Workshop: Making Medicine

Herbal medicine is the people’s medicine! Learn how you can welcome common, locally prolific herbs into your life and stock up your medicine cabinet in this experiential, introductory workshop. Students will learn to confidently identify four different plants ready to harvest late fall. We will discuss several different medicine making techniques in class including tinctures, vinegars, syrups, fermentation, and decoctions. This workshop will include wild-crafting fundamentals, medicinal actions, edibility, and folk lore of each plant discussed. We will focus on tonic herbs most people will benefit from incorporating in their health routines such as dandelion, burdock, yellow dock, & angelica.

Preparations we will make include:
Burdock and Dandelion Root Java
Bitters Aperitif
Strong Blood Syrup
Deep Roots Kimchi (burdock, sunchokes, ginger, and tumeric)

Bring 2 of your own 8oz. jars and a $10 materials fee if you would like to take home the medicines we make in class.

Taught by Carly Leusner of Acorn Kitchen
Carly has studied herbalism and wild food cookery for close to a decade, both formally and as an integrated, vital part of her daily life. Carly completed a 2-year clinical herbalism training with Chris Marano at the Clearpath School of Herbal Study. She has also studied with Sage Mauer at the Gaia School of Healing & Earth Education, master herbalist Susun Weed, and is currently studying with whole foods chef Alice Cozzolino. She holds a B.A. in Ethnobotany from Hampshire College. Carly co-founded and runs Acorn Kitchen, a wild food and medicine educational cooperative in 2011. She always looks forward to the next moment she can dance around the stove and share the joy of eating handmade food and medicines with others.