Spoonful Herbals

10/21/2026

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Join us in November at the farm to explore fire c***r, forest bathing, and the realities of farming in our state 🍁

Wed., 11/4, 5:30PM: The State of Farming Film Screening with Champlain Valley Farmer Coalition
Sat., 11/7, 9:00AM–12:00PM: Fall Forest Bathing with Nature Connection Guide
Tue., 11/17, 5:30–7:00PM: Learn How to Make Fire C***r with Spoonful Herbals

Find full details and register for these events and more @ bit.ly/40toUfY

10/15/2026

Make herbal care part of your winter routine! Join us at Shelburne Farms to learn how to prepare remedies for your home medicine chest, with time to ask questions and learn together.

Learn to Make Fire C***r
Tuesday, November 17, 5:30–7 pm

Winter Wellness Preparations
Tuesday, December 8, 5–6:30 pm

Advanced registration is required through Shelburne Farms.

10/13/2026

Have extra berries tucked away in your freezer? We’d love to put them to good use! 🌿

We’re gathering elderberries, aronia berries, black currants, and sea berries for our October medicine making. Fresh berries or frozen berries up to five years old are welcome, along with garlic for Fire C***r!

Your harvest will help us prepare 300 bottles for the Intervale’s Fair Share, plus Elderberry Syrup and Fire C***r for Rose Core Collective in collaboration with Railyard Apothecary. Volunteers can contact the Intervale Center to sign up to help (and learn!), and get City Market member worker credit for their time.

For ten years, this community’s generosity has helped us share herbal medicine with our neighbors. This is mutual flourishing, caring for one another with the abundance we have to share.

Email [email protected] to contribute. We can pick up donations in the greater Burlington area!

10/11/2026

There’s still time to join the Wildcrafting Guild for October’s outings on 10/12 and 10/26! 🌿

Spend time on the Intervale lands with Spoonful’s Broni Grala. Learn to recognize medicinal plants and harvest with care, while building a respectful connection to the land.

You’ll be invited to take fresh plant material home, with recipes and guidance to turn your harvest into nourishing foods to share.

Learn more & register: https://www.spoonfulherbals.org/communitygleaningandwildcraftersguild

10/09/2026

Medicine making is in full swing! 🌿 We’re turning the gifts of the growing season into small-batch herbal remedies for your winter medicine chest, sustainably harvested or wildcrafted and made with love.

Bring a little Spoonful plant magic home with a Community Supported Apothecary (CSA) share, filled with shelf-stable remedies to support you through cold and flu season.

Half and Full Shares are available through December 1. Pick-up begins mid-December! Order yours: https://www.spoonfulherbals.org/heal-local

10/08/2026

There’s still room to join us for the Farm to Medicine Cabinet Herb Walk at Shelburne Farms on October 14! 🌿

Some of the plants you pass every day have a place in your medicine cabinet. Come meet the medicinal plants growing on Vermont’s working lands and discover the plant medicine woven into our local food system.

Advanced registration is required through Shelburne Farms. Learn more and save your spot: https://www.spoonfulherbals.org/workshops-events/farm-to-medicine-cabinet-herb-walks-with-katherine-elmer-1-8yhjz-3t9pk-2884b

09/27/2026

Did anyone else notice how much reishi appeared this year? We kept seeing those beautiful mushrooms, so it felt like the right season to bring back our Yellow Dock & Reishi Gingersnaps. 🍄

Ingredients
1 cup sugar
¾ cup butter
1 egg
¼ cup molasses
2 cups flour, replacing 2–4 tablespoons with powdered reishi, yellow dock, or another herbal powder of your choice
2 teaspoons baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon ground ginger
Extra sugar for rolling

Preheat the oven to 375°F. Cream the butter and sugar, then beat in the egg and molasses. Add the dry ingredients and mix well. Chill the dough, roll it into balls, and coat each one in sugar. Bake until the edges are set.

A little of the season’s abundance, tucked into a gingersnap. 🌿

09/26/2026

09/24/2026

A farm holds more plant medicine than you might imagine. ✨

Come wander the Shelburne Farms landscape with us and meet the plants growing in its fields and along its edges. On this Farm to Medicine Cabinet w**d walk, we’ll explore their traditional herbal uses and discover how much a familiar place can reveal when we look a little closer.

Advanced registration is required through Shelburne Farms. Learn more: https://shelburnefarms.org/calendar/farm-medicine-cabinet-herb-walk-2