Classes. Foraging. Apothecary & Herbalism. Folk Medicine Making. Kitchen & Gardening.
Interested in learning more about how the plants that live around you can help support your wellness? Want to start building the skills to grow your own home apothecary for you and your family that’s stocked with your own handmade, local, herbal remedies?
Join longtime locavore and backyard herbalist Lisa Rose Starner for a season study in her own gardens and kitchen to build your own apothecary skills and plant knowledge.
At the end of the season, you will (hopefully) have acquired basic folk medicine making skills, plant identification and a foraging ethic to help you move forward in developing your own skills as a backyard herbalist and making your own home apothecary for you and your family.
May 14th, 6:00-8:30pm, The Urban Ranch. Apothecary Basics: Infused Herbal Oil, Salve Kitchen Class. To secure your spot, click here.
June 18th, 6:00-8:30pm. The Urban Ranch. Apothecary Basics: Harvesting & Preserving & using High Summer Plant Medicines for basic ailments — cough, colds, flus and basic first aid. In the kitchen classroom, Starner will share with you basic medicine making techniques and each attendee will leave with a few herbal samples you will make yourselves! To secure your spot, click here.
Backyard herbal cordials and cocktails: Date TBA.
October 7, 2-5:00pm. The Urban Ranch. Apothecary Basics: Fall’s Nourishing Foods, Building Immunity & Herbal Remedies for Winter Coughs, Colds & Flu
Cost: $30.00 per class, except where noted and includes costs for tastings & materials where applicable. Payment is requested at the time of your sign-up to ensure your spot. Creative financing is available for those who need it— please email or call to discuss options. Gift certificates can be used toward the course. Class size is limited to 15 participants and sign-up will be first-come, first served.To register: lisa.rose.starner@gmail.com. Payments can be made by cash, check or credit card.
Free Herbal Roundtables at The Ranch
Want to add more to your season of study? Join us this spring at The Urban Ranch for the season’s (FREE) lunchtime Herbal Roundtable to go further in depth to learn particular plants and their uses.
Book out your lunch hour and bring a sack lunch — Come join other interested herbal folk at The Urban Ranch every two weeks to study in depth and share the knowings of specific plants throughout the growing season.
This is not a course, rather a forum of sharing and learning to grow our herbal community in the Greater Grand Rapids Area. There is no cost for becoming part of this group and the only requirements are an open mind and willingness to share.
Want to join us? Just send an email to lisa.rose.starner@gmail.com to RSVP your place.
Spring Herbal Roundtable Dates
May 2: 12-1:30
May 16: 12-1:30
June 6: 12-1:30
