We LOVE Herbs!

Four Seasons
Herbal Guild

We believe in inspiring an

educated herbal community,

through outreach, education & service.

Members of the Guild may participate in any of the following focus areas to support our mission and to add to their herbal knowledge and appreciation.

Spokane Herbal Faire

Community Gardens

Monthly BOD meetings

Seasonal Dinner & Workshop

Join the Guild

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Meetings & Workshops

April Gathering & Meal

April 13th, 12:00 West Central Abbey

Beginning in December of 2024 we will be offering

a seasonal meal at the Abbey. In order to use the

kitchen on site we have to abide by a few rules, one

is we need to sell tickets, so one of us will be standing

at the door to sell you a ticket to get in.

We are suggesting $20 for your meal & the workshop,
Guild members are free.

Nesto, Dandelion Pesto, Pasta

Welcome Spring with greens for your table. We will

feature Dandelion & Nettle Pesto! We will offer a mini

workshop on the fantastic nutrition of Nettle & Dandelion

greens; we will have a pasta salad bar for your taste

bud delight!

Upcoming dates!

May 26th - Abbey Garden Kickoff Party

June - Sept - we are working on the schedule still

October 4th - Fall Meal & Workshop

(free for members)

Nov 8th - Lip Balm Workshop

Dec 13th - Winter Bazaar & Business mtg

9th annual Spokane Herbal Faire
Put off until 2026

If you, SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER you will get emailed when we have meals combined with workshops (about 6-8 time a year).

Growing & Sharing
Organic Herbs

The Herbal Community Garden at the West Central Abbey is a place to touch, smell and taste the herbs. We pull plants from here to use in our workshops, if you have any interest in supplying plants for the garden or plants for our workshops please let us know. We love to use organically grown herbs!

Learn About the Garden

workshops

This Sunday, 5:00, Harmony Woods Retreat Center :)
Elderberry is where we will begin! The wonders of the plant are many, s/he digs deep to keep our immune systems in balance. This flu fighting wonder is a fantastic tool in your kit.
We will drink tea, make syrup and gummies! Get ready for an evening with the elder Elder, this magical plant with a grand background of lore.

Well the Four Seasons Herbal Guild had its first Seasonal Meal and workshop! Oh was it delicious!
We had veggie stock, meat stock for potato soup and a nutritional mushroom, root and bone stock. Wow! Oh and bread w butter 🤤 🧈
Some wonderful people showed up!
We were blessed to learn SO much about potatoes, salt and nutrition, thank you Melody!! And who knew there were so many details to creating amazing stock! Thank you Cara and Mary!
Thank you everyone!!

Looking forward to more seasonal meals and workshops in the future!

January 18th we will be making salve first aid kits for those in need :)

Tonight y'all! At the beautiful Harmony Woods 🌞

This week y'all!

My favorite, easy to reach for, tasty remedy. My children like it :) a dose before school in the morning helps keep our household healthy. Most 'cold' symptoms go running at the warming constituents of ginger, horseradish, onion, garlic, lemon, oregano & thyme :) add the honey for palatability, and you have something special!
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Come join the Four Seasons Herbal Guild, the Franciscan's and the other amazing volunteers of the Abbey!! An afternoon of pumpkins, fire cider and community 🔥🎃

Warming and sweet,
keep those winter chills at Bay
with a shot of fire cider
every day.

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1832 West Dean
Come join us for day two!

Next weekend everyone! Looking forward to seeing all your beautiful faces, smelling incredible herbs, drinking tea, and having a very enjoyable couple days!

A little bump of Motherly love, a regular friend that can help the ups and downs of life seems a bit less extreme, an intense bitter, a lovely aromatic, a little dab will do it in a tea blend, a common remedy to carry on you, for you, your kids or that person who is just a little high strung from the events of the day.

