The Art & Craft of Medicinal Herbs.

a six week series of garden workshops with Jillian VanNostrand

All workshops take place at 321 Anawan Street, Rehoboth MA 02769
(call 508-252-6363 for directions)
This weekly, 3 hour garden remedy workshop series is aimed at folks who are interested in identifying plants, learning about traditional uses, and wildcrafting herbal remedies for home health. It will take place on six consectutive Sundays in Spring of 2000, 1-4 PM. Enjoy one class...several..or all six...mark your calendars now!
Week 1 Sun April 2nd weedwalk and identification, digging for harvest & transplant, planning & planting gardens/wildharvesting...focus on roots for health & Spring tonics
Week 2 Sun April 9thMaking water and alcohol based remedies from plants..f ocus on women,
Week 3 Sun April 16thMaking infused herbal oils & using essential oils...fo cus on stress relief
Week 4 Sun April 23rdMaking Salves, poultices, tars and soaks and packs...f ocus on immunity and repair
Week 5 Sun April 30thBeltane! Making herbal ales, beers & wines...focus on sacred mysteries of fermentation...ancient tonics for the new age.
Week 6 Sun May 7thMaking herbal incense, smudge, & tobaccos...focus on sacred/ceremonial use of medicinal herbs
. This series of workshops is based on the garden remedy book series Jillian has co-authored with her sister Christie V.Sarles. They have done hundreds of garden workshops all over new england. Participants will each receive one of the books published so far. These books with free seeds are the basic textbooks of the course: Jillian VanNostrand is a local midwife, teacher and herbalist for 20 years with a mail order business of organic herbals called RADICAL REMEDIES. This series is sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council (Rehoboth chapter), and is free and open to the public.
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