Nature & Nature Magic (Thursday Afternoon, 06/01/2006)

[romanywitch]

Today's class was meeting in the Preserve, which had been in a reminder e-mail Jenny had *handwavily* sent out. There's a small campfire set up, and cooking supplies set out beside it, along with lots of blankets to spread out on the ground, and baskets for plant-gathering.

"Right. Today, we're going to be hunting for magical plants. And not-so-magical ones that are edible. But, the guides I've handed out to you guys? They don't contain any pictures or descriptions of anything harmful, either magically or toxicalogically. If toxicalogically is even a word, but hey, you guys know what I mean, right?

Take a look around, see what you find, and then we'll see if there's anything we can make from them--you can either demonstrate a benign magical use, or make a yummy snack, or both. Share your snack with everyone else; we could all use a potluck, right?"

OOC: The handouts contain information from the following insane list o' links -
Sources for magical plant information -
HP Lexicon - Magical & Mundane Plants
HP Lexicon - Herbology Class
Mystical WWW Plants Grid
General Herbalism Link Index
Cedar Mountain Herb School
List of Fictional Plants
Sources for edible wild plant information -
Nature's Garden
EdiblePlants.com
Free Food From Field & Forest
Edible Wild Plants - Science Tracer Bulletin (Mostly Bibliographical Info)
Steve Brill's VegWeb Site


Course syllabus and roster. for this workshop.

OOC: Sneaking on to post this the night before the workshop is actually held, because I don't know if I can get it in before the deadline tomorrow. Slowplay is the order of today and tomorrow (per my post on Janet's journal, my boss is in this week and I have to be very, very good at work).

Wait for the OCD! Go forth and post.

Comments

After The Workshop

[romanywitch]

In case you want to talk to Jenny privately.

Re: After The Workshop

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Hey, me again."

Re: After The Workshop

[romanywitch]

"Hey, Tim," said Jenny. "What's up?"

Re: After The Workshop

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Well a few nights ago I was on the roof of my cabin and heard howling in the woods, and a voice warned me of evil in the woods. I tink it was just River messing with me, but then yesterday evening I heard someone playing by the creek when there was no one there, and I'm almost certain the path I was on changed on me. Plus there was a willow-the-wisp. You know of anything we should be on the lookout for?"

Re: After The Workshop

[romanywitch]

"Nothing I know of," said Jenny. As it's not my plot. :) "But then again, you've always got to watch out for the unknown around here too. You do some research on what it could be yet?"

Re: After The Workshop

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Well the willow the wisp I knew what was. the sounds at the creek and the changing path I haven't been able to find anything about. Mr. Giles suggested I talk to you."

Re: After The Workshop

[romanywitch]

"Rupert's a sensible kind of guy. I could probably look some stuff up, see what we're dealing with," said Jenny, nodding. "Got any more descriptions of that?"

OOC: Just drop me an email at havocthecat (@)gmail(.)com and let me know what you want Jenny to come up with as an answer, okay?