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Dandelion Botanical Company Class Schedule

Dandelion Botanical Company Storefront and classroom is now located in Sequim, Washington

 

Classes at Dandelion Botanical Co. Sequim Winter 2023







Class # 703
Class Title Medicine Making Class - How to Make the best Oxymels
Instructor Drea Moore
Details Oxymels make great gifts and seasonal mocktails. Learn how to strategically combine the powers of vinegar, honey and herbs to create an herbal extract that can be used for both medicine and pleasure any time of the day. Drea Moore, the “sober herbalist” shares her years of experience making non-alcoholic extracts to revive this ancient trio of herbal magnificence! Watch a demo, taste samples, learn reliable techniques and see why oxymels are once again a trending herbal medicine worth knowing about.

I’ve been making oxymels for years and the cool thing is that they age incredibly well. I learned this from a Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata) oxymel that I made back in 2017. That thing just got deeper in flavor and complexity and made a regular “bitter” into something transcendent—it tasted like a walk through an Autumn forest scape with notes of dried roses and fermenting blackberries. There was even a mineral aftertaste that intrigued… That was a powerful medicine, but also a culinary pleasure that I dropped into seasonal Mocktails— and once drizzled on a fresh fig.

After I stopped using alcohol to make any medicine, I leaned in on these other preparations like vinegars and oxymels, and to everyone’s surprise, these medicines stood the test of time—and delighted the senses. I observed that these preparations were still “alive” to some degree due to the beneficial bacterial cultures in the honey and vinegar. An active symbiosis teases open the herbs I chose to use.

An oxymel extract can be held gently in the mouth and experienced without suffering a sharp alcohol burn, so you can use your palate to observe the herbs’ constituent profiles, as well as taste a continuous process at play. It’s a medicine that reminds me of seeing a band unplugged that is generally known as an electrified unit. Think Nirvana unplugged 1993 and then you get the oxymel vibes. This unplugged medicine yields to all the subtle personalities inherent in vinegar, honey, drying herbs….so many tiny beings—microbes, insects, animals, humans and all their vital intertwined roles are free to arise palpably in a living medicine such as this one… I can hear Kurt singing horsely, “I’m not like them…I’m not like them…” and I am transported.

I’ve been waiting to single this extract out and teach its virtues—I’ll be doing that in Sequim at the apothecary this coming October when everyone is dripping with honey and fruit and can’t figure out how to process all of it. Bundles of dried herbs are strung across kitchens waiting to be used and hopefully those lucky people will come to this workshop and see what they can make from such seasonal abundance!
Dates Sunday, October 27th
Times 11:00 AM -1:00 PM
Fee $25
notes You will NOT be charged for shipping or taxes, but to avoid those charges showing on your receipt, at checkout please select "International" for shipping zone, and do not select "Washington" as your state. That will fool the shopping cart into leaving those fields blank - but don't worry if you forget, we still won't charge you :)
To Enroll Sorry ! Class is full !






Instructors:

Drew Ryan is an avid forager, mushroom cultivator, educator, an ethically informed applied mycologist and small business owner. Harmonic Hyphae is an up and coming small business that is dedicated to bridging the gap between human and fungal realms; all while listening to the power of nature. He is ultimately a lifelong student of nature, an artist, musician, and all around creative who is inspired by the natural world around us.

Michael “Skeeter” Pilarski has worked with hundreds of medicinal plants on spiritual and physical levels. He has farmed organically since 1972 and been a professional wildcrafter of medicinal plants since 1997. He has been working with fairies since 1977 and is the founder of the Fairy & Human Relations Congress. Gaiancongress.org and Friendsofthetreesbotanicals.com

Lauren Morgan lives, loves and dreams on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, where the wild and her plants inform and shape her life and being. Lauren has a degree in Herbal Sciences from Bastyr University, though the true depth of her knowledge comes from a decade plus of serving folks,and working with and learning from the plants directly. She is passionate about sharing the blessings of herbal medicine knowledge with others

Vickie Dodd has been a practitioner and pioneer of Sound as a Bodywork for over five decades. She started using voice with massage clients in the 1970’s and observed that Sound changed the tissue, rearranged the posture and released held emotional undigested material. She has taught and practiced Sound as a Bodywork globally since the early days of her career.

Nancy Welliver has been studying and using natural healing methods since the 1970’s and has been a practicing naturopathic physician and teacher since 1992. In her practice she focuses on the use of herbs, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, and heart. She loves making things more accessible and practical and less complicated and esoteric.

