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“Do you want to share your passion for herbs with the kids in your life?”

A cooperative board game that teaches
edible & medicinal plants.

For Ages 4 to adult • 1 to 4 players

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New Edition! • Made in the U.S.A. • Box/board made with 100% recycled chipboard. • Printed with vegetable oil based inks. • Water based coating on paper, no varnish. • Forest Stewardship Council certified paper. • Shipped direct from factory for a lower carbon footprint. • All material is 100% recyclable.

The Story...

Grandma needs huckleberries to bake a pie. You and your cousins embark on an adventure up the mountain to collect berries as well as herbs she uses.

Will you all harvest the right plants to help with the trouble you run into along the way?

Will you make it back before nightfall?

The only way to win is by helping each other out.

Wildcraft! teaches you 25 important edible and medicinal plants and their uses in mostly first aid situations. (Wildcrafting is the harvesting of wild plants)

It also teaches team work, for you will rely on each other’s knowledge of plants and good fortune to make it to the Huckleberry Patch and safely back to Grandma’s.

Wildcraft! is a great introduction to the world of edible and medicinal herbs for children of ALL ages.

It’s a beautifully illustrated, nature based, cooperative game created in the tradition of the classic board games.

Wildcraft! includes a 20x20 inch game board, instructions, 4 player pieces, 52 plant cards, 52 trouble cards, 25 cooperative cards, and a spinner. It also comes with a downloadable story to enhance the story of the game.

Read what Herbalists are saying... Wildcraft! is great family fun. Gather up the kids, bring out the board game, and learn about medicinal and edible plants in the most fun way imaginable. This is wonderfully cooperative game where everyone is a winner and everyone learns something about plants! –Rosemary Gladstar, Author of 'A Family Herbal' and MANY books. I love your herbal game! A youngin' I played with took to the game like a duck in water. No reading of the rules really needed. He was bouncing all over the place finding the herbs which matched his troubles and so easily giving cooperation to others to help them move up the board or identify and give them needed herbs. The herb drawings are wonderful - just enough detail to recognize - the uses for the troubles great with the variety of possibilities, the colors vibrant, the play cooperative, teaching, fun and suspenseful all wrapped up together in one fun time!!! Bravo to all of you!!! –Lesley Tierra, L.Ac. Author of 'A Kid's Herbal' & 'The Herbs of Life' Wildcraft is a blast! Green cooperation, herbs, healing, eating and lots of fun. If only I had this when I was growing up in London, I might have become a herbalist by now…. –David Hoffmann, B.Sc., F.N.I.M.H Author of The New Holistic Herbal I found a game I love the best. My daughter and I play this more than any other board game in the house. Now she remembers more about herbs from our wilderness walks. At age six, she knows more binomial spelling than any school curriculum covers. She learned telling time from the way the moon moves, we both laugh at our "troubles" on the path and delight in our creativity as we use whatever herbs we gathered to heal each other. Everyone in our family says "Yes" to spending free time on An Herbal Adventure. Plus, concern for Grandma, the role-playing, and the visual beauty of the game spark our love of Art and family. After years spent playing and teaching cooperative games from the Findhorn community, I found a game I love the best. –Amanda McQuade Crawford Dip. Phyto., MNIMH, RH (AHG), MNZAMH

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Wildcraft! is exquisitely illustrated

Naturalist and artist Beatriz Mendoza uses vibrant watercolors to create a colorful and playful world for Wildcraft! The plant cards show the level of detail needed for identification in the field. The game board... (click here for a larger view) The plant cards... 26 plants are featured on 52 cards. Plants include Nettle, Yellow dock, wild mustard, huckberry, dandelion, comfrey, cottonwood, caledula, echinacea, chamomile, field mint, wild rose, St. Johnswort, horsetail, yarrow, herb robert, elder, burdock, cattail, coltsfoot, valerian, plantain, white willow, chickweed, jewelweed, catnip The trouble cards... There are 52 trouble cards. The icons on these cards match up with the icons on the Plant Cards. That's how you know what plant can help with your trouble card. This way, even little kids can play!

Wildcraft! builds teamwork

Wildcraft! is a cooperative game, and fosters teamwork and imagination. Players must work together to "win" the game. However, don't let this make you think it is not an exciting journey! Trying to get back to Grandma's house before nightfall along with all the pitfalls encountered along the way will keep you on the edge of your seats.

