Past Events
// Creating a Winter Apothecary with Danielle Eavenson // 6:30-8pm
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As the cooler, shorter days of winter approach, we follow the lead of the trees and focus our energy inward. Listening deeper. Remembering our roots. Warming with the fire. Now...
// Convert Your Lawn to a Pollinator Patch // 6:30 - 8:30PM
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Class : Do you want to play a central role in helping local birds, bees, and butterflies adapt to the changes we impose on the environment? Have you thought about...
// 9 Trees for the Urban Homestead with Macon Verteskjall // 5:30-8pm
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Join us on an exploration of some of the most bio-regionally appropriate fruit and nut trees for sprucing up the Yarden harvest. We'll meet berries, of use in medicine and...
// Acornucopia Tasting Party with the nutty buddy collective // 6:30 - 8:30pm
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Here's a chance to taste some of the fruits of our native nuts. No longer must you lament not having ever tasted roasted black walnut coffee, or hickory nut milk,...
// Gardening with Native Plants with Nathan Buchanan // 6:30 - 8:30PM
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With the increased focused on pollinator conservation in recent years, gardening and landscaping with native plants is becoming a significant point of emphasis. But what is all the “buzz”; about?...
// Acorn Processing with Osker Brown // 6:30-9pm
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Acorns served as the primary staple food across the northern hemisphere for millennia. They provide a complete protein, high-oleic mono-unsaturated fat, and vitamins and minerals. Unlike annual grains, their production...
// Herbal Medicine 101: Infused Vinegars with Sarah Chappell // 5:30-7:30pm
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Herbal vinegars are a safe and simple way to create medicine for yourself and your family. This class will explore the benefits of using vinegar medicinally, proper sanitation and preservation...
// Permaculture for Renters + the Landless with Dylan Ryals-Hamilton // 6:30-8:30pm
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Do you want a garden but don’t have anywhere to put one? Have you considered planting fruit trees in your yard, but can’t justify the expense of such a long-term...
// Koji in Every Kitchen with Meredith Leigh // 5:30-7pm
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Koji is a beneficial mold, traditionally used in producing miso, sake, and shoyu (soy sauce), however its uses are far broader, including pickling, curing meat, and maybe even composting. In...
// Foundations of Chinese Medicine with Dov Shoneman // 5:30 - 8:30
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Chinese medicine is a system of healing that promotes wellness and focuses on staying in balance with the changing seasons and the changing emotional states.Participants will gain the skills to...
// Womens Herbal Trinity: Shatavari, Rose, and Vitex with Christina Bertelli // 6-9pm
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Discover the properties of this botanical healing trio, which includes a root, a flower and a fruit. One or all of which can deliver glandular nourishment, powerful mood shifts, and...
// Delicious Herbal Syrups with Abby Artemisia // 6:30-8:30pm
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Remember what Mary Poppins said about a spoonful of sugar helping the medicine go down? Well it’s true of herbs, too, for kids and adults. Our herbs don’t have to...
// The Holistic Orchard: Growing Soil to Grow Food & Community with Scotty Karas // 6:30-8pm
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This is a class for organic home and community scale orchardists and those wishing to create or maintain edible forest gardens. If you want to learn about growing a fruit...
// Wild Medicinal Fungi: Chaga, Reishi, Lion's Mane, & more with Ryan Milt // 5:30-7:30pm
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Let's move beyond categorizing these amazing allies as food or medicine and begin embracing them daily, in ways that blur that line. We will have a brief discussion of these...
// Flower Essence Alchemy with Lena Eastes // 6:30-8:30pm
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Flower Essences are a way to heal our emotional bodies and spirits as we come into a healthier relationship with Gaia. Come connect with the wisdom of our plant friends....
// Making Natural Bath & Body Products with Stephanie Poetter // 5:30-7:30pm
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With all of the harsh and toxic chemicals in our products today, it’s important to either buy or make your own all natural products. We are told that chemicals are...