Nandi Duszynski strives for zero waste in her designs for home and body using fabric diverted from landfills & certified organic fabrics. Nandi teaches sewing workshops that help you make your clothing last longer with visible mending. You can find Nandi’s work and shop her designs at www.blissjoybull.com

Drea Moore is a Clinical Herbalist,lives in downtown Port Angeles and teaches herbalism online and in-person on the West coast. She is an alumna of the California School of Herbal Studies, core faculty of the Land of Verse online healing arts and school of herbalism and original founder of the Bay Herbalism Free Community Mobile Herb Clinic. She is certified in Ayurveda, yoga and massage and is currently rebuilding a full clinical herbalism practice here on the peninsula. She grows herbs, makes herbal medicine, conducts educational plant walks and supports the community using holistic healing arts practices and DIY ethics. She also specializes in non-alcohol herbal medicine making methodology and can be reached through soberherbalist.com and @soberherbalist on Instagram.

Diane Fabian has studied and practiced mindfulness since 1999. She has a gift for empowering others to find ease, peace, and honor the self. She is an acupuncturist in Sequim, WA. Hobbies include meditation, rocks & minerals, and singing.
phone: 360-339-4050 email: info at sequimacupuncture dot com

Sabrina Peraza Sabrina is an accomplished herbalist, medicine maker, grower and forager specializing in bio-regional herbal medicine of the Pacific Northwest. She is the owner and operator of Flora Farm, providing unique curations of seasonal herbal medicine, medicinal plant starts and experiential education opportunities in Port Angeles, WA. Sabrina integrates traditional western and folk herbal medicine ideologies with plant spirit and somatic practices for a comprehensive approach to learning and utilizing the medicine of our unique region on the Olympic Peninsula.

Dove Shepard Dove is a wildcrafter, herb gardener, and wellness advocate sowing seeds of connection through community-building projects in the Pacific Northwest. Her love for plants and plant medicine grew out of a desire to connect deeper with the traditional practices of her ancestry, a journey that deepened at the start of the 2020 pandemic. While the pandemic brought hardship and unspeakable grief to many and painful truths to the fore across the globe during the Black Lives Matter protests, it also gave Dove numerous opportunities to dive into her passion by making herbal classes more accessible through online remote learning and scholarship reparations. Since then she has found her “true love gifts” in sharing plant knowledge with the wider community. Plant Journeys is an offering of gratitude to the Ancestors and an imperative to aid humanity in healing its relationship with Nature and our home, Planet Earth. You can learn more about Dove’s journey and her community offerings at www.arasaherbals.com and on Instagram at @doveshepard.

Kristy Bredin Kristy Bredin began her journey as an herbalist in 2009, when she began a two-year apprenticeship with herbalist Robin Rose Bennett in New York. Over the years she has studied clinical herbalism with Chanchal Cabrera, Paul Bergner, Matthew Wood, and Margi Flint. For the last decade she has worked with Ryan Drum, wildcrafting medicinal herbs and cultivating an in-depth knowledge of traditional Western herbalism and local plants and seaweeds. Since 2013 she has been sharing plant remedies of the Pacific Northwest through Mermaid Botanicals. Mermaid Botanicals now encompasses Ryan Drum’s Island Herbs since he retired from wildcrafting in 2019.
Kristy is passionate about exploring the natural world and working with wild plants in ancient and creative ways. She supports folks in re-engaging and integrating with their natural environment through wild plant medicine work. To this end, Kristy offers a variety of classes in the field and online. In 2017 she founded an Herbal Medicine Apprenticeship Program: an immersive exploration of wild foods, seaweeds, and plant medicines of the San Juan Islands. She currently offers classes locally and internationally on seaweeds, wild plants, and healing with herbs.

Marion Dumont was born in Verdun, in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France, and holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion with a specialty in Women’s Spirituality from the California Institute of Integral Studies. As a registered nurse, mother, and grandmother, the focus of her work over the years has been women’s health and well-being. Today, this focus has shifted from the physical care of others toward the spiritual, with an emphasis on women’s mysteries, sacred arts and healing.

M. Kachi Cassinelli is an herbalist, botanist and the founder/owner of Dandelion Botanical Co. Dandelion is a natural apothecary that has been hosting classes and educating about herbs for the last 25 years. The name Dandelion was chosen all those years ago because I find so much joy in knowing how to work with and play with the plants. I’ve studied at the California School of Herbal Studies, Earthwalk Northwest and many courses in between with a BS in botany from the University of Washington. The Pacific Northwest hosts many plants that are super useful and significant to the health of the ecosystem and its inhabitants. When I first moved to this region over 30 years ago, I felt confused by the density of plants and found it essential to learn about our iconic Northwest species to be able to access the beauty of the region. Now this region is my heart’s home.

Disclaimer: We are not doctors the subjects we present here and in class are for information only and not a substitute for care from a qualified practitioner.




Class Location: Dandelion Botanical Company Classroom at 4681 Sequim Dungeness Way Sequim WA 98382.
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Please note: Class dates and times are subject to change due to classroom/instructor availability, natural disasters, my confusion and other such things beyond our control.

For information on offering classes, seminars, workshops etc. in this space please contact us (see link above). Our general guidelines are that the class fit in with with our health-oriented views, that you can demonstrate knowledge in the subject, and the usual caveats about legality and ethics :)


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