Learn to grow, harvest, prepare, and use herbs including comfrey, yarrow, cayenne pepper, elderberry, red raspberry, plantain, garlic, and lemon balm. Learn about herbal teas, poultices, and tinctures--many of the old healing methods and how they are still effective today. Identify sources of these healers using wildcrafting or home cultivating. The class will include handouts with recipes.
This class is designed to be fun learning about the awesome plants that are most widely available throughout the country to provide relief from wounds and complaints that are easily healed naturally. We will explore the ways to harvest, preserve, and prepare the plants for teas, herbal lotions, poultices, compresses, and infusions. Our study begins with a few of the more widely used herbs of plantain, yarrow, chamomile, peppermint, elderberry, calendula, and stinging nettles. This class will be an introduction to the many ways herbs can bring health and healing to our lives, which becomes more imperative as the cost of health care escalates in our current economy. Products: jars of creams and teas.
Enrollment: 4 to 12
Minimum age: 14
a/ October 13, 2012, Saturday, 9:00-5:00pm
b/ October 26, 2012, Friday, 9:00-5:00pm
Tuition: $95
Materials: $10
Cook's Mill, Scotts, MI
With Pam Francis
Interested in more herbal teachings? Try Home Herbals II.
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