2008 Class Options

Yoga

Sara Haines, Claire Orner, Debbie Marocco, and/or Melora McNutt, national Yoga Fit certified instructors, lead you in the Hatha Yoga technique, a tranquil workout, designed for mainstream enthusiasts.

$15 per session

Herbal Soap Making

Soft, smooth and natural-Rusty shows you how to make soap from scratch. Mold, cut, scent and color soap. Take home 3 bars ($10 value).

$30

Environmental Choices

Students participate in activities applying their understanding of how their actions can enhance or hinder the environment. Choose one topic.

• Intro to Environmental Choices
• Soil Food Web
• Worm Composting
• Integrated Pest Management in the Garden
• Water Conservation in the Garden
• Lasagna Gardening
• Household Cleaning Alternatives
• Integrated Pest Management in the Home
• Water and Energy Conservation in the Home
• Eating Organic Foods
• Eco-Friendly Products for the Home

$25

Lose Weight with Whole Foods

Learn ten basic suggestions using Whole Foods, participate in Whole Food cooking demonstrations and have a Whole Foods sit-down meal at each session.

$25

Pre-Menopausal Women's Herbs

Claire Orner from Quiet Creek Herb Farm shares with you the medicinal herbs used to heal and nourish pre-menopausal women's cyclical changes and the time-honored herbal remedies to restore wholeness to women's bodies. Take home an herbal infusion, a tincture, and an herb plant to help lessen pre-menopausal symptoms.

$45

Menopausal Women's Herbs

Claire Orner from Quiet Creek Herb Farm shares with you the medicinal herbs used to heal and nourish menopausal women's cyclical changes and the time-honored herbal remedies to restore wholeness to women's bodies. Take home a decoction, a salve, and an herbal plant to help lessen menopausal symptoms.

$45

Children's Herbal Health

Come and explore herbal ways to heal and nourish children. Learn time-honored herbal remedies to restore wholeness to our youth. Take home tea, salve, recipes and plant.

$25

Cooking with Basil

Taste basil like never before! Learn how to grow, prepare and store basil. Taste many different kinds of basil and delicious appetizers, entrees and dessert made with versatile, aromatic herb. Take home a full stomach, plant and recipes.

$25

Cooking with Herbs

Explore the sweets and sours, the spice and the nice flavors of over two dozen herbs from appetizers to dessert. You won't go home hungry after this class! You'll also receive recipes and an herb plant to cook from.

$25

Foraging for Wild Edible

Trample through the woods and meadows of Quiet Creek identifying and harvesting nutritious and appetizing wild herbs. When you return, sit down and enjoy a delicious meal with the healthful ingredients. Bring hiking shoes and wear rain/shine clothing.

$25

Garden Tours

Enjoy a garden tour and informal discussion lead by Quiet Creek's specialists. Bring your herbal questions. Fun for all ages.

$5 June - October

High Tea Party

Sample herbal teas and finger foods while learning the therapeutic uses of many healing herbs.

$25

Women's Health Care

Come and explore herbal ways to heal and nourish women. Learn time-honored herbal remedies to restore wholeness to our bodies. Take home tea, salve, recipes and plant.

$25

Kid's Camp -- Have a Herbalicious Week

Let your child(ren) get back to the basics of the earth and nature's goodness by discovering the phenomenal quality of herbs at Quiet Creek Herb Farm. To start off the week, your child will learn how to identify herb plants by their interesting smell and texture, make bars of herbal soap, manufacture herbal tea bags, stir-up herbal bread and butter, and concoct herbal salves. By the end of the week your child will be ready to celebrate his/her success by enjoying an herbal picnic with their new friends. Each day he/she will take home an herbal gift and know-how. Be sure kids are dressed according the weather.

Class Fee: $15 (reimbursable if completing all 5 sessions)

Kid's Camp -- Outdoor Survival Skills

Have child(ren) discover and learn the survival skills of the great outdoors at Quiet Creek Herb Farm. She/he will spend time in the woods learning orienteering skills, identifying wild plants and their uses, createing a first aid kit from Mother Nature, building a durable shelter and starting a fire from scratch. By the end of the week children will be able to survive on their own and be in sync with the earth. Be sure kids are dressed according the weather.

