Women's Herbal Retreat June 17 at Little City Farm - Registration OPEN!

Announcing!

WOMEN'S HERBAL RETREAT AT LITTLE CITY FARM - SAT JUNE 17.

Relax in a supportive small group learning environment.   Reconnect to the earth through relationship to healing plant allies.  Find inspiration through beauty, celebration & hands-on herbal remedy making during this retreat.

This one day retreat includes four hands-on workshops by local herbalists and holistic health practitioners.  Learn to make flower essences, how to add wild nutrient-dense foods into our meals, herbal-kitchen alchemy, and making healing remedies for summer skincare.

Also, we will be nourished throughout the retreat day with wholesome delicious teas, snacks & lunch foods inspired by herbal and wild foraged fare, time for journal writing and plant herbarium creation, sketching, and photography, and participate in a plant & food swap to end our day together.

Workshop facilitators:

• Heather Cain - Flower Essences & Plant Spirit Healing
  
• Jackie McMillan - How to Dress a Wild Salad
  
• Jassie Bhuee - Herbal Kitchen Alchemy
  
• Karin Kliewer - Healing Summer Skincare Remedies
  

Food catered by Seed of Life Foods and Little City Farm (including vegan and gluten-free, organic nutrient-dense foods).

More details to follow once you have registered.

Limited to 15 wonderful participants!

Cost: $152.55 (includes HST, lunch, snacks, recipes, hand-out notes, take-home samples from workshops, and more surprises!)
 
Payment required to reserve your spot.
Contact Karin at info@littlecityfarm.ca for any questions.

OR Register here online.

Herbal order for local midwives

We were very pleased to be asked to prepare a batch of herbal post-partum packages for a new local midwifery office - the Blue Heron Midwives located in uptown Waterloo.  This beautiful new clinic has just opened and is having their grand opening event in a few weeks: Nov 25 at 2 pm.  The midwives that gave me the tour when I dropped off the herbs (i.e. post-partum bath teas and calendula healing salves) mentioned that they are very interested in taking new clients, so this is worth noting for our local readers who may be looking for a midwife.  It's often difficult to get a midwife here in town if you don't call right away, so it's wonderful to have another office open up to provide what is obviously a much needed service.

Red clover harvest

First harvests of red clover blossoms for our Women's Tea this week.  Red clover is an excellent herb for women of all ages and helps alleviate hot flashes, menopausal symptoms, and PMS as it contains a chemical called isoflavones which acts similarily to the female hormone estrogen.  Harvesting red clover is a great project to do with kids - this herb grows low to the ground so is easily reached by little arms and hands, is simple to harvest (and not irritating to skin like stinging nettle), smells beautiful, and is safe to nibble on.  General harvesting tips: Pick blossoms when they are fully opened, in mid morning after dew has dried but before the heat of the day causes flowers to wilt.  Harvest only 1/3 of a clover patch (or any herbal patch you are harvesting) so to keep a strong healthy plant for next season and leave a substantial amount of blossoms for bees, etc.