Celestial Acres Herb Walk;  (Scroll for 4-Part Herbal Series below) 

Tuesday August 27, 2024!!*


Join us at Celestial Acres Sanctuary for our next wild botanical Herb Walk, graciously offered by the owner, Rosann, during the tour of her beautiful animal sanctuary and working farm!

FARM TOUR / HERB WALK
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 ~ 6:15pm - 7:30pm


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***UPDATE: Hi, Everyone! We got an overwhelming response again and are limited on parking spaces here in the farm. Therefore we are requiring everyone that definitely plans to attend register through this link for access to this event.
https://www.rjstokley.com/service-page/herb-walk
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We're at it again!!

Join us for an outside herb walk to discover the medicinal and nutritive plants that grow all around us in the fields and meadows of Califon's Celestial Acres Sanctuary Farm and learn which local 'weedy' botanicals can be your heroes for health and nutrition. Owner Rosann is excited to host this event for us as an educational bonus during her monthly farm tour, tentatively scheduled for every 3rd Tuesday*. Each tour and herb walk will cover different parts of her farm so we will learn different things each time! Feel free to join us for any and all of them -- we look forward to seeing you there!

* Please wear sturdy, appropriate footwear for walking around the farm.

This is a FREE Event.
$10 Donation Appreciated, and will go towards feeding the rescued animals and their vet bills.

RSVP to Rosann at: https://www.rjstokley.com/service-page/herb-walk
(PLEASE follow directions from this link to get to Celestial Acres Farm! 
This is NOT the Teetertown Ravine Nature Preserve!)

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4-Part Herbal Series:  Wednesdays, September 4, 11, 18, 25, 2024

Part 1:  Herbs Through Thyme, Sept 4, 2024

6:15pm to 7:30pm

​This first class in our four-part series will explore how our predecessors foraged, gathered and harvested local wild botanicals - more commonly known as 'weeds' - and used them for food and medicine.  Without easy access to professional medical help, they counted on flowers, leaves, roots, bark, berries, bulbs... whatever grew locally in their region each season to keep themselves healthy and nourished.

The healing and edible plants they found underfoot right here in Hunterdon, Warren and Sussex counties are still abundant and just as eager to help us today! No matter where you live, the wild summer botanicals growing in full force all around you are calling to be harvested and purposed for your benefit.  Take care of the land, and it will take care of you - through the hands of time!

In this class, Donna Reynolds of Willow Moon Herbals, will guide us in an herbal walk - citing plant identification and it’s properties for medicine and/or for our food! Sturdy footwear or boots recommended!

Time:  6:15pm - 7:30pm
Location:  Celestial Acres Farm Sanctuary.

Class fee schedule: 
Click the links below to Register for individual classes
OR
Prepay for all 4 classes in the series (a 25% discount.  Like getting 1 class for free!): 
$40 each class

OR:
$120 for complete 4-part series, prepaid.  A 25% discount!
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/PAM4E3AL3B6DW

Classes:
•Herbs Through Thyme, Sept 4, 2024
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/TV2NMV7946ELJ

•Your Medicinal Backyard, Sept 11, 2024
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/J4AJWNTNY8F3W

•Your Apothecary Kitchen, Sept 18, 2024
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/2ABRZY58FZWMS

•Your Spice Rack Medicine Cabinet, Sept 25, 2024
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/2GW7C4R5JJVAW


Bonus!  All participants will get 15% off both of our professional online supplement dispensaries.  That's an additional 5% discount as we head into the fall and winter seasons!

NB: Farm Registration link with Directions is on the Paypal Confirmation URL.

(Events also posted on our FB page)

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Part 2:  Your Medicinal Backyard, Sept 11, 2024

6:15pm - 7:30pm

This is the second class in our 4-part series.

​Can you hear it? The call of the wild weeds…
“What grows around you is often what you need the most.”
When plants show up for you, will you know how to recognize them?

In part one of our series, we explored the general botanicals in our area likely to have been used by past peoples (that lived here) for food and medicine. In this session, we go deeper and it gets more personal!

In this class, we will learn that plants choose to sprout where they do, symbiotically answering the call of your body’s chemistry by appearing in your yard and garden. The more time you commune with your property and touch its soil, the clearer the signal for its plantlife to adapt/customize to your needs.

Learn how many of the plants that are underfoot and seem unremarkable are filled with properties that are healing and help bring balance to the body. Oftentimes, when a garden or yard gets a little overgrown, ambitious gardeners will pull up every stray botanical that "lookslike a weed." Whole mats of chickweed, clusters of purslane, groundcovers, sorrel, burdock, dandelions, or clumps of plantain are discarded and their healing medicine is wasted!

Come with us as we cover an assortment of the more usual plant visitors found here in northern NJ. Through our intensive visual presentation of these botanicals’ physical features, characteristics and properties, you will learn to recognize their arrival, their purpose and how to best benefit from them.
“When we see plants as teachers, we understand the abundant gifts they offer us as they share their many practical, nourishing and medicinal gifts.”

