uPCOMING CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
4.27.24: ANCESTRAL HERBALISM & A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF HERBAL MEDICINE / WILD GINGER HERBAL EDUCATION CENTER, BRYAN’S ROAD, MD
I love teaching these classes each year as a part of Wild Ginger Herbal Center’s Medicine Keepers Community Herbal Certificate program, one of the best community-based herb schools on the East Coast (they have lots of online programs, too). This year, I’ll be back in person! For information about the school or to register, click here.
4.28.24: indigo workshop / WILD GINGER HERBAL EDUCATION CENTER, BRYAN’S ROAD, MD
Join us on the farm at Wild Ginger Herbal Center for an afternoon of indigo learning and play. We’ll start with a short lecture-demo about the various plants that are used as indigo dye, a bit about the plant’s long history and expansive geography, some traditional uses and techniques, and the critical role enslaved Africans played in making indigo a critical foundation of the American economy and culture. We’ll also look at how indigo is used in different ways (from paint to hair dye), and then we’ll make our own indigo-dyed projects to bring home! Registration information is here.
7.16.24: PLANTS, HEALING & STORY WEAVING / PEOPLE’S MEDICINE SCHOOL, ITHACA, NEW YORK [ONLINE]
In this community healing session, we'll link plant medicine and radical imagination as we harvest plant wisdom found in traditional and contemporary stories and literature of BIPOC writers and storytellers. We'll be reading from Ntozake Shange and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Zora Neale Hurston and Judy Lin, and storycrafters whose names we no longer know, but whose tales and teachings have become cultural encodings. We will also take some (optional) time to share our own creative works incorporating plant medicine and healing ways. Taught as part of Rootwork Herbal’s People’s Medicine School’s liberatory healing curriculum, but also open to the public. Get more info here.
Prerecorded Classes
Herbs for Gardens & Gardeners
Planning your spring and summer garden? It’s a perfect time to learn about herbs and remedies that are helpful for your well-being AND that can help your garden thrive!
In this online session we'll talk about herbs that attract pollinators, keep away predatory insects, help build up soil nutrients and moisture, prevent erosion, and even help reduce your carbon footprint... AND support your health and wellness. Recorded on 1/29/23.
How to Save Your Last Good Nerve: An herbalist’s perspective on healing from chronic stress & trauma
A deep dive into the physiology and embodied experience of stress and trauma, and many ways to nurture and support yourself through it, from somatic exercises to nourishment to adaptogen and nervine herbs. Recorded on 11/28/22. $15
