Herbal Cocktails and Mocktails
Workshops
Herbal Cocktails and Mocktails
Meg Madden
Come explore the edge where herbalism and bartending meet! From shrubs to syrups, amari to spirits, we’ll learn some basics of the relationship between medicine and pleasure and how to imbue your drinks with the magic of plants and ritual. You’ll take away tastes, recipes, ideas, and an understanding of the medicinal origins of many modern beverages.
Teacher Bio:
Meg is a practicing clinical herbalist, graduate of Sacred Plant Traditions, long-term mentee of Suzanna Stone, and apothecary manager and medicine maker at The Elderberry in Charlottesville, VA. She has an undergraduate degree in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s studies with a minor in Psychology and focus on women’s health from Virginia Commonwealth University. Meg’s offerings include one-on-one herbal consultation, teaching, and facilitating. As a clinical herbalist, she works with clients to generate healing and wellbeing with medicinal plants while honoring both her clients and the plants in their wholeness and complexity. She teaches material from medicine making to plant identification to tarot. She facilitates ceremonial events, plants walks, and reads tarot. Throughout all her work she seeks to offer a unique experience that allows her clients and students to shine and safely access their depths with support and love. In addition to the above she writes, farms, and studies nutrition, anatomy and physiology, psychology, astrology, and a host of other subjects. Meg has deep interest and personal practice in ancestral work, handicraft as art, tending wild and cultivated plants, and is dedicated to supporting access to wellbeing for all.