Workshop

Terrarium Workshop – May

February 18, 2026 by Adrienne Crombie Leave a Comment

Date: Saturday, May 16th

Time: 10:30am – 12noon

Tickets: $125/pp

$115 Early Sign Up by May 1st

Please Use Coupon Code MAY

Terrarium Workshop

In this workshop you will create your own miniature landscape inside an 8″ crystal bowl.

Using horticultural techniques that date back to the 19th century, your finished terrarium will be entirely self sustaining.

Enjoy this step by step process developing your own magical world composed of airy ferns, soft green mosses and colorful tropical plants nestled among pebbles and stones, each one a unique creation.

Your finished terrarium can be displayed in your home and will take care of itself indefinitely.

All materials are included in the ticket price.

Herbal tea will be served for refreshment.

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.

Spring Foraging & Plant Idemtification – May

February 1, 2026 by Adrienne Crombie

Date: Saturday, May 23rd

Time: 10:30am – 12noon

$40/pp

$30 with early sign up by May 16th

Please use Coupon Code FORAGE

Spring Foraging

Join us on a 1 ½ hour walk around the farm and discover the magic of spring foraging! As the earth blooms, we invite you to

experience the joy of connecting with the plants who abundantly want to share their gifts with us. This workshop is intended for beginner forgers who are interested in learning how to safely identify bioregional edible and medicinal plants. We will cover ethical methods of harvesting plants, discuss their culinary and medicinal uses and touch on some of their history and magic.

This walk is a great beginning to practicing plant identification and wildcrafting. We will provide you with recipes and tips you will need to continue working with your harvest at home.

If you enjoy yourself and want to get to know the plants through the season, come back in the fall when everyone has a new look!

April Morecraft is a mother, teacher, gardener, and creator of Oak Root Herbals, a home based, small batch herb business.

She began her studies 5 years ago by taking a farm based herbal foundations course with Linda Shanahan of Bluestem Botanicals. April has completed a 3-year apprenticeship with herbalist, author and green witch, Robin Rose Bennet of Wise Woman Ways and is currently studying herbal astrology online with Sajah Poham of The School of Evolutionary Herbalism.

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

Plant Medicine Making – May

February 1, 2026 by Adrienne Crombie

Date: Saturday, May 23rd

Time: 1 – 3pm

$65/pp

$55/pp with early sign up by May 16th

Please use coupon code MEDICINE

MedicineMaking

This workshop is an introduction to the basics of plant medicine making with local herbalist April Morecraft.

This workshop is an introduction to the basics of plant medicine making. Together we will explore how to make topical and internal preparations. We will discuss tinctures, infused vinegars, infusions, decoctions, syrups, infused oils, salves, compresses, poultices, and flower essences. During this workshop we will discuss respectful harvesting practices and how to commune and build relationships with plants. During this class you will make your own tincture and salve

April Morecraft is a mother, teacher, gardener, and creator of Oak Root Herbals, a home based, small batch herb business.

She began her studies 4 years ago by taking a farm based herbal foundations course with Linda Shanahan of Bluestem Botanicals. April has just completed a 3-year apprenticeship with herbalist, author and green witch, Robin Rose Bennet of Wise Woman Ways and is currently studying herbal astrology online with Sajah Poham of The School of Evolutionary Herbalism.

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

Backyard Medicine – May

February 1, 2026 by Adrienne Crombie

Date: Saturday, May 9th

Time: 1pm – 3pm

$55/pp

$45/pp Early sign up discount until May 2nd

Please use coupon code BACKYARD

Backyard Medicine

Come explore the beautiful benefits of the “weed” plants making their spring debut in the fields of Mad Lavender. During this two hour workshop you will get to know the many benefits that chickweed, plantain, dandelion, and violet have to offer. Together, we will identify, harvest and discover the nutritional and medicinal properties of these generous plants. In addition to tasting a variety of recipes that include these abundant and fun edibles, you will leave with the knowledge of working with the spring plants to create your own syrups, oils, vinegars, and more! During this class you will make a first aid salve. .

April Morecraft is a mother, teacher, gardener, and creator of Oak Root Herbals, a home based, small batch herb business. She began her studies 5 years ago, taking a farm based herbal foundations course with Linda Shanahan of Bluestem Botanicals. April has completed a 3-year apprenticeship with herbalist, author and green witch, Robin Rose Bennet of Wise Woman Ways and is currently studying herbal astrology online with Sajah Poham of The School of Evolutionary Herbalism.

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

Natural Pigment Workshop: the Art of Foraging and Processing Paint – May & October

January 20, 2026 by Adrienne Crombie

Time: 10am-12pm

Dates:

Sunday, May 31

Tickets: $95/pp

Use Coupon Code PIGMENT24 BY May 24th for $10 discount

Sunday, October 25th

Use Coupon Code PIGMENT18 BY Oct. 18th for $10 discount

NaturalPigment

Join Tobi Indyke from Periwinkle Skies Farm to learn to make your own fine art pigments from materials foraged straight from Mother Earth! We will review samples of different clays, rocks and mushrooms as well as foraged plants that can all be used to make natural pigments. Tobi will instruct us, step by step, in the art and science of processing these natural elements into useful pigments in a rainbow of colors. Processes will include crafting both watercolor and gouache paints.

There will be time provided for you to do some experimentation of your own!

Paint recipes will be shared and participants can take home some foraged plants for practicing their new skills at home.

Ticket price includes all materials.

Tobi Indyke is proprietor of Periwinkle Skies Farm, propagating and providing plants for pigments and herbal tea.

Tobi’s passion is for foraging from nature to create artist colors the way they have been crafted for thousands of years before synthetic paints were introduced. Her mission is to share with others the magic and joy of co-creating with nature through the alchemical process of crafting natural paint.