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Workshops

 

Learn to identify, propagate, cultivate, harvest and prepare medicinal herbs and other useful plants.
Classes taught at Mountain Gardens, North Carolina’s premier demonstration garden of medicinal plants, with herb shop / pharmacy, extensive research library, seed collection & plant nursery, adjacent to Pisgah National Forest.

 

All-day workshops are 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Cost $100 (bring your own lunch)

Half-day classes are 1:00 – 5:00 pm Cost: $50

Regular Plant Walks are 2 hrs long and cost $25

register below, or you are welcome to pay by cash upon arrival. if paying cash, please email to let us know you are coming, mountaingardens@gmail.com

 

Cost includes handouts, seed and plant distributions and samples of herbs and preparations as appropriate.

Each session will include: a plant walk in the garden and/or adjacent National Forest, lecture/demonstration, hands-on practice, resources and bibliography for further study.

For information on driving, lodging, and refunds, click here.

To register for an event, please follow the link for each date to register online, or call 828-675-5664.

We offer a 20% discount on workshops to groups of 3 or more. Email us for a code.

 

These workshops take advantage of our unique combination of diverse habitats, extensive plant collection, extraordinary library and well-equipped herb shop, plus my forty years of study and experimentation.

As a ‘botanic garden of useful plants’, one of our purposes is to introduce and promote new useful plants, for gardeners, growers, herbalists and chefs. Areas of special interest include wildfoods, medicinal herbs, (native and oriental), health-boosting (tonic, adaptogenic) plants and east-west parallels in botany and pharmacy.

Seeds and plants of most of the species discussed will be available for purchase; additionally participants will have the opportunity to purchase freshly dug, bare-root plants at a considerable saving.

 
 
 
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Music Gardening with Sarah Louise

  • Mountain Gardens 546 Shuford Creek Road Burnsville, NC, 28714 United States (map)

Join us @mountaingardens for Music Gardening with Sarah Louise Saturday 9/7 2-5:30pm

We’ll enjoy an herbal tea ceremony together, with live music offered as a bridge to connect with plant intelligence. Explore flavor as embodied communication from the plant realm and experience a supportive container to begin to sing the songs of plants. Enjoy the beautiful “Paradise Garden” setting of Mountain Gardens, where we will meet many plant friends. Sliding Scale $45-65, with donations of any amount accepted. No one turned away for lack of funds.

I have studied Herbalism since childhood, learning from books and the plants themselves. The simplest thing I can say about myself is that I love nature. My special focus is singing the songs of plants. As a human animal, I believe our bodies are amazing instruments to learn about and connect with the wide world of intelligences around us. My practice is presence. And this is what I bring to my workshops. I love helping to create space where art and wonder can thrive. In this circle, we will have an herbal tea ceremony. As part of the ceremony, I will sing as a bridge for connecting deeper with the plants. I will share some of what I have learned about my ancestral plant traditions, including access points for beginning to sing the songs of plants yourself. We will take stock of where we are at this moment, in this place and be in conversation with the land itself around how to invite more care and repair.

RSVP https://www.springfromsoil.com/events

MORE INFO about 6 week program https://www.springfromsoil.com/sing-from-soil

Source:: https://www.springfromsoil.com/events/music-gardening-2
Earlier Event: August 31
Medicinal Herb Walk with Dave Meesters and Janet Kent of Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine
Later Event: September 21
Equinox Legacy Plant Walk w/ Abby Artemisia