Artisans Handmade Holiday Market - Kingston NY
Join us for the 6th Annual Artisans Handmade Holiday Market in Kingston, NY on Saturday, November 29 from 11AM–4PM at the Old Dutch Church. Celebrate the season the day after Black Friday with local artists, handmade gifts, and heartfelt connections. Free admission—shop small, meet the makers, and reimagine holiday giving!
Holiday Market at the Cannonball Factory- Hudson NY
The Hudson Valley’s most popular Holiday Market returns Dec 5–7, 2025 at the historic Cannonball Factory! Experience a festive weekend with 50+ curated local vendors, live music, and thousands of holiday shoppers. Enjoy three days of creative gifts, regional makers, and joyful community spirit in the heart of the Hudson Valley.
The Voice She Carried: Female Flute in Ancient Sound -An anthropomorphic flute sculpting series with Koyoltzintli and Sasha Botanica
Join artists Koyoltzintli and Sasha Botanica for The Voice She Carried: Female Flute in Ancient Sound—a four-month sculpting journey exploring ancient feminine sound traditions. Create your own anthropomorphic flute inspired by the Chorrera, the world’s oldest known female flute. Meets monthly Jan–Apr in Rosendale, NY.
Honoring Samhain Gathering
Join us in High Falls, NY for a casual Samhain gathering with community, Qigong, herbal tea, and firelit conversation. Explore the gifts of mugwort as a plant ally for intuition, dreaming, and seasonal reflection.
Forage & Dye Workshop: Black Walnut
This Forage and Dye workshop will feature Black Walnut, which we will gather together and transform into a dye bath. Experiment with silk scraps, ribbons, and yarn on your own lap loom to weave your own textural tapestry - layering together naturally dyed materials to create a piece that reflects the shifting landscape around us.
Herbs to the People Gathering
We are so excited to announce that this year's Herbs to the People Gathering will once again be held at the magical AOOA Farm in Goshen on Sunday September 28th!
We have lots of wonderful presenters, makers and instructors this year including some of your favorites from years past such as Ali Rohde, Robin Rose Bennett, Sasha Botanica, and Liz Neves, some new faces, and special first time guests including Laura Chavez Silverman from The Outside Institute, and Richard Mandelbaum.
Telepathy Training in Nature Workshop
Explore intuitive nature practices in this afternoon workshop in Gardiner NY. Reawaken ancestral ways of sensing, listening, and communicating with the living world.
The Secrets of Alchemy & Yoga: Weekend Retreat with Return to Nature & Sasha Botanica
The Secrets of Alchemy & Yoga: a look at healing through the eyes of the mystics with Return to Nature & Sasha Botanica in High Falls NY September 6–7.
Forage & Dye Workshop: Mulberry
This Forage and Dye workshop will feature Mulberry, which we will gather together and transform into a dye bath. Experiment with silk scraps, ribbons, and yarn on your own lap loom to weave your own textural tapestry - layering together naturally dyed materials to create a piece that reflects the shifting landscape around us.
Herbal Medicine Retreat: Weekend Retreat with Sasha Botanica & Return to Nature in High Falls NY
Weekend herbalism retreat with Sasha Botanica + Return to Nature. Learn plant energetics, harvest herbs, and make topical remedies in High Falls, NY.
Sculpting the Sacred - Friday August 8th
This is an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and explore what it means to embody reverence through creation. The act of sculpting becomes a ritual—rooting us in ancestral memory and awakening a sense of connection to the earth, to our bodies, and to the timeless lineage of those who have created sacred art in devotion.
Telepathy Training in Nature Retreat with Return to Nature & Sasha Botanica
Join Return to Nature and Sasha Botanica for a weekend retreat at Heartsong Sanctuary in High Falls NY, exploring telepathy as an intuitive, embodied way of connecting with the living world. Through a blend of guided practices, partner work, and solo time on the land, we will attune our inner senses to the subtle languages of nature and practice direct, non-verbal communication with plants, animals, elements—and each other.
Sculpting the Sacred
This is an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and explore what it means to embody reverence through creation. The act of sculpting becomes a ritual—rooting us in ancestral memory and awakening a sense of connection to the earth, to our bodies, and to the timeless lineage of those who have created sacred art in devotion.
Dreaming with Artemisa
Join us for Dreaming with Artemisia, a sunset gathering at Tweefontein Herb Farm on Friday, June 27th.
We’ll gather fresh mugwort from the land and distill it together in Sasha’s copper alembic. While the still simmers, we’ll sip mugwort tea and open space for shared dream conversation.
