Herbal Education Classes
From time to time, we offer a variety of herbal classes ranging from herb walks to traditional water-bath canning and food preservation to making plant-based salves to basket-weaving with invasive vines. Come learn and grow with us!
Join Marc Williams on Sunday, October 5th from 1-4pm for a slow and gentle walk in the Red Moon Gerbs garden and woodland trail.
Plant Family Patterns: The Key to See
Plant Family Patterns can greatly aid in demystifying the “green wall” of species around us. Over 350,000 species of flowering plants are known to global science. These species have been grouped into around 15,000 genera and over 400 flowering plant families. About 200 flowering plant families grow in the temperate world where it annually frosts and or freezes. You will know something significant about the majority of plants that you see in the temperate world if you learn the top 30 families around you. It is often possible to guess whether a plant is edible, medicinal, or poisonous simply by the family it occupies. However, some exceptions are important to know as well. We will engage in a walk and talk around the Red Moon herbs grounds where we will delve into the major plant families of the Southern USA. Students will reinforce plant identification skills by observing family patterns such as leaf, flower and fruit types. Uses including edibility, medicinality, craft, wildlife promotion and landscape beauty will be discussed. Participants will gain a more holistic understanding of the major plants comprising the Southern US flora and their potential ecological and ethnobotanical applications.
