In this workshop, we will meet medicinal plants popping in the garden around Solstice and learn how to use them to support our bodies. Herbalist Laurel Karney will be our guide. Laurel will teach us the art of salve making and each student will make and take home solstice salve.

Contact QueenMountainHomestead@gmail.com to sign up or inquire.

Cost: $55.00/participant

Material costs included, except salve containers. Plan to bring your own reused containers, 4 oz. or less. Opaque or tinted glass will keep your salve longer.

Laurel’s Bio:

Laurel spent much of her childhood in the rural woods and beaches of the Key Peninsula where she developed a strong connection with the natural world. As a child she enjoyed perusing her parents’ eclectic library of books on herbalism, homesteading, spirituality and philosophy. Laurel’s interest in plants, and our connection to them, inspired her to study under the tutelage of Candis Cantin at the Evergreen Herb School in Placerville, CA. It was here that she was introduced to Ayurveda, which she went on to study at the California College of Ayurveda in Nevada City, CA receiving her AHE certification. Over the years, Laurel split her time between working on small scale farms throughout Washington and California and her studies. She settled in the unique bioregion of the Central Sierra Nevada foothills where she co-stewarded a permaculture inspired homestead on 37 acres and created an herbal tea and body care business. Laurel has created and managed community gardens, served as the Market Garden instructor and farmer’s market liaison at Calaveras High School and instructed classes on community herbalism, Ayurveda and gardening. She is passionate about community, people and plants! Now back home in Whatcom County, Laurel’s current interests involve foraging, fermenting, growing herbs and finding creative ways to raise more rabbits, bees and food with her husband and stepson on their small but mighty city lot in Bellingham.