The December 1st early bird discount is over after this weekend - Depending on whether you are a past CSA member, could be $75 - $100 in savings! The farm truly appreciates early registration!

For more information on our CSA program and the registration form with all cost info:

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The focus of this course is Living with Herbs - familiarizing yourself with using them and growing them and integrating them into your daily life.

This has been in the making for almost 5 years - Classes will be intensive - Covering a wide range of herbs and usages.

This is a great course for someone who wants to make the most of a current herb garden, for someone who wants to take his/her herb garden to the next level, or for someone who is starting from scratch and wants to build the ultimate herb garden. I know many people who have an instinctual drive to collect herb plants for an herb garden, but then just don't make the most out of the herbs' presence in their lives - this course addresses that - providing lots of inspiration, information and experience. This course is also great for someone who doesn't have a herb garden, but who wants to use herbs regularly.

PART 1

Session 1: Saturday, 2/16/13

Session 2: Saturday, 3/9/13

Session 3: Friday, 4/5/13

Session 4: Saturday, 4/6/13

Session 5: Friday, 5/24/13

Session 6: Saturday, 6/15/13

PART 2

Session 7: Saturday, 6/29/13

Session 8: Friday, 7/12/13

Session 9: Saturday, 7/13/13

Session 10: Saturday, 8/3/13

Session 11: Friday, 9/20/13

Session 12: Saturday, 10/19/13

Session 1 only: $450.00

Session 2 only: $450.00

Both Sessions: $845.00

Both Sessions (early registration) before December 20th: $820.00

Fee includes supplies, snacks, and lunches (that we will make together).

Registration form can be downloaded by clicking here. 

Once you register, I'll send you 2 of my favorite books - The Green Pharmacy by James A. Duke and Making Plant Medicine by Richo Cech so you can start focusing right now and be inspired and ready for the first class.

Classes will take place at Midsummer Farm in Warwick NY (156 East Ridge Road, Warwick, NY 10990) and will move about the farm during the course of each session from the greenhouse to the kitchen to the garden beds.

Course size is limited.

You will be able to directly apply what we cover in the sessions in the herb garden within your own garden as we will be working directly in sync with the growing season.

Upon completion, I would like to see each participant create a herb journal with notes, drawings, and schedules for harvesting, planting, favorite pairings - basically a personalized 'materia media' that applies to your own interests, health, and family.

If you don't have space for an herb garden: As long as you love using herbs in your daily life, you will still get a lot from the course. It is certainly beneficial to know an herb in its growing environment as you use it.

Growing herbs

Seed starting and propagation 

Designing the garden areas and your backyard's herbal culture

Companion planting / and combining herb and vegetable gardening / Herb neighborhoods

Growing with essential oil content and medicinal quality in mind

Biodynamic principles

Permaculture and farmscaping  

The colonial dooryard garden and exploring other traditional and creative herb garden structuresPairing herbs, harvest-time, planting style, use, etc.

En masse plantings for using herbs in bulk or selling herbs

Annual, Biennial, and Perennial methods

Forest and Shade plantings

Natives

Container Gardening

Greenhouse or conservatory herbs

Deepening our connections with plants

Pollinators, beneficial insects, native insect habitats

Techniques for weeding, planting, spacing, watering, soil development and maintenance, composting, animal partnerships, protecting the garden

Selling herbs and micro-farming herb businesses

Once you've taken this course, you be more than able to design, plant and harvest from a wonderful personalized herb garden.

In different formats in cooking

Dried, powdered, simple syrups, fresh as flavor base as well as a bright addition to end of recipes

Making herb centered dishes - pestos, green sauces, etc

Baking, desserts, herbal sorbets

Salads, salad dressings, vinegars

Succi (Herb Juices) 

Beverages

Storing and freezing

The health benefits of eating super foods

Cooking with herbs and preparing seasonal food in your herb garden is particularly poignant and fulfilling.

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