Knowledge Share Description

Calendula flowers embody the Sun’s warmth, vibrancy and healing light. They are an easy annual to grow in full sunlight, and so much fun to gather every few days to dry for winter teas, oils and healing salves; to create sun teas and healing baths with, oxymels and vinegars, and to make a special flower essence for supporting warm, caring communication. Different species are native to southwestern Asia, southern Europe, Macaronesia, and the eastern Mediterranean region. In this knowledge share we hope you will be inspired to grow calendula for yourself and calendula as mutual aid! Deb will teach us about what to do if you can grow extra calendula for making into oils and salves - and provide resources on gifting to projects that support women and children who have experienced trauma.

The healing properties of calendula will be woven throughout our time together. Deb will provide detailed information about how to create healthy soil and garden beds for growing calendula (and other herbs), how to follow the biodynamic planting calendar, and understanding the four elements-earth, air, water and fire in relationship to medicinal roots, flowers, leaves and seeds.

You are invited to bring a cup of hot calendula tea to class as we will begin with a tea meditation, helping to ground and center ourselves, and beginning our meeting with the spirit of Calendula.     

Knowledge Share Includes

• Learn how to seed, transplant, gather, and dry calendula flowers

• Through a video Deb shows you how to make calendula oil and salve and talks about the Grow a Row project

• Specific details about drying, storing and preparing calendula into various preparations,

• Ideas for setting up a drying room area in your home or apartment,

• Along with understanding the medicine of calendula.

Exchange

$35

$70 reparations ( If you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our scholarships and work redistributing resources to Black and Indigenous Land Projects)

For scholarships please email herbancura@gmail.com with subject Calendula

Access

*ASR Captioning provided 

*Spanish interpretation available (Si requiere interpretacion por favor mande un email a herbancura@gmail.com)

Virtual Gathering

Zoom link will be sent out via email 1-2 days before knowledge share

5-8pm EST

Class will be recorded and available for 30 days.

Facilitator

Deb Soule practices as an herbalist and biodynamic gardener and is the author of Healing Herbs for Women, How To Move Like A Gardener and The Healing Garden(2021). Raised in a small town in western Maine, Deb began organic gardening and studying the medicinal uses of herbs at age 16. Her faith in the healing qualities of plants and her love of gardening led her to found Avena Botanicals Herbal Apothecary in 1985. Deb teaches, consults and tends a 3-acre biodynamic garden, which provides numerous herbs for Avena’s remedies and serves as a classroom and a sanctuary garden for pollinators and people.