// Ayurvedic Approach to Herbalism with Greta Kent-Stoll // 6:30-8pm
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In this class you will learn about the unique Ayurvedic approach to herbalism. Ayurveda is the traditional medicine of India, herbal healing being a significant part of its rich and...
// Planning Your Garden for Year Round Abundance with Becky Beyer // 6:30-8:30pm, $5-20
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When you begin gardening more seriously, a lot of questions come up. How do I organize all of this!? I've made some helpful tools and tables to get you firmly...
// Identify, Process, & Preserve our Local Herbs with Scotty Karas // 6-8pm, $20
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What plants are growing in your backyard that you can eat or make medicines out of? How about in the local forest? What are the health benefits of these food...
// Crafting an Herbal First Aid Kit with Danielle Eavenson // 6:30-8pm, $10-20
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Spring has sprung and its time to play outside! Come learn how to combat the bumps, bruises and bug bites that come with the season as we build a basic...
// Identifying Edible + Medicinal Plants in Your Backyard with Heather Housekeeper // 6:30-8:30pm
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Join author, herbalist, and long-distance hiker Heather Houskeeper for a closer look at the edible and medicinal plants growing in our own backyards, along our city sidewalks, and in the...
// Canning the Harvest with Chelsea Monarda Fox // 6:30-8:30pm
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As the growing season approaches, canning is a wonderful skill to have! Come learn the art and science of canning fruit, vegetables and even meat! We will discuss basic technique,...
// Harvesting & Using Medicinal Bark with CoreyPine Shane // 6:30-8:30pm
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Trees are under-utilized as medicine. These guardians of the forest hold the energy of the woods, but they also offer us wonderful medicine. One of the challenges of using them...
// Creative Kraut & Kimchi 101 with Chelsea Wakstein // 5:30 - 7:30pm
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Join us for a inspiring workshop on how to become a vegetable fermentation artist! The class will focus on the practical application of vegetable fermentation techniques including the skills needed...
// Herbs for the Emotional Body with Josh Fox // 6:30 - 8:30pm
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Come learn how emotion, trauma, blood, and the moon cycle all relate. Integrating wisdom from Chinese and Western traditions, Fox will elucidate herbal strategies for balancing the emotional body while...
// Tarot for Self-Care and Personal Empowerment with Sarah Chappell // 5:30 - 8pm
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Heal Yourself: Tarot and Flower Essences for Self-Cafe and Personal Empowerment- Learn to use the Tarot and Flower Essences to nurture yourself, clarify your journey, and find the medicine in...
// Compost Toilets with Chelsea Wakstein // 5:30-7:30pm
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Learn how to stop flushing your excrements down clean drinking water and help build precious soil by composting "humanure." Composting toilet systems can be successful in both urban and rural...
// Herbs & Tools for Colds & Flus with Josh Fox // 6:30-8:30pm
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Come learn herbal and manual strategies for strengthening the immune system and warding off cold viruses and influenza. Fox will integrate wisdom from Chinese and Western traditions, demonstrating the use...
// Ginseng and Goldenseal plus Other Woodland Medicinals, with Robert Eidus // 5:30-7pm
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This class will review the traditional uses of Ginseng and Goldenseal. You will also learn how to grow ginseng, goldenseal, as well as, other medicinal woodland plants-trees. and leave with...
// Tortilla Feast from the Ground Up with Zev Friedman // 6:30-9:30pm
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Learn the old process for alkali-cooking, rinsing and wet-grinding homegrown heirloom dent and flint corns into masa for tortillas, tamales or other delicious foods. We'll also make a fresh roasted...
// Herbs to Lift the Spirit with Janet Kent // 6-8pm
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The ability to feel deeply is a double edged sword. We have the power to sense the pain of others, to have compassion and to act from the heart. However,...
// Pickled Beets Workshop with Sheefra Blumenthal // 6:30 - 8:30pm
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It's harvest time! In this class we weill go through the process of preserving beets by following an old handed down recipe for sweet pickled beets! All you have to...
