Salve Making Workshop - May 10, 2024
May
10
5:30 PM17:30

Salve Making Workshop - May 10, 2024

We are beyond thrilled to have Priya (of Priya Means Love Body Care) coming back to Star Bright to teach a salve making workshop!

In this two-hour workshop, you’ll create a medicinal salve of your own design to add to your home apothecary!  

We’ll cover the process of infusing herbs into oils to create potent herbal medicine, smell and feel our way through a variety of medicinal herbs grown at Star Bright Farm and their respective infused oils: calendula, comfrey, yarrow, lavender, and chamomile.  We’ll discuss the herbal medicinal properties of each herb, you’ll formulate and craft an herbal salve of your own design using oils infused with Star Bright Farm’s herbs, beeswax, and essential oils distilled on the farm, with materials chosen to fit into your family’s medicine cabinet — whether for itchy skin and bug bites, for bumps and bruises, or for sleep.

You’ll leave with a 2 oz tin of an herbal salve of your own design, plus the knowledge to create your own herbal salves at home.

Before the workshop begins, we will meet and mingle while enjoying refreshments. We look forward to growing this community of friendship!


$75 per person, all materials and refreshments provided.


About the instructor: Priya Narasimhan (she/her) is the person behind Priya Means Love - priyameanslove.etsy.com, a line of botanical skincare, haircare, bodycare, and natural fragrance, and a longtime collaborator with Star Bright Farm, crafting products with Star Bright’s beautiful herbs since 2017!  Priya is a mathematician by training, but in her mid-20s she became debilitatingly ill with ME/CFS. After a lot of trial and error, she realized that chemical sensitivities are a major trigger of her health problems, and in 2009, she began formulating and crafting organic products for her body using food-like ingredients and drawing on herbal medicine, which she’d found so helpful in her healing journey. What started out as a hobby slowly and gradually grew into a full-time business, and in late 2022 Priya moved from Baltimore to the Green Mountains of Vermont, where she handcrafts her products from her home workshop and occasionally gets lost in the forest foraging plants.

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Reiki & Movement: Connecting with your Energetic Body Through Reiki, Yoga, & Manifestation - March 30, 2024
Mar
30
10:00 AM10:00

Reiki & Movement: Connecting with your Energetic Body Through Reiki, Yoga, & Manifestation - March 30, 2024

Understanding your energetic body through reiki and yoga. In this workshop, you will learn how to practice energy healing through self-reiki, as well as move through a guided yoga practice focused on opening your chakras and guiding the flow of healthy energy. There will be moments to reflect and manifest to create the reality that meets your desires. We will conclude our practice together to share our experience with others and leave to bring all of the good energy with us into the New Year. Participants will be provided with materials to write. Ticket price includes a Refresh hydrosol facial mist.

Jessica Velky, a Baltimore-native, mother of two mini yogis, a certified yoga teacher and reiki master. Her practice of yoga builds on both the physical and subtle body to create a deeper connection with oneself. She focuses on energy and drawing the group of different people together, that may have not connected before, at a higher-level tapping into the collective consciousness.

More Info and Tickets

$50 per person

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An Evening of Folk with Golden Aster - March 23, 2024
Mar
23
5:00 PM17:00

An Evening of Folk with Golden Aster - March 23, 2024

Like wild streams through mountain forests, Golden Aster’s harmonies wind their way through lush indie-folk soundscapes. Vocals take the spotlight, supported by unapologetically mellow grooves and spacious electric guitar.

After the tours of their respective projects were waylaid by the pandemic, Baltimore-based folk musicians Laura Wortman and Letitia VanSant each found solace in the woods, Laura hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains and Letitia exploring the nooks and crannies of Herring Run Park. In the midst of both societal heartbreak and personal grief, they started writing songs that felt medicinal to sing and play. As friends who enjoyed harmonizing together, they decided to cozy up and record an album.

The results are contemplative, intimate, and easy to take in. Each song shares a different aspect of the healing and lessons they found in nature, with themes like letting go of control, embracing humility, and breaking free of others’ expectations.

Each established musicians in their own right, this project allows exciting new aspects of their artistry to shine. Laura Wortman has over a thousand shows under her belt as part of the celebrated experimental folk duo the Honey Dewdrops, but this album debuts her intuitive ease with the electric guitar. Letitia VanSant is known for well-considered lyrics, yet with this project she got out of her head and leaned on melodic sensibilities. The new album, Marcescence, released on September 8, 2023.

Tickets: $25 per person

Come early to shop The Barn Market (open 11:00am-8pm) and grab your refreshments before the show. Music begins at 6:00 and ends at 8:30.

This WILL be in the barn so no need to bring a chair. We will have tables and chairs provided and the space will be heated.

Dinner (menu TBA), Boordy Vineyards and Diamondback Brewery will be here serving drinks; all available for purchase.

No dogs allowed. Please consider this a date night and leave the kids at home!

** There is NO Physical ticket. At check out choose the option to pick up on the farm so that you will not be charged for shipping. Your name will be on the guest list when you check in.

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