Plant Walks & Outdoor Adventures

• Nature Therapy & Forest Bathing

Learn to unwind and reconnect with nature through all your senses. Surrounded by ferns, boulders, trees, and mosses, the lush beauty of our woodland trails holds the key to reducing anger, stress, depression, and anxiety. (No materials fee)

• Plant Walk: A Sensory Garden Tour

Delight all of your senses on a deliciously fun and informative stroll through our gardens as we meet some of the hundreds of culinary, medicinal, and useful herbs we grow here, nibbling, smelling, touching, and observing along the way. Bring a notebook and camera to record your discoveries, as we learn ancient plant lore, how to grow and gather, and tips and tricks for how to use these plant allies for health, wellness, beauty, and joy. (No materials fee)

• Plant Walk: Eat Your weeds!

Come for a walk through our gardens, field, and acres of woodland trails and habitats, and discover a world of medicinal and edible wild plants, many of them native to this part of the world. Hone your plant identification skills and find out which wild plants can be used for food, medicine, and more. Bring a notebook and camera to record your discoveries, and don’t be surprised if we spot wildlife including butterflies and wild pollinators, ravens, turkeys, turtles, frogs, deer, and even beavers. (No materials fee)

• Grow Them, Don’t Mow Them -- Weeds FTW!

Available as a Powerpoint presentation. Do you know the value-added possibilities growing for free on your farm? In this inspiring and informative presentation, participants will explore wild native, naturalized, and invasive plants from an herbalist's perspective, with stories, tips, and recipes of how to turn them into food, medicine, liqueurs, and more. Learn the value of going fallow! (No materials fee)

Kids Parties

• Herbalism for Kids -- Strategies for Stress, Sleep, & Back to School Success

Being (and having) a kid can be tricky. Luckily, there are lots of safe and delicious herbs, foods, exercises, relaxation tricks, and other easy strategies to add to your parenting and growing up toolbox. (No materials fee)

• Life Hacks for Teens -- Natural Strategies for Stress, Mood, Sleep, & Study Support

Tired of feeling overwhelmed and stressed out? No matter who you are, being a teenager is TOUGH. Luckily, there are lots of simple tricks and natural remedies like herbs, foods, and vitamins to make it suck a whole lot less! (No materials fee)

• Fairy House Adventures

Let’s look for fairies! Kids and grownups alike will delight as we go for a fairy quest, gathering materials to make fairy houses, furniture, and gifts for the Wee Folk, to take home or add to Sassafras Grove, the fairy village. ($3 materials fee)

• Bath Fizzies & Fun!

Bring your friends and come make your very own bath fizzies and bath salts, decorating their labels, and explore the garden and field! ($3 materials fee)

• Little Witches

Want to learn how to be a Green Witch? It’s all about taking care of nature and letting nature take care of you— and it’s magically fun! We’ll learn about the elements, plants, and animals that help us, sing songs, and make a healing tea potion and craft to take home. ($3 materials fee)

• Budding Herbalists -- Gardencrafting

Dig your hands in the earth with us as we create new garden beds, grow and gather delicious herbs to turn into remedies, and learn how to take care of our wonderful plant allies. You’ll even make your own tea to take home! (No materials fee)

• Budding Herbalists -- Wildcrafting

A good herbalist knows which wild plants will fill your belly and which ones will make you feel better. Let’s visit forest and field to meet some new plant friends! Learn how to gather and use wild plants for healing and to make great teas and trail nibbles. You’ll even take some home with you. Yum! (No materials fee)

• Budding Herbalists -- Dreamtime

Create your very own relaxing tea, aromatherapy blend, and soothing dream pillow to take home, and learn some tricks and tips to help you unwind and relax. ($8 materials fee)

Herbal Workshops

• Self Care & Chill

Treat yourself to delicious tastes, decadent smells, and plant allies that will teach you to calm your body and mind. You'll mix your own tea blend using adaptogens and nervines (herbs that help you handle stress and support your nervous system) and create a custom aromatherapy blend and healing mantra to ground and support you, no matter what life throws your way. ($8 materials fee)

