About the Workshop

This interactive workshop will focus on the ‘tea’ of, well… making tea! And some springtime concerns and remedies. We will learn all about brewing a strong medicinal infusion of herbs (including what herbs are good for some common spring issues) as well as making syrups and infused vinegars with the bounty of the season. We will learn and prepare some remedies for allergies, colds and flu/spring immunity, and generally aiding our bodies in emergence from our winter nests.

Participants will make some herbal tea combinations, thyme syrup, and infused vinegar to take home and share with the community. Please bring clean, sterile bottles to take home herbal goodies, if you can.

About the Instructor

Katy Rugg

Katy is a Clinical Herbalist who found her way into leading workshops to connect people with the plants and their gifts through her own meandering journey; growing up and into a Quaker perspective and practice, she has developed her passions for deeper connection with other humans and the natural world through outdoor spiritual exploration, and formal study in French, Geology, graduate work in Intercultural Relations, and Urban Gardening and community programs in Boston, France and eventually, back here in her hometown of Richmond, VA. In 2017, she was honored to be a part of the inaugural Urban Gardener series, and shortly after left a soul-distressing job, allowing her to take a leap of faith to begin formal training in Herbalism (with Kat Maier at Sacred Plant Traditions in Charlottesville). When the pandemic hit, she went back to finish the 3-year program to become a Clinical Herbalist, understanding that the need was great to share the wisdom and generosity of the plants – who help us to return to our most authentic, and vibrant, selves. Katy loves to sing and write and be creative (especially in community), inspire people to live seasonally and in deepening relationship with the natural world. In addition to teaching workshops and gathering women, she has lately been delving deeper into the divine feminine, while stewarding a small patch of earth, and a small business called Petal Palate – dreaming up delights for our senses in collaboration with the flowers and the land (and hoping to inspire humans to be more embodied in the moment, and better stewards of the earth, and its human and other pollinators, in the process).