A Friendly Face - Praying Mantis Greetings ! We hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful August weather!

Some updates...

Plants and Seedlings: We are reopening this Sunday, August 18th from 9-11 am for a last minute last-chance plant sale. We still have beautiful ferns, basils, and many cold weather vegetables that can be planted now for fall harvesting.

Rosemary: We also have beautiful rosemary plants still available - I've been doing a lot of experimenting with rosemary - trying to use it in more recipes as it is so healthy and healing. I've discovered that if you just add a couple little leaves to most dishes, it imparts a wonderful umami flavor. The key is just to add very little so you don't taste the rosemary flavor, you just experience the enhancing qualities of it. Of course the rosemary flavor is awesome in many dishes, but I am adding it to things like tomato sauce and chicken soup and really loving the results.

Alianthus Web Worm Moth Sorry such short notice - Local Holistic Health and Wellness Expo: We will be at Gaia's Garden Retreat tomorrow (Saturday August 17th) from 1 pm to 6 pm for the First Annual Holistic Health and Wellness Expo. We're super excited and will be bringing a selection of our herbal salves and balms made with our own organic herbs and beeswax. We will also have info and be available to answer questions on our new 5 session Fall course, Building a Sustainable Herbal Apothecary, as a well as info on our 2014 Living with Herbs Year Long Course! Gaia's Garden Retreat is located at 30 Fancher Road, Warwick, NY 10990 right near Pacem in Terris. 

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Building a Sustainable Herbal Apothecary
5 Session Course THIS FALL!

In this intensive course, you'll be building your own herb-based household health plan, as well as your own herbal medicine cabinet, beauty spa, and emotional well-being resource. Along with delving into natural herbal approaches to healing and vital health, each session will also involve how to grow and maintain a plentiful and abundant herb garden as well as how to harvest, store, and make use of the herbs you grow effectively. Autumn is a great time to plan and experiment with what herbs you will want to grow in the spring and plan for your herb garden.

Intensive 5 Sessions
10 am - 4 pm
Grapevine caterpillar
  Fridays and Saturdays this Fall:
Session 1 - Saturday, 9/28/13
Session 2 - Friday, 10/18/13
Session 3 - Saturday, 11/2/13
Session 4 - Friday, 11/15/13
Session 5 - Saturday, 11/30/13

$485.00 / person
price includes materials, herbs, handouts
The below outline provides a focus for each session, but much more will be covered as the course evolves....

Session 1) Liver Cleansing Detoxing, Gut and Bowel Health
HERB FOCUSES: Milk Thistle, Dandelion, Mucilages, Burdock, and more.
USING: Teas (water decoctions), Tincturing (alcohol-infusions)
FOOD FOCUS: Raw Food Salads, Herbal Juices

Session 2)
Antibiotics, Antivirals, Antifungals, Colds and Flus, Respiratory Health, Infections, Sore Throats
HERB FOCUSES: Garlic, Echinacea, Marshmallow, goldenseal, thymol, baical skullcap, elecampane, oregano, and more.
USING: Syrups and lozenges
FOOD FOCUS: Broths, Soups

Session 3)
External Healing - Skin Health, Cellulose, Varicose Veins, Cuts, Burns, Bruises, Dry Skin, Wrinkles, Chronic Skin Issues, Sunburn,
HERB FOCUSES: Calendula, Violet, Yarrow, Arnica, Comfrey, Self Heal, Umbelliferae family, and more.
USING: Oil-infusions, salves, lip balms, ointments, poultices.
FOOD FOCUS: Seeds, Roots, and Spices of Umbelliferae family
Red Admiral Butterfly
Session 4) Anti-inflammatory Herbs, Bug Bites, and Allergies
HERB FOCUSES: Licorice Root, Pain-killers, nettles, plantain, tumeric, chickweed, feverfew, meadowsweet, and mints.
USING: Variety - bringing them all together.
FOOD FOCUS: Green, Chlorophyl Rich Recipes

Session 5) Hormone Balancing, Digestion and Metabolism, Stress
HERB FOCUSES: Nervines and adaptogens, Oats, Kelp, Tulsi (Holy Basil), Skullcap, Lemon Balm, Motherwort, Red Clover, St. John's Wort, Blue Vervain, and Raspberry Leaf.
USING: Variety - bringing them all together.
FOOD FOCUS: Herbal Cocktails, Chickpea and Cannellini Bean and Herb recipes  

 

Registration form and Pay Pal options are on our Workshop Webpage!

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And we still have a couple spots available for our upcoming Lacto-Fermenting Workshop, which I am really excited about!

 

Green Cabbage
Lacto-Fermenting Vegetables! The Simple, Cultured Art of 'Krauting'
Saturday, August 24th, from 10 am to 12 noon
If you haven't been integrating cultured or lacto-fermented vegetables into your life, you are missing out on some of the most healthful foods in the world. Lacto-fermented foods promote the growth of healthly flora throughout the intestine, aid in detoxification, and balance and nourish. As Sally Fallon in her fabulous book, Nourishing Traditions, states, "Lacto-fermentation is not only a means of conserving foods, but is also a procedure for ennobling them." In this workshop, you will learn how simple and safe it is to make delicious real sauerkraut the old fashioned way, that draws out a plethora of nutrients from raw vegetables and makes them completely bioavailable to us. Workshop is taught by Lucy Vanderploog, Sussex County NJ Weston Price Foundation Chapter Leader and fermentation enthusiast. This is a HANDS ON workshop - You will be going home with your own jar of started cabbage and carrot sauerkraut! Workshop with materials fee is $43 ($46 if you register through PayPal). Takes place in the farm kitchen at Midsummer Farm. Limited space; must register in advance, registration closes 8/20/13.

Very best and thanks always,
Barbara and Mark
Midsummer Farm
Midsummer Farm Contact Info:
Barbara and Mark Laino
Midsummer Farm
156 East Ridge Road
Warwick, NY 10990
845-986-9699
[email protected]

Holistic Health Counseling Contact Info:
Barbara Taylor-Laino
Barbara Taylor Health
156 East Ridge Road
Warwick, NY 10990
845-986-9699
[email protected]

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