• Immune Support for YOU

Having a healthy body is not one-size-fits-all. In this class, we’ll learn the basics of how to use herbs, foods, and self-care strategies to support YOUR immune needs based on lifestyle, blood type, Ayurvedic doshas, epigenetics, and personal stressors. No prior experience necessary, but it is useful to know your blood type. (No materials cost)

• Infusions for Snoozin’

Herbal Sleep Support Learn how herbs can support a restful night's sleep, including relaxing, de-stressing, and sedative teas, tinctures, infused honeys, and aromatherapy blends. Zzzzz... This class can be run with how-to demonstrations, as a make-and-take class, or as a simple discussion with samples. ($5 materials cost for samples; $8 for take-home tea)

• Fire Cider

Join the Fire Cider revolution and discover just how deliciously easy it is to keep yourself healthy this cold and flu season! Fire Cider is an age old tonic for immune support, digestion, and energy. In this fun and informative workshop, you’ll learn how to make your own. Bring a notebook and a glass half-pint jar (recycled is great) and leave with a sample!

• Herbal Chocolate -- A Sensory Culinary Adventure

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll combine the deliciousness of chocolate with the magic of herbs and spices for a sensual experience not to be missed! We’ll learn about Cacao’s ancient history and use, how it grows, then raid the apothecary and gardens for delicious additions to create your own herbal chocolate bark to take home! PDF recipes included ($10 materials fee)

• Counter Culture -- Fermentation & Prebiotics in the Herbalist's Kitchen

In this hands-on (and hands-in!) class, participants will learn the importance of a healthy gut microbiome for mood, mental health, immunity, digestion, and overall wellness. Many folks of us know how to use bitters and carminatives, but in this class we'll learn how to include easy-to-make probiotic ferments, prebiotic herbal teas, and other gut-healing formulas to the kitchen apothecary. Bring a notebook and a glass half-pint jar (recycled is great) and leave with a sample of our own kraut-chi, recipes, and all the info you need to bring your herbal practice into the "counter culture" revolution! (note: this course focuses on digestion and the enteric nervous system but does not cover bitters, though I can easily incorporate that. Depending on participants' base knowledge, the class can be more or less hands-on, with an optional PowerPoint (2-3 hours). ($5 materials fee)

• Bone Broths & Herbal Soups

In this hands-on (and hands-in!) class, participants will learn how to make their own bone broth to support healthy guts, joints, thinking, and immunity. You'll leave with recipes, resources for local pasture-raised meats, and delicious samples of our own bone broth and nourishing, herbal soup! (No materials fee)

Kids Classes

• Herbalism for Kids -- Strategies for Stress, Sleep, & Back to School Success

  Being (and having) a kid can be tricky. Luckily, there are lots of safe and delicious herbs, foods, exercises, relaxation tricks, and other easy strategies to add to your parenting and growing up toolbox. (No materials fee)

• Life Hacks for Teens -- Natural Strategies for Stress, Mood, Sleep, & Study Support

  Tired of feeling overwhelmed and stressed out? No matter who you are, being a teenager is TOUGH. Luckily, there are lots of simple tricks and natural remedies like herbs, foods, and vitamins to make it suck a whole lot less! (No materials fee)

• Fairy House Adventures

  Let’s look for fairies! Kids and grownups alike will delight as we go for a fairy quest, gathering materials to make fairy houses, furniture, and gifts for the Wee Folk, to take home or add to Sassafras Grove, the fairy village. ($3 materials fee)

• Bath Fizzies & Fun!

