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About Dan

Dan De Lion is an earth herbalist, forager, musician, and teacher. He teaches through Return to Nature, providing classes, lectures, and seminars on wild food foraging, mushroom identification, herbal medicine making, as well as primitive and survival skills with a focus on wild foods and forest medicines. He also incorporates the philosophies of yoga, alchemy, meditation, and mysticism into his classes, lectures, and seminars and brings a deep rooted indigenous medicine perspective of practicing intuition with plants, in a systematic and earth-based way – Check out more at www.returntonature.us.

New Class Announcement! Guerilla Foraging Class @ Deans Natural Foods – Bernards, NJ (July 18)

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Dan
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Class Reviews and Testimonials

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Dan

If you have come to any foraging and herbalism classes with Return To Nature, please take a moment to share about your experience so that people can know what happens at my classes, and get a sense of the wild … Continue reading →

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Nettle Harvesting by Hand

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Dan

Both wood nettle (Laportea canadensis) and stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) are an excellent tasting as well as medicinal green. They are loaded with vitamins, minerals, and taste great as a tea, or green incorporated into any food. They have stingers … Continue reading →

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New! Return to Nature Podcast Interview on Everyday Detox

Posted on June 21, 2014 by Dan

“Dan De Lion joined me on the podcast to discuss his life and work as a “Plant Monk.” We talked about so many things though—the insane war on dandelions, viewing the natural world as an amusement park, eating as entertainment rather … Continue reading →

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Understanding Herbal Actions – Demystifying the Complications

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Dan

Understanding herbal actions and terms can be daunting for many, because it feels like rote memorization and has no grounded foundation, or instinctual basis. I have found within my own practice a deep instinctual basis for why these terms are … Continue reading →

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Plant Walk This Friday, at Montclair, NJ

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Dan

This Friday I’ll be giving a plant walk in Montclair, NJ. Please share with your friends! (Right-click save as)  

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New Interview Tonight…

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Dan

Join us for a 2 hr. jam-sesh with Mr. Natural, Dan Farella of Return to Nature, a Wild Plant and Mushroom, Forest Medicine, and Primitive Skills Resource. (www.Returntonature.us) (https://www.facebook.com/ReturntoNatureSkills)Dan will be discussing the empowering lifestyle choice of providing for one’s own … Continue reading →

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Fearless Parents Article – EAT The Weeds!

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Dan

Educating ourselves about the already growing garden is a step by step process. It is more important to get familiar with one plant at a time, and work with it regularly, than to try and overwhelm ourselves by taking on … Continue reading →

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New Video – Foraging for Horsetail

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Dan

Here’s a new Return to Nature video on Horsetail. This is a very special plant which is a great rebuilder for the entire system. Harvest with love and care!! See more on my Facebook Page

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New video – Tracking the Pileated Woodpecker

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Dan

While traveling through the forest I came upon some beautiful pileated woodpeckers, this video is what follows…

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