Please join us for an educational opportunity this May in Westford to visit a thriving population of ramps / wild leek / winos / Allium tricoccum, and learn from elder Tom Cady who has been sustainably stewarding them for decades.

Kara Buchanan, Co-director of Spoonful Herbals shares her decades of herb gardening experience and some of her favorite plants suitable for our Vermont climate for making delicious teas and quality medicine.

In this workshop, local holistic sexual health educator Lizzie Bogosian will cover the basics of our cycles through the lenses of science, body literacy and femme-centered empowerment. This is not what you learned in middle school health class!

Community herbalist Katherine Elmer will then share safe and effective evidence-based remedies –– many from your own backyard.

Explore the benefits of local spring tonic herbs to awaken and support the body’s intrinsic vitality and “spark” while also preventing spring allergy symptoms.

Join Katherine Elmer and Kara Buchanan to learn safe and effective evidence-based remedies, many from your own backyard, for addressing common symptoms including hot flashes, night sweats, sleep disturbances and mood changes.

Taught by Katherine Elmer, M.S., NBC-HWC, and Whitney Smith, MSN, CNM 

In this workshop, participants will learn about the historical foundation of this contemporary issue so that we may enhance equity and inclusion, particularly for people with identities that have historically been marginalized in healthcare institutions. 

Speakers:
Dr. Charis Boke (she/they) is a Research Scientist and Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College.

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Katherine Elmer, M.S. NBC-HWC is an earth priestess and ceremonialist of Celtic and Nordic descent who revels in the opportunity to connect with folks around a shared love of place and nature through whole foods nutrition and herbal medicine. 

Join community herbalists Katherine Elmer (Celtic) and Carl Brokenhorse Koehler (Haudenosaunee/Seneca) for an introduction to medicinal plants from two Indigenous lineages and go home with a tin of first aid salve made from local healing plants!

Join us for A Sacred Start: A Day of Rest & Renewal for the Year Ahead . A gentle invitation to begin the year with intention.

Join Katherine Elmer to traverse the folk wisdom and modern scientific understanding of some common wild and cultivated forest fungi.

Join community herbalists Katherine Elmer and Kara Buchanan to explore key herbal strategies to prevent and relieve symptoms of common winter ailments.

Join us at Rock Point for a fun afternoon of cooperative creation. We are bringing together a few local organizations as well as you, the community, to create winter wellness support for ourselves and others.

Join Spoonful’s Katherine Elmer and Kara Buchanan for a seasonal favorite, Fire Cider, using ingredients grown at Shelburne Farms.

Spoonful’s Katherine Elmer is speaking at the UVM Health Equity conference!

Presenters: Katherine Elmer, MS NBC-HWC (she/her) and Whitney Smith MSN, CNM (she/her)

This workshop is a brave space to collectively reintegrate feminine healing wisdom for practitioners and providers of all genders.

A tour of medicinal plants in the gardens and green spaces of the UVM campus offered through Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of the University of Vermont.

View the complete event details here.

Join Spoonful’s Katherine Elmer and Kara Buchanan for a weed focused on the identification and benefits of bitter herbs and roots commonly found on the Vermont farm landscape, and the opportunity to turn them into a classic tonic recipe.

Join Jackie Bishop, Spoonful’s community herbalist and bartender for delicious herbal “mocktails” featuring locally grown or wild-crafted medicinal plants and edible flowers.

Join Sarah McLellan, Spoonful Herbal’s Mentorship alumni, for a family-friendly afternoon at Shelburne Farms learning about edible spring flowers.

Celebrate the warmth of solstice by cooling down with some common medicinal greens- nettles, mustard greens and dandelion leaf!

Celebrate and savor the delicate flavors of summer with Spoonful Herbals and “Afternoon Teatime” overlooking the lake and flower gardens from the North Porch of the Inn!

Join Sarah McLellan, Spoonful Herbal’s Mentorship alumni, for a family-friendly afternoon at Shelburne Farms learning about edible spring flowers.

Celebrate spring by exploring the humble dandelion! Using the practices of the honorable harvest, participants will forage for these common blooms to make delicious fritters, picnicking on the lawn with fresh flower crowns. 

Celebrate the start of the growing season with this plant-centered gift of community sharing!

This is an opportunity to swap plants of all varieties (medicinals, veggies, flowers, etc.) and sizes (perennial divisions, small and large, seedlings) in exchange for any and all that is available OR you may choose to gift your plants to our fundraiser or to one of our partnering community organizations. Please bring your swaps/donations with you to the sale OR you may drop them off on Thurs. 5/23 From 3-6 pm

Learn how to sustainably harvest nettles and then process them into a nutrient dense nettle pesto to take home.

Kara Buchanan, Co-director of Spoonful Herbals shares her decades of herb gardening experience and some of her favorite plants suitable for our Vermont climate for making delicious teas and quality medicine.

RESCHEDULED! This is not what you learned in middle school health class! Join local holistic sexual health educator, Lizzie Bogos, and Community herbalist, Katherine Elmer, for an evening of wisdom and herbal care for womb holders.

Join Katherine Elmer and Kara Buchanan to learn safe and effective evidence-based remedies, many from your own backyard, for addressing common symptoms including hot flashes, night sweats, sleep disturbances and mood changes.

Join Katherine Elmer to traverse the folk wisdom and modern scientific understanding of some common wild and cultivated forest fungi.

Join community herbalists Katherine Elmer and Kara Buchanan to explore key herbal strategies to prevent and relieve symptoms of common winter ailments.

Join Spoonful’s Katherine Elmer and Kara Buchanan for a seasonal favorite, Fire Cider, using ingredients grown at Shelburne Farms.

Join Spoonful’s Katherine Elmer and Kara Buchanan for a weed focused on the identification and benefits of bitter herbs and roots commonly found on the Vermont farm landscape, and the opportunity to turn them into a classic tonic recipe.

Join Jackie Bishop, Spoonful’s community herbalist and bartender for delicious herbal “mocktails” featuring locally grown or wild-crafted medicinal plants and edible flowers.