UPCOMING EVENTS
Solid Perfume-Making
with Lakeja Baylor
* New Date *
Saturday, October 4th, 4-5 pm
In this workshop you will be learning how to make your our own solid perfumes. Combining beeswax, botanically infused oils, and essential oils you will make & take home 2 differently scented solid perfumes.
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Fall Ayurveda Gathering & Ghee-making
with Kimber Hyatt
12-1:30pm, Saturday October 11th
Let’s have tea & discuss this most beautiful season of transition, the ups & downs that come with it.
Kimber will share Ayurveda’s perspective & some beautiful ways to stay grounded, nourished, healthy & feeling like your best self as the season brings about its changes.
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Community Medicine Making Circles
withJen Halima
Next one: October 25th
Roots & Broth Blends
Meet the autumn root harvest and the many ways it can be incorporated into healing and immune supporting remedies through infusions into tinctures, cough syrups, teas and food. We will learn how to make a cough syrup and prepare an herbal broth bags for you to take home.
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Plant Allies for Stress, Depression, and Fatigue
with Kat Maier
Saturday January 31st, 2026, 10am – 5pm

Sunday Morning Tea Ceremonies
with Silvy Franco
Join Silvy for a meditative ceremony to commune with Camelia sinensis. Come for quiet reflection as you sip on several cups of tea following Japanese tradition. Ceremony begins at 9:30 am and goes for an hour. Pre-registration is required.
Suggested Donation: $25
Damiana
/in Herb of the Month /by Ashley Davis(Turnera diffusa)
An aromatic herb (in the mint family) native to Central America. The Aztecs used the leaves as a sexual tonic and stimulant and regarded it as the second most important herb for bestowing vitality, after chocolate. Traditionally the fragrant leaves were brewed as a tea and sweetened with honey to stimulate lovemaking.
Tastes/Energetics: aromatic, warming, slightly stimulating, but also relaxing
Parts Used: leaves & flowers
Actions: aromatic, nerve tonic, aphrodisiac, antidepressant, carminative, reproductive tonic, diuretic
Uses: Traditionally used for stimulating sexual appetite, treating erectile dysfunction & enhancing orgasm in both sexes. Strengthens the central nervous system & eases the emotional stress, damiana may helpful for mild depressive or anxious states. Also helpful in treating irrational fears. Alkaloids could have a testosterone-like action. As a carminative, it eases colic, dyspesia, & upset stomach.
Indications: impotence, low libido, poor digestion, cough, melancholy and sadness, weak nerves in the reproductive organs, sexual debility due to nervous exhaustion, incontinence, chronic prostatic discharge
Preparations: as a tea, use 1 tsp damiana with ½ tsp spearmint and ½ tsp rose petals for an invigorating yet calming nerve tonic. Often used in smoking mixtures. It also makes an incredible liqueur!!!
Cautions: Damiana may interfere with the absorption of iron. Avoid large doses during pregnancy.