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Herbal Creams Making Hands-On In-Person Workshop facilitated by Kaja Skraskova from Herbae Thylacini.A unique opportunit...
15/10/2026

Herbal Creams Making Hands-On In-Person Workshop facilitated by Kaja Skraskova from Herbae Thylacini.
A unique opportunity to participate in a hands-on in-person herbal workshop, co-hosted by The Elder Tree.

Date & Time
📅 SATURDAY 07 NOVEMBER 2026 10.00am-2.00pm AEST (BYO lunch)
Where
📍Mullumbimby Community Garden

Price of the workshop for registered Elder Tree members is $115, for all other participants $125.

Program
In the first half of this hands-on workshop, Kaja will expertly explain the theory behind emulsion making (mixing cream and water) and demo the whole process. I will make sure to share practical tips and dispel common misconceptions.

In the second half - the floor is yours: you will get the space, tools and ingredients to craft your own herbal creams and commit the process and skills to memory.
Lean into my unique expertise

With 10 years of practical crafting experience and formal background in both, pharmacognosy and chemistry, Kaja is able to show herbal cream making from unique and practical perspective.

Broaden your herbal medicine repertoire
Move from making salves and balms for every skin ailment, to crafting more specific topical products.
Streamline your cream making and score a number of practical tips

From emulsification to preservation to safely working with herbs, you will gain the skills and demystify some of the complexities of making herbal creams.

Gain confidence
Making emulsions is notably more complex than making oil-based salves. But with the right approach, it is a totally learnable skill!

Take home:
Two herbal creams (incl. full formulas) and concise workshop notes.
Spaces are limited!

Book your tickets here:
https://herbaethylacini.com.au/products/herbal-creams-making-hands-on-in-person-workshop-07-november-2026-mullumbimby-nsw

And RSVP on the event page (and invite others!)
Herbal Cream Making Workshop with Kaja Skraskova

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Refunds policy & payment plan
Refunds are available if cancelled more than 7 days prior to the event.
You can take advantage of a payment plan, which will allow you to split the workshop cost in two halves. Please note, that full workshop price is payable prior to the workshop by 31st October to secure your place in the workshop.

Read the instructions below carefully:
Use the code "CREAMSINVOICE" at the checkout.
This will allow you to pay 50% of the workshop price.
Following your payment, you will receive an invoice for the second half of the workshop price.

Because spaces are very limited, the payment plan invoice is payable by 31st October to secure your place in the workshop. If not paid on time, your place will be offered to another participant and you forfeit your refund eligibility.

Spaces are limited!

For any question, contact Tatiana:
[email protected]

Tomorrow morning-  come join us or stop by and say hi and see our beautiful medicine gardens!Calling upon all creatives ...
08/10/2026

Tomorrow morning- come join us or stop by and say hi and see our beautiful medicine gardens!
Calling upon all creatives for The Elder Tree Creative Playing Bee:
Let's gather together in The Elder Tree Educational Medicine Garden and make signs and info boards, creative installations, sculptures etc etc

Some musicians can set the tone while we paint and carve and bring creativity and colour into our special space. This will be the first event to be held under our new structure that has just been build with recycled materials, so we will be celebrating that also!

Friday 9th Oct 9.30am
Mullum Gardens Eco-Hub.

Bring your instruments, paints, creative ideas. Lets bring some more colour, creativity and educational signs to our garden.
We would love also if people could bring food and drink contributions for a potluck lunch.

Please get in touch to RSVP or to discuss any creative projects that you might like to bring to the day: [email protected]

To find out more about our garden and The Elder Tree, visit our website:
https://www.theeldertree.org/garden

We had a great working bee today.  Lots of fun loving up the land with a beautiful crew.  We are excited for our first b...
03/10/2026

We had a great working bee today. Lots of fun loving up the land with a beautiful crew. We are excited for our first birthday creative session this Friday... are you coming?
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Calling upon all creatives for The Elder Tree Creative Playing Bee:
Let's gather together in The Elder Tree Educational Medicine Garden and make signs and info boards, creative installations, sculptures etc etc

Some musicians can set the tone while we paint and carve and bring creativity and colour into our special space. This day is a belated first birthday for our amazing medicine garden, and it will be the first event to be held under our new structure that has just been build with recycled materials, so we will be celebrating that also!

Friday 9th Oct 9.30am
Mullum Gardens Eco-Hub

Bring your instruments, paints, creative ideas. Lets bring some more colour, creativity and educational signs to our garden.

