Welcome to the gardens…
Grow your awareness and intimate knowledge of medicinal herbs through a living connection with the land. Listen to them with your heart, learn about them with your mind, and harvest them with your own two hands.
With Your Own Two Hands
U-Pick Schedule
June X: U-Pick -oR- U-Pick & X Workshop with X
Description of plants, herbalist, and workshop
July X: U-Pick -oR- U-Pick & X Workshop with X
Description of plants, herbalist, and workshop
August X: U-Pick -oR- U-Pick & X Workshop with X
Description of plants, herbalist, and workshop
September X: U-Pick -oR- U-Pick & X Workshop with X
Description of plants, herbalist, and workshop
October: U-Pick Harvest & X Workshop with X
Description of plants, herbalist, and workshop
Tend your connection
Awaken is not just a place to find vibrant, locally grown herbs. We invite you to tend your inner connection to the plants. Sit with them, sketch them, listen to them, breathe in their aroma, leave an offering or prayer, rest in their presence… and if you choose to, harvest some to welcome into your home or herbal business.
Know that while we need to cover costs and earn an income from this work, profits are by no means our top priority. Please feel welcome to come to a u-pick harvest day to connect with the plants even if you are not able to purchase herbs at this time*.
Discover how you can have a reciprocal relationship with them. Perhaps look into which herbs connect to your lineage.
Community Care
We’d love to increase opportunities for more people to access the gardens! If you are planning to attend a u-pick day, we encourage you to reach out to those in your community to see if anyone else would like to harvest who doesn’t have access to transportation.
If you’re coming and you’re willing to harvest for someone accessing our Root & Rise Scholarship Fund who can’t come to the farm, please let us know. If you’d like us to post in a FB group for this purpose, or shout out on our IG stories, please reach out. We’d love to help create connections for community care. Thank you!
What to Expect
BYOB
BYOB – Bring your own basket! This summer, get out into nature and join us at the farm for a harvest day. Pick there herbs you’d like to grow a connection with, and we’ll weigh them for you at the herb stand. Come once or come multiple times, to stock your home apothecary or herbal business. The u-pick is the heart of the herb farm – an opportunity to come together and build relationship with healing plants and each other.
What’s Included
Harvest days may include complimentary herb-infused water, and may include a short learning demonstration, or optional add-on paid workshop.
See you at a U-Pick or GATHER Experience this summer!
U-Pick days will be on select Saturdays starting early July. See the booking schedule at the link below. Or, you can email us to book a private small group harvest & workshop experience, Gather at Awaken, perfect for business, friend, or bridal day trips.
Which Herbs
Can I Harvest?
Some of the herbs you might get to know at a u-pick this summer* **
July/August: Anise Hyssop (flowers), Arnica, Blue Vervain, California Poppy, Catnip, Chamomile, Comfrey, Gotu Kola, Hyssop, Lemon Balm, Marshmallow (flower & leaf), Milky Oats, Motherwort, Oatstraw, Peppermint, Red Clover, Skullcap, Spearmint, Spilanthes, St. John’s Wort (Solstice Wort), Tulsi, Yarrow
September: Ashwagandha (root), Baical Skullcap (root), Chicory (root), Elecampane (root), Marshmallow (root), Valerian Root
* we’re probably forgetting someone in this list!
* depending on availability and how the season unfolds for each plant!
