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Earth Day Celebration at Alemany Farm!
Apr
26

Earth Day Celebration at Alemany Farm!

Join us to celebrate Earth Day at Alemany Farm! This is a free and family friendly event from 10am - 3pm. Join us for a special offering in the medicine garden, where a team of us stewards a public garden of edible, medicinal and culinary herbs. Stay tuned for more details!

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Flowers on the Farm: Botanical Bouquets
May
11

Flowers on the Farm: Botanical Bouquets

Create your own Mothers Day bouquet* while learning about basic botany and medicinal plants with herbalist and educator Tessa Kappe. Discuss flower parts and types while exploring what’s blooming on the farm through plant identification, common/botanical names and plant families. Celebrate the beauty of our seasonal, local flora and cultivate your creativity through floral design and harvesting tips. Hand pick your own beautiful, farm fresh bouquet and enjoy a culminating show and tell to appreciate everyone’s inspired arrangements and botanical know-how!

*This is an inclusive event celebrating whoever represents nurturance and love in your life: other family, chosen family, friends, Mother Nature or yourself!

Resistration through Alemany Farm, coming soon!

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Medicinal and Native Plant Walk in McLaren Park
Mar
30

Medicinal and Native Plant Walk in McLaren Park

Join me and fellow herbalist Bonnie Rose Weaver for an educational herb walk in McLaren Park! As San Francisco’s second largest green space, McLaren is filled with varied landscapes, charming surprises and scenic views. We’ll be exploring what’s popping up this spring on a mile long stroll through some of the park’s many walking trails. If you’re excited about plant identification, native species, spring blooms or botanical medicine, come meet your neighbors and learn about the wild edible, native and medicinal plants growing in our midst!

We’ll meet at the McLaren Park entrance sign at the intersection of Brazil Ave. and LaGrande Ave. in the Excelsior.

Register here with pay from the Heart Pricing from $20 - $40

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Roots & Renewal: A Journey of Connection & Healing
Oct
26

Roots & Renewal: A Journey of Connection & Healing

I’m excited to be popping back up with some fun herbal goodies as part of the medicine marketplace at Community Well’s heartwarming fall celebration, Roots & Renewal: A Journey of Connection & Healing. I’ll have fresh distilled plant hydrosol, lavender sachets, botanical body scrubs, herbal teas and facial steams and healing calendula salve.

Enjoy workshops, activities and treats to nurture body mind and spirit led by local wellness community:

  • Workshops - Rejuvenating breath work and lymphatic flushing; Custom bath soak blend using salts and herbs; Intergenerational & family based healing practices; Trauma-informed movement and gratitude celebration

  • Senior Tea Time & Card Exchange and Words of Wisdom for Youth - elders share valuable life lessons with younger generations

  • Medicine Marketplace for convenient early holiday shopping and delicious food to enjoy throughout the event

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SF Herbalists @ Co-opiversary! Other Avenues' 50th Anniversary Block Party
Oct
19

SF Herbalists @ Co-opiversary! Other Avenues' 50th Anniversary Block Party

Join us to celebrate sustainable food systems and worker-owner history at my favorite tiny food coop’s 50th anniversary, Other Avenues in the Outer Sunset!

I’m pleased to join fellow herbalists kelly lecoy and Bonnie Rose Weaver to represent SF Herbalists, promoting community health and collective wellbeing. Got herb questions? Want to talk immune support, stress or anything in between? Visit us between 12pm - 3pm for free tea tastings, product samples and herbal chats.

Enjoy free music, food, activities, vendor and organizational tabling and worker-owned coop and sustainable food system education and advocacy. Made possible by NoBAWC (celebrating their 30th anniversary) Friends of the Great Highway Park and SF Parks and Recreation Department.

If you’d like to stick around, there will be a film screening at Far Out West Community Garden following the event.

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Mission Sunday Streets: Herbal Pop Up
Aug
25

Mission Sunday Streets: Herbal Pop Up

On August 25, 2024, Sunday Streets SF will open up 1+ mile of streets in the Mission for an afternoon of car-free fun for the whole family. As one of the most visited Sunday Streets SF events of all time, Sunday Streets Mission is one of the open street destination (Ciclovía) routes to take this season.

