🌿 4-Week Medicine Making Series

Service Description

Over four weeks, we’ll explore four traditional ways of extracting the gifts of plants using simple ingredients you can incorporate into your own home apothecary. 🍯 Week 1 — Infused Honey Discover the art of making herbal honey and explore how honey can be used as a nourishing preparation for the home apothecary. We’ll cover: Choosing herbs for honey Herbal preparation and infusion methods Safety, storage and shelf life Ways to use infused honey Create your own herbal-infused honey to take home 🌿 Week 2 — Infused Vinegar Explore vinegar as an accessible and versatile way to extract herbs and create culinary and herbal preparations. We’ll cover: Choosing herbs for vinegar Vinegar infusion techniques Straining, storing and labeling Culinary and everyday uses Create your own infused vinegar to take home 🌻 Week 3 — Infused Oils Learn the foundations of herbal oil making and how plant constituents can be drawn into a nourishing oil. We’ll cover: Fresh vs. dried herbs Choosing carrier oils Infusion methods Straining and storage Creating herbal oils for future salves and body preparations Make your own infused oil to take home 🌙 Week 4 — Alcohol Tinctures Complete the series by learning the traditional art of making alcohol-based herbal tinctures. We’ll cover: What tinctures are and why alcohol is used Choosing herbs and alcohol strengths Basic preparation and infusion methods Straining, bottling and labeling Storage and shelf life Create your own herbal tincture to take home 🌿 What You'll Receive Each week includes: Hands-on medicine making Plant and preparation education Your own herbal preparation to take home Recipes and instructions to continue making medicines at home Four weeks. Four extraction methods. One growing home apothecary.