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One Day and Weekend Workshops 2010
Growing Medicinal Herbs
with Autumn Summers, Saturday, May 1, 10am-4pm, $75 - $60
Come learn how to grow medicinal plants from seed, cuttings, and divisions. We will talk about how to be successful propagating medicinal herbs in the Bay Area. We will use the 250 plus plants in the CSHS Garden as our teachers, seeing where they thrive and what we can do to grow them successfully. You will go home with plants to grow in your own garden.
Functional Foods - Medicinal Plants in Your Kitchen
with Trinity Ava, Sunday, May 2, 10am-4pm, $75 - $60
“Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food"- Learn how to infuse your cooking with delicious and nourishing herbs for health, wellness and preventative care for the whole family. Learn how to make herbal Kimichi, fermented beverages, herbal tonic soups, herbal treats for kids/adults, seaweed treats, mushroom delights, and how to cook with intoxicatingly decedent essential oils. This class is a mouth-watering adventure creating alchemical cuisine for the whole family.
Seaweed as Food and Medicine
with Autumn Summers, Saturday, June 12, 6:30pm - 9pm (class) and Sunday, June 13, 7:30am - 9:30am (field trip), sliding scale $75 - $60
From ancient times to the present, seaweeds have been used by coastal people all over the world to nourish themselves and their gardens, as well as to treat disease. The Sonoma coast is incredibly rich in seaweeds that can be used as foods and medicines. Learn how to identify, use and collect, in an ethical way, this abundant resource. Evening class will be at CSHS. Maps will be given out for Saturday morning field trip location during the Friday evening class. Field trip location is 40 minutes from CSHS campus.
Medicine Show and Herbal Bazaar
Brought to you by the students of CSHS, Friday, June 25, 4pm -7pm, tuition: FREE!
This gala event presents the culmination of a semesters worth of medicine making and herbal endeavors by our full-time students. Come and taste herbal teas, tinctures, elixirs and foods. Meet the staff and students and learn about what we do here. Parking is limited. Please register early!
Herbal Beer Making
with Jen Bredesen, Saturday, August 22, 10am -4pm, $75 - $60 sliding scale
Brewing beer is an ancient craft that combines cooking skills, art, and science into a potentially healthy beverage. With the addition of herbs, this hearty beverage can also become a personalized remedy or a unique fermented drink. In this class we will brew a partial-mash herbal beer (with whole grains, malted-barley extract, hops, yeast and additional herbs), while learning the concepts of beer-making, as well as successful techniques for incorporating a wide variety of tasty and medicinal herbs.
Herbal Medicine-Making
with Karen Aguiar and Terri Jensen, Saturday & Sunday, September 18 & 19, 10am - 4 pm, 2 day course, $150-$110
Why buy herbal products when it’s so simple and empowering to make your own? This hands-on class includes instruction on harvesting, drying, preserving and preparing medicinal plants. Learn how to make medicinal teas, infused oils, salves, tinctures, vinegars, glycerites and more. We’ll also discuss the principles of ethical harvesting. Includes samples of tinctures and medicines made in class.
Be Well - Prevention and Treament of Colds and the Flu
with Trinity Ava, Saturday, October 2, 10am - 4pm,
$75 - $60 sliding scale
In the United States, there are over 1 billion cold’s per year, the common cold leads to 75 to 100 million physician visits annually at a conservative cost estimate of $7.7 billion per year. More than one-third of patients who saw a doctor received an antibiotic prescription, which has implications for antibiotic resistance from overuse of such drugs. What if everyone remembered how to self care for this common condition?
We will discuss the controversy of flu shots, over the counter drugs, the nature of a virus and how herbs work to address viral and bacterial infections while increasing our immune system function. Learn about the top self care modalities with herbs, diet, fungi, dietary supplements and essential oils for preventing and addressing cold’s and the flu for the whole family. This class is designed for all levels to empower our wellbeing holistically.
Fungi Farmaceuticals & Delectable Wild Edibles
with Terri Jensen, Karen Aguiar and Autumn Summers, Saturday, October 30, 10am - 4pm,
$75 - $60 sliding scale
We’ll spend the day with a foray into the world of medicinal mushrooms and local edible plants. We'll root around the duff exploring historical uses, current findings, and folklore of fungi. We will look at some interesting mushroom samples and discuss how to make these into medicines. We’ll explore local wild foods by making acorn porridge, roasting bay nuts and adding cattail pollen to baked products.
Herbal Holiday Gift Making
with Trinity Ava and Autumn Summers, Saturday, December 4, 10am - 2:30pm, Sliding scale $75 - $60
Create holiday magic with unique and inspiring hand crafted gifts. Learn how to create decedent and cost effective gifts for the entire family that will have them begging you to make more year after year! You will learn how to make: luscious lip balms, skin nourishing creams, anti-oxidant packed facial serums, bath salts and much more.
Recipes, samples and packaging examples will be provided to each student .
Mailing address: PO Box 39, Forestville, CA 95436
Physical address: 9309 Highway 116, Forestville
Phone: (707) 887-7457
Email: cshs@cshs.com
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