Learn to make your own soothing salve and herb infused nutritive vinegar with my Weedy Wonder DIY kits and online workshop series.

If you’re interested in learning about some of the plants growing around you, if you’re interested in health, ecology, and learning how to make your own cheap and effective herbal preparations to grow your own apothecary, then keep reading. I’d love to introduce you to a few plant friends of mine:) This would be a fun project to do with kids, with friends or family, or by yourself.

I will be posting a couple free videos to get everyone started, and you can watch these with no strings attached as they come out on my new YouTube channel (link on my Connect page).

Overview:

I will be hosting two hour long online workshops around late June, early July. Exact dates are TBD. Along with these workshops, I’ll be offering DIY kits which will include:

plant monographs

recipe cards and instructions

jars and labels

the salve kit will also include everything you need to make salve except for kitchen tools and the oil for infusing

the vinegar kit will include guidance on how to forage for the plant material yourself.

In the workshops, I’ll talk about Chickweed, Plantain, and Dandelion-three common medicinal weeds that probably grow near you. I’ll go into identification, a general overview of history, uses and benefits, and cautions.

In the salve workshop, I’ll focus more on their use topically in an oil infusion. I’ll talk about oil as a menstruum (solvent or solution to extract plant constituents into), and about salves and balms. There will also be some time for questions.

In the vinegar workshop, I’ll focus on their use internally, vinegar as a menstruum, and a little about how to include it in your cooking. There will be some time for questions too!

For more info on what’s in each kit, check out the listings on my Products page. You can purchase the package there as well, if you want:)

Why you might want to join, and how to choose which workshop:

Maybe you’ve been looking for an introduction to or a little more support with starting to make your own herbal home-remedies. Maybe you have a garden, and you’re curious about what you could do with these weeds that seem to grow so easily. Maybe you want to learn more about your health, and how to care for your body and your family naturally.

Learning about people, plants, and how they interact has been an amazing, fun, and profound part of my life. I will continue to learn about this forever. It feels so good and healthy and human to work with plants as we have for ages. The sense of tradition, discovery, and the delight when you can see something you made helping you to feel better is really wonderful.

If you’ve got dry, cracking, itchy, or irritated skin. If you sometimes get bug bites, scrapes, burns, bruises and things. Or if you have sore inflamed joints, this salve may be a new friend. If you’re interested in culinary herbalism, looking for ways to get more minerals into your diet, or interested in some digestive, respiratory, renal, nervous, and musculoskeletal system support, the vinegar might be a fun and helpful thing to try.

Or you can do both if you want, you’ll get a discount:)

This might not be for you:

If you don’t want to spend the time making these things for yourself. The salve needs you to be somewhat paying attention for the equivalent of about a day. This can be over a few days, and for up to about an hour at one time, but for the most part it’s just a quick check up every once in a while. The vinegar takes a little less time, but over a few weeks.

If you’re allergic to plants in the Asteraceae (daisy), Caryophyllaceae (carnation), or Plantaginaceae families. Or to plant latex. You could still enjoy this, and just leave a plant out of your preparations if you don’t get along with it.

Or if you hate weeds, put herbicide on the ones on your property, and want nothing to do with natural health. I would still encourage you to be curious, and feel free to watch my videos, but this workshop series is probably not for you:)

A little about the host:

I am a nature and wild edible enthusiast from childhood. A student of Permaculture and Herbal Medicine for the last 4 years. And someone who gets really excited about plants, making things, the human condition, and talking about stuff. I would love to be invited along as a part of your quest to be a happy, healthy human.