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CLASSES, TRAININGS & APPRENTICESHIPS 2020
-more classes coming soon!-
FEBRUARY 2020
Devas Daughters Herbal Apprenticeship
Spring Session
Instructor: Maya Blow
Dates: February 7th- May 29th, 2020
Time: Thursdays, 10-4pm
Location: Soul Flower Farm
Cost: see page
June 2020
Instructor: Yasir Cross
Date: Sunday, June 14, 2020
Time 10am-3pm
Location: Soul Flower Farm
Cost: $75 (no-one turned away for lack of funds)
Join Yasir as he leads you through the basics of bee-friendly, natural, organic, small-scale beekeeping. You will leave this class with a competent knowledge of the fundamentals of natural beekeeping, and be ready to set up your own backyard beehive. The course will focus on a style of apiculture that is exclusively designed for the small-scale beekeeper.
This bee-friendly method aims to care for the bees, allow them to control their own environment, and is a gentler approach than conventional beekeeping, resulting in healthy
contented bees, and superb raw honey!
Topics to be covered in class:
-The history of beehives
-Beekeeping in Bay area climate
-Biology of the honey bee
-Natural comb vs. manufactured comb
-The People's Hive (text included with class)
-Buying bees hives and equipment
-Building your natural hive
-Permaculture and biodynamic beekeeping strategies
-Urban beekeeping
-Harvesting honey and comb
-Homemade extractor
-Medicinal honey use
*We provide tea and a vegetarian lunch.
SEPTEMBER 2020
Reclaiming Origins of Traditional Sustainability
Permaculture Design Certification
Dates: September 4-6, 11-13, 18-20, 25-27 (4 long weekends)
Times: 9am-6pm
Location: Soul Flower Farm, El Sobrante, California
Cost: Sliding scale $900-1200 USD, scholarships and work trades available
Devas Daughters Herbal Apprenticeship
Fall Session
Instructor: Maya Blow
Dates: September 4th- December 3rd, 2020
Time: Thursdays, 10-4pm
Location: Soul Flower Farm
Cost: see page
OCTOBER 2020
Instructors: Maya Blow & Kiyoko Guillory- Gonzalez
Date: Saturday & Sunday, October 17-18, 2020
Time: 11am-5pm
Cost: $250
*work trades available
In this class we will explore plants traditional botanical strategies used by Africans and their descendants throughout the African Diaspora as practical medicine, folk remedies, ceremonial practices, and dream meditations. We will look at some history of the plants and their uses as tonics in food, topically, internally as teas, preparations as flower essences and of course their use in magic and ritual! Students will create some remedies and a beautiful medicine bag to take home. Herbal tea and an African inspired vegetarian meal provided.
Creating An Herbal Apothecary:
Beginning and Intermediate Medicine Making
Instructor: Maya Blow
Date: Sunday, OCT 25, 2020
Time: 1-5pm
Cost: $60
Materials fee: $20
As we get ready for the coming change of seasons, now is the time to focus on some preventative health measures to ensure that we are fortified and ready to face the oncoming autumn and winter months. In this class we will prepare handcrafted formulas to stock our medicine chests. Come learn about plants that support the respiratory system, boost immunity and act as tonics to the system. We'll discuss adaptogens and make a tasty syrup for coughs and sore throats. Bring a notebook, pen, and a basket to take home all your concoctions! Join us for an herbal medicine making marathon! *Herbal tea and snacks provided.
NOVEMBER 2020
Instructor: Abi Huff
Date: TBA
Time: 12-4pm
Cost: $60
Materials: $20
In this class, we will focus on Chaga, Reishi, Maitake, Shiitake, and Cordyceps mushrooms. We will discuss their medicinal gifts and how we can work with them for stress support, to strengthen immunity, and the specific gifts each mushroom has to offer our vitality. We will have the opportunity to taste and explore each mushroom, and each participant will go home with mushroom medicine.