Botany & Balms: Mastering Poison Ivy and Its Remedy and Meeting Nettle
June 7 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
10:00-11:30 Join us for a hands-on, outdoor learning experience where we’ll walk the land together to meet poison ivy in its natural habitat. You’ll learn how to confidently identify it in all its forms, along with common look-alikes—so you can move through fields and woods with greater awareness and ease.
After our walk, we’ll gather to wildcraft a simple, plant-based remedy traditionally used to help prevent or soothe poison ivy exposure. You’ll take part in the process from start to finish—harvesting, preparing, and creating.
Each participant will leave with a spray bottle of the remedy we make together, along with a recipe so you can continue the practice at home.
Come spend time on the farm connecting with plants, learning practical skills, and sharing in community.
Cost: $30
12:30-2:00 Come spend time in the presence of Nettle, Urtica dioica—a plant often misunderstood, yet deeply nourishing and generous once we learn how to approach her.
In this hands-on, land-based workshop, we’ll meet nettles growing here on the farm and down at our local creek and explore both their practical herbal uses and their deeper role as a plant ally. Together, we’ll learn how to harvest safely and respectfully, work with nettle as food and medicine, and understand its powerful herbal actions—rich in minerals, supportive to the nervous system, restorative for the body, and strengthening to the blood.
Beyond its physical benefits, nettle invites us into relationship. As a plant that both stings and nourishes, it teaches boundaries, resilience, and reciprocity. We’ll slow down, listen, and consider what it means to be in right relationship with the land and the beings that sustain us.
This workshop will include guided observation, harvesting practice, simple preparation techniques, and space for reflection and connection.
Come ready to engage your senses, expand your understanding of plant medicine, and deepen your relationship with the living world.
Cost is $30.
If coming for both, pack and lunch and enjoy the land between classes.
Rivendellfarms.org for more information and to register.