We would love also if people could bring food and drink contributions for a potluck lunch.

Please get in touch to RSVP or to discuss any creative projects that you might like to bring to the day: [email protected]

To find out more about our garden and The Elder Tree, visit our website:
https://www.theeldertree.org/garden

On this beautiful Spring Equinox day,  the fifth edition of The Elder Tree Newsletter is here!  And our newsletter also ...
23/09/2026

On this beautiful Spring Equinox day, the fifth edition of The Elder Tree Newsletter is here! And our newsletter also celebrates its first birthday!

Quarter after quarter, this newsletter keeps its finger on the pulse of grassroots herbal medicine across Australia, sharing wisdom from incredibly wise herbal medicine teachers across this country, and includes a herbal medicine grassroots directory.

This quarter's contributors:

🌳 Taj Scicluna, Solvents & Synergy: Herbal Constituents Botanical Education
🌳 Benjamin Turale, Initiation: The Difference Between Spagyrics & Alchemy (the final part of his series) The Temple of Mercury
🌳 Jessica Dhara, Spring's Invitation Through Ayurveda, with a Spring Kitchari Bowl recipe Sattvic Rhythm
🌳 Cat Green, Herbs for Financial Stress Everyday Empowered
🌳 Lily Aagren, Postpartum Reflections Lily Aagren
🌳 Tamara Clements, A Practical Guide to Starting Your Spring Herb Garden & Home Apothecary From The Soil Herbal
🌳 Rosemary Jeffreys' poem, A Heart in the Depths
🌳 Nicholas Barefoot, Finding the Meaning of Herbal Resilience (his first column with us!) Nick Pratt

Plus news from The Elder Tree:
🌳 Educational Medicine Garden Update
🌳 The Elder Tree Podcast turns 4, and a fond farewell to Jess Bosscha
🌳 Our Byron Shire Council grant for Roots of Resilience
🌳 Conflict Resolution Workshop recap
🌳 Kaja Skraskova's Herbal Creams Making Workshop and our Creative Working Bee
All written by our founder Tatiana Dawn of Alchemilla Herbals

Free for members. $5 for everyone else.
Purchase your copy from the link in the comment below.

Not a member of The Elder Tree yet? For just $10 a month or $100 a year, you'll receive every seasonal newsletter free, plus discounts on workshops and merchandise and a say at our AGM. Your membership helps put the medicine in the hands of the people. Link in comments below.

A huge thanks to our epic co-editor team- Cait Moore and Tatiana Dawn and our newest volunteer Dana Bradford. A lot of love and hard work goes into this newsletter!

Enjoy this amazing newsletter and enjoy the rest of this day folks!!!

What a great conflict resolution workshop ran by Beth Gow of Australian Men's Shed Association on Friday. The Elder Tree...
22/09/2026

What a great conflict resolution workshop ran by Beth Gow of Australian Men's Shed Association on Friday.

The Elder Tree has always been committed to playing our part in building more resilient communities- and communication is at the heart of any functional community. Every year we organise training in NVC and Sociocracy. We were delighted to attend this training held at the Mullum Gardens Eco-Hub, a space that The Elder Tree had the honour of being in a symbiotic community with so many other incredible community groups.

Workshops like this teach us how to turn destructive conflict into constructive conflict. And also teach us how to argue so that everyone wins! We are all in this together.

Thanks very much to Ken from Mullumbimby Men's Shed for organising this and to Mullum Food Co-op for providing the lunch. Thanks to Mullumbimby Community Garden for hosting in the Rotunda and to Abhi and all that contributed to chai and snacks!

Calling upon all creatives for The Elder Tree Creative Playing Bee:Let's gather together in The Elder Tree Educational M...
22/09/2026

Calling upon all creatives for The Elder Tree Creative Playing Bee:
Let's gather together in The Elder Tree Educational Medicine Garden and make signs and info boards, creative installations, sculptures etc etc

Some musicians can set the tone while we paint and carve and bring creativity and colour into our special space. This will be the first event to be held under our new structure that has just been build with recycled materials, so we will be celebrating that also!

Friday 9th Oct 9.30am
Mullum Gardens Eco-Hub

Bring your instruments, paints, creative ideas. Lets bring some more colour, creativity and educational signs to our garden.

We would love also if people could bring food and drink contributions for a potluck lunch.