  Bring your friends and come make your very own bath fizzies and bath salts, decorating their labels, and explore the garden and field! ($3 materials fee)

• Wild Whimsey

  From flower arranging to wreathes to holiday decorations, the field, forest, and gardens offer endless ways to bring visual beauty, joy, and peace to your life. Talk with Jessica about available seasonal crafts. ($3-8 materials fee)

• Little Witches

  Want to learn how to be a Green Witch? It’s all about taking care of nature and letting nature take care of you— and it’s magically fun! We’ll learn about the elements, plants, and animals that help us, sing songs, and make a healing tea potion and craft to take home. ($3 materials fee)

• Budding Herbalists -- Gardencrafting

  Dig your hands in the earth with us as we create new garden beds, grow and gather delicious herbs to turn into remedies, and learn how to take care of our wonderful plant allies. You’ll even make your own tea to take home! (No materials fee)

• Budding Herbalists -- Wildcrafting

  A good herbalist knows which wild plants will fill your belly and which ones will make you feel better. Let’s visit forest and field to meet some new plant friends! Learn how to gather and use wild plants for healing and to make great teas and trail nibbles. You’ll even take some home with you. Yum! (No materials fee)

• Budding Herbalists -- Dreamtime

  Create your very own relaxing tea, aromatherapy blend, and soothing dream pillow to take home, and learn some tricks and tips to help you unwind and relax. ($8 materials fee)

Herbal Workshops

• Herbalism 101 -- Self Care & Chill

  Treat yourself to delicious tastes, decadent smells, and plant allies that will teach you to calm your body and mind. You'll mix your own tea blend using adaptogens and nervines (herbs that help you handle stress and support your nervous system) and create a custom aromatherapy blend and healing mantra to ground and support you, no matter what life throws your way. ($8 materials fee)

• Herbalism 101 -- Immune Support for YOU

  Having a healthy body is not one-size-fits-all. In this class, we’ll learn the basics of how to use herbs, foods, and self-care strategies to support YOUR immune needs based on lifestyle, blood type, Ayurvedic doshas, epigenetics, and personal stressors. No prior experience necessary, but it is useful to know your blood type. (No materials cost)

• Herbalism 101 -- Infusions for Snoozin’

  Herbal Sleep Support Learn how herbs can support a restful night's sleep, including relaxing, de-stressing, and sedative teas, tinctures, infused honeys, and aromatherapy blends. Zzzzz... This class can be run with how-to demonstrations, as a make-and-take class, or as a simple discussion with samples. ($5 materials cost for samples; $8 for take-home tea)

• Herbalism 101 -- Fire Cider

  Join the Fire Cider revolution and discover just how deliciously easy it is to keep yourself healthy this cold and flu season! Fire Cider is an age old tonic for immune support, digestion, and energy. In this fun and informative workshop, you’ll learn how to make your own. Bring a notebook and a glass half-pint jar (recycled is great) and leave with a sample!

• Kitchen Witch with Herbal Chocolate -- A Sensory Culinary Adventure

  In this hands-on workshop, we’ll combine the deliciousness of chocolate with the magic of herbs and spices for a sensual experience not to be missed! We’ll learn about Cacao’s ancient history and use, how it grows, then raid the apothecary and gardens for delicious additions to create your own herbal chocolate bark to take home! PDF recipes included ($10 materials fee)

• Counter Culture -- Fermentation & Prebiotics in the Herbalist's Kitchen

  In this hands-on (and hands-in!) class, participants will learn the importance of a healthy gut microbiome for mood, mental health, immunity, digestion, and overall wellness. Many folks of us know how to use bitters and carminatives, but in this class we'll learn how to include easy-to-make probiotic ferments, prebiotic herbal teas, and other gut-healing formulas to the kitchen apothecary. Bring a notebook and a glass half-pint jar (recycled is great) and leave with a sample of our own kraut-chi, recipes, and all the info you need to bring your herbal practice into the "counter culture" revolution! (note: this course focuses on digestion and the enteric nervous system but does not cover bitters, though I can easily incorporate that. Depending on participants' base knowledge, the class can be more or less hands-on, with an optional PowerPoint (2-3 hours). ($5 materials fee)

