Handmade paper from fresh local plants, herbs and flowers!
Make Paper naturally, with Katy DeMent @ Cutting Root Farm. Participants will build paper making skills whilst exploiting the bountiful harvest at Cutting Root Farms as our pallet. We will discover what parts of the local flora and fauna are useful for papermaking as we make sheets of handmade paper embedded with flowers and other natural elements.
Katy DeMent is a self-taught working studio artist, paper /printmaker papermaker and organic gardener who creates her art from plants, found and collected objects. DeMent uses handmade recycled paper as a gateway to the many sustainable aspects of art making, creating stronger connections with the environment. No Materials are arbitrary as each piece she creates tells a story with layers of vintage ephemera, bits of cloth held together with handmade papers crafted from fibers she collects and grows locally.
Point Breeze Herbal Classes
Our August Make and Take Classes take place in a truly magical and special neighborhood garden- The Herb Garden at Sterrett Middle School has bene tended to and transformed by neighbor Howard Aiken. Come, roll in the pennyroyal paths, oogle the angel’s trumpets blossoms on full moon nights, gaze into the mesmerizing beauty of flowers and herbs with us! We will frolic and talk plants, we’ll taste test and make potions, everyone will go home with a fuller understanding of herbs, different preparations and a heartfelt connection with the plants.
Wednesdays, August 6, 13, 20, 27 from 6:30-8 pm.
August 6 Mullein Queens, Hags Tapers and Moving through Grief
August 13 Crafting Herbal Vinegars and Oxymels
August 20 Making Herbal Tinctures for Stress Relief
August 27 Topical Herbal Applications: oils and soaks
Recorded Deep Dive Herb Classes- Available as downloaded videos
Michelle highlights her favorite herbs in these1-2 hour herbal medicine classes. Classes available about ashwagandha, burdock, calendula, chamomile, elderberry, holy basil, lemon balm, milky oats, nettle, skullcap and wild cherry. Learn all about growing, identifying, using and making from these plants in our interactive recorded classes.
Herb of the Month Club
We are taking a summer break, but we’ll be back in September with these classes:
- September- Lemon Balm- let’s head into the fall with this uplifting and anti-viral friend
- October- Skullcap- and stress relieving formulas
- November- Astragalus- and immune fortifying formulas
- December- Calendula- all about this one amazing lymph mover, immune booster, tissue builder and anti-inflammatory
- January- Tulsi- starting the year off right with a mood booster!
Dates coming soon
In Person- Community Cohort
Registration closed for 2025.
Farm based learning, making AND access to all the fresh herbs we grow? YES PLEASE! If you want to build community as you build your craft, this program is for you.
Once a month, six months
Wild Cherries Intro to Herbal Studies
Registration Closed for 2025.
Along with Vilde Chaya Fenster Erlich and Jocelyn Kirkwood we bring you our Intro to Herbal Studies: a three-season, 108-hour weekend herbal intensive exploring health, resilience and the plant world. The program incorporates herbal knowledge in a hands on way with botany and field work, all based on a foundation of social justice and decolonization. We meet one weekend a month, March through November.