A: Camping is included in your registration. Limited indoor cabin lodging is also available, for an additional fee. Please see the lodging page for more information.
A: We offer a variety of nourishing options throughout our weekend gathering.
We are SO excited to welcome back Chef Hugo and his team to our 2024 event to provide nourishing meals for our participants. You can pre-purchase a weekend meal plan, providing meals from Friday dinner through Sunday lunch.
You are also encouraged to bring your own ingredients for campsite cooking, especially if you have specific dietary needs that may not be met by our prepared food options.
Visit the Food page for more information.
A: The weather in the forest in March may be chilly at night and sunny in the afternoons, but sporadic rain is always a possibility in the unpredictable South. As a result, we recommend a wide range of clothing and footwear as explained in the What To Bring section. Be sure to check the weather forecast the week of the event for planning.
A: We do not provide childcare, but we do have limited openings in our Youth program for potty-trained youth ages 3-17. Please see our Youth Program page for more information. If you are interested in providing leadership in this area or special children’s herbal programming, please contact us.
A: In fact, the conference is organized by the Florida School of Holistic Living, a 501c3 non-profit organization, and as a result the conference does have non-profit status and will provide a tax-deduction receipt for all contributions. You can make your donation at this link, earmarked for the Florida Herbal Conference Scholarship Fund.
A: In 2014, much to the disappointment of many eager herbal enthusiasts, we closed our registration for the conference several weeks prior to the event, due to a limited amount of parking space at our venue. In order to responsibly hold our event we must have a true picture of how many cars will be arriving on site.
In the interest of addressing our parking limitations, and to allow more Florida herbalists to gather with us in community in a way that honors the space of our venue, we incentivized carpooling through issuing a modest fee for a parking pass the following year. The pass is purchased per car, not per person – meaning whether one passenger, or five, you pay one parking fee per vehicle. This allows us as organizers to know precisely how many cars will be on site, and, at what point we have reached capacity and must close our registration for the event.
To further show the community our good intentions behind this change, we donated 100% of parking pass fees to United Plant Savers to support their work and mission. This initiative has raised thousands of dollars in support of the efforts of this non profit organization.
We are committed to keeping this event accessible to all, and as organizers do our best to balance all the nuances of these types of decision. We appreciate your feedback and thank you for your support.
We are also offering the option to sign up for a Rideshare for all ticketholders at this year's event.
A: Due to the nature of event planning, deposits, and commitments made well in advance, all registrations are nonrefundable and nontransferable.
If the 2024 conference cannot be held in person due to unforeseen circumstances, an emergency, or a public health crisis, we will shift to a virtual conference if at all possible. Registrants will automatically be registered for the virtual version of the conference and they will receive a 50% refund of 2024 registration fees. Please know that this policy only exists in the event of extreme circumstances.
We love our furry family members as much as you, but the campground does not allow pets, and we appreciate your respect of this camp rule. Trained service animals are permitted; if they do not bear visible badges, you may be asked about the nature of their service at entry.
A: The Florida Herbal Conference is a regional gathering intended to cultivate herbalism community within the state of Florida. If you reside in Florida, hold practice in Florida, teach in Florida or are otherwise active with our bioregional botanical medicine, please feel free to contact us to apply to teach during a future conference (2024 has been filled). If you do not reside in Florida or otherwise maintain an active practice here, we regret we do not accept submissions from out-of-state herbalists beyond our two keynote slots. Our intention is to build community within Florida and we reserve our teaching spaces for those herbalists who can receive energy through teaching at the conference and return it to our Florida community in their individual work. This is an intentional decision to specifically uplift our southern community which has historically been disconnected from other regional herbalism gatherings, and we appreciate your understanding.