Product Details

Hands On, 2 hour,

Herbal Medicine

Making Workshop!

You Will Make and Take Home

6 oz of Herbal Medicine

Join NYC Herbalists

Cheryl Boiko and

Jo Anne Kelly Richards

in Brooklyn

We are so excited to share fresh organic medicinal plants from Sawmill Farm with you again this year!!

This SPRING offering includes FRESH NETTLES, CHICKWEED, CLEAVERS, VIOLET LEAF AND FLOWER, and GARLIC MUSTARD

Choosing from at least 5 different medicinal plants, and a variety of menstra, including,

vodka, vinegar, honey, and glycerine, you will make

three separate 2 oz tinctures (retail value up to $102) to take home.

Jo Anne will introduce you to healing plants that abundantly grow right at our footsteps! She will share their identifiable characteristics, and many healing benefits. You will have plenty of time to ask questions, and experience the empowerment of making your own plant medicine.

Location: Remedies Herb Shop

453 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231

Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025

7-9pm

Fee: $77

All medicine making materials (jars, menstra, and fresh organic medicinal herbs)

to make and take home 6 oz of herbal medicine are included.

Bring a notebook and pen if you are a note taker!

Jo Anne Kelly Richards is a Certified Herbalist and a Certified Holistic Health Coach. She practices and teaches The Wise Woman Tradition of Herbal Medicine. Her four years of herbal medicine training and apprenticeship included field work, plant identification, medicine making, and clinical practice. Jo Anne also completed the Advanced Immersion program for Holistic Health Counselors at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Jo Anne has taught and lectured at NY Sports Club, Brooklyn College, The Home Spa, The Institute for Integrative Nutrition in NYC, and P.S. 29 in Brooklyn. As a natural skin care formulator and herbal medicine maker, Jo Anne is registered with the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. You can find Jo Anne sharing the healing wisdom of our local wild plants, and the nourishing properties of her natural skin care line, with customers and students, at Remedies Herb Shop, in Brooklyn, NY, where she is currently the lead herbal medicine teacher.

CANCELLATION POLICY

Cancellations made with at least 7 days notice qualify for a full refund or may use the credit towards a future class of the same of lesser value, within 6 months

Cancellations made within 1 to 7 days of class may use the credit towards a future class of the same of lesser value, within 6 months

Cancellations made with less then 24 hours prior notice do not qualify for a refund or class credit

Reviews

2 Reviews

Herb Circle in the park
5

Posted by Jeanie on 28th Jun 2022

It was the most beautiful way to spend a June Saturday, with Jo Anne and herb-enthusiasts in Bay Ridge! We strolled around the botanical garden, smelled the roses, touched and felt plants, then sat around in our Herb Circle, under red wood trees, and made medicine. We learned about medicinal herbs and exchanged stories. Sitting around in a small group making herb tinctures and chatting was itself a very healing and therapeutic experience! Jo Anne brought a lot of fresh herbs for the class to choose from to make tinctures, but she also gave us extras to take home to continue to explore. I continued to make tinctures and infusions until I ran out of jars at home, and I strung the leftovers and hanging them to dry for later uses. Look forward to upcoming sessions, and see how the plants in the parks change with the seasons, and to reunion with my new herb-buds. <3
Amazing as always
5

Posted by Jitka on 27th Jun 2022

Jo Anne just brings everything together that the wise-woman tradition stands for. Wisdom, community-building, love, humanity. You will feel the approach of "hinting you to what you already know deep down inside and forgot along the way" happening! You sit together while making medicine and the magic of community happens and becomes a part of the medicine. Just naturally and authentically brilliant.