Please bring a dream to share—one that lingers or perplexes you—and a journal or sketchbook for reflection and creation. You’ll leave with your own bottle of freshly distilled mugwort hydrosol, a gift from the dreaming plant to carry you through the veil.
Dreaming with the Land: An Overnight Retreat for Dreaming and Plant Connection
Dreaming with the Land is an overnight retreat at Heartsong Sanctuary in High Falls, NY, dedicated to deepening our connection to dreams, the land, and each other. Through ritual, plant allies, and shared dreamwork, we honor dreams as sacred messengers and explore their wisdom in community. Slow down, listen, and remember the language of dreaming as a path to insight, healing, and belonging.
Beacon Farmers Market - 6/8
Come visit Sasha at the Beacon Farmers Market, where she will be offering a seasonal selection of foraged and handcrafted herbal products, from wildcrafted tinctures and salves to botanical skincare. Stop by to explore what’s fresh and in season, connect with the plants, and check out the herbal workshops she’s offering this season!
Forage & Dye Workshop: Mugwort
This Forage and Dye workshop will feature Mugwort, which we will gather together and transform into a dye bath. Experiment with silk scraps, ribbons, and yarn on your own lap loom to weave your own textural tapestry - layering together naturally dyed materials to create a piece that reflects the shifting landscape around us.
Sculpting the Sacred
Join us for an intimate sculpting workshop held in the sanctuary of the Goddess Temple. Together, we will work with clay foraged from the land to sculpt goddess figurines, drawing inspiration from ancient Neolithic traditions. These figurines, found across the world, are some of the earliest known expressions of the sacred feminine—embodying fertility, mystery, earth wisdom, and the generative power of life.
Beacon Farmers Market: 5/18
Come visit Sasha at the Beacon Farmers Market, where she will be offering a seasonal selection of foraged and handcrafted herbal products, from wildcrafted tinctures and salves to botanical skincare. Stop by to explore what’s fresh and in season, connect with the plants, and check out the herbal workshops she’s offering this season!
Gathering the Green: Food and Medicine Series – Flower Medicine
Join us for Flower Medicine, the first workshop in the Gathering the Green: Food & Medicine Series. In this hands-on workshop, we will explore the art of cooking, baking and making medicine with flowers—learning how to craft floral honeys, vinegars, and syrups that capture both the beauty and medicine of the blossoms.
29th Annual Spring Wassail at Stone Ridge Orchard
Join us May 3rd and 4th 2025 for our 29th Annual Spring Wassail at Stone Ridge Orchard. Sing, dance, and feast as we celebrate an ancient Celtic Ritual for the coming of spring and the promise of a bountiful harvest! Come join the circle for traditional folk-style dancing to live Balkan music, as we celebrate Djurdjevdan/Herdelzi (St. George's Day.)
Beacon Farmers Market: 4/27
Come visit Sasha at the Beacon Farmers Market, where she will be offering a seasonal selection of foraged and handcrafted herbal products, from wildcrafted tinctures and salves to botanical skincare. Stop by to explore what’s fresh and in season, connect with the plants, and check out the herbal workshops she’s offering this season!
Traditional Skincare – Crafting with Tallow
Before petroleum-based lotions and synthetic stabilizers, our ancestors crafted deeply nourishing skincare from whole, natural ingredients. Tallow—rich in skin-loving fats—was a staple in traditional ointments, healing balms, and soap-making. Join us to reconnect with time-honored skincare traditions and create your own 2oz Herbal Tallow Balm and a bar of Chamomile Tallow Soap to take home.
In this hands-on workshop we’ll explore:
-How to render and purify tallow for a smooth, odorless balm
-The basics of tallow soap making
- How to bend tallow with infused oils for a deeply nourishing, custom balm
Forage & Dye Workshop: Garlic Mustard
This Forage and Dye workshop will feature Garlic Mustard, which we will gather together and transform into a dye bath. Experiment with silk scraps, ribbons, and yarn on your own lap loom to weave your own textural tapestry - layering together naturally dyed materials to create a piece that reflects the shifting landscape around us.
Sasha will also have a Garlic Mustard Pesto for everyone to try! Herbal tea will be provided.
Crafting with Tallow Workshop: Sunday March 23rd
Before petroleum-based lotions and synthetic stabilizers, our ancestors crafted deeply nourishing skincare from whole, natural ingredients. Tallow—rich in skin-loving fats—was a staple in traditional ointments, healing balms, and soap-making.