• Bone Broths & Herbal Soups

  In this hands-on (and hands-in!) class, participants will learn how to make their own bone broth to support healthy guts, joints, thinking, and immunity. You'll leave with recipes, resources for local pasture-raised meats, and delicious samples of our own bone broth and nourishing, herbal soup! (No materials fee)

Botanical Barcraft

• Cocktails in the Garden

  In this fun BYOB class, we’ll visit the garden for fresh herbs, and Jessica will put her bartending certificate to good use by teaching you how to muddle, shake, stir, and blend them into one-of-a-kind delicious cocktails, complete with additions from her own personal reserve! ($8 materials fee, base alcohol not included)

• Grow Your Own Gin

  Use organic and wildcrafted botanicals to make your own custom flavored gin. We'll discuss top notes, base notes, and all the flavors in between, as well as the best ways to bring about the subtle flavor bouquet you prefer. All ingredients (except alcohol) provided. Please bring a small bottle of vodka to use and 2 recycled jars to take home your unique libations! PDF recipes included. ($5 materials fee)

• The Botanical Bartender

  This 3-part course can be taken as a full day course or individual classes. Time and materials fees depend on whether class is run as a demonstration with samples or a make-and take class; talk to Jessica about your preferences.

• The Bitter Draught: In this delicious class, we’ll learn how to make two of the most important elements to many a classic cocktail: bitters and infused syrups.
• Infuse your Booze: In this seasonally changing class, we turn to the garden and apothecary for herbs, spices, fruits, and maybe even vegetables to turn liquor into liqueurs…. yum! (see below for two sample classes)
• Finishing touches: Elevate your barcraft with garnishes and special twists like cocktail cherries, finishing sugars, and spiced salts.

• Infuse Your Booze -- Wild Syrups and Sparklers

  Come explore the flavors of home-grown herbs blended with local honey, and get to know the health benefits of some of New Hampshire’s home-grown and wild fruits. Take home original recipes, three different infusions for your home bar, and the knowhow to transform the flavors of New England into your own signature sodas and sparkling cocktails. Please bring a small bottle of vodka to use and 2 recycled jars to take home your unique libations! PDF recipes included. (Note: this class is only available Summer-Autumn; check with Jessica for what’s in season). ($5 materials fee)

• Infuse Your Booze in Winter -- Holiday Drinks

  Learn the history of Mulled Wine (aka Glögg) and make your own mulling spices, as well as 2 decadent seasonal favorites: Cardamom-Fig Vodka and Apple-Spiced Bourbon. All ingredients (except alcohol) provided. Please bring a small bottle of vodka or bourbon to use and 2 recycled jars to take home your unique libations! PDF recipes included. ($5 materials fee)

• Herbal Spa

  Leave the chemicals behind and nourish your skin organically from tip to toe! Explore the simple elegance of using pure, clean ingredients to create your own personalized beauty protocols and products so you can feel confident, pampered, and absolutely radiant! Please bring a wash cloth, large towel and large bowl to class (This course is broken into 3 sessions that can be offered separately or combined into one day-long luxurious intensive.)

• Bésame Mucho: We’ll visit the garden to pick our own herbs, then learn to combine them to make your own lip exfoliants and tinted, flavored lip balms with all natural ingredients. 1 hour ($5 materials fee)
• Flower Fairy Facials: Whether your skin is sensitive, blemish-prone, dry, mature, or a combination of the above, this class has you covered with our wildcrafted and homegrown herbal & CBD treatments. We’ll start with gentle exfoliants and masques, then open our pores with soothing steams, tighten with natural toners, and finish with our very own Mama’s Kiss facial serum. Season permitting, we may go for stroll to meet some of the plants that make our facial remedies! 2 hours. ($8 materials fee)
• Herbal Happy Feet: Pamper your hard-working feet with your own personalized hand-blended Herbal Foot Bath, invigorating ocean exfoliation treatment, and soothe and smooth with our own Mama’s Kiss Cannabis salve or oil, all with natural, nourishing ingredients. Jessica will also teach you how to do a restorative self-massage for tight and tired feet. 1 hour. ($5 materials fee)

