It’s the perfect time of year to harvest plants for dried tea and herbs! This class will jumpstart your journey into growing, harvesting, drying, and enjoying homemade brews and spices.

In this class you’ll:

• Create and take home a reuseable herb-drying wreath made with seasonally available natural materials (ivy, brambles, willow, cherry, and/or apple shoots), jute twine, and cotton baker’s twine

• Learn about the native plants we have for weaving wreaths and learn how to make a wreath

• Bonus - learn/practice a few very practical knots!

• Learn which cultivated plants are great for beginners to start with for tea and herbs

• “Harvest” from organically grown and wild harvested seasonally available plants brought to the park for you to take home such as:

  • Cultivated organic lemon balm, mint, calendula, english lavender, bee balm, spearmint, rosemary, lemon thyme and/or yarrow

  • Wild-harvested stinging nettle, heal all, trailing blackberry, and/or fireweed

• Discuss how to harvest, dry, store and steep plants for tea and cooking

• Go on a short plant walk to identify and discuss some of the native plants we have that are great for tea!