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One Day and Weekend Workshops 2009
Herbal Medicine-Making
with Karen Aguiar and Terri Jensen, Saturday & Sunday, April 4 & 5, 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.
Practicing Herbalism: An Advanced Class for Herbalists Working with Clients
with 7Song, Monday, April 27, 10am -4pm, $75 - $60 sliding scale
This class will discuss the fundamentals of working with patients. We will cover how to perform an in-depth intake, how to establish client repertoire, and the combination of both constitutional and pathophysiological approaches in treatment. The day will include a number of strategies for considering herbal therapies and will discuss how to tailor single herbs and formulas for both acute and long-term health needs. We will draw on real-life case studies from both teacher and students. There will also be a mid-day plant walk to discuss different ways to approach some of the local and gardened plants on the beautiful CSHS grounds.
Taught by visiting herbalist 7Song- director of the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine in Ithaca, NY
Herbal Beer Making
with Jen Bredesen, Saturday, May 2, 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 First Aid
with Jen Bredesen, Sunday, May 3, 10am -4pm, $75 - $60 sliding scale
There are many opportunities for using herbs in first aid applications. Be prepared by developing your herbal first aid kits for home and travel. Learn the actions that are required and techniques for handling basic first aid situations such as wound care, cuts and bruises, infections, burns, bleeding, digestive upset, cramps, motion sickness, sore muscles, bites & stings and more.
Plants Of Pomo Canyon ~ Herb Walk
with Autumn Summers, Saturday, May 16, 10am-2pm, $30 - $25
Discover the wild plants of Sonoma County and their medicinal uses. A wonderful gift for anyone! This is our most popular walk please register early! Meet at 10am at Pomo Canyon. Maps will be sent along with confirmation. BRING: water, lunch, comfortable walking shoes, a light jacket, and sun protection.
Dyeing with Native Plants
with Rebecca Burgess, Saturday, June 6, 10am-5pm, $75- $60
This one-day class focuses on the use of common perennial native plants for natural dyes. Participants will learn how to harvest, where to harvest, and when. We will explore the general patterns of local of land-use history, and its effects on our relationships with these plants. We will learn how to prepare animal or plant fibers for dyeing. Dye vats from five native plants will be made ready for us to experiment with, using locally sourced wool, organic cotton, and silk as our palettes.
Growing Medicinal Herbs
with Autumn Summers, Sunday, June 7, 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.
Medicine Show and Herbal Bazaar
Brought to you by the students of CSHS, Friday, June 26, 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!
Seaweed as Food and Medicine
with Autumn Summers, Friday, July 24, 6:30pm - 9pm (class) and Saturday, July 25, 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.
Herbal Medicine-Making
with Karen Aguiar and Terri Jensen, Saturday & Sunday, October 3 & 4, 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.
Growing Your Herbal Business Sustainably-
A comprehensive day long seminar to help you grow your herbal practice and business.
with Trinity Ava, Saturday October 10, 10am - 4pm, $75 - $60 sliding scale
You have an herbal business, are planning to start your one, or offer herbal consultations. This one day seminar is intended to walk you through the many phases of growing a business in the natural products industry, enhancing a smaller local business, or practitioner based business. Topics include: Using your website to expand your herbal business, marketing to new customers, strategic planning of growth, creating a business plan, understanding our regulatory framework in the USA for DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994) and the FDA standards for legal structure and function claims, utilizing herbal associations such as AHPA (American Herbal Products Association). Learn more about the “hot” categories and trends in the herbal industry to support your business to yield more fruit! Trinity Ava has owned her own business, and worked for companies small and large in the natural products industry for over a decade. It is her intention to see more independent business owners succeed in earning a sustainable livelihood with plants.
Fungi Farmaceuticals & Delectable Wild Edibles
with Terri Jensen, Karen Aguiar and Autumn Summers, Sunday, October 11, 10am - 4pm,
$75 - $60 sliding scale
We’ll spend the morning with a foray into the world of medicinal mushrooms and root around the duff of historical uses, current findings, and folklore. We will look at some interesting mushroom samples and discuss how to make these into medicines. In the afternoon we’ll explore local wild foods by making acorn porridge, roasting bay nuts and baking cattail pollen scones. A wonderful way to spend a fall day!
Herbal Holiday Gift Making
with Autumn Summers, Saturday, December 6, 2008 10am - 2:30pm, Sliding scale $75 - $60
Get into the holiday spirit! In simpler days before modern technology, holiday gifts were made at home, from the heart. Learn how to make your own homemade gifts using herbs, spices and flowers. You will learn how to make lip balm, dream pillows, hand cream, bath salts, and more. Recipes and samples will be given to each student. This day is a gift in itself.
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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