Building Your Home Apothecary - Workshop

Have you always wanted to know how to make your own home medicine chest stocked with effective homemade remedies for you and your family? In this class you’ll discover how to use easy-to-find ingredients from the garden and grocery for everything from colds and flus to digestive upsets, headaches, and skin rashes. From the many uses of apple cider vinegar to tonics, herbal teas, and baths, empower yourself with natural therapies that help restore health and accelerate healing. We’ll make virus-fighting elderflower/echinacea syrup and spicy fire cider, a tasty digestive tea, and a soothing herbal salve and lip balm with samples to take home. Class includes an extensive handout with recipes. Get ready for the winter nasties and learn the fascinating craft of the home apothecary.

Price: $96, $86 member

Location: York Street

Instructor: Susan Evans

Susan specializes in empowering people to improve their health and lifestyle through herbal and wellness education. Let Susan introduce you to herbs for healing, cooking, gardening and crafting. Susan has been cultivating and working with herbs for more than 30 years. She managed garden centers and greenhouses in Denver before starting her own organic landscaping business, Flowerscapes, which she owned and operated for 12 years. She has worked as a master gardener and volunteer naturalist for Jefferson County, Colorado. She has a certificate in advanced clinical herbalism from the Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies in Boulder and has over 1,500 hours of clinical study and experience in the uses of medicinal plants. After attaining her certification in 1997, she founded Chrysalis Herbs. Since then, she has devoted herself to sharing her love and knowledge of herbs and gardening, helping people to reconnect with the beauty and healing aspects of the natural world.