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Homestead Herbalism
Meeting one Saturday per month beginning in March 2008 from 9am to 4pm

Dates: March 15, April 19, May 17, June 7, July 12, August 16, September 13, and October 11
(dates are tentative and may be subject to change)

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Learning the Fine Art of "Homestead Herbalism"
In the not too distant past, keeping a family strong and healthy with simple home remedies was a common homesteading skill that every woman possessed. Identifying and using wild and cultivated plants was as important and necessary as preserving food or learning to stitch.

The “Homestead Herbalism” foundation course was designed to gather small groups of women (and yes, a few men!) with the intent of re-introducing this empowering tradition by learning together, using our hands, and preparing and sharing the harvest.

Farm at Coventry’s 8-month “Homestead Herbalism” foundation course meets one Saturday every month from March through October. The course curriculum weaves informative current herbal wisdom with interesting historical facts and folk traditions. Through the seasons, from planning & planting through harvest, students will learn to create therapeutic preparations as well as enjoy delicious, nutritional foods and teas using edible, medicinal and fragrance herbs that are both cultivated and wild crafted. Our time together will give students basic herbal knowledge and skills that will empower them to use herbs for their own nutritional, therapeutic and creative needs.

Our teaching areas include a cozy classroom/farmhouse herb kitchen, cultivated gardens on our farm and the fields and forests of northern Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Students will receive approx. 56 hours of instruction, a large spiral ring notebook, plentiful handouts and recipes and a wide variety of take-home herbal preparations made together in class. A beautiful certificate will be presented at the completion of the course.

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