Join Sunshine Dawson, an herbalist and skincare specialist with over 15 years of experience, for a fun and educational deep dive into the world of non-toxic botanical skincare.

Learn about toxic and safe ingredients, support for your skin from the inside out and beneficial herbs used in skin care. Participants will be able to create their own unique products to take home and learn how to make a botanical cream!

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This engaging workshop, hosted in our 120+ medicinal herb Garden of Life, introduces you to the enchanting world of botany, with a special focus on medicinal herbs.

You'll learn about plant classification & structure, tips for using field guides, and have a chance to practice your new knowledge with drawing and labeling live plants in the garden.

Sliding Scale Price $45 - $55

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Discover the innate wisdom of herbs through this unique, blind herbal tea-tasting experience. Often in herbalism we can become reliant on information learned only from books, websites, or other content and forget to listen to the plants themselves. In this class, we will sample 3-4 diverse herbs in the form of tea, leaving behind preconceived notions to focus on the unique somatic sensations, tastes, smells, and colors associated with our plant allies.

Join us in connecting with and shifting our learning back to the plants as our primary teachers.

Sliding Scale Price $25-$35

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Do you love luxurious body and face creams, but don’t want to put synthetic or harmful chemicals on your skin or spend hundreds of dollars on them? Come and learn how to make your own silky smooth, effective creams rich with beneficial botanical oils and extracts!

In this hands-on class we will explore all the different potential ingredients used in creams; go over a basic cream recipe you can use as a base, and together make a decadent body cream for all participants to take home.

Single class $60
Sign up for 3 classes together for a 15% discount!

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Herbs can be extracted into alcohol or glycerine for potent internal & external remedies. Come and learn various methods of making these herbal preparations and what they are best used for.

In this hands-on class we will explore making tinctures and glycerites, what part of plants & when to harvest for highest potency. We will take an informative plant walk through the garden where each participant can harvest fresh plants to make a personalized tincture or glycerite to take home.

Single class $60
Sign up for 3 classes together for a 15% discount!

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Herb infused oils and herbal salves can be used in a variety of applications from skin care to first aid. Come and learn how to make potent oils infused with fresh or dried herbs, and how to incorporate them into salves.

Leave feeling confident in making potent herbal oils and salves at home and with a salve for your first aid kit. Detailed handouts with recipes included!

Single class $60
Sign up for 3 classes together for a 15% discount!

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with Lisa Fouladbash of Sequoia Herbals

Join us for a fun day at Maple Spring Gardens, and learn how to embrace winter with herbs! We’ll sip on fragrant astragalus chai tea, learn which herbs to use for cold symptoms, and make elderberry syrup for you take home! We'll also take a short stroll on the farm to meet a few of the plants that haven't yet turned in for winter. :)

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Part 3 - Food as Medicine

This class will focus on incorporating medicinal herbs into food so they can become a part of daily life. Get ready to have fun in the herbal kitchen! We will create several yummy herbal foods that will be shared in a meal together at the end of class.

Register for the whole series for a 15% discount! Only available until the first class.

Single class $108
Complete Series $275

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Part 2 - Internal Preparations

In this hands-on class we will focus on Teas, Tinctures, Acetums, and Glycerites. Learn various methods of making these internal herbal preparations and what they are best used for. As a group we will make a fresh plant glycerite and each participant will create a tincture of their choosing from plants in the garden.

Register for the whole series for a 15% discount! Only available until the first class.

Single class $108
Complete Series $275

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Join Melanie Yukov of Roots 2 Rise Wellness in this 2 hour class where you will learn how flower essences are made, experience crafting your own custom essence and how to incorporate them into your life.

Participants leave with handouts, knowledge on how to make your own essences and 1 dosage bottle of a custom formula for your needs.

Registration fee: $45

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Join us to celebrate Earth Day and begin planting our Medicinal Herb Teaching Garden. This is a dream project finally being realized - a 1/2 acre medicinal garden designed by herbs for each body system.

Come be a part of the magic! We will spend the morning weeding and cleaning up the beds, then break for farm fresh lunch provided by your host Sunshine, herbalist and farm manager. We will spend the afternoon planting our beloved medicinal herbs into their new beds.

Learn about medicinal herbs and enjoy a day in the gardens. Build relationships with the plants and other plant inspired folk.

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Spring is a time of cleansing and renewal. A time for activating the body to remove toxins that have been stored in our tissues as well as breaking up the stagnancy that can occur in the down time of winter months.

Join us for a day of gentle detox, Qigong, and informative sessions on detoxing safely on your own, based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) philosophy with an incorporation of local herbs and “weeds” that you can find in your own yard.

Early Bird Registration $108 until March 15th.
After March 15th - $140
Registration Closes April 1st!

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with Lisa Fouladbash of Sequoia Herbals

Warm up to winter, with herbs! Together we’ll make elderberry syrup for you take home! You’ll also learn how to boost immunity, break fevers, loosen coughs and soothe sore throats with herbal teas, steams and syrups.

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Foster self-awareness based on rhythms of nature through the Ousia wheel of Cleanse, Nourish, Transform, and Insight. Join us for a 4 part Retreat through the seasons.

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Foster self-awareness based on rhythms of nature through the Ousia wheel of Cleanse, Nourish, Transform, and Insight. Join us for a 4 part Retreat through the seasons.

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