experiential workshops!

Choose from a number of hands-on small-group workshops at my home near Dousman, WI, or let’s plan it at your house! The workshops typically require 2-3 hours and can accommodate up to 4 families or 6 individuals. Get a few friends and come experience these practices, with the intention of taking home the products and skills incorporating them into your own life.

  • Backyard Abundance: foraging for medicinal herbals just outside your door!

  • Sourdough Workshop

  • Herbal-infused “Beyond Organic” Body Butter

  • Candle-making & dipping

  • Wild-fermented Botanical Sodas

  • Approachable Herbalism: Teas, Tinctures & Salves

Pricing is $55-$75 per person or $75-$100 per family (including supplies). To schedule, contact me with your group’s desires, ages, and preferred available dates. So much fun!!!

Join a group of like-hearted individuals embarking on or continuing their journey through the world of healing plants. Together we will learn throughout the wheel of the year, exploring each season’s bounty with projects and plant walks. This intimate group of 4-6 individuals will support each other along the path of herbal learning.

This group could be perfect for curious first-time herbalists, herbalists wanting to expand and deepen their knowledge, and people actively on a healing journey.

We will learn organically, meaning in harmony with the seasons and the needs of the present moment. We will journey with approximately one herb per month, though you will probably select one “plant ally” to focus on most deeply throughout the year, or simply enjoy meeting a variety of plants as they blossom through the seasons.

If you enjoy learning in a group-supported dynamic and are thrilled about the possibilities contained within the magic of Herbalism, this group is for you!!

Approachable Herbalism Group

This group meets every second Sunday of the month in various locations throughout the Waukesha County, WI area. We also meet for a woods walk / “foray” on a second date each month which is TBD depending on group availability. Registration for 2025 is closed ~ but join us for next year!

Backyard Foraging

Designed especially for kids who love having fun in Nature! We typically meet from 10:00 am — 12:30 pm, with the first half of the workshop outdoors meeting new plants and the second half getting hands on with a Make & Take DIY guided project. All supplies provided.

Pricing is $25 per person or $50 per family. To schedule, contact me with your children’s ages and preferred available dates. We meet in groups of four families or less.

I don’t even know where to begin. Ali is an amazing teacher! She has so much knowledge to share and the compassionate, loving way she presents it feels so warm and natural. She will have you looking at things in new perspectives and give you tools to grow. She has opened me up to new ideas, health practices and honestly a new way of living that feels more true and right than I have ever felt before. I feel broken open, in a fabulous way, and I am forever grateful. But it’s more that just what Ali brings to the table, it’s the camaraderie, the mutual trust and friendships you build in a group of women which she fosters. We are biologically wired for friendship and growth and I can’t think of a better place to find your tribe than in a group that is lead by such a beautiful, giving soul. Ali’s light shines so brightly; she is filled with loving kindness and joy and shares it freely. It will change your life, you will grow in ways you never expected. — Shannon A.