Botanical Body Care
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Oct 24, 2019 6pm-8pm
Location
All Hands Workshops
514-A Front St
Details
Come lay the foundations for becoming a home herbalist, sip tea and make 3 different herbal infusions with wildcrafted and organic herbs in local olive oil!
In this workshop, we will:
- learn about creating our own botanical body care products
- talk about how specific herbs work to treat imbalances
- learn how to identify, harvest, dry and use specific herbs
- sip tea while we color an herbal monograph
- craft our own herbal infusions for use in body care recipes: first aid, muscle & joint pain, and dream time (or your own creations with what you've learned!)
The following supplies are included:
- various herbalism and foraging books to peruse
- a list of the best places to source ingredients
- an chart of wildcrafting through the seasons
- everything we need to make 3 herbal infusions
- stickers and markers for labeling
You can bring:
- notebook
You will go home with:
- a printed herbal monograph and recipe card for making future infusions
- three herbal infusion blends for straining in one month
- cheesecloth for straining the infusions when they are ready
- a muslin bag for carrying
- a knowledge base for lifelong learning in herbalism
About the artist: ELIZABETH HODGES
Maker, tree hugger and crazy plant lady Liz Hodges spent her early childhood years on a 40-acre homestead in Washington State, following her mother around the garden, pasture, root cellar and kitchen. In 2006, she moved to the Santa Cruz area to be close to her aunt, her late mother's sister. Here she has completed her B.A. in Global Studies, avidly gardened, raised chickens and goats, started a homesteading blog, served on the Slow Food Santa Cruz board, written for Edible: Monterey Bay and studied horticulture. She now pursues a lifelong study of herbalism, which she holds a certificate in. She founded her apothecary Verdant California in 2015, which she currently operates out of her home and studio in beautiful Bonny Doon. Her favorite thing to do in her free time is to wander about hillsides, learning and identifying herbs and fungi and daydreaming about what to make with them.
Website: verdantcalifornia.com
IG: @verdant.california
