Reason #3/3 – I Fell in Love with Natural Medicine and the People that use it. The more I found out about natural medicine, the more I loved it. So many options for treatment! Such a wonderful and holistic philosophy! When the naturopaths first got their regulations in this province, I was invited as the College president to speak to the council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta. They gave me hours to tell them about Naturopathic Medicine. And you know what

Reason #2/3 – I Didn’t Feel Well. During university, I had a year where I worked as the Production Editor for the University of Alberta Newspaper. This was considered a full-time job, and on top of that I had full time school. With the number of late nights and long days filled with commitments, the end of the year saw me not feeling so great. I had an office in SUB and I pretty much ate perogies, donuts and drank pop for the year. It astounds me now that I ate that way for s

Reason #1/3 – Plant Love Years ago, I often studied in Cameron Library at the U of A, the science library. In that library they had one book on Herbal Medicine. It was a little paperback. At that time, there were still stamps in the backs of the library books (yes, I’m that old), and you could tell I was pretty much the only person that checked out that book. And why did I check that book out? I think it might have been fate! I did, of course, love gardening, as any of you wh