Medicinal Salve Making
with Carleigh Fairchild
Thursday, October 30 | 1 - 4pm
Discover the art of making your own medicinal plant salve in this immersive, hands-on workshop. We’ll begin with a guided plant walk, where you’ll learn how to identify medicinal plants in their natural setting, and learn about their medicinal qualities. Back in the workshop space, you’ll explore the techniques of infusing herbs, blending ingredients, and crafting your very own healing salve from start to finish. Each participant will make and take home a jar of salve, along with the skills and knowledge to recreate it on their own. More than just a crafting session, this experience invites you to connect deeply with plants, and spark curiosity and creativity along the way. Join us to empower yourself with practical herbal knowledge, nurture your connection to nature, and leave feeling inspired, confident, and capable.
Carleigh Fairchild has a deep love for the Earth. She gardens, keeps bees, wild harvests, processes animals, tans hides, weaves baskets, and finds joy in time spent around the fire. As the founder of Human Nature Connection LLC, she is dedicated to helping others rediscover respectful and collaborative relationships with the more then human world. Carleigh’s journey—including 86 days on the survival show ALONE in Patagonia—deepened her understanding of belonging and connection. With over 25 years of experience, she teaches both online and in-person classes in Western North Carolina, weaving together earth skills, community, and healing. Carleigh is also a NIASZIIH bodywork healer and instructor at WildernessFusion, integrating body, earth, and spirit in her practice.
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