Radical Weeds Traveling Medicine Show Workshops Please e-mail for more information or to schedule a workshop.
HERBS FOR WOMEN Based on our herbal, Wild Woman's Garden 7 Radical Weeds for Women Over 40. This workshop teaches how to use herbs as regulators for the menstrual cycle. Learn to identify, prepare, and use simple herbal remedies for glowing vitality, in place of synthetic hormones. Make water- and alcohol-based remedies to ease symptoms of PMS, menstruation, and menopause. HERBS FOR STRESS RELIEF Based on our herbal, Serenity Garden 7 Radical Weeds for Natural Stress Relief. This workshop focuses on ways to nourish and strengthen the nervous system, and to soothe tension, anxiety, and insomnia. Learn how to make infused herbal oils, tinctures, and mineral salts. Natural stress relief is on the way! HERBS FOR IMMUNITY Based on our herbal, En Garden! 7 Radical Weeds for Life Support & Repair. Many common "weeds" provide powerful antioxidant and immune system support. Learn how to make infusions, salves, soaks, poultices, tars, and tinctures that will help to prevent illness and maintain glowing health, and to remedy various chronic, acute and degenerative conditions. ANCIENT TONICS FOR THE NEW AGE Based on our herbal, Alewife's Garden 7 Radical Weeds for Brewing Herbal Ales. In ancient times, brewing was the sacred work of women. Learn about the magic of yeast and honey, and how to make healthful and delicious tonic ales that you can ferment easily in your own kitchen without any fancy equipment. Featuring samples! WEEDS OF WISDOM Celebrate herbs with a walk through the fields to find the plants that nourish, support, and heal us, body and soul. Learn how to identify, harvest, store, and make medicines from weeds. Wear play clothes and bring a digging tool and paper bag. Bring home a plant, a remedy, and a yen for inviting the wild green world into your life. We offer this weed walk at our locations, or yours. SPRING TONICS Do you suffer from seasonal allergies? Fatigue or other chronic ills? The spring Earth sends up several fabulous herbal allies to help us through this change of season. Find out how to cultivate and use your own backyard “farmacy” this spring. Offered March-May, and easily adapted to an indoor class. SACRED & CEREMONIAL USE OF HERBS Herbs are used in every culture around the world to invoke Spirit and make ceremony. This workshop teaches several ways to make and use herbal incense, smudge, and tobaccos, and features a Native American Sweat Lodge ceremony. (Workshop offered at Radical Remedies.) HEART HEALTHY NATURALLY This class introduces herbs and nutritional tips for promoting healthy circulation and repairing and preventing heart and circulatory damage naturally. Featuring demonstrations and delicious heart healthy tonics. WHAT A CROCK! Ceramic crocks have been used to ferment and preserve foods and beverages since ancient times. Learn how fermentation can improve digestibility, increase vitamin levels, enhance the immune system, and naturally rebalance intestinal flora. Includes recipes and instruction on food preparation, and many samples of fermented delicacies. THE BEES’ KNEES: NATURAL REMEDIES FROM THE BEEHIVE Bees are the angels of agriculture, increasing the yield of all gardens and orchards through pollination. They make 6 wild and natural healing products from flowers, herbs, and trees. Honey, royal jelly, pollen, wax, propolis, and venom can be crafted into powerful and delicious foods and remedies. Learn to make mead and medicinal herbal honey, and visit the beehive. (Workshop offered at Radical Remedies, or your own beehive.) HERBS FOR PETS Find out what's really in that commercial pet food! Learn how to prepare a healthful, homemade raw diet for your companion animals, and how to make simple, effective herbal remedies for common ailments and immune system support, including no-alcohol tinctures, poultices, and flea & tick rinses. A WORD TO THE WISE: ANCIENT SECRETS OF LUNAR WISDOM Women have struggled from the beginning of time to integrate the ebbs and flows of cyclic fertility. Find out how your monthly cycle affects your daily life, and how you can live in harmony with your hormones. Learn herbal remedies, energy techniques, and nutritional supplements that will enhance your moondance. Keep your entire reproductive system healthy, and nourish yourr being throughout and beyond your childbearing years. STALKING THE WILD MUSHROOM Learn to forage for, identify, and prepare medicinal and edible wild fungi in this wild nutrition workshop. Learn from samples, photos, and demonstrations in class and follow up with a field trip into the woods. Spring and Fall at Radical Remedies. UNDERSTANDING THE NATURAL FORCE OF WOMEN'S SEXUAL CYCLES This workshop focuses on the natural cycles that determine womanhood: sexual response, fertility, childbearing, and menopause. Designed to teach midwifery students about sexuality in relation to the childbearing year, and to help women explore values, feelings, and information about their own sexuality. Featuring herbs as nourishers, mood and energy regulators, and aphrodisiacs. THE SECOND BRAIN The colon is a sense organ with more neurons than the cranium and autonomic reflex arcs to every organ and system of the body. It knows your feelings before you have the thought of a feeling! Inner terrain balance can be achieved by nourishing the right organisms that live inside the healthy gut and choosing wise ways to help them thrive. Herbs, food choices (raw, cooked, fermented), timing, liver function, breathing, and elimination practices will all be considered. If you have chronic health problems, ulcers, a nervous stomach or have ever been told you have irritable bowel syndrome, check out some easy ways to manage your symptoms naturally, at home, and without drugs. CORDIALLY YOURS Cordials are wonderful fruit- and herb-infused liquors that light up the dark season with the full and vibrant bouquet and sweetness of the season past. Learn how to make these easy and nutritious winter treats using the organic herbs and wild fruits in season at the end of the summer. Save the mouth-watering harvest and bottle it in gorgeous display bottles for special occasions, gifts, and guests. To your health!

