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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.

Foragemobile Tour Live Class From Cincinnati, Ohio

Heres a look at yesterdays live class at Enright Ridge Urban Eco-Village, in Cincinnati, Ohio where we will be explored the wild foods, mushrooms and medicinal plants of their backyards, forest edges, and woodland habitats.

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The Foragemobile Westward Winter Teaching Tour!

Huge thanks to all who donated to our 24 hr facebook Foragemobile fundraiser! Your donations helped me compensate for part of the cost of the solar set up, and gave me funds to plan the winter tour (dates below) with … Continue reading

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This Weekend – Foraging and Herbalism Retreat at Monroe, NY

Join us for an herbalism retreat at Ananda Ashram (www.anandaashram.org) where we explore medicinal and edible wild plants, mushrooms, and explore herbal principles from medicine making, to healing, and constitutional herbal principles which apply to our yoga practice.

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New Seasonal Tincture Additions!

Check out our new seasonal tincture additions to the herbal apothecary!

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Upcoming Foraging Classes – Central NJ

This weekend, I’ll be teaching a round of classes in central NJ, seeking fruit, nuts, the last remaining greens, and hopefully, if we get rain, more fall mushrooms!

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Datura – A Topical Pain Remedy

Datura is not a plant to take lightly, and is heavily misunderstood as a medicinal plant. Meanwhile the opiate epidemic is running rampant, and this plant is an amazing topical pain remedy.

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Foragemobile Update – Wood Flooring!

Heres a look at the wood floor now on the #foragemobile !!!

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Foragemobile Update – Living in a Van

Here’s a look at the Foragemobile in action. 

When at friends houses, sometimes I have been running an extension cord to plug in my computer to continue to update my website, book classes, do my online foraging herbalist mentorship program (enrollment for 2018 coming in November) and write articles for #dirtmag as well as my upcoming book due out hopefully by spring of 2018. 

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Datura as a Topical Medicinal Plant – New Video!

In this video, Dan de Lion, of www.returntonature.us discusses a misunderstood but sacred plant; datura aka. Jimson weed, and its lesser known application as a topical pain relieving plant.

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A Story About Joe Py (Gravel Root)

Once upon a time I got an email from a mom who's son had gall stones and they were contemplating surgery. She asked if there was anything that could be done. A plant who I wasn't very familiar with at … Continue reading

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