In 2016 we are expanding our Rose-craft Workshops to include using roses in a range of simple skin-care products, healthy gluten-free cookery and children's rose-craft workshops.
Our Workshops range from half-day (10am - 12.30am) and full day (10am - 3pm) and are held twice monthly from February to May, and then August to November. Full day workshops are held on one Tuesday, with half-day workshops on one Saturday each month. We are still working on dates for each Workshop but places are limited so book early. In addition, we also design unique Rose-craft Workshops for small groups.
Next year we are planning Children's Ring-A-Rosie Workshops during school holidays for children 8-12 years of age in 2016. Parents are invited to stay and participate or relax in the garden with a cuppa. Dates and topics soon.
Check our Facebook page 'Edgeworth Lley- Heirloom Roses' for all Workshops dates to be released soon.
All our Workshops use the heirloom roses and herbs we grow at 'Edgeworth Lley'. The roses we grow have varying fragrances, from sweet and strong through to fruity and spicy. In our Roses 'n Lotions Workshop for instance, we find a mix off these fragrances are lovely to use in simple and easy-to-make skin-care lotions.
The oils released from rose petals are known for their benefits to skin, such as healing scars and regenerating skin tissue. And the fragrance as it is released, helps to sooth and calm the mind.
Through our workshops, we're hoping to teach that it is possible to make some of our own skin-care products using organic botanicals and every-day pantry basics most of us already have in stock. If we can make our own skin-care products using natural ingredients we avoid using petro-chemicals and other nasties in many of our purchased skin lotions.
In our Roses 'n Lotions Workshops we will look at using botanicals such as roses and herbs in every-day skin-care products. (We don't all have to have large country gardens to use botanicals in our own skin care. Just a few pots of herbs will provide enough botanicals for our own personal use.)
And so here's a preview of our Roses 'n Lotions Workshops planned for 2016.
One of the loveliest garden activities in the rose garden is gathering rose blooms and petals. The roses will be gathered just after the dew has dried off the roses in the morning, before the petals have had time to release their fragrance to the heat of the day.
Then it is time to pluck the petals from the roses, after shaking off any beneficial insects so they can get back to work in the garden! The rose petals are then gathered into small bowls, where they will be massaged by hand to release their fragrance. This is a seriously heady experience as you breathe in the rose fragrances.
The petals are then separated into glass jars and covered with olive oil, or apple cider vinegar, or filtered water and allowed to steep while we go off and have a cuppa in the garden. After steeping, these will then be converted into rose-fragranced body oils, sprays and soothing lotions for every-day use.
Another of our Rose-craft Workshops, is learning the art of gathering and drying rose petals for use in the kitchen. Our Roses in the Kitchen Workshop will show specific skills using roses in every-day cooking, such as in healthy gluten-free recipes.
We will look at which roses are the most suitable to use for cooking. We will also be doing fun things you might not expect to do in a rose garden; such as nibbling and sniffing some of the sweetest and most fragrant roses. (For those of you familiar with our posts, you will know that our heirloom roses are never sprayed with pesticides or fungicides so are safe to use this way.)
In the Roses-in-the-Kitchen workshop we'll look at drying whole roses and petals and how to use these too in beautiful recipes. We will make rose-based spice mixes as well as using fresh and dried roses in healthy gluten-free cooking ..
.. and discover how not only the fragrance, but the colour of rose petals can be extracted to give natural colouring to healthy recipes.
As well as our Roses 'n Lotions, and Roses-in-the-Kitchen Workshops, and children's Ring-A-Rosie Workshops, we will still have our Floral Rose-craft Workshops where you'll learn the floral art of roses in Tussie Mussies and Posies, in Rose Crowns and Rose Wreaths, as well as in fragrant artisan Rose Pot-Potpourris.
We hope we meet some of you at our 2016 Workshops.
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