June Herb Weekend

Description

 

This weekend retreat introduces the medicinal herbs of early summer. Our location in the Southern Appalachians, a region sometimes referred to as the “Apothecary of North America,” promises you’ll meet a lot of well-known medicinal herbs such as black cohosh, blue cohosh, maidenhair fern, bloodroot, wild geranium, and more. Together, we’ll explore the incredible diversity of native, introduced, and cultivated herbs that thrive here. 

 

Patricia Kyritsi Howell leads retreat activities that include field botany, ethical harvesting, and medicine-making. 

 

Arrive Friday in time for an evening orientation and wild foods reception at the Parker Ranch. Saturday morning, we’ll head out to a local trail to begin botanizing. You’ll learn to use a botanical key to identify herbs and practice sustainable harvesting as you gather herbs to make medicines. 

 

In the afternoon, we return to Parker Ranch to talk about the uses of the herbs we’ve seen and, if we’ve harvested any herbs, make some medicine.