A Few Past Plant Cunning Conference Pix
What is plant cunning?
Cunning: The word “cunning” refers to knowing how to do something, especially something uncanny- something that others don’t know how to do, such as healing with plants and working with spirits.
Plant Cunning: Being “plant cunning” is being wise to the ways of plants, and not just the material ways.
Historic Use of the Term: The “cunning craft” and the “cunning folk” or “wise women” who were practitioners of healing and blessing or traditional folk medicine and magic in England and Europe, and colonial America from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century. They were clearly distinguished from witches who were known for malevolent magic, but the cunning folk were the healers of the village, especially in England.
The Plant Cunning Podcast: is a weekly podcast hosted by AC and Isaac who interview folks who are wise to the ways of plants and the natural world. They invite guests who are herbalists, astrologers, mages, farmers, permaculturists and thought leaders.
The Plant Cunning Conference is our live and in-person event featuring speakers, workshops, plant walks, artists and music to build community and resiliency through gaining new skills and knowledge and making new connections with like-minded plant people.
About Your Hosts
AC Hill (formerly AC Stauble) is an herbalist, farmer, and community builder. She’s the proprietor of Traveling Herb Farmer, a small herbal product line and educational herb business. AC's herbal training came from a variety of teachers including 7Song at the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine. In 2025 AC opened the doors to her very own herb school with her Co-Director Gabriel Mojay called the Actaea Institute of Herbal Medicine and Aromatherapy featuring an online, live and interactive Diploma Program in Herbalism and Aromatherapy as well as a monthly lecture series online and open to the public called the Monthly Meet-Up and an in person Herb Retreat in the summer.
Isaac Hill is a permaculturist, gardener, musician and astrologer. He's studying Vedic astrology with Freedom Cole and has also studied with Christopher Warnock and Judith Hill. Isaac offers astrology readings on your birthchart as well as Horary readings that offer answers to specific questions. His folk family band is called The Hills & The Rivers and his most recent solo album that was born on our farm is called Allegheny Ellegies.
Together they run a small herb farm and homestead called Cohosh Creek in Central NY, high on the Allegheny Plataea on the lands of the Oneida Peoples of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. This is where the conference takes place. They steward the land, lots of medicinal and culinary herbs, fruit and nut trees, and flowers.
They are thrilled to invite you to come explore the beautiful fields, forests and gardens here.
Cohosh Creek Herb Farm & Sanctuary
Directions:
Cohosh Creek Herb Farm & Sanctuary is located at:
415 County Rd 41
South Edmeston, NY 13485
Follow Route 8 towards County Rd 41. When you are turning on to our road (County Rd 41) look for the little white school house and old white church across from the Hosking Sales Barn because the road is not well marked.
We are about a mile and a half down 41 just passed Button Road. Park in the field before the big red barn on your right. Welcome here!
Email us at info@plantcunning.com with any questions.
