Susan Belsinger has been writing creatively for 40 years. In this workshop she will discuss many different venues of creative expression and help you to find your inner herbal. She will discuss many aspects of writing from keeping a journal or a gardeners’ notebook; pressing botanical specimens; how to put together and document your own materia medica for reference; or assemble a recipe book for favorite recipes. She will also show you a few of her past fun projects from journals to herbal notecards to calendars.
Each participant should bring a book for journaling and Susan will provide art supplies for your first entries whether you write, draw or botanicize. Susan will have a handout with recipe and materia medica formats. This class requires no artistic talent (though you all have it)—just a desire to unleash your own creativity and get you writing!
Monday, July 15, 2019 Folk School
Basic Writing Skills: Creative expression from journaling to reference
Presented by
Susan Belsinger
Admission: $22 registration fee to Ozark Folk Center upon signing up for class;
$100 fee for class (cash or check please).
Total Cost of Class: $122
Class minimum is 4 and maximum is 12.
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Meet Your Instructor
Susan Belsinger
Susan Belsinger lives an herbal life, whether she is gardening, foraging, herborizing, photographing, teaching, researching, writing or creating herbal recipes for the kitchen or apothecary—she is passionate about all things herbal. Recently referred to as a “flavor artist”, Susan delights in kitchen alchemy—the blending of harmonious foods, herbs, and spices—to create real, delicious food, as well as libations, that nourish our bodies and spirits and titillate our senses.
She has been blogging regularly for Taunton Press’ www.vegetablegardener.com for the past eight years. Her latest publication The Culinary Herbal: Growing & Preserving 97 Flavorful Herbs co-authored by Susan Belsinger and Arthur O. Tucker—was released in January 2016 by Timber Press. Their new book for beginning herb gardeners and cooks, Growing Your Own Herbs will be released this spring. Susan was recently chosen to serve as Honorary President (2018 to 2020) of the Herb Society of America. www.susanbelsinger.com
