Herbal Wellness Immersion

Registration required

Saturday, September 20

Noon-6 p.m.

🌿 Space is limited—reserve early!

Join us at Sandiwood Farm for a day of deep connection with the Earth and one another through plant medicine and sound healing. Participate in hands-on herbal wellness activities, including medicine making, plant dyeing, and herbal distillation, all while enjoying nourishing herbal teas and farm-fresh treats.

Whether you’re a seasoned herbalist or just starting out, immerse yourself in nature, community, and self-discovery. Let the mountains inspire you, the sound bath ground you, and the sunset touch your soul.

After the workshop, feel free to enjoy the farm and herbal market, including a fire, sunset views, a BYOP (Bring Your Own Picnic), and camaraderie.

Registration fee: $125

Foul weather date, Sunday 9/21 – Reserve Below

Workshops & Activities

Fire Cider Making

Flower Dyeing

Herbal Allies & Alternatives for Women's Health

Herbal Salve Making

Hydrosol Distillation

Sound Bath & Flower Blessing

Teatime & Herbal Snacks

Fire Cider making featuring Rosemary Gladstar

The godmother of modern herbalism

Come meet Rosemary Gladstar. Sometimes referred to as the “godmother” of American herbalism, Rosemary has been practicing, teaching, and writing about herbs for over 50 years. She is the co-founder of Traditional Medicinal tea company, and founder of The California School of Herbal Studies, Mountain Rose Herbs, Sage Mountain Botanical Sanctuary and United Plant Savers, a non profit organization dedicated to the conservation and preservation of native medicinal plants and the land they thrive on. Rosemary will demonstrate how to make Fire Cider, a popular apple cider vinegar tonic that’s used to keep you healthy and bugs at bay. She’ll have lots of different versions for you to sample. Rosemary will also lead a plant walk emphasizing the edible and medicinal uses of common wild plants of the NorthEast.

You don’t want to miss this rare opportunity to be with Rosemary on our Wolcott farm.

Healing Salve Making with Sara Schlosser

Join farmer and herbalist Sara Schlosser for a hands-on workshop. Participants will harvest and prepare medicinal plants, gaining practical knowledge about their properties and uses.

Sara will guide you through the process of making salves using previously infused oils, demonstrating a simple base recipe and explaining the key differences between salves and balms. She’ll also share creative variations and tips that will inspire you to keep experimenting at home.

Each participant will leave with freshly processed herbs and their own handmade healing salve—ready to soothe and support your skin naturally!

Sara Schlosser is a farmer, event planner, herbalist, and Justice of the Peace who co-founded Sandiwood Farm in Wolcott, Vermont with her husband over 37 years ago. With more than three decades of experience growing vegetables, herbs, and flowers for market and over 45 years working with plant medicine, Sara brings deep agricultural knowledge and a heartfelt connection to the land.

Her background includes interning with herbalists in Northern California, Jamaica West Indies, Vermont, and a lifetime of crafting teas, tinctures, and natural remedies. At Sandiwood Farm, she helps offer immersive experiences—from weddings and glamping to workshops and farm-to-table events—that support Vermont’s sustainable food systems while sharing the beauty and bounty of the land.

Sara is a mother of two, proud grandmother of three, and remains committed to community wellness, education, and authentic connection through food and nature.

Tea Time and Herbal Snacks with Sarah Zettelmeyer

Sarah Zettelmeyer is a lifelong student of plant medicine with over 35 years of experience. Her path has included work as a home birth assistant and doula, creating an herbal product line, co-founding a free herbal clinic, and teaching community herbalism and children’s herbal camps.

Now rooted on her small farm, Sarah grows medicinal plants and integrates herbalism, nutrition, and regenerative organic farming to nourish both people and the land. Her passion lies in sharing good food and healing knowledge with vulnerable communities, helping others reconnect with the earth and their own power to heal.

Flower Dying with Erica Cerra

Erica Cerra will be teaching the Japanese technique of flower hammer dyeing called Tataki Zomé. We will be making raw silk handkerchiefs using fresh flowers and seasonal plants.

