Herb Walk in Samuel P. Taylor State Park Saturday March 22 11:00-2:3o Come join us for an easy walk in this lovely cove of redwoods to see what flora the native Americans and Hispanic might have used for food… Read More »Herbs Walk in Samuel P. Taylor State Park, Marin 11:00-2:30 Saturday March 22
Herbs, Case Studies, and Historical Personage Part 1 Wednesday May 3th 6:30-9:30 PM Have you ever wondered how the healers of old diagnosed the sick. Sometimes they were right and sometimes they were wrong. But overwhelmingly they were right.… Read More »Herbs, Case Studies, and Historical Personages
A full day of cooking and tasting healing foods created by the late Mrs. Martha Navarro Garcia. Bring notebook, checkbook and taste buds. The use of soups, herbs, broths, teas, spices, eggs, meats, and fruits will be demonstrated and tasted. Saturday… Read More »Grandma Garcia’s Healing Foods: A Day of Cooking 1 Saturday TBA
Advanced Hispanic Herbalism 1 (with Tracking and Visual Diagnosis) A hands-on heavy course where students will learn medicine making from salves to vinegars, herbal steam towels and herbal baths, healing food to candies, and gentle massage for strained… Read More »Advanced Hispanic Herbalism
February 16, 6:30 to 9:00 PM An eight week course with one Saturday morning class (weather permitting). A brief history of Hispanic herbalism as practiced by Californios and Native American Californians. Topics to be covered will be food preservation, tinctures,… Read More »Standard Course For Hispanic Herbalism
I was born and raised in a time when neighbors did not lock their doors at night, when summer nights were punctuated by the rumbling of the nearby Contadina cannery, and pickup softball games could last until midnight. It was… Read More »A Summer Tale of Yerba Mansa
Ritual of the Orchards A few years ago I returned home to the central valley of California for a short visit and to pay my respects to the ghosts of memory that occasionally haunt me for good or ill reasons.… Read More »A Memory of Autumn: Ritual of the Orchards by Charles Garcia