THE KITCHEN PHARMACY CLASS
Grassroots Medicine: Enhancing Wellbeing with the Plants from your Garden
“ Why pay others to frolic in the luscious garden of Earth, picking flowers and enjoying themselves making herbal products? You can do all that frolicking immersing yourself in wondrous herbal beauty and uplifting your mind and spirit. The herbal preparations you make can be every bit as excellent as those you bring home from the store. Actually they will be better, profoundly better” James Green, The Herbal Medicine Maker’s Handbook
CLASS CONTENTS / WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
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The reality of ‘Nature Deficit Syndrome’ in modern life and how we can remedy that
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Twenty common herbs / plants for everyday use and time in the herb garden getting to know them
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Growing, harvesting, drying
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Instructions and recipes for simple herbal infused oils, vinegars , teas, glycerites, honies, salves, scrubs, poultices and compresses for culinary, medicinal and cosmetic purposes
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Fire cider and turmeric paste concoctions for a healthy gut and immune system
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Lots of testing and tasting
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Comprehensive notes, references and ALL materials, jars, bottles, raw ingredients will be provided
PRACTICAL / MAKE & TAKE HOME:
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A culinary infused herbal vinegar
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An infused herbal oil (comfrey, for use on bruises, sprains, broken bones)
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The ingredients to turn your comfrey oil into a Gardener’s Salve (homework!)
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A calendula salve (all purpose, invaluable salve for dry irritated skin, lip balms, baby balms)​
WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM THIS COURSE?
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Anyone with a love of Nature and interest in the medicinal, cosmetic and nutritional value of plants
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No previous experience is necessary
DURATION & COST:
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9:30am to 3:30pm
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Beverages / Gluten free morning tea provided. BYO lunch
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$175.00
BOOKING:
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Places limited to 6 participants
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Payment required at time of booking
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Time and date by arrangement
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All materials provided
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Due to limited places a cancellation fee of 25% applies
VENUE:
115 Hawkens Road, Makarau, Warkworth, 0981
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