Cerra is a Botanical Dyester, Dreamer, & Alchemist. Using natural fibers that have enchanting frequencies and living dyes grown by her hands, she brings joy and groundedness to the lives around her through her art and teaching workshops.

Herbal Allies and Alternatives for Women’s Health with Rinn Mandeville

We are whole humans, we are pattern integrities, we are a myriad of bacteria, we are eons of evolutionary coding, we are folds and invaginations of fascial fabric, we are energetic beings, and we inhabit this world and the otherworld. Come engage in a part lecture/part conversation about approaches to common women’s health imbalances and the range of remedies to address them.

Rinn Mandeville, CNM has been a midwife for nearly 20 years and in many iterations. She came to midwifery as a feminist in her late twenties and started out doing home birth and working in free-standing birth centers. She has enjoyed many roles as a midwife in Alaska, Guatemala, India, Boston, and Vermont. She has worked in many settings (home, birth center, hospital, clinic) in which she has learned and been exposed to a variety of modalities and approaches to healing. The process of becoming a Certified Nurse Midwife meant expanding to helping clients (mostly women) throughout the lifespan not just in the childbearing year. Rinn dreams of a wellness center that bridges the medical model with as many other approaches to healing as possible. She is currently providing midwifery care.

Hydrosol Distillation with Heather Mallory

Join herbalist Heather Mallory for a hands-on, small-batch fresh hydrosol experience. Participant will gather medicinal and aromatic herbs from Sandiwood Farm to create a beautiful, one-of-a-kind floral water. Each participant will leave with their own bottle to take home and enjoy.

Heather Mallory is a plant lover, nature enthusiast, photographer, and community herbalist who owns and operates Green Seed Herbals in Hyde Park, Vermont. She graduated from the Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies in 1996 and studied under Rosemary Gladstar from 2001 to 2002. Heather collaborates with local herbalists, herb farms, and women-owned businesses to curate a year-round, seasonal herbal wellness Community Supported Apothecary (CSA). Originally from Idaho, she has lived in Vermont and raised her family here since 1998. Heather is passionate about everything grown, foraged, and made in Vermont.

Sound Bath and Flower Blessing with Brooke Berger and Victoria Keen

Brooke Berger

Brooke Berger has been offering Sound Healing Sessions since 2018 for groups and one on one clients. She has a Sound Healing Certification from The Center of Light from teachers Zacciah Blackburn & Dorothy Stone. She is Reiki certified and a certified Yoga Teacher that specializes in Gentle Yoga.

In all her sessions, groups and events, Brooke offers Aromatherapy of blended Oil Rollons she makes with Herbs and crystals inside. In 2016-17 Brooke lived in Arroyo Seco, Taos NM where she studied herbalism while apprenticing in the apothecary and garden. She learned to harvest, cook and prepare organic food for groups while living there in NM.

Victoria Keen

Victoria Keen is a sound healer, human design guide, flower essence practitioner, folk herbalist, and plant dyer. As the visionary behind Horn of the Moon Apothecary in Vermont, she weaves sound and plant medicine into healing practices that support both people and the earth.

A former fashion designer drawn to earth-centered sustainability, Victoria’s path led her to sound healing, herbalism, and plant dyeing-where she now blends her creative and spiritual callings. She crafts small-batch medicines and flower essences from her garden and leads plant spirit dye workshops as a form of moving meditation, inviting participants to slow down, reconnect with nature, and awaken their innate creativity.

Victoria has studied sound with Mitch Nur and Eileen McKusick, Human Design with Karen Curry Parker, and herbalism with Robin Rose Bennett and Sage Mauer, among many others.

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Note: Sandiwood Farm is located 1.8 miles up Town Hill off of Route 15 in Wolcott. Box 1785 will be on the right, while the driveway to the farm will be on the left.

Sandiwood Farm is a source of high-quality, low impact farm products and services with a farmstand offering naturally raised produce, hemp & CBD products, as well as maple syrup, and a beautiful venue for one-of-a-kind events and farm stay experiences. Farmers Bob & Sara help people connect with fresh produce and have authentic recreational, dining, and farm stay experiences that keep the community fed and farmland in production.