Summer Herbal Hour: Cooling Herbs & Botanical Beverages
A free live event with Kimberly Gallagher & Mimi Prunella
Thursday, July 16, 5:00 - 6:00PM PST on YouTube
Kimberly Gallagher, M.Ed., CCH is the co-founder and CEO of LearningHerbs. She is the creator of the Wildcraft! board game and author of the Herb Fairies book series and Aphrodisiac: The Herbal Path to Healthy Sexual Fulfillment and Vital Living. In the summer, she spends many happy hours in her garden tending her herbal allies.
Mimi Prunella Hernandez is an herbalist, educator, and author of National Geographic Herbal and Backyard Guide to Edible Wild Plants. A true kitchen herbalist and nature steward, she tends PonderLand Garden and Native Plant Sanctuary in the hills of North Carolina, celebrating the everyday beauty of growing, cooking, and living with medicinal plants.
Hosted by LearningHerbs.
What does your body need when the weather heats up?
Join us in our kitchens for a fun, hands-on summer herbal hour where we'll make refreshing botanical beverages, blended herbal drinks, and cooling treats together – and talk about the plants that help us feel our best all season long.
Every month, HerbMentor members join Kimberly and Mimi for a live herbal learning session. This month, we're opening the doors to everyone. No membership required.
What we'll make together:
🍹 Hydrating botanical beverages and infused waters
🧊 Herbal ice cubes
🫐 A blueberry shrub
🍋🟩 Yerba buena limeade
🌿 Fresh fennel popsicles
You'll leave with five recipes you can make that same evening, and keep coming back to all summer long.
We'll also talk about:
🍉 Cooling herbs and their energetics
🍓 Seasonal berries and how to use them
🏖️ Simple ways to weave herbs into everyday summer life
Stick around after class for a live Q&A – a great time to bring your summer herbalism questions.
No experience needed. Whether you've been working with herbs for years or you're just getting curious, there's a place for you here.
Thursday, July 16 ☀️ 5:00–6:00 PM PST ☀️ Live on YouTube
