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General News · 8th May 2025
CCHA Family Support - Desta
Discover the art of crafting a soothing balm for aches, sprains, and bruises using abundant local and wild herbs. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll transform natural ingredients into a powerful healing salve.
You’ll learn about the medicinal properties of each herb, recognizing the plants in the wild, foraging tips, how to make your own medicated herbal oils, and working with essential oils to enhance their properties.
You’ll leave with knowledge and a homemade salve to take home! This workshop is open to women, two-spirit, and gender-diverse individuals. Join us in reconnecting with nature and empowering ourselves through herbal medicine!
Limited Space Available. Register here.
Date: Sunday, May 18
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: South End, address provided with registration
Cost: Free!
Register here.
Women's Hands Rural Skills Workshop Series for Women+ is a project of the Cortes Community Health Association Family Support Program and is funded by the Fund for Gender Equality as part of a partnership with Community Foundations of Canada and the Government of Canada and dispersed locally through the Cortes Community Foundation. The fund was created to support women, Two-Spirit and gender diverse individuals in support of a future grounded in equity, inclusion and justice.
Erica Køhn has been making her own wild and weedy body products and herbal medicines for 25 years. She hosts Gather Folk Herbal Wisdom Circle - an invitation to inspire each other into greater understanding & more regular use of local medicinal botanicals. When not making films, facilitating workshops, or gardening, you'll find her wild crafting and making herbal concoctions.
You’ll learn about the medicinal properties of each herb, recognizing the plants in the wild, foraging tips, how to make your own medicated herbal oils, and working with essential oils to enhance their properties.
You’ll leave with knowledge and a homemade salve to take home! This workshop is open to women, two-spirit, and gender-diverse individuals. Join us in reconnecting with nature and empowering ourselves through herbal medicine!
Limited Space Available. Register here.
Date: Sunday, May 18
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: South End, address provided with registration
Cost: Free!
Register here.
Women's Hands Rural Skills Workshop Series for Women+ is a project of the Cortes Community Health Association Family Support Program and is funded by the Fund for Gender Equality as part of a partnership with Community Foundations of Canada and the Government of Canada and dispersed locally through the Cortes Community Foundation. The fund was created to support women, Two-Spirit and gender diverse individuals in support of a future grounded in equity, inclusion and justice.
Erica Køhn has been making her own wild and weedy body products and herbal medicines for 25 years. She hosts Gather Folk Herbal Wisdom Circle - an invitation to inspire each other into greater understanding & more regular use of local medicinal botanicals. When not making films, facilitating workshops, or gardening, you'll find her wild crafting and making herbal concoctions.