Meet Your Local Plant Allies

When we learn to identify the plants growing in our own backyards, forests, and fields, something shifts. We stop seeing “weeds” and start seeing allies, healers, and indicators of a living, breathing ecosystem. That connection is at the heart of everything we do as stewards of this land.

Step into the lush, green gardens of Hannah Morano, community herbalist and founder of Sweet Birch Herbals in Ashfield, MA, for a hands-on wander through the world of local medicinal plants. This isn’t your average classroom — it’s a living, breathing, fragrant experience right among the herbs themselves.

Hannah will introduce you to the local plant heroes thriving in our landscape — both the cultivated and wild plants — and show you how to weave their power into your everyday home life with simple, accessible recipes.

This workshop is hands-on and includes:

• Guided Garden Walk — see, smell, and touch the plants that grow wild and in Hannah’s garden

• Plant Identification — learn your local heroes, new and old friends

• Simple Home Recipes — easy ways to use medicinal herbs in your daily routine

• Make a Remedy Together — craft something real and useful right on the spot

• Take Home a Herb Bundle — leave with fresh herbs in hand and confidence in your heart

Leave with a deeper reverence for the landscape you call home — and the tools to be a more informed, intentional steward of it.

Cost: $25