Meet Your Local Plant Allies: A Garden Walk with Hannah Morano
Sweet Birch Herbals, 686 Creamery Road, Ashfield
TBD
$25, all materials provided
* POSTPONED – new date TBD. Email bsmith@franklinlandtrust.org if you would like to be notified when the event date is scheduled, and stay tuned to our email newsletter and social media for updates. *
When we learn to identify the plants growing in our own backyards, forests, and fields, something shifts. We stop seeing “weeds” and start seeing allies, healers, and indicators of a living, breathing ecosystem. That connection is at the heart of everything we do as stewards of this land.
Step into the lush, green gardens of Hannah Morano, community herbalist and founder of Sweet Birch Herbals in Ashfield, MA, for a hands-on wander through the world of local medicinal plants. This isn’t your average classroom — it’s a living, breathing, fragrant experience right among the herbs themselves.
Hannah will introduce you to the local plant heroes thriving in our landscape — both the cultivated and wild plants — and show you how to weave their power into your everyday home life with simple, accessible recipes.
This workshop is hands-on and includes:
Guided Garden Walk — see, smell, and touch the plants that grow wild and in Hannah’s garden
Plant Identification — learn your local heroes, new and old friends
Simple Home Recipes — easy ways to use medicinal herbs in your daily routine
Make a Remedy Together — craft something real and useful right on the spot
Take Home a Herb Bundle — leave with fresh herbs in hand and confidence in your heart
Leave with a deeper reverence for the landscape you call home — and the tools to be a more informed, intentional steward of it.
Hannah Morano founded Sweet Birch Herbals, LLC in 2014. She is a holistic health coach and community herbalist devoted to providing the region with high-quality plant-based medicines that are locally grown and sustainably wildcrafted to ensure abundance for future generations. Hannah approaches her work with compassion and an open heart as she serves a wide range of clients and customers. She grows over 50 herbs on her farm in Ashfield, MA. Check out her natural product line, visit her farm store and learn more about Hannah’s services at www.sweetbirchherbals.com or contact sweetbirchherbals@gmail.com.