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GIVING GROUND 2010 Herbal Weekend Retreat/Workshop Schedule May - June 2010 May 1, 2010: Saturday only: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Spring Faery Herb Class For parent or caregiver and child age 8 and up; A child's beginning wild herb class. Each family will decorate a tiny wooden tea chest with natural materials, and then we'll fill the chest with dried flower blossom tea. There'll be a lovely luncheon and a woodland tea to drink with honey, and we'll have an herb walk during which we'll be on the look-out for fairies. Special fee of just $85.00 for young student and caregiver. May 2-4, 2010: Sunday afternoon - Tuesday afternoon Herbal Medicine for Dogs and Cats At the heart of this workshop will be healing preparations for some of the common ailments our companion animals suffer. Skin rashes and dryness, hot spots, digestive problems, cuts and wounds, will be among our topics, as well as some healthy "weed" supplements we can add to our pets' food for a vitamin and mineral boost. You will take home medicinal products for your own animals. Sauna bath, all meals, cottage beds made up, heat and lights on. May 7-9, 2010: Friday afternoon - Sunday afternoon Mother's Day Weekend We'll focus on our own physical and spiritual health; we can't take care of our children as well if we are ourselves exhausted. Laboratory preparations you will make and take home will include herbal lip balm, aromatherapeutic and cooling spritzes for after gardening or after the heat of summer days, and healthy hand, face, and body moisturizing lotions. May 14-16, 2010: Friday afternoon - Sunday afternoon Herbal Medicine for Dogs and Cats At the heart of this workshop will be healing preparations for some of the common ailments our companion animals suffer. Skin rashes and dryness, hot spots, digestive problems, cuts and wounds, will be among our topics, as well as some healthy "weed" supplements we can add to our pets' food for a vitamin and mineral boost. You will take home medicinal products for your own animals. Sauna bath, all meals, cottage beds made up, heat and lights on. May 28-30, 2010: Friday afternoon - Sunday afternoon: Monday is Memorial Day Herbal Medicine for Dogs and Cats See above June 4-6, 2010: Friday afternoon - Sunday afternoon School's Out Soon! Herbal Medicine for Children We will concentrate on several childhood ailments such as fever and colds, ear-aches, digestive upsets, strep and sore throats, coughs, rashes, lice. We will work up formulas in the laboratory, and complete preparations, which you'll take home for your family. We'll make herbal bug repellent for ourselves and for our children. Canoe trip for the spirit, traditional Finnish sauna bath, all meals, cottage beds made up, heat and lights on. June 11-13, 2010: Friday afternoon - Sunday afternoon School's Out Soon! Herbal Medicine for Children See above June 18-20, 2010: Friday afternoon--Sunday afternoon Greens! Greens in salads, green salves, green tonic medicines, green hydrosols we steam distill during the weekend. First root crops in, as well! It should be full summer by this time, and we'll revel in the harvests. Traditional Finnish sauna bath, all meals, cottage beds made up, fans and lights on. June 25-27, 2010: Friday afternoon - Sunday afternoon Herbs of the Old Testament We'll study the history of herbal medicine, beginning vocabulary, caveats, wild-gathering protocols. We'll concentrate on medicinal herbs used by the ancient Old Testament families living along the Red Sea and in the Mediterranean regions. We'll make the kinds of salves, oil infusions and tinctures those early families might well have made, using olive oil and beeswax and wild herbs that for the most part, grow still in rocky, dry, windy areas--only right here! |