I will be teaching a few classes at Seattle Tilth this year on herbal remedies you can make from easy to grow plants from your garden. Please join me for one or both of the following classes.
Class Descriptions
Make Herbal Infusions: May 23rd, 2012 6-8pm Good Shepherd
Center room140
Preserve your culinary and medicinal herbs to be used
through the year.
In this hands-on class, we will
start with a tour through the garden to identify and harvest herbs and discuss
their various uses. Next we’ll
head into the kitchen to infuse our herbs into culinary and medicinal potions:
vinegars, syrups & sugar free glycerite will be covered. Discussion will
include varieties of plants to grow for use in home remedies and resources for
simple recipes and formulas.
Students will go home with recipe cards & jars of infused herbs to
continue their practice at home.
If you can bring your own small jars with tight fitting lids
it would be greatly appreciated.
This class will take place both
indoors and outdoors with hands-on activities. Please dress for the weather and
messy garden and kitchen activities.
Make Herbal Salves: July 11th, 2012 6-8pm Good Shepherd
Center room140
Learn to make healing salves from fresh and dried herbs in
this hands-on class.
In
this hands-on class students will learn to make infused oils and healing skin
salves from easy to grow herbs. We will begin with a brief description of the
dried herbs we will be using, and continue into the gardens to discuss &
harvest the fresh herbs. We will discuss the best way to prepare the herbs for
drying or further processing, make oil infusions of previously harvested dried
herbs, and make salves from freshly harvested herbs infused using a double
boiler on the stove-top. These salves are perfect for the natural first aid
kit, and make great gifts that will remind the receiver of your garden even in
the winter. Tins will be provided, but for infused oils, if you can bring your
own small jars with tight fitting lids it would be greatly appreciated.
This class will take place both
indoors and outdoors with hands-on activities. Please dress for the weather and
messy garden and kitchen activities.
Seattle Tilth is a non profit dedicated to helping people live more sustainable lives. Mostly through teaching folks to grow food organically. Please consider donating your time and/or money to this worthwhile organization.
