The art of gardening meets the arts of cooking, crafting and creating body care products with traditional herbs. From herb salts and fruit vinegars to teas and tinctures, from elegant wreaths and Elizabethan tussie-mussies to soothing salves and safe hair care for chemo patients, we’ll explore modern and traditional uses for garden herbs and flowers. Special focus will be on healing soil and sharing our gardens with birds, butterflies, and pollinators.

About the Instructor

Author, lecturer, garden & food writer, garden designer, horticultural consultant, and social justice activist, Ann Lovejoy has spent many years engaging in community work in Seattle and on Bainbridge Island. Her lifelong interest in elevating artful gardening to greater recognition led her to a long and joyful career. Now retired, she continues to develop and preserve community gardens as well as her own very mixed beds and borders. A passionate devotee of earth stewardship and the domestic arts, she delights in working with native, decorative, culinary, and medicinal plants from many traditions.

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