A big thank you to everyone who participated in the 2024 Safaris ( guided herb walks), remedy-making classes (Levels 1 and 2), and delicious events.
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The 2024 Calendar, below, describes many of the activities we enjoyed this year. Next year will include new and different events as well — all aimed at helping you learn about and use helpful herbs.
2024 Calendar of Discovery and Empowerment
An Herbal Safari is an “in the field” exploration where the aim is to discover helpful plants growing in the wild. What’s great is that so many of these herbs, shrubs and trees can be found in your own backyard/neighborhood!
You’ve studied the books and videos. Now it’s time to get up close and personal with some of the green and woody plants that can provide helpful components to your wellness efforts. Over the centuries, cultures all over the world have used these as food and herbal medicines. Safari take-aways include hand-picked plant samples, written guides, a fresh herbal beverage and an herbal, hand-crafted delectable.
Remedy-Making classes are hands-on opportunities to learn how to prepare herbs. Activities range from making tinctures and infused oils, to mixing tea blends, to making salves and creams. You will be provided with organic, natural and wild-crafted ingredients, as well as glass bottles/jars and labels. Level 1 and Level 2 classes offered. Take-aways include your DIY projects, written guides, and a just-steeped herbal beverage and a hand-crafted herbal treat.
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April 27: Wonderful Barks
We’ll walk across pastures and fence lines to identify and gather barks from alder, wild apple, aspen, white pine, prickly ash, and oak. I’ll demonstrate how to harvest bark without killing the tree. Our final activity will be sharing conversation and tea as we mix a pine needle infusion. 1:00-4:00PM.
May 12: Mother’s Day Class + Tea Time
Celebrate your Mom, favorite Aunt, lovely Grandma, special friend, or yourself with a hands-on herbal Remedy-Making class and tasty Tea Time. Ladies and Gentlemen welcome. Make a tincture, a bitters, mix a customized tea blend. Finish off with some tasty herbal treats and reviving beverage. 1:00-5:00PM. Space is limited.
June 29: The Worts
Such a funny name – wort. It’s an old English term that means “plant.” This time ’round our Herbal Safari will feature the intensely yellow flowers of St. John’s Wort, as well as the green prickliness of Mother Wort. We’ll scour grassy areas (sometimes on our knees) in search of tiny Self-Heal’s purple flowers. We’ll likely come across a number of other helpful plants as well, such as mallow, lamb’s quarters, and purslane. We’ll also keep an eye out for boneset. 1:00-4:00PM
July 27: Remedy-Making Class Level 1
This hands-on class gives you opportunities to mix healthful teas, make vinegar or vodka tinctures, learn about helpful powders, and make infused oils. We will discuss holistic herbalism: how to tailor herb usage to support your constitution and conditions. You’ll begin to learn how to determine what’s right for you. 1:00-5:00PM
August 31: It’s the Berries
Don’t kill it! This weed – plantain – can help take the itch, swelling and pain out of insect bites.
And that creeping charlie (used for tinnitus), dandelion (diuretic and liver tonic), and tiny self-heal (lots of uses)? They’ve been used for generations. What else? Late summer and ripe berries are everywhere. Are they safe? Helpful? Well, little grasshopper, that’s what this Herbal Safari is all about — learning to recognize the helpful plants in your own backyard. Our featured fruit is the Hawthorn berry, or more accurately, “haw.” It looks like a small cherry, but it’s more like a tiny apple. In fact, like the apple, the Hawthorn is in the rose family of plants, and there’s got lots of herbal and scientific research on how it supports heart and circulatory health. It should be cooler and dry this weekend (fingers crossed), and we’ll search out dark red prickly ash berries, as well as goldenrod. 1:00-4:00PM
October 12: Remedy-Making Class Level 2
We’ll use herbal tinctures, infused oils and beeswax to make healing salves, creams, and lip balms. We’ll also review ways to incorporate more healthful herbs into our daily beverages and foods. Tasty and fun! As Hippocrates is credited saying, “Make food your medicine and medicine your food!” 1:00-5:00PM
Additional events may be added. Call for private sessions, 651-238-8525.