women's herbal wisdom

workshop series coming soon!

A transformative journey into women’s herbal wellness! This hands-on workshop series will guide you through growing, harvesting, and crafting herbal remedies specifically tailored to support women’s health. From building your own apothecary garden to blending teas and tinctures for cycle balance, cramps, and PMS, each session provides practical skills, menstrual health education, and take-home herbal preparations. Whether you’re looking for natural support for PMS, perimenopause, or overall well-being, these classes will empower you with herbal knowledge rooted in tradition, practice, and science.

Each class will include education about the menstrual cycle and related women’s health topics, handouts, medicine-making instructions, hands-on time with plants, and herbal remedies to take home. Each class builds on the knowledge learned in previous classes, but is also accessible as a stand-alone class.

Tentative Schedule:

Saturday, May 10th - Building your women’s apothecary garden

• A basic introduction on how to use herbs to address common menstrual complaints like cramps, PMS, irregular cycles, and heavy bleeding

• How to plant, care for, and make strong, effective medicine with very low maintenance perennials

• Sample herbs: Motherwort, Nettle, Raspberry, Yarrow, Valerian, Mugwort, and More!

• You will receive 4 potted plants from above list to take home

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Saturday, June 28th - A deeper dive into the hormonal cycle: The role of the liver and digestion for hormones and cycle support

• Learn about our body’s natural detoxification systems

• Learn recipes for medicinal blends you can make at home to support the beautiful work your liver and digestive system are already doing:

  • For PMS

  • Digestion/microbiome support

  • Skin health

• Harvest fresh herbs

• Craft your own liver-supporting blend to take home

• Sample herbs: Dandelion, Burdock, Artichoke, Yellow dock, Lemon balm, Catnip, Fennel, Milk thistle

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Saturday, Aug 9th - How to address common menstrual issues with herbs: cramps, PMS, heavy bleeding, and more

• Discuss key herbs for cramps, emotional balance, stress support, heavy bleeding, and PMS

• Harvest fresh herbs

• Craft your own targeted herbal blend to take home

• Sample herbs: Tulsi, Hibiscus, Skullcap, Cramp bark/Black haw, Ginger, valerian

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Saturday, September 20th - Top 5 herbal remedies to support women’s health - at the Goldenrod Gathering

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Saturday, October 11th - Herbal support for perimenopause and menopause

• Deep dive into vitex, black cohosh, and other key herbs to support the hormonal transition, including blends for hot flashes, insomnia, and mood

• Harvest either vitex or black cohosh and make tincture