This workshop will explore the foundations of each Ayurveda and Agroforestry, then utilize Ayurvedic wisdom to learn how to design and tend place-based edible ecosystems. Using elemental approaches to maximize health and balance, this workshop will explore plants from the dual lenses of Ayurveda and agroforestry that can benefit people and the land. From the constitution of landscapes to permaculture plant guilds, we will spend dive into ancient perspectives on the orchard ecosystem. Specific plants will be covered through their guild functions as well as Ayurvedic herbal wisdom.

Presented By: Spencer Nielsen

Empowerment & Earth Connection for Modern Witches is about building resiliency through understanding of self. Utilizing plant medicine, magick, and non-violent communication herbalist Julie Benefico will lead an interactive workshop to help folks gain insight into stories, projections, and stuck energy that may be blocking us from personal and collective prosperity. When people can gain awareness of these aspects of self they can shed unhealthy tendencies and work toward holistic healing. In order to heal the world humans must first do the self work. This class is a beautiful opportunity to tune into the shadow & transform old patterns into your deepest desires! Julie will share self care practices, a fall equinox releasing ritual, plant allies for empowerment, and group process work.

Presented By: Julie Benefico

Herbs are best at stacking functions, playing different roles in permaculture design. They provide us with amazing medicine, and a succession of flowering for the continual habitat for beneficial insects and pollinators. Some are dynamic accumulators, which pull up minerals for us and the soil. In this workshop, we will teach permaculture planting methods integrating medicinal herbs. We will then demonstrate ways to use the herbs with hands-on medicine making.

Presented By: Laura(Indigo) Donaldson  & Shea Smith & Raya Cole of School of Wholistic Permaculture

As we get ready for the coming change of seasons, now is the time to focus on some preventative health measures to ensure that we are fortified and ready to face the oncoming autumn and winter months. In this workshop we will prepare handcrafted formulas to stock our medicine chests. Come learn about plants that support the respiratory system, boost immunity and act as tonics to the system including adaptogens. We’ll cover the basics of making tinctures, salves, medicinal tea blends and make a tasty syrup for coughs and sore throats.

In this workshop we’ll cover the basics of making tinctures, salves, medicinal tea blends, tasty syrup for coughs and sore throats and learn about plants that support the respiratory system, boost immunity and act as tonics to the system including adaptogens.

Saturday Oct 7| 2pm| Willow Grove

Presented By: Maya Blow

She is a current teacher for the California Women of Color Herbal Symposium. Maya has been studying, practicing and making herbal medicine for over fifteen years. Besides her passion for holistic and alternative medicine, Maya is an artist, mother of two, farmer, and avid crafter. Maya teaches nature studies, gardening, herbal medicine making and many other homesteading and DIY classes.

She has been making and teaching art for two decades and continues to draw her inspiration from her love of nature. Some of her hobbies include organic gardening, animal husbandry, foraging for wild food, fermenting and canning, making herbal medicine, cheese making, and dying with plants. Maya runs a handcrafted herbalism CSA from her organic farm where she grows fruit, vegetables and medicinal herbs, as well as tends bees and raises chickens and jersey milk cows. She is also founder and director of the School of Earth Medicine, Herbal Studies and Permaculture Design.

2017 Workshop: Creating an Herbal Apothecary