Preserving Herb Harvest Class

Learn how to preserve fresh herbs and make your own herbal products for around your home! This virtual class will cover skills including drying and preserving herbs for maximum flavor retention, infusing herbs into culinary oil or vinegar and creating herbal oils (for use in home products like lip balms, lotions, and salves - all skills featured in classes later this year!). This class will be taught by Amy Wertheim of Wertheim's Gardens, a longtime herbal expert and farmer of educational, culinary, and medicinal gardens in Logan County. Class registration is free with an option to purchase a class kit to use during the live virtual class. This class will feature fresh rosemary and Thai basil and dried calendula and rosemary. The $15 base class kit includes six plastic containers for infusing, 18 oz of grapeseed oil, balsamic vinegar, cheesecloth, twine, rubber bands, and kitchen gloves and require participants to source their own herbs from their garden or local farmer. There is also an option to select a $30 class kit that includes everything in the base class kit plus bundles of fresh and dried herbs that are featured in the class.