Supportive Herbs for a Healthy Moon Cycle

Sweet Willow Herbals & Cafe 109 S Broadway, De Pere, WI, United States

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...

The Sweetness of Bitters: Getting Kids To Take Herbal Bitters

Sweet Willow Herbals & Cafe 109 S Broadway, De Pere, WI, United States

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...

Sweet Willow; Soap Making with Valentine Gardens

Sweet Willow Herbals & Cafe 109 S Broadway, De Pere, WI, United States

In this class we will learn from local farmer, educator, and soap maker Mark Valentine of Valentine Gardens, Green Bay. We will learn easy and safe ways to make homemade lye-based soap incorporating the amazing benefits of goat milk, coconut oil, and tallow. Goat milk makes a lovely, creamy, soap that is rich in moisturizing Read more...

Herbs to Support Healthy Nursing

Sweet Willow Herbals & Cafe 109 S Broadway, De Pere, WI, United States

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...

Please Eat the Dandelions: Weeds You Can Eat

Sweet Willow Herbals & Cafe 109 S Broadway, De Pere, WI, United States

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...