An herbal extract made with vegetable glycerin, glycerites are tasty, effective, and offer a wonderful alternative for folks who would like to make or take herbal tinctures but want to avoid alcohol. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll dive into how and why glycerites work, exactly how to make them, and which herbs will work best for this preparation. Everyone will go home with a small bottle of herbal glycerite made during class!

About the instructor: Ali Rohde is an herbalist, forager, and land-tender living on the land of the Lenape people in what is now called Sussex County, New Jersey. She has been foraging and studying herbal medicine more formally for about a decade, studying at the Herbal Academy of New England and completing the Vitalist Herbal Practitioner program with Sajah Popham at the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. Her specialty is working with nourishing, abundant wild plants, and her passion is empowering people to work with the herbs that grow right outside their doors. She teaches herbalism classes, leads foraging walks, and offers land restoration consultations through Brigid Rising.