Wildcraft! features storytelling and fosters imagination

Wildcraft! designer, Kimberly Gallagher, M.Ed. has a passion for storytelling. Not only is there a story surrounding the game concept, stories are also infused into the playing experience. You can chose to download a free storybook that goes with the game. When players get to a "rest space," they can choose to read the accompanying story! The stories teach players about plants, safety, and sustainable and ethical harvesting.

This is the downloadable story that comes free with Wildcraft! (The instructions tell you how to download it).

Wildcraft! connects players with nature

Wildcraft! brings you through several ecosystems while you are going up the mountain. Plants on the board are positioned in the ecosystems they would naturally grow in. Therefore, players are learning about plants, where they grow, and what to use them for on several levels. 

Wildcraft! fosters a connection to nature. Before you know it, you and your kids will be identifying plants in the park or yard... and you'll find yourself saying, "Hey! That's chickweed! I can eat that AND use it to heal a wound."

Wildcraft! teaches about plants and their edible and medicinal uses

Well, this is obvious, but we wanted to mention that the game teaches plant uses on a food and first aid level. Chronic health issues are not addressed. How to properly use the plants, when to pick them, and what parts to use are not addressed in the game.

Wildcraft! keeps it simple and keeps it safe!

Wildcraft! is great for younger players

Being the game is "icon" driven, once your child has played once or twice, they can play on their own.

No reading is required. Older kids and adults will get A LOT from this game. However, even if your 5 year old isn't reading, they are "patterning" on what the plants look like and what you can use them for. You can also make up simpler rules for the wee ones.

And NO prior knowledge of plants is needed

What do kids love most in board games????

Hint: Remember the slides, short cuts and ladders in Candyland or Chutes and Ladders? When you were a kid playing board games, weren't these your favorite parts?

Well, Wildcraft! has waterfalls to slide down, logs to cross and deer trails to wander down.

We designed Wildcraft! in the tradition of the classic board games.

Hi John, We received our game and deck of Wildcards on Friday morning, and we're in love! We played our first round of the game immediately upon arrival and had a blast, even with my 2 yr old son causing his own brand of chaos throughout! Later that afternoon, while the little one slept, my daughter and I played again for well over an hour. At one point I had to go check on my son and my pre-reading daughter (4.75 yrs old) came running into the room with a trouble and remedy card in hand and exclaimed "Mama! I got sleepy, but I have horsetail!" So sweet! We plan to go exploring this week to find real examples of some of the herbs in the game, and will be using our Wildcards to help with identification. Perhaps we'll even bring some yummy treats home to add to our lunch! We are home educators and it now looks like this game and your herbal kit (which I just ordered!) will be at the core of our studies this year. What a fabulous family learning opportunity! With much gratitude, Melanie Mulrooney, Canada

 
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Read & hear what teachers are saying... “Wildcraft! has many of the things I look for in a game... It’s educational, easy to use, beautiful to look at, you learn a lot about herbs...and you laugh a lot.” –Bobbe Branch, Montessori Teacher, Seattle, WA “I love this game! What fun! As a naturalist and teacher I can’t think of a better way to inspire the young child to learn about edible and medicinal plants! –Kirstin Young, Waldorf Class Teacher, New York “My friend Sarah(a mom) and I (not a mom) played Wildcraft! last night and had a blast!! It was truly wonderful to play a game that’s all about cooperation instead of competition! You’ve come up with a really clever game that I believe will truly give people an appreciation for the plants’ gifts to us. And reconnecting people with nature is something I personally think is critical for our well-being and especially that of the other beings we share the Earth with. Thanks for such fun!” –Betzy Bancroft, Herbal Educator, UnitedPlantSavers.org “I love that it is not limited to a particular age group. I found myself using the plant cards as flash cards! ...You’ve developed a wonderful learning tool to encourage entry into the world of herbalism. Thanks!” –Karen Mallinger, AllGoodeGifts.com U.P., Michigan “Wow! My daughter and my partner sat down to play after dinner and had so much fun. My daughter was immediately wanting to run outside to have an adventure (never mind it was already dark) with the plants. Living in the Southwest I was a bit worried it would mostly be northeastern herbs and the like, but almost all of the plants you included grow here as well. And thanks so much including some plants that too often get ignored” –Kiva Rose, Herbal Teacher, Reserve, NM What parents are saying...

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Herbally yours,

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