ADULT GARDEN SERIES

EXPLORE PLANTS FOR PERFUME, FOOD, COSMETIC AND MEDICINE
Each month ethnobotanist Sharon Ackland invites us to dig into practical uses for wildflowers, herbs, perennials and trees, wild or cultivated. Delve into Native American and “old-country” recipes and review current plant research with home formula methods. Scout outdoors for roots, resins, barks and berries; then return to the kitchen to whip up a potion, perfume or panacea.

Garden Walk, Lecture & Recipe Demonstration 1:00pm-3:00pm

Members: $20 per class or $85 for all 8
Non-members: $25 per class or $110 for all 8

(Call for the date each month.)
September: Tea Garden
October: Wild Edibles
November: Compound Medicines from Wildflowers
December: Wildflower Cosmetics
January: Home Spa-A Relaxing Retreat for Body & Soul
February: The Essentials of Aromatherapy
March: Celebrate Spring Bulbs & Wildflowers
April: Extract Perfume from Plants 

JAN -Home Spa - A Relaxing Retreat - Schedule a restorative pampering session with your own homemade botanical elixirs and body treatments.  With snippings from the garden and simple pantry ingredients like honey, yogurt and cornflour, you can create buttermilk baths, almond-skin exfoliators and seaweed body wraps.  Try soapwort shampoo, comfrey aftershave powder, butter & eggs eye pads and eastern hemlock massage oil.

FEB - The Essentials of Aromatherapy– Explore scent and healing from pure botanical essential oils – powerful plant chemicals that act as natural anti-bacterials and anti-virals.  Discover the anti-inflammatory action of azulene – chamomile’s potent terpene, or allantoin – comfrey’s natural skin soother.  Learn to blend combinations of essential oils from lemon, bergamot, orange flower, cedar, cypress, & cardamom to create a natural perfume, cologne or body oil.  Try various use-modalities in class: inhalation therapy, botanical bathing, or environmental air-diffusing. 

MAR - Celebrate Spring Bulbs & Wildflowers – What is more pleasing than the first bouquet of lilliputian snowdrops or violets?  Gather up their sweet balm for formulas of perfume and edible delectables.  Breathe in the heady aura of hyacinth, jonquil, tulip, primrose and hesperis while learning how to capture their sweetness in skin & spirit delicacies. 

APR - Extract Perfume from Plants - Discover how to tap into the perfumed volatile oils of plants like Rugosa rose, honeysuckle & orange mint to construct a formula with flowers, spices, alcohol and fixatives.  Learn about essential oils used by aromatherapists for energizing, relaxing or spiritual centering.  Prepare fragrant wildflowers, barks and resins gathered from garden & woodlands for body splashes, facial tonics, botanical baths and room misters.

The Thornton Burgess Society
appreciates the support of the
Massachusetts Cultural Council

info@thorntonburgess.org

Thornton W. Burgess Society
6 Discovery Hill Road
East Sandwich, MA 02537
508-888-6870