Folk Cures and Kitchen Remedies - Workshop and Luncheon

For centuries people have relied on safe, effective remedies handed down through generations. Start your own healing tradition as you learn how to ease discomfort from sore throats to hair loss with inexpensive ingredients from the garden and kitchen cupboard. We'll have a lunch of delicious, immune enhancing soup and you will take home a tasty digestive tea, an elderberry/ginger/echinacea syrup, and make a jar of flu and cold-fighting fire cider to get you started. Handout, take home samples, light luncheon, and recipes provided.

Price: $91, $81 member

Instructor: Susan Evans

Susan Evans 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.