Join the Farm Trails weekend at Green Valley Farm + Mill. Come for a full tour, stay for our farm to table dinner!

Arrive to Green Valley Farm + Mill at 2pm for a guided tour to learn about regenerative land practices, collective land stewardship and the operations of onsite farms Bramble Tail and Fledgling Farm. Purchase local goods from our Marketplace. Stay for a Farm to Table feast with Chef Mel highlighting food and wine from the land. Registration required for the tour, separate ticket for optional dinner party.

Tickets for the tour are $25 per adult - kids are free - and can be purchased here. Expect the tour to last from 2pm to 4pm.

After our big farm tour, stay for a farm to table feast with Chef Mel, featuring food from the land. See full menu below. Tickets are $170 per seat and can be reserved here.

Fall farm dinner menu:

• Local pumpkin soup, Tomme cheese and black pepper biscuits, whipped herb butter

• Fall garden salad with savory seed granola, fresh herbs, champagne vinaigrette

• Braised beef in red wine and onions, creamy polenta with fried sage, roasted delicata squash with pomegranate seeds and molasses

• Upside down gravenstein apple cardamom cake, maple bourbon whipped cream

• Seasonal shrub and natural wine

Gather together in the garden with Rae Melina for an introduction to herbal care methods and bodywork techniques to respond specifically to the needs of infants and children. Tending to infants and children with medicinal plants--beneficial herbs to have on hand, dosage considerations, herbal remedies and medicinal preparations to effectively respond to various ailments and support optimal well-being. Intro to bodywork techniques for infants and children---touch as first language, nurturing with embodied touch, how to support our babies’ whole body wellness (nervous, digestive, and lymphatic systems). Gentle drainage techniques, abdominal massage, acupressure points for various ailments and discomforts, and herbal infused oils. This class is ideal for beginners (mothers, relatives, caregivers) who are interested in supporting the little ones in their lives. As a mother of a toddler, Rae Melina is passionate to weave together my years of practice and knowledge into affordable effective care for our little ones. 

Sliding Scale $40-60. Apothecary Members discount is 20% off.

Register here.

Taking care of ourselves can feel easier when we know how to communicate with our bodies through the language of the elements, and when rituals feel and taste good. This workshop with Sarah Kate from the Kosmic Kitchen focuses on feeling empowered to tune into the elements through daily kitchen rituals while bringing a grounded approach to healing and nourishment for our busy lives. We'll explore key garden herbs of the summer season to help us stay grounded along with using pantry staples you already have in your kitchen. This will be a hands-on cooking workshop where we'll create an herbal meal together to enjoy at the end of the class.

$60/ticket. Apothecary Garden Members: 20% off

Gather together in the Apothecary Garden for a conversation with Rae Melina around plant allies in postpartum care---herbal remedies and practices to incorporate during postpartum to support in nervous system regulation, deep nourishment, and  healing. Postpartum is the period of time after any pregnancy carry. This conversation is for those on a preconception path, mothers, caregivers, doulas, partners, and relatives who are interested in learning tools for postpartum wellness. 

Sliding Scale $40-$60. Discount for Apothecary Garden Members: 20% off.

Register here.

with Katie Ring, awakenwithkatie.com

An introductory natural dye workshop where you’ll learn: what a natural dye is, how we can honor the seasons and natural world through color, what we can harvest around us (and in the garden) to use as dye material, and how to do your own small dye projects at home and what materials you’ll need.  You’ll take home your own hand dyed cotton bandana and swaths of fabric.

$20/person, member discount 50% off, register here!

Plant Club with Madalyn Berg

The first Sunday of the month, May through November. 10am to 1pm in the Apothecary Garden.

MATERIA MEDICA IS MORE FUN TOGETHER

Plant Club is for people who want to get to befriend plants in a slow, intimate and deliberate way. Its sweet community is a place to share skills, medicines, experiences and information as we dive deep each month with a single plant. We'll get to know each plant, and ourselves and each other along the way. When you build a relationship a plant, it makes room for more feelings of belonging because in the process we are rebuilding an ancestral tool of nature connection.

Each month is host to a predetermined plant that we explore together (and separately all month) within the container of the Club. We introduce the plant at the beginning of the month learning about its botany and ecology, then each person get's to explore the plant individually all month long, next session we reflect on our experiences working with the medicine, relating our experiences to known herbal actions, materia-medica and folklore.  

Because Plant Club is grounded in everyone’s personal experience of the plants, it’s accessible to all kinds of plant people- from folks new to the plant kingdom, to people who work with plants every day. And having a group with a diversity of experiences and perspectives makes the experience that much richer. 

THE PLANTS, THE DATES
10- 1pm First Sundays of the month May- November

June 2d- Intro/Mullein
July 7th- Mullein/Yarrow
August 4th- Yarrow/Skullcap
September 1st- Skullcap/Fennel
October 6th- Fennel/Burdock
November 3d- Burdock/Vitex
December 1st- Vitex/Potluck

PRICE
Sliding Scale: $400-600 for the Series. 20% off for Members of the Apothecary Garden! Members only: use checkout code Brambletail.

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