2025 Calendar of Discovery and Empowerment
There are dozens of helpful plants growing in your own backyard, along the driveway, and just outside your front door. Do you know what they are? How and when to harvest them? If they’re the right plant for your needs? Good questions! Fortunately, you can enjoy learning about helpful plants at any level. Start from where you are!
An Herbal Safari is a discovery walk. You’ll meet helpful herbs, shrubs and trees in the field so that you can recognize these helpful plants when you get back home.
Herb books and videos are good resources. However, nothing beats getting up close and personal with the plants themselves. You’ll see their actual colors and growing conditions, how they feel and smell. Over the centuries, cultures all over the world have used helpful herbs, weeds, shrubs and trees for food, tonics and remedies. Every Herbal Safari provides hands-on learning, written guides, a fresh herbal beverage, and hand-crafted delectable.
Remedy-Making classes introduce ways to use helpful herbs in the kitchen and as medicine. You will be provided with organic, natural and wild-crafted ingredients, as well as glass bottles/jars and labels. Take-aways include your DIY projects, written guides, and a just-steeped herbal beverage and treat.
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You can register multiple participants at checkout.
April 19: Barking Up the Right Tree
Generations of people the world over have used barks for teas, food, tinctures and more. Think cinnamon, and quinine! We’ll gather from wild apple, alder, prickly ash and oak, and do so without harming the tree. We‘re also likely to encounter the first herbs/weeds of spring, like dandelion and plantain. Believe it or not, these are very helpful and multi-use plants. We’ll start a remedy together, and finish the afternoon with tea, formula-making demo, and conversation. 1:00-4:00PM.
May 25: Safari + Tea Time
Celebrate Spring with a brief herb discovery stroll and very special tea time. We’ll consider how to match the best plants for your needs. You’ll make teas from an assortment of herbs and enjoy them with farm-crafted herbal foods. 1:00-5:00PM. Space is limited.
June 28: 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 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 26: Remedy-Making Class Level 1
This hands-on class dives into the hows and whys of mixing effective healthful teas, tinctures and herb powders for tonics and remedies. We’ll examine how a tea for remedy differs from a tea made as beverage. You’ll get information that will help you evaluate the quality of store-bought supplements. We’ll discuss holistic herbalism: tailoring herb usage to support your specific constitution and conditions. You’ll begin to learn how to determine what’s right for you. 1:00-5:00PM
August 23: Leaves, Berries and Flowers
Don’t kill it! This weed – plantain – can help take the itch, swelling and pain out of insect bites.
August brings a wealth of leaves, flowers and berries offering helpful properties. Plantain, sorrel, lamb’s quarters, creeping charlie and self-heal are just a few of them. But are all plants and berries safe? During this Herbal Safari we’ll consider how to identify plants for safety and efficacy. Our featured fruit is the Hawthorn berry, or more accurately, “haw.” It looks like a small cherry, but it’s really more like a tiny apple. There’s got lots of scientific research on how it supports heart and circulatory health. We’ll also search out dark red prickly ash berries, as well as goldenrod flowers. 1:00-4:00PM
September 27: Remedy-Making Class Level 2
We’ll use herbal tinctures, infused oils and beeswax to make healing salves, creams, and lip balms. You’ll learn how to store herbs and remedies for best shelf life. We’ll delve further into matching tonics and remedies to individuals, not matching plants to symptoms. We’ll also review ways to incorporate more healthful herbs into our daily beverages and foods. It’ll be 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.