Workshop 1 of a 7-part series on natural family health and herbal remedies. This session focuses on local plants easy to find, their properties and great families of actions. Participants will learn how to harvest and use them simply in everyday life, with an introduction to different preparations and creation of your own herbal tea blend. The first of six additional workshops covers tinctures & macerations (extracting the medicine of plants), syrups & herbal preparations (a home apothecary), ointments & skin medicine (soothe, protect, repair), fermentation & nourishing life (living foods and the microbiome), women's cycles & plants (body rhythms, plants and the moon), and rhythms of the earth (biodynamic gardening & the lunar calendar). Each participant takes home their own preparation.