In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore:
✨ How to render and purify tallow for a smooth, odorless balm
✨ The basics of tallow soap-making
✨ How to blend tallow with infused herbal oils for a deeply healing, custom balm
Tallow is biologically similar to human sebum, meaning it:
✅ Absorbs easily without clogging pores
✅ Provides deep, long-lasting moisture
✅ Contains essential fatty acids (omega-3, 6, 7, and 9)
✅ Is rich in fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K, which promote skin regeneration
✅ Has natural antimicrobial properties
Unlike modern lotions filled with synthetic stabilizers, tallow is a pure, whole-fat skincare ingredient that our ancestors relied on for generations.
Join us to reconnect with time-honored skincare traditions and create your own tallow balm and soap.
$45/person
Click HERE to sign up. Email info@sashabotanica.com if you would like to register but are experiencing financial difficulties - no one will be turned away!
-Limited to 6 attendees-
Traditional Skincare: Crafting with Tallow
Unlike modern lotions filled with synthetic stabilizers, tallow is a pure, whole-fat skincare ingredient that our ancestors relied on for generations.
Join us to reconnect with time-honored skincare traditions and create a luxurious, all-natural balm to take home!
By The Hearth: Mothering the Mother
Join us for a cozy gathering intended to nourish your creativity. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore the art of sculpting goddess figurines using wild-foraged clay, connecting with creativity and the Earth. As you shape your unique creation, you’ll be supported in a warm, nurturing environment with herbal-infused drinks and baked goods lovingly prepared by chef Callie. Callie is a Chef, Doula, Herbalist, Nutritionist, and Mother. She currently resides in Boulder, CO where she works as a private chef and also creates skincare products for her brand, Earthen Hands (https://earthen-hands.myshopify.com/)
This workshop is an invitation for women to come together, embrace their creative flow, and be cared for. Whether you’re experienced with clay or just curious, this is a space to connect, create, and be nourished in every sense.
Sat. Jan 25th 2pm-4pm
Wallkill NY
$75
Children welcome to join!
RSVP: info@sashabotanica.com
By the Hearth: An Evening of Clay & Connection
Join us on the eve of the Winter Solstice for a creative evening by the hearth. Inspired by Marija Gimbutas’ The Living Goddesses, we’ll honor an ancient tradition by sculpting our own Neolithic goddess figurines with both wild foraged and donated clay from The Newburgh Pottery.
Elderberry Elixir Workshop at One With Land
Join us at One with Land in Pine Bush, NY, for a hands-on workshop on crafting your own immune-boosting Elderberry Elixir! Learn how to make a nourishing elderberry syrup with herbal ingredients that support wellness throughout the season. You’ll go home with a bottle of your own syrup and a recipe card, so you can easily create these powerful elixirs for friends and family this holiday season. Perfect for anyone looking to incorporate herbal wellness into their self-care routine!
Click here to sign up!
Whipped Body Butter Workshop at Vulgaris Herbs
In this hands-on session, we’ll explore the ingredients and techniques for creating a rich, all-natural body butter that’s perfect for nourishing your skin through the colder months. You'll get to customize your own blend, creating a product that’s uniquely yours.
Each attendee will go home with a jar of their own handmade body butter, plus a step-by-step guide on how to recreate it, making it easy to create thoughtful, handmade gifts for friends and family this holiday season. Come connect with a community of like-minded creators and leave with skills that bring a little extra care and comfort to your loved ones!
To register for this workshop, sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/make-your-own-whipped-body-butter-35-tickets-1077093639069?aff=oddtdtcreator
About Sasha...
Sasha is an herbalist & artist in the Hudson Valley, teaching and creating for all who are interested in enriching their lives through the magic of plants. She offers hands-on workshops that immerse participants in the world of herbalism and natural body care. By collaborating with local artists and herbalists, she creates unique opportunities for creative exploration and skill-sharing, celebrating the beauty of plants and the power of community.
Artisans Handmade Holiday Market
We would like to invite you to our fifth annual Holiday Market happening Friday, November 29, from 4–9PM and Saturday, November 30, from 11AM – 4PM at the Old Dutch Church in the heart of Kingston
Artisans Handmade Holiday Market
We would like to invite you to our fifth annual Holiday Market happening Friday, November 29, from 4–9PM and Saturday, November 30, from 11AM – 4PM at the Old Dutch Church in the heart of Kingston
Holiday Market at Twin Star Orchards, New Paltz NY
Sasha Botanica will be vending the Holiday Market at Twin Star Orchards in New Paltz, Sunday November 24th! Their Holiday Market showcases over 65 rotating local artisans and makers of everything from food and drinks to jewelry and clothing items, with 10+ new vendors featured each market date. Find thoughtful gifts for your loved ones while supporting small businesses in your community!
Savor the season with our homemade cider doughnuts and wood-fired pizzas, paired with our fresh and hard ciders. https://www.twinstarorchards.com/holidaymarket