Storied Grounds

GaiaHub Premium
for Notion

organize the information, activities,
and priorities that sustain your
connection with the natural world

Key Features

End the madness, frustration, and lost opportunities that result from using multiple notebooks and calendars to house a body of knowledge, observations, and intentions that are interconnected
Know exactly when and where to harvest wild foods and medicines each season, and how you can align your activities with your values and goals
Gain immediate insight into the contents of your apothecary and larder, as well as when items are expiring so you never lose food or medicine again!
Stay on top of all of your herbal medicine making and wild food processing
Quickly discern the perfect medicine for unique situations with advanced search features

Plan your activities in the field using your own historical and phenological data
Illustrate and deepen your understanding of relationships between particular land bases, forms of life, habitats, geological deposits, and human stories
Easily attribute notes to key teachers and then retrieve them for effortless assembly of presentations, writings, classes, and more
Manage all of the details surrounding your studies, clinical work, and teaching activities in one place
Free your knowledge and curiosity from silos with a system designed for the bigger ecological picture
Operates within Notion—a free, cloud-based software with a large user community and robust user support

Peek inside the product...

Materia Medica

Dynamic, flexible, and infinitely expandable Materia Medica pre-loaded with 92 medicinal plants and fungi commonly used in North America
Slice and dice your data to quickly pinpoint herbs appropriate for particular uses, formulations, and clients
Taxonomic Data— catalog common names, Latin names, family names for all species and genera
Clinical Data— record herbal actions, affinities, energetics, taste, notable constituents, medicinal uses, exemplary clinical applications, cautions, formulation pairings, relevant herbal traditions, and vibrational properties
Field Data— capture notes on field identification, wildcrafting, bushcraft, cultivation, and more

Wild Food Repository

Dynamic, flexible, and infinitely expandable repository of wild foods pre-loaded with 150+ wild edible plants, fungi, and animals found in North America
Includes 138 wild edible plants outlined in Sam Thayer’s books The Forager’s Harvest, Nature’s Garden, and Incredible Wild Edibles, along with harvest seasons and dates for all of their harvestable parts in his region of the United States
Taxonomic Data— catalog common names, Latin names, family names for all species, genera, and groups of life forms
Ecological Data— link individual foods to specific companion species, habitats, geological deposits, substrates, predators and prey
Field Data— capture notes on field identification, wildcrafting, bushcraft, cultivation, and more

Field Guide

Dynamic, flexible, and infinitely expandable repository of life forms pre-loaded with 200+ plants, fungi, and animals commonly seen in North America
Slice and dice your data to quickly pinpoint plants, fungi, and animals that meet specific criteria
Taxonomic Data— catalog common names, Latin names, family names for all species, genera, and groups of life forms
Ecological Data— link individual species and genera to specific companion species, habitats, geological deposits, substrates, predators and prey
Phenological Data— indicate the timing of key phenological events in the life cycle of a given life form
Field Data— capture notes on field identification, wildcrafting, bushcraft, cultivation, and more

Medicine Making + Food Processing

Stay on top of next steps and timelines for all of your medicine making processes from tinctures to infused oils AND all of your wild food processing from drying to leaching and more
Receive automated email reminders when you need to press out that tincture or dry that flour so you never have to worry about losing your work
Catalog your favorite recipes and herbal formulations, and link them to key species within the system

Apothecary + Larder

View and manage the contents of your entire apothecary and larder at a glance, as well as a historical view of all past contents
View as separate apothecary or larder, or view all foods and medicines together in a single inventory area!
Quickly discern the precise storage locations of individual foods and medicines, how long you’ve had them, their expiration dates, and schedule reminders to ensure that nothing goes to waste ever again!
Instantly know the precise origin of the herbal material contained in your medicines, the formulation used to make them, and who to credit!
Add foods and medicines of your own making OR items acquired through purchase, trade, or barter—and view them all in one place!

Field Activities

Plan and capture all field activities ranging from foraging and hunting to field surveys and land stewardship using an innovative interface that allows you to view species harvestable by season, phenological events by season, the lands near you from which you can harvest, relevant habitats found within those landscapes, and your own historical field data
View all peak harvest seasons and dates as outlined in Sam Thayer’s books The Forager’s Harvest, Nature’s Garden, and Incredible Wild Edibles… and adjust these dates and seasons as needed for your climate!
Chart phenological events unfolding in your bioregion by season, visualize them by season, and prioritize the ones you’d like to witness in the field
Ensure that your activities on the landscape align with your values with the help of special features that are activated when you complete the BONUS Define Values and Goals Workbook

Connect to Place

Catalog all of the land bases you visit to gather foods and medicines, connect with the landscape, attend classes, and lead programs
Illustrate the interplay between the lands your frequent, key habitats, the geology of a place and the various forms of life that occur there
View the wild foods and medicines coming into and out of season in your bioregion throughout the year
Pinpoint the organizations managing particular land bases, their land stewardship practices, and indigenous leadership in the immediate area
Story the landscape with the help of features that connect history, tradition, and lore to the life forms and lands you work with

Ideas + Images

Catalog all of the books and other resources that are relevant to your studies and practice
Capture your notes and link them dynamically to species, lands, teachers, and resources—forming your own private Wiki that can grow and evolve as you do
Display all of your images from the field, classes, and events in a beautiful gallery searchable by species, location, habitat, person, date, and more!
Instantly retrieve images, notes, studies, and citations for presentations, classes, and assignments

Bonuses

Define Values and Goals Workbook

This two-part workbook offers an area to think deliberately about who and how you want to be on the landscape, some frameworks to jumpstart reflection, and resources on targeted subjects that you may wish to explore
Values and goals that you define within this workbook are automatically drawn into other parts of the GaiaHub system to deepen self-awareness, and encourage alignment and accountability when planning activities

Mini Portals

Learner— Manage assignments, coursework, and notes for school or self-directed study
Clinician— Manage client records, appointments, and client notes with ease
Educator— Plan and visualize upcoming and past events, collaborating organizations, and notes

Onboarding

Get up to speed fast with access to 5.5 hours of instructional video breaking down how to use all of the features included in GaiaHub Premium Edition
View Hacks for Accessibility + Ease for a curated list of tools and strategies designed to make Notion more accessible and joyful for all