Soap Making: Simple Processing and making your components from scratch. Dates TBD.
Many people have started to make the switch back to hand-crafted soaps because of the feel and smell of a real bar of soap with lovely botanicals and essential oils, as well as the ability to support local artisan’s endeavors. The home soap making process is much less energy intensive than the commercial method, as well as better for the environment.
Day One: Today we will teach you about the different components necessary to make soap like a pro. We will use a computer program to help us calculate the different lye levels required to create soap based on the oils that we have chosen. We will then manufacture soap, and leave it to cure overnight so that you can take it home to try it.
Day Two: We will get down to the basics of how to
create potassium lye (KOH) for the purpose of making liquid soaps using ash
from the fire. We will then go on to render tallow to create the fat to be
saponified (the process of turning fat into soap). In the final part of the day,
we will make a liquid soap using these materials.
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Gardening for Beginners: How to grow Food using Permaculture principles–
seed starting, building soil and harvesting plants, dates TBD
For those of you who have caught the organic bug, we often find that it is only a small step into wanting to know how to grow your own food. Once you taste the difference in quality from a commercial hothouse-grown tomato that is mostly water to an organic heirloom tomato, then imagine that same leap again from tasting a homegrown tomato right off the vine.
In this day-long course, you will be taught the fundamentals of gardening economically from the start. We will teach you how to start seeds indoors, direct sow seeds, transplant vegetables, grow soil from compost, build soil already in your beds as well as the best time to harvest some of your favorite vegetables. (Ever wonder the trick to knowing when watermelons are done?) In the afternoon, we will also introduce some fundamentals of permaculture design in order to best design your garden in the space that you have.
$55
For More information go here: Gardening For Beginners
Making Herbal Medicine Kits for modern day ailments. We will cover burns, bacterial infections, ear infections, fevers, broken bones, cancer, heart disease. July 28th, 9:30-5:00pm $110
In this course we will be going over some key powerful herbs to help you dive headfirst into the world of herbalism. We will be collecting the knowledge to be able to manufacture, purchase and grow the herbs necessary to have a well-stocked medicine kit for almost any occasion. In this course we will be manufacturing a salve, a tincture, a poultice and vinegar as well as taking a garden tour to identify key local plants and weeds that you can use for on the spot first aid.
This course will be suitable for both more familiar herbalists as well as brand newbies
*Making your own toiletries and beauty products August 18th and 19th
This will be a two-day course that will teach the fundamentals of how to make toothpaste, shampoo, all-purpose liquid soap, ready-made bar soap, hair washes, face masks and moisturizers out of simple ingredients that you buy at the store and the plants that grow around you. You will go home with lots of knowledge, recipes and samples of the products that we made as a class.
10-5pm Saturday and Sunday
$190 for two days.
If you wish to take only one day of this course you
may for $90.
Please Contact kris@kriswiltsee.com to sign up for any of these workshops prior to the google accounts setup. Thank you!
