• Grow Your Own Mushrooms Outdoors

    Women's Environmental Institute 15715 River Rd, North Branch, MN 55056, United States

    Course Description: In this hands-on workshop, Stig will show you how to grow mushrooms outdoors using low tech methods like logs, patches, and bags. Thinking about expanding your food cultivation skills? Or are you simply curious about mushrooms? Either way, this workshop is for you! You’ll get the chance to make your own shiitake or […]

    $85
  • Foraging with Hope

    Women's Environmental Institute 15715 River Rd, North Branch, MN 55056, United States

    Course Description: You don’t want to miss this foraging class with Hope Flanagan from the Turtle Clan. Hope is an elder who has learned about plants and foraging from her family lineage, Native elders and teachers, and the plants themselves. She will lead us through a seasonal foraging excursion, where we will learn from Hope and […]

    $65
  • Herbal Street Medic Training

    Women's Environmental Institute 15715 River Rd, North Branch, MN 55056, United States

    Course Description: Herbal Street Medics can play an important role in community resilience by providing grounded care, nervous system support, and plant-based first aid in times of stress, conflict, and uncertainty. Learn the essentials of herbal first aid response for community care, mutual aid spaces, and certain crisis situations. This hands-on training will share practical herbal […]

    $75
  • The Art and Craft of Goat Milk Soap Making

    Women's Environmental Institute 15715 River Rd, North Branch, MN 55056, United States

    Course Description: Spend a hands-on, good-smelling session learning the craft (and chemistry) of goat milk soap. We’ll demystify the science—saponification, superfatting, and why different oils (olive, coconut, shea, castor) change hardness, lather, and conditioning—then walk through a live demo of making a silky, skin-loving goat milk batch from scratch. You will leave with a bar […]

    $75
  • Resilience and Nourishment in Challenging Times

    Women's Environmental Institute 15715 River Rd, North Branch, MN 55056, United States

    Course Description: Times of uncertainty call for deeper nourishment of body, mind, and spirit.  This workshop offers a restorative, empowering, and nature-based approach to building resilience by weaving together herbalism, nourishing foods, nervous system care, and grounding practices that sustain us through challenge and change. Participants will learn about herbs to strengthen the body, support well-being, […]

    $85
  • Introduction to Growing Peaches and other Stone Fruit in Minnesota

    Women's Environmental Institute 15715 River Rd, North Branch, MN 55056, United States

    Course Description: Whether on a scale as large as a high tunnel or in a shelter for one tree, this class explains protection system principles in which you can successfully grow peaches, apricots, plums and nectarines organically in a commercially viable way. The student will learn what cultivars of fruit to look for, why grafting your […]

    $85