Hedge Magic

A practice that requires years of laborious study, hedge magic teaches its pupils the subtle knowledge of the common folk, their cures and planting-times and luck-charms. In most places this tradition is thickly encrusted with the superstitions and traditions of the local practitioners, leaving a vast amount of effort to be expended before any true magic is learned.
While almost any adequately clever man or woman can learn to use the disjointed arts of the hedge magician, it takes time and patient labor to learn the craft. Apprentices and adepts actually have no magical powers at all, and are simply well-versed in all the knowledge necessary for a village wise-man or wise-woman. Treat familiarity with this tradition as a helpful Fact when such knowledge is relevant to an attribute check. Hedge magic takes the usual ritual time to cast.
Hedge mages are found throughout Arcem. Almost every hamlet worth a name has at least an apprentice of the art in residence, though the vast majority of these "mages" have no magical talent whatsoever. Adepts are the most commonly found, with most of those rare few that have actual arcane potential never getting the opportunity to develop magic. Only when their teacher is truly gifted as well do they have the chance to learn the deeper secrets of roots, seasons, and the management of troublesome neighbors. Of course, having true magic can be a curse when those neighbors start demanding miracles from you.