So much of what is commonly purchased can easily be created at home, to the benefit of the environment, your health and your budget. With a commitment to sustainability and d.i.y ethics, I enjoy passing on my kitchen, plant and herbal experience in small workshop settings. I believe in providing a comfortable environment for people to engage, ask questions and create.
I have taught workshops independently, as well as in collaboration with Garden for the Environment, Produce to the People, the Institute for Urban Homesteading and California College of the Arts. Past workshops have included:
Infused Oils, Vinegars and Honeys
Turn the herbs and fruits of your gardens into beautiful and healing gifts for the holiday season. In this hands on workshop you will learn how to make herbal vinegars, spiced honeys and oils for the kitchen and the bath, while discussing the benefits of each of these home remedies. You will be able to take an item home, as well as gather inspiration for turning a few simple ingredients into many more homemade and economical gifts.
Green Cleaners
Learn how to make your own safe, effective, natural cleaning concoctions! You’ll come away with a zine for a dozen recipes, an all-purpose cleaner and a furniture salve.
Skin Elixirs
Come learn how to make infused oils, salves and herbal soaks for first aid and general skin care! You’ll come away with a salve and an herbal soak.
Healing Tonics
Come learn how to make medicinal teas and tinctures. We’ll cover infusions, decoctions and alcohol and vinegar tinctures. You’ll come away with a zine full of plant info and resources as well as an herbal remedy.
Fermented Drinks
Come learn how to make kombucha, ginger beer and lacto-fermented sodas. You’ll come away with recipes, a kombucha mama and a ginger beer starter.
The Mental Health Cookbook Workshop Series
In this six-week long workshop series we will explore how to find a healing connection to the natural world through food and herbs. Using the Mental Health Cookbook as a guide we will learn how to sprout, ferment, identify wild edibles, grow food in small spaces and create medicinal teas and flower essences. These classes will also have a journaling component and class size will be kept small so there will be plenty of time for sharing.