Taking place on Valencia Street between Duboce Ave and 26th Street, neighbors and visitors alike can enjoy free recreation, health resources, music, dance, and more!

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Excelsior Sunday Streets: Herbal Pop Up
Jul
21

Excelsior Sunday Streets: Herbal Pop Up

Inspired by Bogotá Colombia’s weekly Ciclovía, which began in 1974, Sunday Streets reclaims car-congested streets for community health, creating temporary open space and recreational opportunities in neighborhoods most lacking while encouraging physical activity, community-building and a reconsideration of public space. As a resident of San Francisco's Excelsior district for the past 10 years, I’m excited to join local nonprofits and small businesses with my herbalist hat on for this fun day celebrating health and community at Excelsior Sunday Streets!

I’ll have calendula salve, the incredible heal-all for hardworking hands, lavender hydrosol, hand-stitched lavender hearts, Flower Power tonic tea, lemon balm plant starts for your garden and medicinal floral arrangements to eat, use and enjoy!

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Sunflower Power Herb Walk
Jun
30

Sunflower Power Herb Walk

Join me to celebrate the summer solstice with a sun-themed medicine class at San Francisco’s Alemany Farm! We'll learn about the botanical patterns found in the sunflower family, Asteraceae, explore the farm to find medicinal and edible members of this family and learn how they support our health. Tastings included! 

Sign up on Eventbrite $0-$30

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Flowers on the Farm: Botanical Bouquets
May
12

Flowers on the Farm: Botanical Bouquets

Create your own Mothers Day bouquet* while learning about basic botany and medicinal plants from herbalist and educator Tessa Kappe. Discuss flower parts and types while exploring what’s blooming on the farm through plant identification, common/botanical names and plant families. Celebrate the beauty of our seasonal, local flora and cultivate your creativity through floral design and harvesting tips. Hand pick your own beautiful, farm fresh bouquet and enjoy a culminating show and tell to appreciate everyone’s inspired arrangements and botanical know-how!

*This is an inclusive event celebrating whoever represents nurturance and love in your life: other family, chosen family, friends, Mother Nature or yourself!

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Herbs & Roses
Mar
15
to May 10

Herbs & Roses

Herbs and Roses is an 8 week internship from the plants that grow at Alemany Farm and herbalists Bonnie Rose Weaver and Tessa Kappe in using medicinal plants, supporting the cultivation of the cut flower garden at the 3.5 organic farm dedicated to food and ecological security, and community education on occupied Ramaytush Ohlone Land (San Francisco, CA).

H&R interns will receive short lectures, interactive experiences and hands-on medicine making training in community herbalism. They will support the organic and regenerative cut-flower production at Alemany Farm through greenhouse work, irrigation, bed preparation and soil management, weeding, pest and disease control and harvest of cut flowers.

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Summertime Herb Walk
Jul
10

Summertime Herb Walk

Join us on a botanical adventure in Glen Canyon Park, one of San Francisco’s wildlife gems, to enjoy a beautiful educational hike through the grasslands, coastal scrub, and riparian habitat of Islais Creek. Along the way we’ll explore the native, edible and medicinal plants that grow abundantly among these diverse ecological communities. We’ll discuss basic botany, identification tips, plant families, and other fun tidbits of natural knowledge. We might even catch a hawk’s-eye-view from a high point over the varied species of the canyon!


Wear comfortable walking shoes and bring a water bottle. Snacks and notebooks are optional. We will meet at the Glen Park Recreation Center, 70 Elk Street in San Francisco, CA 94131. The park is accessible by public transportation. Spaces are limited for this special class!

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Botany for Herbalists at Land of Verse School of Herbal Medicine
Mar
7
to Mar 25

Botany for Herbalists at Land of Verse School of Herbal Medicine

I teach botany and plant identification for Community, Apprentice and Clinical herbal students at Land of Verse Herbal Medicine School annually since 2021. Topics include plant identification, plant families, shared medicinal properties, secondary metabolites and more! Interactive virtual learning classes designed for students of herbal medicine.

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