Farm Incense Workshop Weds Sept 4th

Weds Sept 4th
4:00-7:00pm

Join folk herbalist and farmer Marae Dalgas in a hands-on evening at golden hours at the farm exploring plant spirit meditation, the medicine of plant smoke and methods of hand rolling incense cones. We will be working with locally grown herbs, berries, resins, bee propolis and honey. Participants will learn hand rolling and take their cones home.

Schedule:
*Plant spirit meditation and walk around the farm

*Discussing smoke clearing practices rooted in Slavic and Scandinavian tradition. (These are my ancestral lines but we will be discussing other traditions and the issues of appropriation of Native American smudging practices and sacred plants, and encouraging the exploration of relevant ancestral medicines that may have been burned by people of mixed ancestries)

*Diving into the medicinal and psychospiritual properties of plant smoke. Incense making as a tools for devotion and prayer.

Break in the gardens (please bring your own snacks and water)

*Blending, shaping and drying methods with farm-grown herbs. Each participant will get the chance to smell and sit with plants and make their own custom cones to take home.

Course fee includes your custom cones small incense making recipe zine to take home.

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