Cost of Admission: Members FREE; Non-Members $10 suggested donation

This is an in-person event. Registration is required.

registration is required for this program

Join us for a two-hour introduction to herbalism: a practice, way of living and experiencing our world that is as old as beings, including plants, have been on Earth.  At the root of herbalism are the elements.  This session will build off of how the elements correspond to the seasons, the plants, our bodies and in turn, how we experience the plants.  This discussion will tie in some of the global traditions of herbalism and healing and how the elements and energetics of plants are worked with.  Building off of the elements leads to time for an organoleptic experience such as herb tastings, to better understand some of the more common herbal energetics.  Weather permitting, the class will also spend some time outside looking at some medicinal plants surrounding the Arboretum. 

Margaret Taddy is a clinical herbalist, having completed a 3 year program and clinical training at Arbor Vitae School of Traditional Herbalism in New Paltz. Through her clinical practice, Margaret provides holistic health consultations, walking beside clients as they return to themselves and their vitality. She is also the grower and medicine maker behind Mountain Monarch Herbals, sharing handmade herbal medicine and topicals in the surrounding Catskills. Margaret lives on South Hunter Mountain in the hamlet of Edgewood, ancestral homeland of the Munsee Delaware people. Margaret also has worked in the nonprofit housing field for over 23 years, and has focused her life and career on being of service.