Make & Take: Exploring the Benefits of Medicinal Mushrooms
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
This introductory workshop will dive into common mushrooms, their benefits and ways to incorporate them into your daily diets and regimens. Each participant will assist in hand-crafting a mushroom remedy to take home with them.
What you’ll learn:
- Ways to incorporate mushrooms into your daily life
- Basic methods for extracting the various medicinal benefits of mushrooms
- Confidence in integrating herbal medicine into your family’s wellness routine
Why Join? You don’t want to miss out on the wealth of benefits that can be derived from working with common mushrooms on a daily basis. All participants will leave with the start of a mushroom double extraction and detailed directions on how to finish the tincture and how to work with it for health benefits.
About the Facilitator
Melonie Sherman, herbalist and passionate advocate for natural wellness, shares her knowledge and experience in herbal medicine-making to inspire others to explore the healing power of plants. As she winds down her 25+ year career in nonprofit leadership, most recently as Executive Director of Crabtree Farms of Chattanooga, Melonie is focused on continuing her path of life-long learning and discovery as a mentee and student of various herbalists. Through learning, teaching, explorative medicine-making and community building, she continues to weave an interconnected web of sharing the wisdom of the plants. During a 2008 break from her nonprofit leadership roles, Melonie pursued her love for holistic skincare by studying Aesthetics at the prestigious Aveda Institute in Washington, D.C. Her journey has since expanded to include formulating herbal remedies for wellness and skincare and earning an herbalist certification from Ecoversity in 2023.
Please contact Chloé Watts at 423-493-9155 or email: cwatts@crabtreefarms.org if you have any questions.
Please Note: Sometimes, we don’t make the ticket minimum, therefore, we have to reschedule the class or cancel. Please check your email and spam folder 48 hours before scheduled class to see if there has been a change. Thank you!
Refund Policy: Refunds can be requested up to 7 days before the start of a workshop. The cancellation fee will be 10% of the ticket amount. To request a refund, please email education@crabtreefarms.org. If you find that you can’t attend the workshop, but it is too late to request a refund, you are welcome to gift the workshop to someone else.