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Make Your Own Bar Soap Workshop – August & Oct

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Dates: 
Saturday, August 29th
Sunday, October 11th
Time:
1pm – 3pm
Cost: $85/pp

$85 – Share the Abundance – Paying full price helps to subsidize and support those that may not have the means at this time.

$75- Essential – Paying this price is in line with my financial integrity. Please use coupon code SOAP10

$65 – Basic – Paying this price is what feels right for me and my financial situation. Please use coupon code SOAP20

Make your own bar soap from scratch using ingredients that are good enough to eat!
In this hands-on workshop you will learn the basics of soap making. Together we will go through the steps of making a soap base safely and get acquainted with all the equipment essential to the process. There will be discussion of the different emollients and their benefits.
Then the fun starts, allowing us to play with color, scents, and decoration to customize your soap bar to your liking.
All materials required to make soap are provided during this workshop; organic oils, lye, water, soap molds, mixing containers, essential oils, natural color additives like clay, dried flowers, spatulas, scale and immersion blender
You will take home a soap mold filled with soap and the soap recipe.
Alex Jimenez
Alex Jimenez, nutritionist & herbalist

 

 

Alex Jimenez spent 17 years as an organic farmer during which time she learned a lot of useful skills. She has since transitioned from farmer to homesteader, putting all those skills to use at her home and sharing them with others via workshops. She runs a business that offers nutrition coaching and meal prep at Holistic Approach and she brings foragers and Homesteaders together with the Hunterdon Homesteaders club. She spends most of her time on the River, in the Forest, and at her home with her Dog and Ducks. Learn more at Holistic Approach LLC

Kitchen Medicine and Fire Cider Workshop – September

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Date: Sunday, September 13th

Time: 1 – 3pm

$65/pp

$55/pp with early registration before Sept 6th

Please use Coupon Code FIRE

Fire Cider Etc

 

Come explore all the benefits Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme want to share with us! These glorious culinary herbs not only add to our kitchen creations but they deliver powerful plant medicine to our mind and body. During this workshop we will also discuss how to boost immunity and keep cold and flu at bay with fire cider! We will discuss the herbs, spices and roots in fire cider  as you hand craft your own. We will also prepare thyme simple syrup. You will receive a wealth of recipes to continue exploring in your own kitchen!

Herbal tea and cookies will be served.

 

April Morecraft, herbalist
April Morecraft, herbalist

April is a mother, teacher, gardener, folk herbalist and creator of Oak Root Herbals. She began her formal studies with a farm based herbal foundations course with Bluestem Botanicals followed by a 3 year apprenticeship with Robin Rose Bennet of Wise Woman Ways. April is currently continuing her plant path with online studies at The School of Evolutionary Herbalism and North West School of Aromatic Medicine. 

She looks forward to sharing plant medicine and magic with you. 

Succulent Terrarium Workshop – September

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Date: Saturday, Sept 19th

Time: 1pm – 2:30pm

Tickets: $125/pp

$115 Early Sign Up by Sept 5th

Please Use Coupon Code SEPT5

Succulents

This is a hands-on, beginner friendly workshop that will guide you in creating a personalized open glass Succulent Terrarium.

You will learn to layer substrate to create drainage, arrange succulents and decorate with different elements (such as stone,

moss, sand and figurines.)

Everyone will assemble and take home a long lasting, low maintenance miniature garden!

This is a fun, relaxing creative experience that appeals to both teenagers and adults~ bring a friend for a tranquil afternoon on

the farm!

All materials are included and tools are provided.

 

Ginny Page
Ginny Page, gardener, florist and horticulturalist.

 

 

Ginny Page is an award winning horticulturalist, gardener, florist, educator and proprietor of Gnome Gardens Horticulture. With a BS in Ornamental Horticulture from Rutgers University, Ginny has enjoyed an extensive career in cultivating exotic tropicals with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Her passion for plants is contagious and she can’t wait to bring you into the enchanting world of Terrariums.

 

Blue Oyster Mushroom Cultivation Workshop – Sept

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Date:

Saturday, September 26th

Time: 1pm – 3pm

Tickets $85

Mushroom Cultivation

$85 – Share the Abundance – Paying full price helps to subsidize and support those that may not have the means at this time.

$75- Essential – Paying this price is in line with my financial integrity. Please use coupon code FUNGI10

$65 – Basic – Paying this price is what feels right for me and my financial situation. Please use coupon code FUNGI20

 

Are you interested in learning more about mushrooms? Join mushroom cultivator and forager Kacy Binz in a fun and hands-on mushroom cultivation workshop! Kacy will walk you through each step of the growing process, from mycelium to mushroom. She will lead the group in an inoculation of Blue Oyster Mushrooms, and you will leave with your own at home mushroom growing kit! You will also learn about the phenomenal health benefits of mushrooms as well as some tasty recipes to introduce wild mushrooms more into your diet. She will also have some tips and advice for those interested in wild foraging.

Mushroom Growing Kit

 

Mushroom snacks and tea will be provided, as well as print outs of all the information. 

Savory Wild Mushrooms served at workshop!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kacy Binz, farmer & mushroom cultivator

Kacy has experience growing a wide variety of delectable mushrooms, such as lions mane, oysters, piopinno, white beech, chestnut, nameko and more.  She also enjoys foraging for wild mushrooms and plants, as well as making tea blends and tinctures. Her goal is to inspire people to incorporate more mushrooms into their diet, to become more connected with nature and our source of food, and to make delicious and creative recipes using mushrooms!

Herb Talk: Golden Rod – October

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Day: Saturday, October 10th

Time: 11:30 – 12:30

$25/pp

Herb Talk

Join us on the land for an hour and talk about beautiful magical Golden Rod, Solidago. We will walk, talk and sit while we have an in-depth discussion on the medicine and magic of Golden Rod. This talk includes plant identification, growing and harvesting tips, Golden Rod distribution, history and astrology as well as organ system affinities and herbal actions and energetics. You will also learn about medicinal preparations, contraindications and safety. 

 

You will leave with an herbal monograph and depending on her growing season some Golden Rod you work with at home. 

April Morecraft, herbalist
April Morecraft, herbalist

 

April is a mother, teacher, gardener, folk herbalist and creator of Oak Root Herbals. She began her formal studies with a farm based herbal foundations course with Bluestem Botanicals followed by a 3 year apprenticeship with Robin Rose Bennet of Wise Woman Ways. April is currently continuing her plant path with online studies at The School of Evolutionary Herbalism and North West School of Aromatic Medicine.

She looks forward to sharing plant medicine and magic with you.