Free Mini-Course: Herbal Basics For the Home and Kitchen

Harvesting & Preserving Herbs is easy to do, but just as easy to get wrong.

 

Our free mini-course takes you through the basics of collecting, preserving and using herbs in your home and kitchen. We talk you through identifying common wild and domestic herbs, their basic uses, how to harvest them at their peak and how to use them in some of our favourite ways.

Lessons:

  • Harvesting & Preserving Herbs

  • Tips for Identifying Foraged Plants

  • Making Balms & Salves

  • Infusing Oils & Vinegars for Cosmetic and Culinary Use

  • Herbal Monographs for Yarrow, Calendula and Plantain (with more added frequently)

  • Recipes for:

    • Horsetail Hair Rinse

    • Calendula Salve

    • Wild Berry Oxymel

    • Rosebay Willowherb Tea

    • Yarrow, Plantain and Comfrey Balm

    • Whipped Moisturiser

  • The course is hosted on our Gartur Stitch Farm School on Mighty Networks. You will be sent an email once you confirm your email address, inviting you to create an account to gain access to the course (or add the course if you are already a network member).

    The course is available to work through at any time, each lesson takes about an hour to work through, not including any curing time. You will also have free lifetime access to both the course and our Life in the Making Facebook group for any follow up questions.

    Click here for an example of the video and written content presented in the course.

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