$100 half day- 5 sessions

Kid's Camp - Environmental Theater Camp

Discover the skills and opportunity to perform on stage in an outdoor environmental theatre camp at Quiet Creek.  Teacher/Director:  Kristie Taylor.   Class Fee: $100.  Healthy snacks provided.  Camp for 6-11 year olds on August 4-16 (9-12 p.m.).  Camp for 12 to 15 year olds on August 4-16 (1-4 p.m.) Two free tickets for parents.  Performances held evening of August 15 and afternoon of August 16. 

$100

Kid's Camp - Yellow Fish Project

Students will be immersed in water quality issues specifically helping them understand how storm sewer water is discarded directly in public drinking water sources. They will become environmental activities ready to make a difference in their community. Be sure kids are dressed according the weather.

Class Fee: $15 (reimbursable if completing all 5 sessions)

Sustainable Health Workshop for Educators

Come create a vision of sustainable health for you and your students. Participate in relaxing yoga and an organic whole foods luncheon everyday. You will learn how to grow, harvest, preserve, prepare, and the nutritional qualities of whole foods.  Discover the edibles and medicinals native to Pennsylvania and the therapeutic aspects of essential oils. 

Workshop fee: $200 includes luncheons, materials, and Act 48 credits.

Boo-boo Herbs

Come learn about the herbs that will put your children's tears to rest. They are easy to grow and easy to use. Take home two plants and an herbal salve.

$25

Cold & Flu Herbs

Come learn about the herbs that will lessen cold and flu symptoms. They are easy to grow and to make into useable remedies for adults and children. Take home your creations: a tincture, herbal salve, and tea bags.

$25

Herbal Luncheon

Come experience a culinary adventure created and served to you and to your friends by a local chef. You will go home with a full stomach, great memories and lots of recipes.

$25

Finger Licking Herbs

Come discover the Finger Licking Herbs that your family will love to eat. You will go home with a full stomach, great memories, herb mixes, and lots of recipes.

$25

Headache Herbs

Come learn about the herbs that will lessen headaches from tension to hormone changes. These herbs are easy to grow and to make into useable remedies for adults and children. Take home your creations.

$25

Sweet Herbs

Come learn about the herbs that will cure your sweet tooth. They are easy to grow and to make into delicious snacks for adults and children. Take home plants and recipes.

$25

Heart Smart Herbs

Come learn about the herbs that will help build a strong heart. They are easy to grow and to make into useable tonics for your heart. Take home plants and herbal remedies.

$25

Lemon Herbs

Come learn about the herbs that will flavor your meals luscious lemon. They are easy to grow and to make into delicious meals. Take home plants and recipes.

$25 June - September

Edible Flowers

Come learn about the edible flowers that will enhance your meals and vitality. They are easy to grow and to make into delicious meals. Take home plants and recipes.

$25 July - September

Cooking with Stevia

You will learn about the wonderful sweet herb - Stevia on how to grow, harvest and cook delicious four course meals. Take home plants and recipes.

$25 June - September

Tea Herbs

You will learn about the culinary and therapeutic herbs used to make teas. Come discover how to grow, harvest and to blend teas for many uses. Take home plants and recipes.

$25

Ginseng

Come learn about ginseng that will enhance your health. Discover how to grow, harvest and to make herbal remedies using this herb. Take home root and recipes.

$25 August - October

Garlic Cooking Feast

Come discover the attributes and quality of garlic by enjoying a five-course meal. Go home with a full stomach and lots of recipes.

$25 July - December

Herbal Seasonings

This class provides you with the know-how for blending organic herbs to create delicious mixes that to can be added to butter, cream cheese, meatloaf, fish, and many more. Go home with recipes and ready mixes to enjoy or give as gifts.

$25

Herbal Gifts for the Holidays

Learn how to make herbal holiday gifts: eye pillows, potpourri, and sachets. Go home with recipes and gifts for your friends and family.

$25

Health and Nutritional Seminars

Choose one or all twelve. Be sure to nibble on the good-for-you goodies in every session.

