Spring is the perfect season to start identifying and harvesting the medicinal herbs in your neighborhood, as you can track their progress and catch them at different stages of growth. We'll take a slow stroll through the CVU meadows and wooded edges, meeting common and helpful plants and diving into their uses and the best times to harvest for medicine.
Get ready to use all your senses, and leave with a better sense of the green world around you.
Bring waterproof walking shoes and notetaking materials! Sign up for both of Sophie's spring plant walks to further deepen your knowledge of medicinal plant ID and use.
This class will meet inside CVU to start and then move outside. Please dress appropriately for the weather, as the class will take place outside CVU and may involve walking over some muddy and uneven ground. In the case of extreme weather, this class will meet a week from the scheduled date.
Sophie Cassel is a clinical and community herbalist that believes in weaving webs of care, and that everyone deserves to build a knowledgeable relationship with their body and with the plant allies that grow around them. She lives and tends her garden along the Winooski river in Richmond. You can learn more about her practice at patchworkplantmedicine.com
Sophie Cassel
