CREATIVE SERIES: Herbal Spring Tonics

Our ancestors always looked for the greens in nature after the darkness of winter. These local herbs that pop up in early spring were treasured for their nutrition and their medicine after a hard cold and sometimes lean winter. Let’s learn a few things from those ancestors and utilize the wealth of health brimming in our back yards or other wild spaces. Join Ruth Shelton, The Empirical Herbalist, as she teaches about some of the healthiest plants “springing up" and how to use them to make your very own spring tonic or add them in other ways to your life.

Included in Class- lecture with notes on making a vinegar, herbs that are commonly found in East TN during the Spring along with their uses of bringing in vitamins and minerals and medicinal actions..

Each participant will make a spring tonic vinegar to take with them.