Purchasing a one-time, one-person registration for the Medicinal Power of Culinary Herbs & Thieves Tincture Making Workshop, July 13, 2024 from 12-2 pm at the Floyd EcoVillage Farm Store.
When we think of medicinal herbs, how many think to include culinary herbs among the list of powerful plant allies? Food as medicine, medicine as food. We know culinary herbs improve the taste of our foods, but did you know they contain many health benefits and medicinal uses? The ancient thieves during the time of the plague knew this, and their use of culinary herbs as immune booster became legendary. Let us harvest the power of summer as an immune booster for later. We will explore the medicinal folk uses and history of some of our main culinary herbs, and everyone will get to make their own ‘Thieves’ tincture.
The workshop would entail:
-Small Plant ID Walk and discussion in EcoVillage Learning Garden (weather permitting)
-Rules on Harvesting Sustainably and at peak potency
-Information session on folklore, history, and medicinal uses of main culinary herbs.
-Tincture making class (Tinctures defined, why tinctures, how to make your own)
-Hands on – each attendee makes a tincture to bring home (will need to macerate and be pressed at home)- plant material for tincture making will be supplied by I-TAL Acres.
Supplies:
-Bowls/Cutting boards/Knives/Scissors to coarsely chop herbs before making tincture (we will have some scissors/pruners/cutting boards, but bring if you have/remember)
-Mason jar or other jar to make tincture (we will have them on hand, but bring one if you have -peanut butter/pasta jar size is usually ideal)
-Sunglasses/hat/sunscreen/water bottle – we will be outside at least part of the time