Wisdom Circles

• Bad-ass Prayers for Dark Ass Times

  Join wise woman Jessica LaBrie for some radical self-love and spiritual badassery as we use creativity and prayer to shine our personal light into this time of darkness. Together we will talk, sing, journal, draw, and discuss how to translate and honor the ways in which we feel both truth and trauma in our bodies, ways to overcome blockages so we can do the work that needs doing, and how to use your unique talents, passion, and life experience for social change. We ARE the antidote! Rise up! It’s time. Half of all proceeds go to Welcoming New Hampshire, a local organization supporting immigrants in New Hampshire. ($5 materials fee per person.)

• Stress Support for Busy People

  Too busy to relax? Come learn some quick and easy self care strategies you can practice in the office, car, and on the go. From guided meditation and chair yoga to hone your focus and unlocks tight muscles, to simple self-massage techniques to unwind, reenergize, and fight off illness, you'll leave with the inspiration and tools you need to keep calm and carry on, no matter what life throws your way! (No materials fee)

• Plant Ally Shamanic Meditation

  In this guided shamanic journey, we will connect with one of our plant allies, and begin to explore the ancient wisdom and potent, spiritual medicine these teachers have to share. You may wish to bring a notebook and/or colored pencils to record your journey. (No materials cost) *Combines well with the following course below.

• How to Hear the Talking Trees -- The Science & Spirit of Plant Communities

  New science is proving what shamans and wise women have known for centuries - plants are sentient beings, capable of communicating across species, distances, and even time. In this class we’ll discuss the ways that plants create and support their families and friends, how they work together for the good of the forest, and some of the ways they talk with each other - and us humans. You’ll come away with a greater appreciation for the mystery and majesty of nature, as well as insight into how the trees can teach us to be better people. (No materials cost)

• Heroine’s Journey -- Storytelling & Scrapbooking

  In this evening of storytelling and scrapbooking, we’ll discover how the Heroine’s Journey can empower each of us to embrace our role as the protagonists in our own lives. You’ll come away with a personal piece of art as unique and magical as you are. Bring any paper ephemera from your own heroine’s journey (old photos, notes, ticket stubs, journal entries you don’t mind repurposing, etc), and any magazines you feel like collaging with. Jessica will provide you with a journal and regale you with stories of the great Inanna, Mesopotamian goddess of words, language, and meaning, and Psyche, Greek goddess of the Soul while you craft. ($3 materials fee)

• Ain’t I A Woman? Reclaiming Feminism

  Feminism is for everyone! In this raucous evening of discussion, fantastic quotes, songs, and storytelling based on the radical notion that women are people, we will celebrate the heroines who inspire us, personally and globally. Come prepared to toast the women (and trans, non-binary, genderfluid, and, yes, men folks) in your life who make our world a more united place. Heroines honored: Sojourner Truth, the notorious RBG, and many others! Weather permitting, we’ll end with a fire. (No materials fee)

• Vision Boards & the Manifestation Cycle

  In this ritual workshop, we’ll create our own personal Vision Boards, hold a group oracle card reading, and Jessica will share her Manifestation Cycle: a set of 6 stages and 8 lessons based loosely on the Hero’s/Heroine’s Journey story arcs, that act as a framework for setting and sending intentions out into the Universe…and what to do when the Universe delivers! You’ll go home with a new set of techniques, tools, meditations, and rituals you can use to bring purpose, power, and protection to this important step of your sacred life journey. (No materials fee)

• Oracles & Insight

  In this magical evening, we will explore some of the many ways that rune stones, oracle cards, sacred incense, and observations of plants, animals, and nature can be used to find insight and wisdom amidst the chaos and uncertainty of life. We’ll do group and individual readings, and create the first in (hopefully many) oracle cards to start you on making your own deck. ($2 materials fee)

• Intro to Dowsing -- How to use Pendulums, L-rods, & Muscle Testing

  Learn the ancient art of dowsing, a form of energetic diagnostics and divination that’s been used for “water witching”, finding underground ore and minerals, missing objects and people, and to help make sense of the world from time immemorial. (Bring your own pendulum, or they can be purchased here or a simple one made for a $5 materials fee.)

