Wellbeing from the Hive

IN-PERSON Wellbeing Class

A honeybee and a small, shiny green beetle crawling together on the bright yellow stamens inside a large, delicate white flower.

Saturday, August 15, 2026
1:00–3:00 pm

Fee: $69

Fee for Innovators, Gardens Preferred, and Gardens Premium Members: $62

Fee includes all-day admission to the Gardens on the day the class is onsite.

This class is intended as an adult learning experience. Find out more about our Family Learning experiences.

Registrations may be cancelled up to two weeks before the event, and your registration fee, less a $30 processing fee, will be refunded. Please note that refunds are not available for programs moved to scheduled inclement weather dates.

To notify us of your cancellation, email us or call 610-388-5454.

Explore the lore and workings of the meticulous and mystical honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the myriad uses of the hive in this engaging workshop.

Discover the practical and creative uses of honey, beeswax, pollen, and propolis and create two take-home items: an aromatic, skin-mending salve and a honey-oxymel made with some of the honeybee's most-loved herbs.

Location

The Grove Studio 108

Instructor

Alyssa Schimmel

Alyssa Schimmel of Enspiriting Healing & Ritual Arts is a clinically-trained community herbalist, licensed massage therapist, and integrative healer. She channels deep reverence for the green world through practical community-based medicine-making from grown and foraged plants. Schimmel has been practicing and teaching herbal medicine for the past 16 years and has led community herbal medicine making programs at arboretums, K-12 schools, universities, senior homes, recovery homes, and more.

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