Medicine of the Pines December 17, 2024

Discover the potent medicinal properties of the pine family plants of Colorado and learn how to transform these evergreens into a range of healing preparations.

In this hands-on class, we will explore the traditional and modern uses of pines, spruces, and firs, focusing on their anti-inflammatory, respiratory-supporting, and immune-boosting qualities. We’ll discuss identification and harvesting techniques, and explore the different benefits of teas, tinctures, syrups, salves, essential oils, and resins. 

 

Participants will help make and take home:

  • 1 oz of syrup
  • 1 oz of tincture

 

Join Registered Herbalist Kat Mackinnon in an evening of understanding of these evergreen allies and making some delicious medicine. We recommend you bring a notebook and water bottle.

 

Date: Tuesday December 17, 2024

Time: 6-8 pm

Instructor: Kat MackinnonKat with fresh herb basket, Registered Herbalist

minimum participants: 8 people

$50.00

Kat is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild. She is also a certified clinical herbalist and nutritionist through the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, where she studied with Paul Bergner in the Vitalist tradition. Kat holds workshops on herbalism, wild foods, medicine making, and botany, and teaches at various schools, conferences, and apothecaries. She also has a clinical practice through her business Meet the Green. 

 

Kat primarily works as a teacher and clinician, approaching both roles from a Vitalist perspective. This perspective is based on the belief that we all have a fundamentally intelligent life force that drives us, and that we are constantly in communication with and in service of this life force. 

 

For 12 years, Kat worked at the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism in Boulder and Lafayette, CO. She served as primary faculty for the Fundamentals, Advanced, and Botany programs, and was the Clinical Program Director for the last 4 years of her time there. She is one of the cofounders of Forest to Field Festival, a gathering focused on the sharing of land based skills and ancestral knowledge, and cofounder of Apothecary Academy, an online herbalism program. 

 

Originally from the East Coast, Kat has a passion for bioregional herbalism. Over the past 14 years, she has developed a particular love for working with herbs of the Colorado Plateau. Her formal career with plants began with studying forestry at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, and she has since developed a deep connection with the plants, animals, and incredible harsh beauty of the Southwest.

Kat with fresh herb basket

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