A Wild Crops Farm is pleased to announce that we will be hosting workshop for home distillers during the summer of 2010 on our farm. We will cover the theory and mechanics of distillation, everyone will make their own distillation units as well as explore other simple tools for in home distillation. We will harvest native plants from either A Wild Crops Farm, or at one of the farms in our network, distilling whatever herb is in season. This is a tenative schedule distillations Workshops are limited to a max of 12 participants. May 22 and May 23 (5 partcipants) June 5-6 Yarrow (5 partcipants) June 5-6 - Mondarda Braderianna, (5 partcipants) June 26 - 27 July Elderflowers, July 10 - 11 Mondarda Fistulosa fallback harvests,in case of harvest failure: native pine wild mints witch hazel We will help participants learn about distilling native plant species, together with garden herbs. Everyone will do a hands on wild harvest of medicinal herbs, which will be distilled in the distillers participants have made earlier in the session. Proper handling of herbal harvesting, wild crafting ethics, plant identification, native plant restoration principals will all be taught at the certified organic wild crop distillary, in addition to distillation theory and mechanics. Everyone will leave having made a distiller, harvested plant material, distill using their own device, and wash up their glass ware. Two Day Workshop Price $245.00 Material Fee $50.00 Salem Mo please email wild@wildcrops.com for the more information.