A Few Past Plant Cunning Conference Pix
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.
2026 Vendors
Ambrosia Farms
Nina and Gene are our neighbors (about 10 minutes away) at Ambrosia Farms offering their high quality plant starts. They will have herbs, flowers, greens and veggies.
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Amanda Wells LMT Massage
Amanda Wells is offering massage at the Conference in a tent under the spruce tree near Outdoor Vendor Alley. Also shop her handmade, high quality herbal products under her brand Botanical Handworks. Amanda is an herbalist, aromatherapist and experienced and skilled Licensed Massage Therapist.
The Druids' Garden - Dana O'Driscoll
The Druids Garden
Our keynote speaker this year, Dana O’Driscoll is also an incredible artist, herbalist, homesteader, author, blogger, and educator. She has her own herb school called the Pennsylvania School of Herbalism She is the author of several books which will be available in the Barn Vendor Alley at the conference. Her writing and art can be found at The Druid's Garden website, thedruidsgarden.com. dana@thedruidsgarden.com
Free Flow Farm
Pooniel Healy from Free Flow Farm is donating cut flowers to beautify our conference this year! Visit her traveling booth in the Outdoor Vendor Alley for fresh cut flowers, ‘Herbal Feel Better Bags’ which are hand sewn, hot or cold packs for aches and pains in various sizes and fabrics, Bird Houses and other wildlife crafts and their specialty ready-to-eat popcorn. Free Flow Farm’s delicious popcorn comes in several unique flavor varieties, including a Dill Pickle which is our favorite,and is a must-have at the conference this year! Free Flow Farm reflects our love of nature, beauty, trees and plants. The land supports an abundance of medicinal herbs, an ever-increasing variety of tree species, fresh flowers and delicious vegetables. We offer fresh cut flowers, herbal Feel Better Bags, bird houses and other wildlife crafts and our unique flavors of specialty ready-to-eat popcorn at our traveling booth. https://www.facebook.com/share/1Ayrnp7k6o/ freeflowfarm@gmail.com
Heart-Stone - Tammi Sweet
We are thrilled to have Tammi Sweet as a featured speaker at the conference this year. You can visit her booth in the Barn Vendor Alley with Heartstone Center for Earth Essentials. Hearthstone offers single or multiple day in person workshops on the land along with several online courses weaving cutting edge physiology with practical applications of herbalism including Cannabis. Look for the new and improved Online Anatomy & Physiology course coming this Fall. Check out our website for more! Tammi is also the author of two books, The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Cannabis and Making Your Own Healing Remedies and Wholistic Healing Guide to Cannabis which are both incredible resources for any herbalist to have on their shelf. www.heart-stone.com
MOTMOT COLLECTIVE
MOTMOT COLLECTIVE is a female-owned small business committed to celebrating the plants and bees. They share their wisdom, honor their gifts, and protect their habitats. Their specialty lies in small-batch, 100% beeswax candles sourced from local NJ beekeepers as well as herbalist-formulated infused honey, teas, herbal syrups, skin care products, and a range of herbal remedies. As stewards of the land, they take pride in utilizing organic, locally sourced ingredients from small organic herb farms and their own garden in Freehold, NJ. They focus on using only the highest quality ingredients and are mindful of our environmental impact, using only glass, metal and paperboard containers. Their passion is to create a direct connection with nature, aiming to inspire awareness, appreciation and love for both local and global environments.
Michelle Crosta, proprietor of MOTMOT can be found in the Outdoor Vendor tent area offering beeswax candles, handmade herbal products such as infused honeys, hydrosols, dried tea blends, bitters, elixirs, body products (salves, toner, cleansing grains/masks, body butter, scrubs/soaks, toothpowder), throat spray, syrups & burning bundles. www.motmotcollective.com motmotcollective@gmail.com
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.