Local, Kitchen Herbalist, Malcolm of Ligaya Garden and Andrew’s Urban Farm (aka Joe’s connected Garden on the hill) will be running a 2 hour workshop from 10 am to 12:30ish on 20th July. I’ll teach you how to make herbal remedies using water as your solvent. The workshop is an extension of the kitchen herbalism basics workshop held at the Precinct at Playford recently, which was a gentle introduction to many of the basic remedies that you can make in your own kitchen. This will expand on part of that but is self contained, so you don’t need to have attended the first one.
We’ll cover teas and tisanes, infusions and decoctions and more than a little bit of theory but no maths! (Hooray!). A detailed set of course notes will be provided by email to all participants. Feel free to print it out and bring it along on the day.
The workshop will be a hand’s on exploration of the benefits of using water to extract the goodness from your herbs and we will be making at least one of each of the remedies listed above.
What to bring?
All of the necessary equipment is supplied but bring along your favourite tea cup and about 100 grams of your favourite herb, dried or fresh. Some really basic dried herbs will be supplied but if you want anything special but No Cannabis or Psilocybe fungi please! I acknowledge that these are wonderful medicines and I recommend them to many people but there are all kinds of sticky legal issues involved so, to make it easier for we organisers, please refrain from bringing any.
The venue
The workshop will be held at Andrew’s Urban Farm which is at 47 Northampton Crescent, Elizabeth East 5112.
Tickets –
In order to give everyone the best experience, I’m limiting attendance to 10 people only.
When you book or message me on the number below, could you please include your email address so that I can send out the workshop notes for you to print or peruse beforehand.
Ticket prices are on a sliding scale, with $30 for anyone who identifies as being broke, $40 for those who can afford a ticket easily and $50 for those with extra cash who want to help sponsor someone else by paying $10 towards their ticket. Everyone will be treated equally so the type of ticket that you purchased will not be disclosed or discussed. Cash on the day is preferred (to escape all of those horrible fees that are creeping in everywhere) so If you intend to pay that way, please message me on 0414661455
What’s next?
We will offer other kitchen herbalism workshops throughout the year. So far, we are planning the following –
- Intro to kitchen herbalism
- Water based remedies
- Tinctures, acetae (vinegars) and glycerites in the kitchen
- Advanced remedy making
- Using your herbs for medicine
