We will cover the at- risk list, how to become a botanical sanctuary, the forest grown program, the Duke ethnobotanical archives and library, deep ecology fellowship program and so much more. Come with questions and leave with inspiration for a deep relationship with native medicinals. We will create block prints of at risk plants.

Learn botanical identification terminology by observing, dissecting, then drawing flowers and leaves. We will explore patterns and family characteristics to create pattern recognition sheets that serve as templates for continued self study and creative exploration. Focusing on field botany, we will walk a little, and stop often. Please bring a journal (unlined pages preferred)

Cosmetic body art may be the earliest form of ritual in human culture! From Nefertiti to Jezebel and Esther, women have enjoyed decorating their eyes and skin with charcoal and clay. This workshop is your opportunity to learn how to make and apply your own clay-based eye liner / mascara, as well as bronzer and blush. You'll leave with a tin of your own custom made, earth-based, essential-oil-free paste.

In this hands-on workshop, you will learn to create your very own field mushroom journal for capturing notes, drawings, spore prints, and more.

A fun make-and-take activity for women of all skill levels. Lean how to take dried pressed herbs and flowers and preserve them under under a glass cabochon. Then we will set the cabochon into a metal pendant setting and string it on a cord necklace that can be kept and worn as a momento of the weekend.

We will explore ways we can contribute to supporting the health of the places where mushrooms grow. We will begin with a grounding presentation about environmental challenges happening locally and more broadly, share stories about actions we have taken, or plan to take, to help ensure the mycelium world will thrive into the next generations.

Drawing from her own experiences, Caro offers practical strategies and techniques to cultivate curiosity in artmaking and deepen our relationship with the natural world. How can we dive deeper into our personal relationships with non-human kin? How can we become citizen scientists and explore nature in our own ways?

Come and learn the basics of medicine making. We will talk about remedies, and even experience them, from the simple tisane, to lotions and more. Figuring out which type of remedy to make should be easy, let's take the mystery out of choosing and making herbal medicines together, so that everyone can confidently make the remedies they need for themselves and others.

Make your very own Apple Cider Vinegar. Come to the "hearth" with other women to create, build your recipe repertoire, and learn more about the health benefits of ACV.

The scent of conifers and other plants is a well-known aspect of forest bathing, but so are the scents of forest fungi! You'll learn how to make mushroom-based perfumes for forest-bathing-on-your-wrists. We'll also dive into fungal aromatics, nerding out on what some of the most common scented mushroom chemicals are, what they smell like, what they do for the fungi, and what they might do for us.

We will talk about the hows and whys of mushroom journaling, a practice that allows us to stay connected to mushrooms (and nearly all aspects of the natural world) throughout the year, even when walking the woods and fields is impossible or impractical. Almost as important, your mushroom journal will remind you when it’s time to head back into the woods to revisit your good spots.

Making paper is magical; the medium holds boundless potential. In this hands-on session we will apply the basic process of making paper using a (fungal) chitin base to create beautiful, earth-toned sheets of paper and learn the basic papermaking process. This session will introduce you to some mushrooms you can use for a variety of hues.

Explore the wide range of color that can be obtained from two common mushrooms. In this live dye demo, learn how to recognize Dyer’s Polypore and Lobster mushrooms, where to look for them, when to harvest for maximum dye potential and how to extract the colors. We will also explore how to work with mineral salts like alum and iron as well as pH modifiers to achieve a nearly full spectrum of color.

Discover how mushrooms can nourish and support your skin naturally. Many fungi are rich in antioxidants, anti-inflammatory compounds, and polysaccharides that help hydrate, soothe, and protect the skin. Mushrooms offer a wide range of benefits for skin care and healing. In this class, we'll explore the skin-supporting properties of different medicinal mushrooms and create a couple of samples.

We will explore a traveling library of mycology books on many themes and handle fresh mushrooms. Creative tools will be provided. Recipes, poems, observations, facts, quotes, stories and drawings can all go in. All experience levels are welcome. We may then allow our pages to be digitally recorded (or not) and then take ours home or give them away.

In this class we will learn how to paint mushrooms and unleash our creative potential through our womb space. Starting with a guided meditation that will help inspire you to birth your own watercolor mushroom womb piece, this class will observe elements of mushrooms from a different perspective. Molly will discuss her personal process of painting mushrooms and their interrelation of our own creative life force.

Tataki-zomé is also known as ‘flower pounding.' This process uses plants to create a print onto material like fabric or thick paper. It has been used by artists from Japan for many years and is now something that artists around the world have explored in their own ways. In this workshop, you will learn how to make direct dyes from leaves, petals, flowers, and ferns without the use of chemicals.

We'll discuss how to identify Trametes versicolor, true turkey tail, it’s possibilities in mycoremediation and land management, and explore the unique compounds found in this complex species. We will discuss clinical applications of this versatile mushroom and common preparations of extraction. Attendees will leave with the knowledge of how to easily identify true turkey tail and prepare their own turkey tail extract

Explore and learn about the ancient agricultural practices of harvesting and readying seeds for storage. While our forebears utilized baskets, gourds, and the wind, we'll practice streamlined ways to speed up the process. Come immerse yourself in a time honored tradition. Feel free to bring seeds to swap as well!

Our ancestors used plants for just about everything, including for beautiful, artistic, and utilitarian textiles. Join Marguerite and learn to dye natural fibers with traditional plant dyestuffs: flowers, plants, tree barks, nut hulls and roots.

It is our nature to create original music. Original melodies can be as natural as wildflowers. Sometimes they simply plant themselves in our consciousness! We will hold space for plantings of this nature, starting with a guided nature-listening session. Develop a sense for hearing and singing fresh, new songs together in this collaborative, creative experience.