Learn combinations of herbs and spices that yield delicious and healthy oils and vinegar that can be used in cooking, as medicines and to ease aches and pains. Join Pat Harpell as she teaches how to properly make, store and decant oils and vinegar. Each attendee will take home at least one custom vinegar from herbs gathered at Moore Farms Botanical Gardens and an aromatic infused-oil that can be used for everything from earaches to sauteing vegetables. Recipes and ideas for many different vinegar and oils will be shared.
Join us on Saturday, July 8th from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Our class registration is limited, so register quickly! If you have any special needs or dietary restrictions for the class, please contact Rebecca Turk at (843) 210-7582.
Instructor: Pat Harpell, founder and chief executive weeder of the SC Herbal Society, is happiest when there is dirt under her fingernails and between her toes. In addition to being the fuel behind the SCHS, she teaches an Herbal Apprenticeship program in Charleston, is a guest teacher and speaker, and leads Yoga and Gardening vacations in the U.S. and Europe. Pat has had the great honor of taking herbal and medicinal studies with Sarita Shrestha, MD, Rosemary Gladstar, Matthew Wood, Madelon Hope, Tommy Priester, Phyllis Light, Margi Flint, Anne McIntyre, David Dalton, Dr. Ming Wu, many other sages, and her greatest teacher, Mother Nature. Pat maintains a sustainable, organic garden in her hometown of Charleston where perennials, vegetables and herbs teach her how to grow.