• Dowsing for Dosages -- How to use Pendulums, L-rods, & Muscle Testing with Clients, Plants, & in the Home Apothecary

  Learn simple and effective techniques to aid in determining client sensitivities, crafting custom blends, and establishing dosages and servings, as well as when wildcrafting and growing your own herbs. Dowsing is a wonderful addition to the clinician's toolbox that you can easily teach clients, encouraging active participation in their own wellness plan! (Bring a pendulum, or they can be purchased here or a simple one made for a $5 materials fee).

Cannabis & CBD

• Herbal Allies -- The Green Friends of Mama’s Kiss Cannabis

  Come meet some of the wonderful local, wild, and organic plants that go into each jar of our pain salve, and see which ones you may already have growing in your own backyard! We'll smell, see, and touch these healing herbs, try them in our famous pain salve, and learn how to grow and gather many of them yourself for your own home medicine chest. (No materials cost)

• More than Doobies for Cannabis Newbies

  Do you live in a state with legal cannabis, and want to learn how to prepare your own edibles, tinctures, oils, and herbal cigarettes? Want to get creative with CBD oil? Learn how to do all of this and more, from a kitchen witch and herbalist! This class can be offered as a discussion, PowerPoint, or demonstration, but because we are in NH, only CBD flower can be used (no THC). (Materials cost varies depending on presentation style and projects.)

• Demystifying Cannabis -- CBD 101

  For over 10,000 years, cannabis has a long and storied history as one of humanity's’ most beloved, sacred, and valued herbs, despite spending the past 80 years as an outlaw. Jessica will happily answer all your questions and teach you about the endocannabinoid system and some of her favorite ways to use cannabis for safe, legal, effective, and ethical non-addictive pain relief and whole-body wellness. Try samples of our pain salve, facial serum, and oil, and leave relaxed and well-informed. (No materials cost)

• Cannabis & Cacao -- Love Potions from the Herbalist’s Kitchen

  In this deliciously decadent adventure come delight your senses, create seductive recipes, and learn how to turn different forms of chocolate and (legal) cannabis into relaxing, stimulating, and inspiring love potions! We’ll create a host of indulgences like Heady Love Truffles, Chocolate CBD Body Paint, and Ganjaliscious Lubricant, and participants will leave with recipes, samples (enough to share!), and a full-size bottle of Mama’s Kiss Cannabis CBD Oil (made in-house) to experiment with at home! ($40 per person materials fee, includes all materials and CBD oil.)

Aromatherapy

• Earthly Aromatics -- Think Outside the Bottle

  While essential oils are all the rage, overuse of these incredibly concentrated botanicals has a huge environmental footprint and can lead to endocrine disruption and sensitivities. In this three-part course, we’ll explore ancient aromatic techniques from ritual incenses to distilled hydrosols and infused perfumes. Come away with the knowledge to create your own gorgeous fragrances from nature! (This course is broken into 3 two-hour sessions that can be offered separately or combined into one day-long intensive.)

• Smokes & Incense

  Explore the many sensual and sacred ways of mixing and burning herbs, spices, and other botanicals. We will discuss ways that people have burned plants ceremonially throughout the world both past and present, and create our own herbal smoke bundles and incense to take home ($5 materials fee)

• Homemade Hydrosols

  Discover how to create your own gentle and effective hydrosols right in your kitchen! In this workshop, we’ll explore the art and science of distilling your own floral waters for various skin types using fresh and dried herbs. A must-try class for beginning herbalists! ($5 materials fee)

• Infused Perfumes

  From infused oils to alcohols, there are as many tricks to making your own scents from nature as there are plants! Come learn the basics of making your own natural perfumes and colognes, both with and without essential oils, and come away with the knowledge to start creating your very own botanical scents! ($10 materials fee)