"Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves" Herb Festival

"Mountain Herb Festival" is back this year. It has been billed as one of the most unique festival in Kentucky for 2003. This festival is put on by people who have little in luxuries but they are trying to do something for the environment and others. Sept. 5-6, 2003. If you enjoy pristine wilderness settings way back on 3 miles of gravel roads with the singing creek by your campsite; this is where you need to be. Held on the full moon at lakefront

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"Mountain Herb Festival" is back this year. It has been billed as one of the most unique festival in Kentucky for 2003. This festival is put on by people who have little in luxuries but they are trying to do something for the environment and others. Sept. 5-6, 2003.
If you enjoy pristine wilderness settings way back on 3 miles of gravel roads with the singing creek by your campsite; this is where you need to be.

Held on the full moon at
lakefront

Tradition Herb Festival Contact Information: Linda Heller 606-672-6444 Email: beyondyonder@webtv.net Webpage: http://geocities.com/beyondyonderrd/festival

Shoal, Kentucky.

The unique Mountain Herb Festival is back for its third year. 2003. Come see what all the talk is about Sept. 5-6, 2003.

Alternative healers, environmental lovers of Mother Earth and diverse multicultural experts of Appalachian Life (including American Indian) from all over the country , savor exotic herbal, vegetarian, and Appalachian food, see, dance, come alive, enjoy stories that will intrigue you, learn skills of the mountains and listen to music that will make you reflect on the generations past and to come. All guests are encouraged to bring your own genealogy for we are having a giant "Entangled Roots Reunion".

Learn how to make soap, herbal medicine, wine, make a basket, grow and preserve herbs, grow and use ginseng and other mountain herbs, make solar panels, live off the grid, living green, research your family genealogy, and much, much, more. Oh and let's not forget that we have 15 hands-on children's project in our "Peppermint Patty" tent.

Now that we have whipped up your appetite for your favorite festival cuisine! It will be hard to decide when your choices include green fried tomatoes, stinging nettle soup, gingerbread pones, dried apple stack cake, in our Appalachian section and in black sweet rice pudding with organic pear and wild ginger sauce, zucchini angel hair pasta with herbal pesto sauce, apple-brown-betty with geranium leaves, lemon balm cake, and again much, more! Be sure to stop by and visit our latest additions to the festival. With all these choices and more you won't go home with an empty stomach.

General Information
Tickets at the gate are $3.00 for adults and $1.00 for children under
12.
Camping is $10.00 and begins Thursday the 4th at 4:00 p.m. Festival hours are 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

We are in Southeastern Ky., closest town is Hyden.
Go to Hell for Certain Road and follow signs to Confluence Shoal Rd. and follow that road until it dead ends at lakefront or go to webpage for directions and more information.

Description:
An Herb, Alternative Healing, Environmental, Mother Earth, Appalachian and Life Giving Health Foods and Arts and Crafts Festival.

Mountain Tradition will be bringing together leading herb lovers,environmental classes and alternative healers from throughout the country and locally to share with us their knowledge of the Earth, plants and natural healing methods as well as healing the earth classes.

COST IS $3.00 ADULTS AND $1.00 CHILDREN ENTRANCE FEE
WORKSHOPS ARE PAID FOR SEPARATELY AND MOST ARE FREE. SOME HAVE A MATERIALS COST.

Vending will be at lake front and under the full moon. Don't miss it.. Mountain Tradition Herb Festival this year will be held at the Buckhorn Lake.

Mountain Tradition is a 3 day camping event on the Buckhorn Lake. Camping is $10.Please bring your own camping supplies. We suggest the following: musical instruments, tent, bedding, flashlight, natural toiletries that will not harm the environment, which can be bought from Brammer Gap Soap Kettle, (there are no showers: we will have the creeks and lake), picnic blankets, towels and swimwear, floor chairs and whatever else makes you
comfy. Make sure that you bring chairs!!

Delicious Appalachian meals and vegetarian meals.

Information and demonstration booths are free.

Vendors: Vending is $50. Registration is before the festival to better
serve you.
Camp set up begins at 4:00 P.M. on Thursday 4th for vendors and campers. School buses will be coming all day Friday between 10:00 and 2:00 to see all the herbal products, demonstrations, and crafts. Vending will be friday and Saturday between 9:00 am and 10:00 pm. Location: Buckhorn Lake in Shoal, Kentucky (Southeastern Kentucky)

Event Contacts:
Linda Heller: 606-672-6444
Nancy Crouse: 606-374-3379
Email: beyondyonder@webtv.net
Website link for more info:
http://geocities.com/beyondyonderrd/festival/
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Please send this letter to all you know and put the Herb Festival in your local papers and community calendar on tv.
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Here is our Line-up so far:

Old-Tyme Lye and cold processed soap workshop. (Brammer Gap Soap Kettle)

Magnetic Therapy. (Beth Wofford)

Aura Mastery. (Jo Ann Van Horn)

Solar Workshop. (ASPI)

Growing Eastern Woodland Medicinal Herbs Herb Walk included with this workshop ( You will be taking dormant roots for transplanting back home with you)

Ginseng. (ASPI)

Eco-Technology (Living Off the Grid) &
Living Green (small steps anyone can
take). (Rev. C. S. Lewis)

Identifying and Preparing Edible
Weeds for Food. (Vickie Shufer)

Mushroom Innoculation. (Tim Hensley)

Drying and Preserving Herbs. (Peggy Leadingham)

Aromatherapy. (Joy Goble)

Muscle Response Therapy and Scerology. (Lupe Banuelos)

American Indian Culture. (Tom Pearce) and (Mack Chism)