Herbal Medicine
Making Circles​
Tonic Herb Shop
in Shepherdstown, WV
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Create herbal remedies for your own home apothecary with locally grown plants
Make salves, syrups, tea blends, tinctures, tonics and more.
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Each class is creatively aligned with the seasonal unfolding of the earth ~ touching on botany, herbal energetics, hands-on herbal crafting, and tuning into our innate wisdom and reflective capacities.
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$45 per class ​
Held most months, April through November on Thursday evening from 4-6:30
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wild spring greens
April 17 ~ JOIN
Participants will gain familiarity with a diversity of wild spring greens, exploring the diversity of ways they can be infused into food, tea, oils.
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This class has a hands on element! You will get to prepare Violet Massage Oil and Green Garden Salve with Violet, Comfrey, Plantain & Lavender and share a wild snack as we close with a cup of tea.​
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nettles and milky oats
May 15 ~ JOIN
Nourishing Infusions and Herbal Vinegars ~ together we will meet and incorporate fresh herbs into teas and vinegars, exploring creative ways to receive mineral rich and tasty herbal infusions.
This class has a hands on element! You will get to blend an herbal vinegar with local honey to take home and share a sparkling herbal tonic in class.
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rose and calendula
July 17 ~ JOIN
We will greet Rose, Calendula and St. John’s Wort, and interact with them through preparation of infused oils for skin care & restoration.
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This class has a hands on element! You will get to blend a facial serum and body butter to take home. ​​​​
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the elders
August 31st ~ JOIN
Prepare and sample herbal syrups together while exploring the basics of herbal energetics and making healing elixirs for your home apothecary.
You'll each take home a bottle of elderberry syrup made with local honey for immune support and sample various other herbal syrups and recipes in class.
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fire cider!
October 16 ~ JOIN
Get ready for the turn of the seasons with an immune supporting and warming batch of fire cider with locally harvested locally harvested herbs, roots and warming spices
We will explore various preparations of herbal oxymels and blend our own batch of fire cider for each participant to take home.
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incense & sweet sense
November 13 ~ JOIN
Together we will make herbal burn bundles and incense cones from locally grown and harvested plants. I'll bring Sweet Annie, Sweet Grass, Sage, Lavender, Mugwort, Juniper & Marshmallow.
There are many plants that can be used as incense that you can grow or selectively harvest from the surrounding area, while alleviating the pressure on overharvested plants that are not suited to grow in this region.
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Join us for creative community crafting and take home gifts an herbal smoke bundle and a few cone incense to enter the winter dream time.
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