The Medicine Keepers Series
The Medicine Keepers, the tenders of this path, of the land, this knowledge, these traditions, and of lineage.
In community, we will plant, grown, tend, harvest and create alongside our beloved plant allys!
By the end of our season together you will have about 32 herbs and herbal preparations as part of your amazing herbal apothecary! 
This is a practical program, we will be physically working and collectively tending our herbal gardens here at Wild Ginger through out the season. This includes everything from planting seeds, laying compost and weedmat, planting, harvesting, drying, weeding, and making many herbal preparations. The program is entirely outdoors. Molly Meehan Brown of Wild Ginger Herbal Center is the program facilitator.
This program will have very limited spaces and is expected to fill fast. 

The Medicine Keeper Series
​Seasonal Series Growing & Creating Your Own Herbal Apothecary

Location:
In Person Class
Wild Ginger Herbal Center
Bryans Road, Maryland
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🌿 = an herb or preparation you will take home with you

Class 1 : Preparing . . . Sowing Seeds & Life
April 24 - Sunday the from 12-4 pm
Circle Work
Tending the Garden
​Garden Bed Prep
Seed Starting
Milky Oats Planting
🌿Fresh Nettles Harvest
🌿Comfrey Salve

Class 2 : Planting . . . Reap what you Sow
May 15 - Sunday the from 12-4
Circle Work
Tending the Garden
​Composting
Planting (ginger, foods, herbs, hibiscus, spicy radish)
🌿Peach Leaf
🌿 Chickweed Tincture
🌿 Yarrow Flower Essence
🌿 Peppermint Glycerite

Class 3 : Tending . . .Harvest & Nurture
June 26 Sunday the from 12-4
Circle Work
Tending the Garden 
🌿 Milky Oat Harvest & Tincture
🌿 Bee Balm Harvest
🌿 Motherwort Harvest - Fresh & Tincture
🌿 Shiso Harvest
🌿Linden Harvest & Tincture
🌿St. Johns Flower Essence

Class 4: Abundance . . . Putting Up the Harvest
August 14 Sunday the from 12-4
Circle Work
Tending the Garden
🌿 Sumach Harvest
🌿 Gingko Biloba Harvest Fresh & Tincture
🌿 Tulsi Harvest Fresh & Tincture & Honey
🌿 Nettles Seeds
🌿 Passionflower Fresh & Tincture
🌿 Horehound Oxymel
🌿 Calendula Salve

Class 5:  Going Inward - Save for the Future
October 23 Sunday the from 12-4
Circle Work
​Fresh Root Digging - 🌿Burdock
Seed Saving - 🌿Burdock, 🌿Marshmallow, Etc
🌿Fresh Goldenrod
🌿Fresh Hibiscus Ginger Cordial
🌿Nettles
🌿Tulsi Rose Honey
🌿Elderberry Syrup
🌿Cedar Juniper Bundles

Supplies
We will provide many of the supplies, however registrants are responsible to purchase and bring the following supplies listed below. These costs are not included in the program, instead are the responsibility of the registrant, and these supplies will be required for your participation. Many of these supplies can be purchased through local apothecaries or health food stores, online at Mountain Rose Herbs, Glycersupplier.com, and even amazon.
You'll Need to Purchase and Bring:
(Estimated $120 - $150 total cost)
12 Pack Pint Size Jars @ $20
1/2 gallon to 1 gallon of food grade vegetable Glycerine @ $22
2 or 3 half gallons of vodka or brandy or 80 proof liquor of your choice ($40)
5 - 2 Oz Tins @ $10
4 -1/2 oz bottles @ $5
20 - 2oz glass dropper bottles @ $22
​24 oz of Honey
Knife
Scissors
Cutting Board
​Gardening Gloves
Weather Appropriate Clothing
Water and Personal Snacks for Your time at Wild Ginger
Masks are required at all times at Wild Ginger

We ask that all folks who join our collective learning spaces read our Wild Ginger Values and Agreements, but signing up for this program you consent to these values and agreements that hold our time together.  Click Here to Read 

Earlybird Enrollment Open

This is a live, in person class in Bryans Road, Maryland, there is not an virtual option for this course. Once you register you will receive confirmation of your spot within 1-2 business days. Please note that you are required to purchase the additional supplies listed above in order to participate in the course and bring those supplies with you on designated days. Please remember all program registrations are final, non-transferable and non-refundable.