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Basics of Herbal Medicine Workshop
Learn how to bring medicinal plants into your everyday life to promote overall wellness and address minor illnesses and injuries. We will discuss the healing properties of several common herbs, and how to incorporate them through cooking, everyday herbal tonics and simple home remedies to use when ailments arise.
Cost for class + materials is $20 per person.
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Oil + Herbal Workshop
Join us to learn all about using oils and herbs together! We will get hands on and put together some amazing products while sharing all the benefits of the oily and herbal goodies you make. Come learn and create toxin free, good for you, products that will add health, wellness and relaxation to your daily life.
Cost for class + materials is $20 per person.
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Finding Your Flock
Keeping chickens is one of the best parts of running your own homestead! Whether you live in the city, suburbs, or country YOU can keep chickens in your backyard. Are you ready to dive in and learn how to keep chickens of your very own? Not only do they provide you with breakfast almost every single morning, they are one of the best pets you could possibly own. You will easily fall in love with your flock! In this workshop, you will learn the basics of chicken keeping from hatchling to full-grown hen. We will run through all of the information you need to know, and you will be sent home with tools to help you get started. Come tour our farm and meet our hens. This is a great opportunity for someone curious about chickens.
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Bone Broth Basics
There are so many health benefits to bone broth! In healthy, traditional cultures, when an animal was slaughtered, all the parts were put to use, including the bones, to make mineral-rich broth. Our modern diet, having largely forgotten the use of broth as the basis of our cooking, is estimated to have less than half the mineral content of more traditional diets. This rich mineral content and the fact that soup broths greatly aid digestion are just two of the many reasons why everyone should make soup broth a part of their daily diet. In this class, we will learn about these benefits and how to extract the goodness into broth. We will taste a few difference kinds of bone broth in different stages, and you will go home with some handouts and recipes.
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How To Preserve The Harvest
After all the hard work that is put into growing your food, it should be preserved as long as possible. There are many methods you can employ to savor spring greens, summer fruits, and fall roots all year long. ‘Putting food by,’ allows you to have a kitchen full of food that tells a story and brings back sweet memories of when it was harvested and lovingly saved for the future. In this class, we’ll break down the four main ways to preserve food and send you home with working knowledge of what foods work best for each method.
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Fermented Condiments
Chutney, ketchup, vinaigrette, mayonnaise, salsa, pesto. All fermented. Learn to adorn every plate you eat with a probiotic condiment of some kind. In this class you will learn about the history of fermentation, health benefits of probiotic foods, and how to make and enjoy different fermented condiments. We will make some condiments in the class together and there will be many samples to try!
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Goat Cheeses: Firm and Soft Chevre Class
Create your own homemade chevre varieties! Goat cheese, or ‘chevre’ as the French say, can be tangy, smooth, pungent, mild, firm and even crumbly. Learn where to buy goat milk locally, how to make two varieties and how to customize them by incorporating herbs, peppercorns and other spices into your beautiful homemade wheels and logs. We can make acid-coagulated cheeses as well as cultured cheeses in these simple classes.
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Making Culinary Ghee
Ghee is an ancient method of transforming grass fed butter into a nourishing butter oil which doesn’t need to be refrigerated, can tolerate high cooking heat, and is lactose and casein free. It has many other benefits which we will discuss while we are learning how to craft a delicious ghee. We’ll also cover the many ways to use ghee and cover the methods of making traditionally infused ghee.
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Introduction to Charcuterie
Learn about the art of preserving meats through salt, smoke, and dehydration. This class will cover a short history of charcuterie practice and brief butchery technique, and then focus on practical tips for brining, dry curing, sausage making, and home fermentation of both whole muscle cuts and sausages/salamis. We will process a fresh sausage in class, and participants will taste it, along with some other treats.
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Salve Making
Through crafting handmade herbal gifts you inspire your friends and family to connect with local plants while nourishing their skin. In this 3-hour class, we will teach you how to make infused oils and tinctures from local herbs. Herbal oils, tinctures and salves are a wonderful way to use the healing properties of herbs for both topical and internal conditions. We will infuse oils with herbs and then turn those oils into salves. You will go home with a salve you helped create and empowered with the knowledge to make your own! You will also learn about local herbs and their medicinal uses. With herbal infused oils and beeswax we will deeply hydrate and enliven our skin and our spirits. You will take 2 tins of salve home with you.
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Full Moon Fire Circles
Join an ongoing circle or create an occasion to honor and celebrate life’s passages, and the journey toward well-being. For centuries, women have gathered in alignment with the moon phases to reflect, share and inspire one another. Women and teen girls are welcomed to a beautiful evening fire circle full of wisdom and togetherness, with Full Moon, Stars, Sky, Trees, Earth, and sweet sounds of Frog, Cricket and hootin’ Owl. From a nurturing place of safety and warmth, we can share, learn, give, receive, open, renew and grow. Dress in WARM LAYERS and bring a flashlight–it gets cold and dark at the farm. We’ll be outdoors around a fire, except if there’s a “no burn warning”, raining or extremely cold then we will move the event indoors. Event is from 7pm-9:30pm. We won’t have a potluck dinner but we provide some tea and snacks at the end. Optionally, you can choose to bring biodegradable offerings for the fire, a snack and/or beverage to share, a song or two, some instruments or whatever you’d like to share.
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