Collection: Upcoming Events

 Follow links to learn more about each workshop, or scroll to the bottom of this page to find the product links.  If you are interested in private herb walks, homeschool groups, etc., please reach out to info@wildasterfarm.com

Raising Meat Chickens on Pasture Workshop

More information and registration for Meat Chickens Workshop here!

Date: May 4, 2024

Time: 1:30p-4:30p

Cost: $30/person, $55/2 people

Age: Adults, children 12yrs and older

Come join Farmer Brian for this "non-herbal" offering!  We have been raising meat birds on our homestead two times a year for 5 years.  Come join Brian as he discusses the ins and outs of raising your own birds.  This workshop will include information on equipment needs, space requirements, costs, pros/cons, feed requirements, sourcing birds, and all the things we wish we would have known when starting our first batch!  This class is limited to how to raise and manage a meat bird flock on your homestead.  This is geared towards new homesteaders and chicken owners.  We will not be discussing how to butcher chickens in this class, however, we will go over some of the basic equipment needed to successfully raise and butcher your own birds.

Yoga and Herb Walk at Wild Aster farm 

Registration here

Date: Friday May 10, 2024

Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm

Registration fee: $25/person early bird, regular price $30

Age: 18yrs and older 

Location: Wild Aster Farm, Hurdle Mills (address sent at registration)

Want a great way to kick off Mother's Day Weekend?  Join us for on the farm Yoga followed by a sensory herb walk!  Enjoy the wonderful views, quiet peace of the farm while stretching and strengthening with Carly.  Then stroll with us on a guided tour through the herb rows for a sesonry experience.  Bring your mom, your friends, or treat your self. 

About the yoga: Join Carly for a 45 minutes all-level flow on the farm, where we will focus on strengthening and stretching. Carly currently leads flows at Midtown Yoga and Body Games.  She has been practicing yoga for over a decade, completed her teacher training at Yoga Salt in Wilmington and has been teaching for the last 4 years. 

About the Herb walk: After you spend time strengthening  and stretching with Carly, Melissa will lead participants on a 30 minutes sensory herb walk.  We will spend some time observing, learning and interacting with a few medicinal herbs on the farm.  

Disclaimer: In consideration of being permitted to participate in the Activities, by signing up for this class I agree to assume full responsibility for any risks, injuries or damages to myself.

Spring Herb Walk: Focusing on Spring Herbs and Herbs for the Lymph system 

More information and registration for Spring Herb Walk here

Date: Saturday May 18, 2024

Time: 9:30a-11:30a

Cost: $30/person, $55/2 people

Age Range: Adults, children age 12yr and up

Our seasonal herb walks are a wonderful way to learn more about specific herbs and their uses.  Each walk focuses on a handful of specific plants that are in their prime during that season.  We will discuss natural history, how to grow/cultivate/forage, how to harvest, and how to use each particular herb, as well as most effective preparations of each herb.  Participants will receive handouts and information that will equip you to grow/forage and use each herb discussed.

Homeschool Series: DIY First Aid Salve and Spray

Registration and more information here

Date: Thursday June 6, 2024

Time: 9:30a-11:30

Age: Homeschool families/families with students on break.  Geared towards students age 8+ but younger siblings are welcome with adult supervision

Location: At Wild Aster Farm (details sent with registration)

Registration fee: $35/family

You don't want to miss this class! Learn how to make your own potent medicinal first aid salve and spray.  Students will participate in a demonstration on how to make whole plant infused oil using fresh and dried herbs from our farm.  Then using that oil, students will help make a batch of first aid salve. Students will also have the opportunity to make their own first aid spray using fresh and dried herbs from our farm. Each family will go home with own 2oz tin of first aid salve and 4oz of the first aid spray, as well as the recipe for the product we make during the class. 

This class is geared toward homeschool families or school aged children on break.  The content of the class is best suited for children 8+, however children of all ages are welcome to attend with siblings.  All children must be accompanied and supervised by an adult at all times.

Individual adults without students interested in learning more about herbs, please check out our seasonal herb walks here.

Customer Review from our last Homeschool Series Class! 

Wild Aster Farms offers an experience that no text book on gardening or medicinal herbs could offer; to step out into nature with the delightful smells, sounds, and textures of the farm firmly establishes in your memory all that the proprietors teach. Their expertise and quiet enthusiasm for sharing their craft is not lost to even the youngest audience. Our visit to the farm left my children eager to learn more and to put into practice immediately what they were taught. And those weeds I was lamenting that I needed to take the time to pull at the height of allergen season, turns out they can help me medicinally with those very allergies, who knew?!! I don’t think I will see my own little plot of earth the same again. - Stephanie C.

Summer Herb Walk: Herbs for general wellness and first aid 

More information and registration for Summer Herb Walk here

Date: June 29, 2024

Time: 9:30a-11:30a

Cost: $30/person, $55/2 people

Age Range: Adults, children age 12yr and up

Our seasonal herb walks are a wonderful way to learn more about specific herbs and their uses.  Each walk focuses on a handful of specific plants that are in their prime during that season.  We will discuss natural history, how to grow/cultivate/forage, how to harvest, and how to use each particular herb, as well as most effective preparations of each herb.  Participants will receive handouts and information that will equip you to grow/forage and use each herb discussed.

Fall Herb Walk: Focusing on Adaptogens, Roots, and Winter Wellness

More information and registration for Fall Herb Walk here

Date: October 19, 2024

Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm

Cost: $30/person, $55/2 people

Age Range: Adults, children age 12yr and up

Our seasonal herb walks are a wonderful way to learn more about specific herbs and their uses.  Each walk focuses on a handful of specific plants that are in their prime during that season.  We will discuss natural history, how to grow/cultivate/forage, how to harvest, and how to use each particular herb, as well as most effective preparations of each herb.  Participants will receive handouts and information that will equip you to grow/forage and use each herb discussed.

Fall and Winter Dried Flower Arranging and Crafting Classes 

Sept 28th and Dec 7th

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