Winter Wellness Herbal Preparations

Join community herbalists Katherine Elmer and Phoebe Paron to explore key herbal strategies to prevent and relieve symptoms of common winter ailments. Participants will learn how to make elderberry and wild cherry bark syrup, simple and traditional herbal winter wellness formulas, and take home jars of their own!

Meet Your Instructors 

Katherine Elmer grew up in the green hills of Central Vermont (Abenaki territory) and revels in the opportunity to connect with folks around a shared love of place and nature through whole foods nutrition and herbal medicine. She is a clinically-trained community herbalist, a national board certified health and wellness coach at the UVM Health Comprehensive Pain Program through the Osher Center for Integrative Health, and has been teaching courses for nearly 2 decades on herbal medicine, integrative health and food systems topics at the University of Vermont and Vermont State University. Katherine completed professional herbalism training through the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. She manages medicinal plant gardens on UVM campus and is the faculty advisor for the UVM student Herbalism Club. Katherine is founding director and a clinical herbalist at Spoonful Herbals (a local educational non-profit) and co-founder and former co-director of Railyard Apothecary in Burlington. To learn more, check out community classes and educational resources at www.spoonfulherbals.org.

Phoebe Paron is a gardening herbalist witch, who has been alongside plants to harness their magic for the last five years. They were an Herbal Roots apprentice at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism and are interning at Railyard Apothecary. This is Phoebe’s first season with the Spoonful Herbals team as a Community Herbalist educator and remedy maker and they are excited to create herbal remedies and teach in their community!