The Lion Hearted
The herb of the Mother
Motherwort

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Hey Spokane will you please help me spread the word about this? The Herbal Faire is such an incredible success in June, so many people ask for another one. But planning another two-day event like that seemed very arduous for the board, so instead we came up with a new idea, Spokane gets an Herbal Market!!
Join us at the West Central Abbey for our very first one on April 13th!
And help us spread the word please! Our Facebook was hacked, and now it sits with us unable to access it, and the almost 3,000 people that we had in our following are no longer getting updates from us...

So anyways, share this post with people that are interested! We will have a pop-up market in April with herbalists and three workshops!
Spring ephemerals with Mary Schmidt
Nettles and their power with Rachel Clark
Soil blocking as an alternative to seed starting, with Jessica Spurr.

See you there!

Coming your way April 13th w an emphasis and seeds and starts!!

With winter dwindling, the buds will be swelling soon. In fact a good handful of them already have, and many broken limbs can be found on the ground for our collection needs.

Come join us Tuesday night, we will talk tincture, drink tea discuss oils, and everyone will make their own cottonwood bud salve to take home. 💚🔥💚

The time is here! Oh they smell so good!
Do you know which buds we can use and which we cannot?
The tincture of this resinous tree is so potent that only a couple drops are enough to coat my mouth.
And the wonderful oil that can be made by carefully extracting the resin from the buds is an excellent remedy for all kinds of nasty wounds.
Once, my 2-year-old palmed the glass of the wood stove, driving 45 minutes into town is not an option where I live. And honestly, I think the 2-year-old would have been more traumatized by the long ride in and dealing with the urgent care then having me manage it at home. So I wrapped his hand in the oil of the cottonwood buds, nursed him to sleep and when he awoke an hour later he had no pain and no complaints. A week later everything was healed without the slightest trace of infection

Come join me on February 20th at Harmony woods retreat center, we will talk about the tree, the history, the tincture, the oil and all together we will make a salve for each person to take home. 💚💚💚

January 16th, 5:00-7:00
Digestive bitters! This fantastic element is found in our cocktails, it's occasionally found in the grocery store, and it has a magnificent and wandering history dating back to ancient Egypt and a formula for incense that was also taken internally, then to the kingdom of Pontas, an opponent of rome, and the very famous formula the mythridate was created.
We will learn some history, and then we will take a walk through our GI tract and understand the component of bitter and what it does for our stomach.
Lastly we will get an excellent Hands-On experience, every person will come to the table with an array of dried herbs, berries, barks and roots for folks to pick from. We will fill our jars with our unique formulas and create our own digestive bitter to take home.
You will leave far more informed than before, and with the skills to make more.

Help me with a share if you would please. Due to Facebook deleting my account, I have limited access to my personal earthly apothecary account and our four seasons herbal guild page... and the 1.7K people following it... So my sharing network has dramatically changed, help me change this and share it with those that are interested.

Feeling bitter? Take some bitters! Come and learn why.

Have a marvelous and beautiful day that unfurls with peace.

With no snow... But with winter in mind we harvested some needles of our grand for trees!
A fine chop and they blended so well with the frosting. Bright notes of the needles contrast so well with the melt in your mouth short bread.

Fall Fire Cider Making!!

November 18th
Location: West Central Abbey
12-2
$10 suggested, non members
You Bring:
1 Onion
1/4 head of Garlic
Fist of Ginger Rt
1 good sized chunk of Horseradish
1 Lemon
1 Quart Jar & Ring
1 Jar lid sized piece of wax paper
1 jar of Apple Cider Vinegar
1 Cutting Board
1 Large and sharp knife

***Yes to Buying Organic your medicine is only as good as your ingredients***

We will Bring
Burdock Root!! and info about it!
The story of Fire Cider & information about why we love it.
Herbs 🌿💚🙏🏼

Sitting under this elder shrub this morning, looking up and observing its curious doctrine of signatures imprint against the sky. Pushing out into the periphery, as so many have wisely said. And indeed it does, opening the pores and the capillaries in a way that allows things to move out of the body.