Radical Weeds Traveling Medicine Show Workshops

Please e-mail for more information or to schedule a workshop.


HERBS FOR WOMEN: Based on our herbal, Wild Woman's Garden 7 Radical Weeds for Women Over 40. This workshop teaches how to use herbs as regulators for the menstrual cycle. Learn to identify, prepare, and use simple herbal remedies for glowing vitality, in place of synthetic hormones. Make water- and alcohol-based remedies to ease symptoms of PMS, menstruation, and menopause.
HERBS FOR STRESS RELIEF: Based on our herbal, Serenity Garden 7 Radical Weeds for Natural Stress Relief. This workshop focuses on ways to nourish and strengthen the nervous system, and to soothe tension, anxiety, and insomnia. Learn how to make infused herbal oils, tinctures, and mineral salts. Natural stress relief is on the way!
HERBS FOR IMMUNITY: Based on our herbal, En Garden! 7 Radical Weeds for Life Support & Repair. Many common "weeds" provide powerful antioxidant and immune system support. Learn how to make infusions, salves, soaks, poultices, tars, and tinctures that will help to prevent illness and maintain glowing health, and to remedy various chronic, acute and degenerative conditions.
ANCIENT TONICS FOR THE NEW AGE: Based on our herbal, Alewife's Garden 7 Radical Weeds for Brewing Herbal Ales. In ancient times, brewing was the sacred work of women. Learn about the magic of yeast and honey, and how to make healthful and delicious tonic ales that you can ferment easily in your own kitchen without any fancy equipment. Featuring samples!
WEEDS OF WISDOM: Celebrate herbs with a walk through the fields to find the plants that nourish, support, and heal us, body and soul. Learn how to identify, harvest, store, and make medicines from weeds. Wear play clothes and bring a digging tool and paper bag. Bring home a plant, a remedy, and a yen for inviting the wild green world into your life. We offer this weed walk at our locations, or yours.
SPRING TONICS: Do you suffer from seasonal allergies? Fatigue or other chronic ills? The spring Earth sends up several fabulous herbal allies to help us through this change of season. Find out how to cultivate and use your own backyard “farmacy” this spring. Offered March-May, and easily adapted to an indoor class.
SACRED & CEREMONIAL USE OF HERBS: Herbs are used in every culture around the world to invoke Spirit and make ceremony. This workshop teaches several ways to make and use herbal incense, smudge, and tobaccos, and features a Native American Sweat Lodge ceremony. (Workshop offered at Radical Remedies.)
HEART HEALTHY NATURALLY: This class introduces herbs and nutritional tips for promoting healthy circulation and repairing and preventing heart and circulatory damage naturally. Featuring demonstrations and delicious heart healthy tonics.
WHAT A CROCK!: Ceramic crocks have been used to ferment and preserve foods and beverages since ancient times. Learn how fermentation can improve digestibility, increase vitamin levels, enhance the immune system, and naturally rebalance intestinal flora. Includes recipes and instruction on food preparation, and many samples of fermented delicacies.
THE BEES’ KNEES: NATURAL REMEDIES FROM THE BEEHIVE: Bees are the angels of agriculture, increasing the yield of all gardens and orchards through pollination. They make 6 wild and natural healing products from flowers, herbs, and trees. Honey, royal jelly, pollen, wax, propolis, and venom can be crafted into powerful and delicious foods and remedies. Learn to make mead and medicinal herbal honey, and visit the beehive. (Workshop offered at Radical Remedies, or your own beehive.)
HERBS FOR PETS: Find out what's really in that commercial pet food! Learn how to prepare a healthful, homemade raw diet for your companion animals, and how to make simple, effective herbal remedies for common ailments and immune system support, including no-alcohol tinctures, poultices, and flea & tick rinses.
A WORD TO THE WISE: ANCIENT SECRETS OF LUNAR WISDOM: Women have struggled from the beginning of time to integrate the ebbs and flows of cyclic fertility. Find out how your monthly cycle affects your daily life, and how you can live in harmony with your hormones. Learn herbal remedies, energy techniques, and nutritional supplements that will enhance your moondance. Keep your entire reproductive system healthy, and nourish yourr being throughout and beyond your childbearing years.
STALKING THE WILD MUSHROOM: Learn to forage for, identify, and prepare medicinal and edible wild fungi in this wild nutrition workshop. Learn from samples, photos, and demonstrations in class and follow up with a field trip into the woods. Spring and Fall at Radical Remedies.
UNDERSTANDING THE NATURAL FORCE OF WOMEN'S SEXUAL CYCLES: This workshop focuses on the natural cycles that determine womanhood: sexual response, fertility, childbearing, and menopause. Designed to teach midwifery students about sexuality in relation to the childbearing year, and to help women explore values, feelings, and information about their own sexuality. Featuring herbs as nourishers, mood and energy regulators, and aphrodisiacs.

THE SECOND BRAIN

The colon is a sense organ with more neurons than the cranium and autonomic reflex arcs to every organ and system of the body. It knows your feelings before you have the thought of a feeling! Inner terrain balance can be achieved by nourishing the right organisms that live inside the healthy gut and choosing wise ways to help them thrive. Herbs, food choices (raw, cooked, fermented), timing, liver function, breathing, and elimination practices will all be considered. If you have chronic health problems, ulcers, a nervous stomach or have ever been told you have irritable bowel syndrome, check out some easy ways to manage your symptoms naturally, at home, and without drugs.

CORDIALLY YOURS: Cordials are wonderful fruit- and herb-infused liquors that light up the dark season with the full and vibrant bouquet and sweetness of the season past. Learn how to make these easy and nutritious winter treats using the organic herbs and wild fruits in season at the end of the summer. Save the mouth-watering harvest and bottle it in gorgeous display bottles for special occasions, gifts, and guests. To your health!