Using traditional, warming winter herbs like clove, fennel, and cinnamon, kids will craft some cookie treats that also help boost the immune system and improve digestion and circulation – all good things for the coldest, darkest time of the year.
Kids will make their own body products in this fun and easy workshop. Make bath time extra special with an herbal sock bath! Kids will love choosing their own combinations of herbs to make their own sock bath. And for those kids who resist bath time, perhaps this craft will help coax them into the Read more...
This class is specially created for young women who are about to begin or who have recently begun their menstrual cycles. We will learn about supportive herbs to balance a healthy menstrual cycle and we will make herbal recipes to alleviate the more common discomforts such as cramps and bloating. We will learn about traditional Read more...
In this class we will meet some amazing bitter herbs that help alleviate constipation (a very common issue in children), stimulate appetite, calm nervous tummies, and wake up sluggish digestion after long, cold winter. We will explore simple, tasty, effective ways to get our bitters -we will make an oxymel (a kind of honey / Read more...
In this class we will explore nourishing herbs that provide nutrition to help make a rich supply of breast milk while providing essential nutrition. We will also explore relaxing nervine herbs, as well as a few of the herbs that offer the benefit of astringency—helping to tighten up tissues such as the uterus following birth. Read more...
Purslane, garlic mustard, lambs quarters, chickweed, stinging nettle, mullein, dandelion, wild amaranth, plantain… Though they can ruthlessly invade flower beds and vegetable gardens, what we call “weeds” are wonderful in other ways. Packed with nutrition and flavor, these amazing and resilient plants are full of surprises. Instead of burning or spraying your abundance of these Read more...