Please get in touch to RSVP or to discuss any creative projects that you might like to bring to the day: [email protected]

To find out more about our garden and The Elder Tree, visit our website:
https://www.theeldertree.org/garden

19/09/2026

So much happening in The Elder Tree Educational Medicine Garden right now... very exciting! This structure is being built by Chris and crew and has been coordinated by the wonderful Tommy from Seed Northern Rivers. It has been built from second hand ancient rainforest timber from demolished houses in Lismore.

Our next little working bee is tomorrow morning at 8.30am. Get in touch to RSVP if you would love to join us.

Also in October we have the Elder Tree Creative Working Bee:
Let's gather together and make signs and info boards, creative installations, sculptures etc etc
Some musicians can set the voice while we paint and carve and bring creativity and colour into our special space.

Friday 9th Oct 9.30am

RSVP: [email protected]

Come have fun in the medicine garden with us at our working bees!  🐝 The next one is Sunday 20th September 9.00am.Please...
30/08/2026

Come have fun in the medicine garden with us at our working bees! 🐝 The next one is Sunday 20th September 9.00am.

Please RSVP if you would like to attend. You can RSVP by PM or email: [email protected]

Here is a pin drop for our location. (Please park out on the road and walk in. Access is Via Mullumbimby Community Garden main entrance)
https://goo.gl/maps/k5VzRRvKdAiNrZVu7

We have a Whatsapp group for volunteers so let us know if you want to be added to that.

We are always looking for donations of garden tools and landscaping resources and things like bark mulch, soil, garden edging, etc.

*** we are particularly trying to manifest compost, manure and bricks and rocks currently **

We also need items for our morning teas like knife, chopping board, cups, plates, plungers etc.

Get in touch if you have some resources to share.

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MORE ABOUT OUR GARDEN:
The Elder Tree Educational Medicine Garden is located in Mullumbimby, at the Mullum Gardens Eco-Hub alongside other powerful earth warriors and change makers such as Reforest Now, The Mullumbimby Community Gardens, The Men’s Shed, The Mullum Food Coop, and other powerful individuals and visionaries inspired to grow together and educate about growing sustainable food and medicine.

At The Elder Tree Educational Medicine Garden, we hold regular classes, courses, workshops and events and the medicine garden is an educational garden for students and practitioners. The medicine from the garden goes to volunteers and surplus will be gifted to those in need/sold at a low cost for fundraising.
The garden is a space to cultivate and evolve deep connection to and understanding of herbs. It is a small living library that will eventually become a botanical garden once we are on a larger patch of land.

We are so excited to be doing our part in building community resilience and coherence and connection.

The Elder Tree is a registered not for profit (charity) and we welcome financial contributions. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation, please let us know!

To find out more about The Elder Tree, go to www.theeldertree.org

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Linda Bates is a fourth generation herbalist who trained in 19 schools around England and the Mediterranean. She was in ...
16/08/2026

Linda Bates is a fourth generation herbalist who trained in 19 schools around England and the Mediterranean. She was in clinical practice for 4 decades and is a truly inspirational herbal elder in Australia. I met Linda about a decade ago, at Pindari farm in Tasmania at a week-long medicine making intensive which was taught by her and Sandra Parker (who I interviewed in episode 17).

This episode is my first re-release and I do so for sad reasons. less that a year after I interviewed Linda, she passed away in October 2024.

I was (as many were) devastated when she passed away in. We had exciting plans together- she was going to develop programs for interns at The Elder Tree school, to train them in the deeper, shamanic elements of being a herbal practitioner. In the deeper work required to be a true space holder and healer. She was going to help teach this program and I mourn still that this never came to be.

But I am grateful that her knowledge lives on through her students and through this beautiful book that was published after she passed. When I interviewed her in late 2023, she was excited about this upcoming book. I love that the cover of this book has the same concept as The Elder Tree logo.... the plant medicine coming from the people to the people. I think a lot about legacy.... about succession... about impact. Linda's passing has me more determined than ever to facilitate preservation of knowledge from our elders, to facilitate spaces of recollection and reclamation of our own innate wisdom, and to provide spaces where healing and education meet.

I hope that you enjoy this wonderful interview, and may it be a reminder to listen to your elders and preserve their wisdom while they are still with us.

You can listen on Spotify here:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0xf1FbeO1pOZhkHmIoenZp?si=fUy5L-tYRWahn7bu8EGCTQ

You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and on Youtube.

SHOW NOTES

You can purchase Linda's book "The Medicine Woman" here.
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-medicine-woman-linda-bates/book/9781801521727.html

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The intro and outro song is "Sing for the Earth" and was kindly donated by Chad Wilkins.

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156 Stuart St
Mullumbimby, NSW
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