*If time and weather allow us the opportunity for a short exploratory walk in the yard, we highly recommend bringing weather appropriate clothing, garden boots, and insect repellent.

*Those who sign up to these introductory classes and want to learn more will be better prepared and considered for our Herbal Apprentice Program.

Time:  6:15pm - 7:30pm
Location:  Celestial Acres Farm Sanctuary.

Class fee schedule: 
Click the links below to Register for individual classes:  $40 each class
 

Classes:
•Your Medicinal Backyard, Sept 11, 2024
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/J4AJWNTNY8F3W

•Your Apothecary Kitchen, Sept 18, 2024
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/2ABRZY58FZWMS

•Your Spice Rack Medicine Cabinet, Sept 25, 2024
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/2GW7C4R5JJVAW


Bonus!  All participants will get 15% off both of our professional online supplement dispensaries.  That's an additional 5% discount as we head into the fall and winter seasons!

NB: Farm Registration link with Directions is on the Paypal Confirmation URL.

(Events also posted on our FB page)

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Part 3:  Your Apothecary Kitchen, Sept 18, 2024

6:15 to 7:30pm

​​This is the third class in our four-part series.

In Part One, we uncovered our forefathers’ basic outdoor medicine cabinet using local weeds.

In Part Two, we explored a fuller expanse of medicinal botanicals available in our backyards and neighborhoods, effectively tripling the size of Part One’s medicine cabinet.

In this third session, we take to the kitchen to transfer the medicine of these botanicals into ingestible or topical remedies for our families. We will learn about the several different mediums that can be infused with the medicine of the botanicals in our yards, and even from some of the more common food items in our pantries.
Come join us as we play in the Celestial Acres Sanctuary's kitchen with the likes of honey, garlic, ginger, vinegar, onions, peppers, horseradish, etc. Depending on time and class size, we may also take a sneak peek into homemade cultured kefir, homemade liniment and an herb-infused honey.

*Those who sign up to these introductory classes and want to learn more will be better prepared and considered for our Herbal Apprentice Program.

Farm Registration link with Directions will be in the Confirmation email.

Time:  6:15pm - 7:30pm
Location:  Celestial Acres Farm Sanctuary.

Class fee schedule: 
Click the links below to Register for individual classes: 
$40 each class

Classes:
•Your Apothecary Kitchen, Sept 18, 2024
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/2ABRZY58FZWMS

•Your Spice Rack Medicine Cabinet, Sept 25, 2024
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/2GW7C4R5JJVAW


Bonus!  All participants will get 15% off both of our professional online supplement dispensaries.  That's an additional 5% discount as we head into the fall and winter seasons!

NB: Farm Registration link with Directions is on the Paypal Confirmation URL.

(Events also posted on our FB page)

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"Nature makes the cure. The (healer's) job is to aid nature."

Register now for the last class in this 4-part series!
• Using Your Spice Rack as a Medicine Cabinet, Sept 25, 2024

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Part 4:  Using Your Spice Rack as A Medicine Cabinet, Sept 25, 2024

6:15pm to 7:30pm
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This is the 4th class in our 4-part series.

In part one, we uncovered our forefathers’ basic outdoor medicine cabinet using local weeds. In part two, we explored a fuller expanse of medicinal botanicals available in our backyards and neighborhoods, effectively tripling the size of part one’s medicine cabinet. In part three, we took to the kitchen to learn how to transfer the medicine of those botanicals into ingestible or topical remedies for our families.

In this fourth class, we continue to poke around in the kitchen. Hiding in plain sight among what we thought were simply flavor-enhancers, we find a treasure trove of undercover medicines!!

Do you have a scratchy throat, or a lingering cough? Is your child unable to concentrate on their homework? Are you looking for simple ways to improve your health but don't know where to start?

Good news! Your handy spice rack has got your back! Culinary herbs are really medicinal herbs in disguise!

Join us as we delve into the healing properties found in culinary herbs and spices commonly used in food preparation. We will cover about twelve common herbs and ten to twelve not-so-common spices used throughout world cuisines.

*Those who sign up to these introductory classes and want to learn more will be better prepared and considered for our Herbal Apprentice Program.

Farm Registration link with Directions will be in the Confirmation email.

Time:  6:15pm - 7:30pm
Location:  Celestial Acres Farm Sanctuary.

Class fee schedule: 
Click the links below to Register for individual classes: 
$40 each class

Classes:
•Your Spice Rack Medicine Cabinet, Sept 25, 2024
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/2GW7C4R5JJVAW


​Bonus!  All participants will get 15% off both of our professional online supplement dispensaries.  That's an additional 5% discount as we head into the fall and winter seasons!

NB: Farm Registration link with Directions is on the Paypal Confirmation URL.

(Events also posted on our FB page)


"Nature makes the cure. The (healer's) job is to aid nature."

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Note: Any remedies or information listed on this web site are from historical references and used for teaching / educational purposes only. The contents are not meant to diagnose, treat, prescribe, cure or substitute consultation with a licensed health-care professional. This information has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.