Uncover springtime rituals, connect with fellow plant lovers, and deepen your appreciation for the season's vibrant bounty.
Explore the essence and herbs of springtime with community herbalist, farmer, and educator AC Stauble. Gather with other plant people and Nature lovers to sip herbal tea and taste some wild greens pesto at the beautiful NewVida Preserve. We'll learn about the common plants popping up this time of year in the forests, fields and gardens and how to incorporate them into our diets and medicine chest. We will get a chance to take a brief walk of the land and look for some of the plants we discussed or see what else we can find.
AC will share some springtime activities, traditions, and archetypal elements of the spring season, especially in the Northeast US. You'll get to know some of her favorite plants like cleavers, chickweed, nettles, dandelion, burdock root, yellow dock root and more with some examples of freshly harvested plants to examine and taste.
Throughout the class we do deep dives into plants, their constituents, the ways they interact with our body and some of the historical uses and lore of the plants of spring.
AC integrates art, books she loves and used as resources for the class research, and the use of all of our senses through tasting, touching, smelling, and seeing herbs in class. She offers tips on how to harvest and wildcraft (or weedcraft) plants with heart and intention, and directions or pro-tips for harvesting the different plant parts like leaf, flower, seed, or root.
Saturday, May 18th
10:30-12:30pm
$40 per person or use your class package
More About AC Stauble:
AC is an herb farmer, herbalist, product maker, educator and podcaster. She has been studying and growing herbs since 2012 and will continue to be a lifelong student of Nature. She's based on a small herb farm and homestead in Central NY on traditional Oneida lands, where she grows hundreds of varieties of medicinal herbs, fruits, trees and fungi. Using her homegrown herbs, AC creates small batch, hand-made herbal remedies like skin soothing salve, muscle rub, tinctures, teas and more under the brand, Traveling Herb Farmer. She sells her wares at the Cooperstown Farmer's Market and online at TravelingHerbFarmer.com.
AC loves sharing the things she's learned over the years with others. She teaches frequent classes and hosts interns at the farm. She's the co-host of the Plant Cunning Podcast where she and her partner Isaac Hill interview some of the most interesting and inspiring herbalists, gardeners, astrologers, healers, and occultists of our time. They also have an in person Plant Cunning Conference at their farm July 26-28, 2024 featuring herbalists like AC's teachers 7Song and Pam Montgomery for a weekend of classes, great food, live music, plant and fungi walks, and sound healing. You can learn more about the conference at plantcunningconference.com.