We are beyond thrilled to have Priya (of Priya Means Love Body Care) coming back to Star Bright to teach a salve making workshop!

In this two-hour workshop, you’ll create a medicinal salve of your own design to add to your home apothecary!  

We’ll cover the process of infusing herbs into oils to create potent herbal medicine, smell and feel our way through a variety of medicinal herbs grown at Star Bright Farm and their respective infused oils: calendula, comfrey, yarrow, lavender, and chamomile.  We’ll discuss the herbal medicinal properties of each herb, you’ll formulate and craft an herbal salve of your own design using oils infused with Star Bright Farm’s herbs, beeswax, and essential oils distilled on the farm, with materials chosen to fit into your family’s medicine cabinet — whether for itchy skin and bug bites, for bumps and bruises, or for sleep.

You’ll leave with a 2 oz tin of an herbal salve of your own design, plus the knowledge to create your own herbal salves at home.

Before the workshop begins, we will meet and mingle while enjoying refreshments. We look forward to growing this community of friendship!

$75 per person, all materials and refreshments provided.

About the instructor: Priya Narasimhan (she/her) is the person behind Priya Means Love - priyameanslove.etsy.com, a line of botanical skincare, haircare, bodycare, and natural fragrance, and a longtime collaborator with Star Bright Farm, crafting products with Star Bright’s beautiful herbs since 2017!  Priya is a mathematician by training, but in her mid-20s she became debilitatingly ill with ME/CFS. After a lot of trial and error, she realized that chemical sensitivities are a major trigger of her health problems, and in 2009, she began formulating and crafting organic products for her body using food-like ingredients and drawing on herbal medicine, which she’d found so helpful in her healing journey. What started out as a hobby slowly and gradually grew into a full-time business, and in late 2022 Priya moved from Baltimore to the Green Mountains of Vermont, where she handcrafts her products from her home workshop and occasionally gets lost in the forest foraging plants.