Growing a Medicinal Herb Garden Talk

Join us for the Santa Barbara County Horticultural Society February Meeting! Our Guest Speaker Alena Steen will be talking about the basics of building a home medicine garden.

Even a small space can grow a dense garden of plant medicines for tea, salves, and herbal vinegar or alcohol infusions. Alena will describe how to prepare your garden space and select a diversity of plants to grow for many different uses (anxiety, sleeplessness, wound-healing, digestion, etc.), as well as how to care for your garden through the seasons. In addition, she will discuss how to prepare your harvest, including the basics of drying herbs for tea and preparing herbal infusions.

Alena Steen is a local farmer and gardener. She runs the Carpinteria Garden Park, an organic community garden in downtown Carpinteria, as well as a small herbal medicine farm and business called Earth Tide Botanicals in collaboration with her partner Daniel Shimoda.

As always, we’ll have refreshments, a raffle, and great people!