Willow's Classes: May 2010
(Contact Willow at: 813-643-7285 if her latest classes are not listed here)
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“Growing Your Own Organic Garden”
Willow Herbal Delight Gardens,
an Organic Herb Nursery in Valrico
Saturday, May 1, 2010, 10 am – 4 pm
A Hands-on Workshop
with Willow LaMonte
focusing on safely
growing our own
nutritious food.
From
starting an annual
vegetable garden to creating perennial,
edible Permaculture gardens.
We’ll cover preparing and
enriching
a living soil, safe composting techniques, mulch, conserving water, companion
planting, and inviting beneficial insects and birds
to take care of garden pests.
Please feel free to bring a potluck dish for lunch.
Fresh picked herb tea and salad
from the gardens provided.
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“Gathering Wisdom From a Flower:
Herbs for Women’s Health”
8-Class Series with Willow LaMonte
10 am - 12:30 pm
Alternate Tuesdays:
April 27, May 11 & 25,
June 8 & 22, July 6 & 20,
August 3,
2010
Learn simple yet ancient ways to use and organically grow herbs beneficial for women’s healthcare throughout our life cycles.
We’ll cover:
• Herbal care for adolescent girls; pregnancy preparation, nursing, and weaning; peri- and menopausal women
• Plants to ease stress, strengthen our immune systems, encourage breast health, support our unique nutritional needs, and lovely our skin
• Using fresh and dried herbs, teas, tinctures, and vinegars And, bath and foot soaks, too! Oh yeah!
Pre-registration necessary.
Directions provided upon registration.
Sliding scale $100-150. Partial work exchange available.
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“Wild Edibles Walk”
with Willow LaMonte folk herbalist
at
Willow Herbal Delight Gardens
an organic herb
nursery and botanical garden in Valrico.
Friday, June 4, 2010
10 am - noon
Saturday, June 20, 2010
10 - 11:30 am • 1:30 - 3:00 pm
Join us for an informal walk to delight in the gifts from our local wild plants, both Florida natives and others happily adapted to our unique conditions.
We’ll meet wild edibles high in nutrition (eat your weedies!) that many of us have growing in our own yards, plus medicinals, wildlife habitat plants, and providers of garden and basket-making supplies.
• Suggested donation $10-15
• Fresh herb tea provided.
• Organic plants, seeds, and garden books available for sale.
an Organic Herb Nursery at the end of RAY Rd. in Valrico
(off of S. Miller Rd., 1/3 mile south of Lumsden; Valrico Church of Christ on corner)