Hands-on interactive workshops, touring gardens, learning from the plants and creating plant preparations
Are you ready to meet plants growing in your backyard, in the park, or on trails?
Do you want to learn how to incorporate these plants into your every day - yet you feel uncertain and intimidated?
Are you itching to create nourishing herbal products and looking for a place to start or want to build on what you already know?
GROW YOUR CONFIDENCE IN THE PLANTS AND MAKE YOUR OWN HERBAL PRODUCTS
SPRING WORKSHOPS
Sunday, May 5, 2024 + Sunday, June 2, 2024
1 - 4:30 pm
Hosted at Honeybee Homestead
McDonalds Corners
Let’s get to know the plants and learn how to work with them to create nourishing herbal products.
During these hands-on interactive workshops, time will be spent touring the gardens to introduce and reacquaint you with common spring plants, and to learn from them.
The group will learn how to prepare an herbal product to take home.
Stories will be shared about how certain plants have shown themselves to me and how I continue to relate to the plants.
Sunday, May 5 - Nourishing Herbal Infused Oils + Herbal Salve
The benefits of learning how to prepare potent nourishing herbal infused oils
Nourishing herbal infused oils are made by combining the medicinal properties of flowers, herbs or resins into specific carrier oils - like olive oil, sunflower oil, jojoba oil, almond oil, and so on.
If you’re already preparing, or want to learn start preparing, salves, serums, body butters, creams and lotions, massage oils and homemade soap - herbal infusions will add an array of nourishing properties - depending on the plants used.
It’s a great place to start making your own first aid kit.
Take your DIY products to the next level!
What’s included in this workshop?
A garden tour where you’ll learn from the plants
Discuss various preparation methods for infusing carrier oils with herbs - the benefits and differences between each.
Hot tips to avoid common errors - like mold - yikes!
Learn about the versatility of herbal infused oils and how they can be used in salves, serums, body butters, creams and lotions, and homemade soap to create nourishing products
Strengthen your relationships with the plants. and the confidence to make your own herbal infused oils and salves
Walk away understanding how nourishing these herbal infused oils can be incorporated into your every day.
Salve recipe
Share your stories and experiences, ask questions and interact with the plants
Herbal teas and a light snack will be provided
Sunday, June 2 - Drying and Storing Herbs + Herbal Salt
Learn how to dry and store herbs for optimal vitality and longevity and prepare a herbal salt to take home.
Drying and storing herbs and flowers is a great first step in storing the season’s harvest, no matter the size of your space.
Rich in vitamins, minerals, and volatile oils flowers and herbs can be added to your favourite dishes, tea blends, and soothing baths or foot soaks, to name a few.
Tickle your taste buds, learn about the versatility of dried herbs, and extend their shelf life!
What’s included in this workshop?
A garden tour where you’ll learn from the plants
Discuss various preparation methods for drying and storing herbs - the benefits and differences between each.
Hot tips to avoid common errors - like mold, browning, ‘cooking’ your herbs
Learn about the versatility of dried herbs and how they can be used for culinary purposes (spices, teas, vinegars), foot soaks, baths, preparing nourishing herbal infusions and so on.
Herb tasting
Strengthen your relationships with the plants. and the confidence to dry and store your own herbs and prepare your own herbal salt
Walk away understanding how dried herbs can be incorporated into your every day and inspired to prepare herbal salts that you and your family reach for daily.
Herbal salt recipe
Share your stories and experiences, ask questions and interact with the plants
Herbal teas and a light snack will be provided.
NOTE: Honeybee Homestead is a scent free environment. Scent can be found in shampoos, body wash, hand soaps, laundry detergents, and perfumes. Please refrain from using any such products, including essential oils, leading up to the workshop. Thank you!
You’ll leave with a spring herbal preparation, a recipe, and resources, and strengthen your relationship with spring plant allies!
Melissa Cornacchia
Melissa has been in relationship with the Plant People for the past 15 years. You can find her daily sipping on herbal teas, adding herbal salts and dried herbs to her meals, and enjoying homemade soap and facial serum made from herbal infused oil. She tends to gardens and visits the plant allies in the forest and fields during the growing season. Melissa is in awe of how generous and forgiving the Plant People are and is in reverence for their support and nourishment. She is stepping into the call to share plant teachings with community.
Details
Sunday, May 5, 2024 + Sunday, June 2, 2024
$68 each/ $130 for both workshops + HST
Hosted at Honeybee Homestead
McDonalds Corners
1-4:30pm
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