Reconnect with the medicinal plants and learn to make herbal preparations
For more than 30 years, Finca Luna Nueva has grown herbs for use in the preparation of medicinal formulations. Organic ginger was our first crop, which we juiced and exported to a US herbal supplement company. From there we grew ginger and turmeric for export to a renowned German laboratory, where extracts of our herbs were included in formations that were researched at preeminent institutions like the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Columbia University, the Cleveland Clinic, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
About 20 years we began to collaborate with Rafael Ocampo Sanchez, one of the great herbal scholars of Central America, and we became the home of more than 300 herbs of medicinal and cultural importance to the indigenous peoples of the New World tropics. Soon thereafter, ethnobotanists from the US government and the New York and Missouri Botanical Gardens joined with us in creating and studying the Sacred Seeds Sanctuary on our grounds, where today you can still see herbs that have been selected for their medicinal significance.
In this workshop you will learn:
- To create a deeper connection with plants and herbs.
- Introduction to herbalism and herbal alchemy.
- Medicinal uses of different plants according to their properties.
- Methods for some basic herbal medicine preparations.
This activity will involve hands-on work with plants and herbs freshly harvested from our own organic farm. The medicine you make will be yours to take home!
- The workshop will take place at Casa Luna, with our own Farm to Table alchemist.
- The tours are scheduled by reception, upon request Monday through Friday only.
- Departure from reception 2 PM
- Duration: 2 hours
- Recommended ages: 12- 100+ yrs old. You’re never too old to reconnect with the plant wisdom.
- What to bring: an open mind, your camera, and a notebook. If you have any allergies, please let us know.
- Minimum: 2 people.
