One of the most common questions posed to herbalists by the curious is "‘where do I start'?’ So we’ll try to make it easy in this evening discussion of 7 plants to start caring for yourself and your family right at home.

We hope you might already be using some of these plants and mushrooms in your kitchen and find it easy to be friends with the one or two that you may not already know. In any case, bring a pen and paper or something electronic to take notes!

We’ll drink an infusion made from some of the plants we’ll be discussing so you can taste and smell these allies. You’ll also leave with an electronic handout with recipes and info for future use of the palnts in discussion!

Certainly one of the most fundamental ways to get to know plants is to work with one plant, one at a time for one month. But here, we will get you in a place where you can lean on plants commonly found in the kitchen that you may already know and just think to use them medicinally as well as culinarily.