Healing Herb Workshop, this Saturday, October 10th, at Prairie Hill

 I meant to post this earlier, but things got too busy here! For those of you who live within traveling distance of Iowa City, you might be interested in coming to learn about and harvest healing herbs on Saturday. We'll start at 2:00 in the Prairie Hill Common House. And then later we'll go out to my medicinal herb garden, and you can harvest anything that you'd like. You'll get directions about how to make tinctures and how to make salves. So if you're interested, you can go home and use herbs from this garden to fill your own winter medicine cabinet.  I'm pasting a list of most of the herbs growing here right now, though there are some others that didn't make it onto the list. No charge for this. I love to share my garden and the information about how plants can help make us more resilient and healthy.  Here's a partial list of what's here now:

Anise Hyssop

Black Cohosh

Borage

Burdock Root

Common Sage

Dandelion Root

Echinacea

Elecampane

Goldenrod

Horehound

Lemonbalm

Motherwort

Mugwort

Peppermint

Plantain

Rosa Rugosa

Rue

St. Johnswort

Thyme

Valerian

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