// Tree Crops for the Appalachian Orchard // 6:30-8:30pm
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Does a diverse array of nutritious and delicious foods falling from the sky for you and future generations sound like fun to you? Crops from trees - those soil-building, shade-offering,...
// Herbs for Anxiety with Janet Kent // 6:30-8:30pm
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Anxiety, a sense of worry or dread, is something most of us experience at some point in our lives. For many of us, this is a regular occurrence. Though the...
// Making Culinary + Medicinal Ghee with Marion Hearth // 7-9pm
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Ghee is an ancient method of transforming grass fed butter into a nourishing butter oil which doesn't need to be refrigerated, can tolerate high cooking heat, and is lactose and...
// Multi-Functional Edible Landscape Plants with Chuck Marsh // 6-9pm
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Most edible landscape plants are known for their main function - producing a fruit or nut. Permaculturalists also look at a plant's polycultural roles, such as nitrogen fixers and aromatic...
// Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar with Stephanie Poetter // 5:30-7:30
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Probiotic, antibacterial, anti fungal, antiseptic, and full of enzymes. What are we talking about? Apple cider vinegar of course! Come learn how to make ACV and other fruit vinegars from...
// Practical Skills for Healthy Digestion with Dave Meesters // 5:30 - 8:30
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The Fire of Life: Practical Skills for Healthy Digestion Herbalists and holistic healers have always known that digestion is the wellspring of life & health, from which all the body’s...
// Breastfeeding Basics with Community Birth // 5:30 - 7:30
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Producing breast milk is natural, yet the art of latching baby onto the breast is learned. Get a great start to breastfeeding your baby in this two-hour class taught by...
// Fermented Foods for Well-being with Chelsea Wakstein // 5:30-7:30pm
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Fermented foods are filled with living bacteria:probiotics. When we incorporate these foods into our diet, they have the power to boost our immune system, help digestion, facilitate nutrient assimilation, and...
// Macrame Hanging Planters with Amelia Pate // 6:30 - 8:30
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It’s being said we have a Macrame revival on our hands! True, there seems to be a resurgence of this 70’s art form, and if you’ve ever looked longingly at...
// Urban Wild Foraging with Heather Housekeeper // 6:30-8:30pm
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Identifying the Edible and Medicinal Plants in your own Backyard Join author, herbalist, and long-distance hiker Heather Houskeeper for a closer look at the edible and medicinal plants growing in...
// Composting Toilet Systems with Chelsea Wakstein // 6:30-8:30pm
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Learn how to stop flushing your excrements down clean drinking water and help build precious soil by composting "humanure." Composting toilet systems can be successful in both urban and rural...
// Milpa Farming with Zev Friedman // 5:30-8:30pm
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Tacos for Climate Resilience: Appalachian Milpa Farming and Ecstatic Cuisine “Milpa” describes an ancient and elegant community-scale indigenous farming way that integrates annual crops (corn, beans, squash, sunflowers and others),...
+ // Kurinuki Japanese Cups // 5:30-9:30pm
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Kurinuki is a Japanese method of carving a pot out of a solid block clay. The first class students will receive 2 solid blocks of clay and tools to use...
// Bringing Baby Home with Community Birth // 5-7pm
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Since few babies come with instructions, this class covers what new parents need to know when bringing their baby home. In this series we cover bathing, cord and circumcision care,...
// Vegetable Gardening for Beginners with Kate Hanford // 6:30-8pm
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Would you like to grow vegetables in your backyard? This class will walk the beginner gardener through the process of how to get started and provide fundamental information on growing...
// Salve Making, with Lena Ruark-Eastes // 6:30-8:30pm
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Please join Lena Ruark-Eastes as we infuse, stir, sing, create and connect. Through crafting handmade herbal gifts you inspire your friends and family to connect with local plants while nourishing...