• Whole Foods: Discover the nutritional value of foods in their simplest form.
• Trendy Diets: Come and discuss the pros and cons of the latest dieting techniques - Atkins, South Beach, Sommers, etc.
• Free Range Meats: Learn why people are turning back to basics and eating wild, free-range, chemical-free meats.
• Genetically Modified Foods: Do Franken foods really exist? Come discover what the FDA won't tell you, just ask the Europeans.
• Fermented Foods: Uncomfortable with how you're feeling, nutritionally speaking? Discover how to add simple foods that will enhance your body ecology for better health.
• Fats & Oils: Come discover the skinny on the importance of the "right" fats and oils.
• Salt Free Cooking: Concerned about too much of the wrong kind of salt? Come and learn how to enhance the flavor of your food without any added sodium.
• Sweeteners: Do you have a sweet tooth? Discover how to curb it with acceptable alternatives.
• Tofu & Soy Products: Need some added protein in your diet? Try learning what soy has to offer.
• Sprouted Grains, Nuts and Seeds: This workshop demonstrates the benefits of sprouting the grains, nuts and seeds in your diet.
• Raw Milk: Raw deal or Real Deal? Discover why our ancestors drank it straight from the cow.
• Vegetarianism: Want to learn more to make a good decision about a meatless diet? Come learn about the pros and cons of vegetarianism.

$25 per session

Cheese Making

Got Milk? In this workshop you will learn the basics for making cheese with a few ingredients and the use of your kitchen stove. We will demonstrate critical moments in the cheese making process and sample some easy cheeses to make.

$30

Pampering Day

Come and enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of Quiet Creek. You can treat yourself or a loved one to an herbal facial, organic meal, and luxurious soak in the outdoor hot tub enhanced with the therapy of essential oils. Bring a towel and swimsuit.

$75

Bat Habits & Habitats

Learn how to build a bat house (a masterpiece you will take home) and discover why these winged mammals are so important to your health and our ecosystem.

$25

Mushroom Foray

Come walk through the woods of Quiet and discover the fabulous fungi. Some are delicious others dangerous. All are safe to examine and appreciate.

$25

Shiitake Mushroom Growing

Come and learn how to grow, harvest, preserve, and cook with Shiitake mushrooms. This workshop will teach you what growing medium works best, how to plug the spawn, when to harvest, what medicinal qualities, which preservation techniques, and which recipes work best. Organic luncheon included with your own take-home Shittake log ready for you to grow, harvest and eat.0/p>

$50

Holistic Health Retreat

Come and experience the healing aspects of holistic movement by joining us in various tai chi and yoga classes. Learn about whole foods while dining on an organic luncheon.

$75

Birdhouse Gourd Crafting

Rusty Orner from Quiet Creek Herb Farm will share with you the techniques to grow, carve, design and decorate gourds that make beautiful houses for our fine-feathered friends.

$25

Gourd Bowl Crafting

Rusty Orner from Quiet Creek Herb Farm will share with you the techniques to grow, carve, design and decorate gourds that make beautiful bowls and more.

$25

Bent-Wood Trellis Building

Learn how to bend and twist fresh cut saplings into a beautiful, artistic design that you uniquely create. Herbal refreshments will be served. Bring a pair of pruning nippers, gloves, and a kneeling pad.

$45 June - September

Medicinal Use of Herbs

Learn how to make infusions, capsules, syrups, salves, poultices, and oils with common herbs and weeds. Take home your creations and a more healthful way of life. Herbal refreshments are included.

$75 Luncheon and all materials provided

Plant Propagation

Here is the bargain class of the year! Class includes tons of plants (medicinal and culinary herbs, ornamental flowers and more!) that you will go home with while obtaining the knowledge of how to propagate plants from seeds, cuttings, root layerings, and bulbs .

$25 May - June

Whole Grain Breadmaking

Don't miss attending the Whole Grain Bread Making and Herbal Butter Making Class. Learn the secrets of adding nutritional bread into your family's diet. You will go home with recipes, knowledge, bread, and butter. Come and enjoy!

$25

Herbal Papermaking

Come visit us and attend the Herbal Paper Making & Collage Class. Here you will learn how to make herbal paper from recycled paper, herbs, and flowers. You will create note cards, wedding announcements, and/or artistic collages for wall hangings. Take home your creations and enjoy a relaxing morning or afternoon.

$25

Holiday Wreath Making

Quiet Creek will be hosting Holiday Wreath classes. The class fee is $30 and you will go home with a creation to decorate your home with fresh evergreen aroma and beauty worth $50

$30