Growing Herbs and Herbalism

Name: Growing Herbs and Herbalism
Start: 2024-10-17T14:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-17T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Ballymaloe Cookery School

Schedule

Thu Oct 17 2024 at 02:30 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Ballymaloe Cookery School | Cork, CK

Growing herbs is a great way to start your food growing experience and ensures you have a multi sensory at arms reach be it in a window box, container or raised bed. Herbs - both hard and soft, perennial and annual - bring taste, colour, smell and medicinal benefits to homes and gardens of all shapes and sizes.
Sonya McGee, a valued member of our Farm and Garden Team, is a certified herbalist practitioner with over 7 experience of working with herbs to create tinctures, balms, decoctions, water essences, oxymely, teas and infusions to support physical , emotional and mental health.
This half day course will be based in our farm school classroom, herb gardens and across our 100 acre organic farm and gardens as you forage for seasonal herbs. Sonya will teach you how to reconise and use herbs to support the immune system such as borage, echinacea and rosehip. You’ll taste different recipes and practise first hand how to harvest and dry herbs for long term use.
Sonya will take you through the entire process from growing to harvesting to drying and then how to use these incredible gifts from nature to create infusions and teas that suit your needs and your tastebuds.
What You’ll Learn:
How to grow herbs
How to forage herbs (hawthron, rosehip and other berries will be in season)
How to harvest and dry herbs
How to make herbal teas and infusions
How to connect with nature and develop observation skills
Course Elements:
Propagation (seeds and division)
Foraging
Harvesting and Drying
Herb Tasting
Herbal Teas
Good to Know:
As we’ll spend time walking and learning around the farm please bring suitable clothing and footwear - and allow for changeable weather!
Refreshments included; Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served from 1.30 so please arrive early to sign in, meet other students and get ready for a busy afternoon of hands on learning
The course is held at Ballymaloe Cookery School’s Organic Farm and Gardens in Shanagarry, Co. Cork P25 R274