Description
October 27, 1-4pm
Sacred Gardener Farm
Come spend the afternoon learning to make your own bioregional incense! An outline of the day is below.
Why make your own?
We love incense. Over the years we noticed that we often would get headaches or feel sick after burning incense we bought. We started to wonder if we could make our own. The journey began 15 years ago when we found out that incense often is created outside of safety regulations, because it is not consumed internally. This means that it is not required to disclose things like what the wood base is in your incense (often this is scrap wood, left over from industry which can include pressure treated woods), or how the scents are created (toxic fragrances passed off as ‘pure’ essential oils).
You’ll learn how to source ingredients, how to process and store your ingredients and how to make the cones.
Included is a 10-page pdf as well as a 12-minute video, both with a full explanation of the steps in making incense, how to source the ingredients and how to process the ingredients.
Opening: Steven offers teachings on meditating with Incense
Megan shares the story of how she and Steven started making incense and why use local ingredients?Introduction to the four basic building blocks of incense: base/binders/aromatics/water
Introduction to materials and supplies needed
~Examples of flowers, how to grind/process these materials
~Examples of base materials, oak, cedar, marshmallow root, etc
~Examples of Resins: pine, Balm of Gilead, frankincense
~ Sourcing Materials
Demonstration of making Incense cones, sharing of basic recipe (proportions for herbs/resins/base)
~Ways to make cones by hand and using a mold
Make your own cones using pre-ground plant materials from the land here!
(These materials will also be available for purchase if you’d like to take some home).