Tonight at 5:00, you can come and make tea, eat gummies, make tincture, make syrup and have a lovely time. Learn the lore and value of the elder.

Welcome to the lineup of earthly apothecary classes for the coming seasons.
Harmony woods will be hosting us, come enjoy herbalism in this beautiful, round space by David Kirchoff. Come learn about the plants, the easy ways they can be used in our daily life, come learn the process, take home a remedy, and take in the skills to make more.

Margi Flint has been interviewed by Mountain Rose, Herbal Radio Podcast and Rosalee de la Foret, Herbs with Rosalee; both are great for entirely different reasons. With Rosalee we learn all about Burdock. With Thomas we learn about who Margi is, who William LeSassier is, and some gems of facial diagnostics.

We've all been so busy preparing for this!!
In Margi's own words:

"Reading the body’s colors, lines, facial, tongue and fingernail changes offers practitioners confirmation, or better still, initial direction for the herbs to be consumed. Some of these indications change when better health is achieved. To understand the importance of visual indications has been the foundation of my practice. Face, tongue and fingernails, toes, colors and the wide variety of lines and their depth is crucial for accurate understanding of energetic health. The physical body cannot be separated from the spiritual or mental aspects of self. Those skills taught by the late William LeSassier and then new indications from David Winston, and then Matthew Wood, have allowed me to find compliance with clients, narrow down the decisions about which herbs to employ with each client, and confirm my thoughts around which endocrine gland, organ system, or emotional state is under duress. The energetics appear on, in, and into words in unique ways with each person who sits before me. I do believe this skill needs to be introduced early in herbal studies

The Herbal Fairw day one was so much fun! So many incredible people and things to take pictures of. Wonderful classes, wonderful teachers, some technical difficulties, but we made it through! Thank you to everyone that we saw on day one, and now we are looking forward to day two! (More pix to come!)
10:00 fire cider workshop!
11:00 herbs for COVID
12:15 how to be open heart d with rose medicine
2:00 making layered plant medicine
2:00 the medicinal herb garden

See you there!
1823 West Dean 10-4

It's Faire Weekend!!! Welcome everyone to our beautiful, family friendly, educational, fun event!
Today we feature several amazing talks, including Margi Flint of Earth song Herbals, she will be joining us via Zoom at 1:00!!

Just a day away!!
We are so pleased to announce Margi Flint, of Earth Song Herbals, author of The Practicing Herbalist, will be joining us Saturday, LIVE, via zoom at 1:00 for an interview and teaser of her upcoming Oct two day workshop, Reading The Body.

See you at the Faire!

Have you powdered your Marc recently?

I used to wonder about the remaining possibilities of the leftovers of making fire cider, I wonder no more!
With a fantastic help of my oven I dehydrate the strained out solids of my batch of fire cider. About 200°, for 3 to 4 hours depending on your oven, keep it cracked with a spatula to let the moisture out.
Dehydrate entirely.
Send it through your Vitamix or ninja or equivalent.
Put through a medium-sized whole sieve.
Use your powder, on popcorn, addition to salad dressing, on toast ...etc
The larger pieces that didn't make it through your sieve are a fantastic addition to your soup stock! When you're boiling bones and wishing your stock had just a touch more flavor adding a couple tablespoons of these larger pieces takes your soup from blah to bloom. Not to mention, there are still potent goodies in these leftover herbs, the ginger will still taste like ginger! And it's still going to ease tension in the gut and warm you up from the inside out.

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Be sure to catch Guild board member, Austin this weekend at Taste and Tea. Looking at Emotional Wellness, a Holistic approach
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We are thrilled to announce our dates for the 2023 Spokane Herbal Faire!
June 24 & 25

Planning and organizing has begun! We are really excited to see everyone in 2023, and intend on having a plethora of workshops and herbal vendors to offer to the northwest community! We will have our tea kitchen as before as well as our children's corner!

We are looking for vendors, volunteers, raffle donations, and amazing presenters!

See you there!

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