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Hi'iaka's Healing Herb Garden : Learning Center : Live and learn info : L&L schedule
Learning Objectives and Schedule for “Live and Learn at the Garden”
Residency Internship
Residency Internship
✓ Grow and identify dozens of medicinal plants in the garden, including native Hawaiian plants and endangered species.
✓ Identify and explain the significance of at least five invasive species.
✓ Build an abundant raised bed herb garden and plant selected plants.
✓ Make herbal teas, decoctions, liniments and poultices.
✓ Make a healing tincture and elixir with plants from the garden.
✓ Make a skin healing salve with Noni fruit.
✓ Make an herbal smoking blend with Kava and other dried herbs.
✓ Make an herbal oil with Hawaiian and other plants from the garden.
✓ Preserve plants by drying, freezing and other methods.
✓ Attain attunement of body, mind and spirit through herbal baths and plant spirits.
✓ Identify and explain the significance of at least five invasive species.
✓ Build an abundant raised bed herb garden and plant selected plants.
✓ Make herbal teas, decoctions, liniments and poultices.
✓ Make a healing tincture and elixir with plants from the garden.
✓ Make a skin healing salve with Noni fruit.
✓ Make an herbal smoking blend with Kava and other dried herbs.
✓ Make an herbal oil with Hawaiian and other plants from the garden.
✓ Preserve plants by drying, freezing and other methods.
✓ Attain attunement of body, mind and spirit through herbal baths and plant spirits.
Schedule of Events:
Day 1: Arrive during the afternoon the day before your Internship begins. Get settled into your vacation home and come to the Garden for a welcome dinner.
Day 2: Morning: Introductory garden tour; pick herbs from garden and make herbal tea and a skin healing poultice. Classroom activity: "Properties and Preparations."
Afternoon garden activity: Working with the landscape.
Day 3: Morning: All about tinctures: harvest herbs and make a tincture and an elixir.
Afternoon garden activity: Compost is queen, including how to make good use of invasive plants.
Day 4: Enjoy a fun day exploring and having lunch in historic Hilo with your instructor.
Day 5: Morning: Herbal Skin Care with salves, liniments and oils. Learn that Noni needn’t taste nasty and make a healing salve with this wonderful fruit.
Afternoon garden activity: Seeds and cuttings.
Day 6: Morning: Gather plants from the garden for an herbal healing bath.
Afternoon: participate in herbal healing bath. Farewell dinner.
Day 7: Conclusion and wrap-up.
Day 1: Arrive during the afternoon the day before your Internship begins. Get settled into your vacation home and come to the Garden for a welcome dinner.
Day 2: Morning: Introductory garden tour; pick herbs from garden and make herbal tea and a skin healing poultice. Classroom activity: "Properties and Preparations."
Afternoon garden activity: Working with the landscape.
Day 3: Morning: All about tinctures: harvest herbs and make a tincture and an elixir.
Afternoon garden activity: Compost is queen, including how to make good use of invasive plants.
Day 4: Enjoy a fun day exploring and having lunch in historic Hilo with your instructor.
Day 5: Morning: Herbal Skin Care with salves, liniments and oils. Learn that Noni needn’t taste nasty and make a healing salve with this wonderful fruit.
Afternoon garden activity: Seeds and cuttings.
Day 6: Morning: Gather plants from the garden for an herbal healing bath.
Afternoon: participate in herbal healing bath. Farewell dinner.
Day 7: Conclusion and wrap-up.
