Upcoming Events
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Join us to discuss plants and practices that help us lean into our pleasure. We will focus on herbal allies to both nourish our minds and bodies and to hold space for an intentional pleasure practice.
*This class will discuss sex and sexuality and is therefore not appropriate for children.
Taylor Lee Lavenu Gendron (she/her) is a practicing folk herbalist living in New London. Using wild gathered plants and weeds she makes super small batch medicinals for her Esmé Botanicals line, which focus on embracing pleasure as a means to enhance physical and mental health. After growing up in Groton she spent time studying herbal medicine in Brooklyn, NY, pursuing European folk herbal traditions during her time living in the French Alps and then lived and studied under Community Herbalist Gail Faith Edwards on Blessed Maine Herb Farm in Central Maine for three years before returning to Connecticut.
*This class will discuss sex and sexuality and is therefore not appropriate for children.
Taylor Lee Lavenu Gendron (she/her) is a practicing folk herbalist living in New London. Using wild gathered plants and weeds she makes super small batch medicinals for her Esmé Botanicals line, which focus on embracing pleasure as a means to enhance physical and mental health. After growing up in Groton she spent time studying herbal medicine in Brooklyn, NY, pursuing European folk herbal traditions during her time living in the French Alps and then lived and studied under Community Herbalist Gail Faith Edwards on Blessed Maine Herb Farm in Central Maine for three years before returning to Connecticut.
Join Nadine Nelson for a FREE interactive food demo engaging in cooking dishes that are good, cheap, and healthy. Learn how to menu plan and get concrete suggestions to be more inventive in the kitchen while getting motivated into food activism. We will view and discuss excerpts from the documentary Food Stamped, and we’ll use recipes featured in the cookbook Good and Cheap by Leanne Brown. Workshop is free, tasting and recipes included.
Nadine Nelson is a career educator, chef, artist, activist and owner of Global Local Gourmet. Her cooking classes, culinary and farm tours, wellness workshops, food art activations and immersive epicurean events are legendary for their social sculpture and collaborative human engagement.
Nadine Nelson is a career educator, chef, artist, activist and owner of Global Local Gourmet. Her cooking classes, culinary and farm tours, wellness workshops, food art activations and immersive epicurean events are legendary for their social sculpture and collaborative human engagement.
