be available consistently on a weekly basis to maintain flow. Ideally 2hours, 2 days per week would be great! Get in touch to find out more and learn if this is a good fit for you.

With love,
Tatiana
info@theeldertree.org

PS. Find out other ways that you can get involved here:
https://www.theeldertree.org/get-involved

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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** TATIANA's PERSONAL OFFERINGS **
Aside from founding and guiding The Elder Tree, Tatiana runs Alchemilla Herbals, and is a herbal educator and medicine maker. Find her here:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.alchemillaherbals.com.au⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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Alchemilla Herbals

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.
🌳

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!
🌳

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.

🌳

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

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