Wild Kitchen Rituals
Monthly herbal workshops with Colleen
Join Colleen in the kitchen to support your dreams of having an herbally inspired life.
Let's gather in the kitchen to build real confidence with plant medicine. Wild Kitchen Rituals is made to follow the seasons — each class building your skills, your apothecary shelf, and your relationship with the plants growing all around you.
These aren't just recipes, they are rituals that build your deep knowing of how to be well! They're practices for connecting with yourself and tuning into the earth through the plants you make with your own hands.
Summer asks us to slow down, stay hydrated, and enjoy the abundance right in front of us. This month we turn that abundance into drinks — herbal syrups, shrubs, and spritzers that are mostly non-alcoholic, genuinely refreshing, and more medicinal than they look. There's a quiet ritual in making your own drinks for the season — in reaching for your own syrup instead of something from a store shelf.
- A botanical simple syrup using fruit, tea, herbs and spices
- A summer shrub — a drinking vinegar that doubles as a daily nutritive tonic
- Your herbal Gatorade — refreshing and replenishing with herbal magic
- Spritz season — we'll play with what we've created to make the spritz of your dreams
Tending to our bodies with plants we've grown or foraged ourselves is one of the most grounding rituals there is. This month we take the fullness of the summer and create perfect body care that truly is one of a kind. We'll be turning simple plants like — turning calendula, lavender, plantain, self heal, yarrow, and comfrey into an infused oil, a combined healing salve, and a cooling spray that handles everything summer throws at you.
- An herbal infused oil — the foundation of almost all plant-based body care
- A combined everyday and healing salve — one beautiful multi-purpose recipe for summer skin, bug bites, bruises, and scrapes
- A sun-soothing cooling spray with peppermint, plantain & lavender — perfect for hot skin, sun exposure, and pesky poison ivy
Bitters are one of the oldest daily rituals in herbal medicine — a small, intentional practice that connects you to your digestion, your liver, and the plants that keep both running well. A few drops before dinner, in your morning water, before bed — once you have a bottle of your own bitters on the counter, you'll reach for it without thinking.
- A digestive tea blend that supports gut health and tastes beautiful hot or cold
- An alcohol or glycerine-based bitters tonic for everyday use — your new before-dinner ritual
- Wild bitter foods to weave into everyday eating — because the best medicine is the kind you actually enjoy
September is the pivot — the moment the light changes, the air shifts, and something in the body says: time to prepare. Making fire cider and elderberry syrup at the turn of the season is one of the oldest and most satisfying kitchen rituals there is. Proactive medicine — made before you need it, ready when you do.
- Ruby fire cider — the spicy, invigorating tonic that belongs in every fall kitchen
- Rosehip & elderberry syrup — deep, sweet, antiviral, and one of the most useful things in your home apothecary
- A signature elderberry drink recipe because medicine should also be delicious
A cup of tea is one of the simplest and most powerful rituals we have — and when you've blended it yourself from plants you understand, it becomes something else entirely. Function first, then flavor, then intention. You'll leave with three blends and the confidence to keep making your own — tuned to your body, your season, and what you actually need in this moment.
- A warming chai blend with immune-supportive herbs woven in
- A daily immunity tea for slow, steady seasonal support
- A cold and flu blend built to work fast when you need it
November is the month to come back to yourself. As the year winds inward and the days shorten, the most powerful thing you can do is build nourishing practices that carry you through — not just recipes, but rituals. How you stock your kitchen, how you prepare your food, how you tend to your own body with the same care you'd give a plant.
- Two different immunity-building broth kits — the most versatile workhorse in your winter kitchen
- Creamy herby dressing & dip — packed with herbs to ward off sickness
- Fermented burdock root with spicebush berry
Colleen O'Bryant is the founder of Wild Roots Apothecary and the visionary behind love, wild — a growing ecosystem of botanical products, community gathering, and herbal education rooted in Sperryville, Virginia.
A practicing herbalist and hedgewitch, Colleen's relationship with plants goes beyond medicine making — it is a living practice rooted in the belief that the natural world is alive, intelligent, and in constant conversation and reaching to connect with us if we listen. Her work sits at the intersection of traditional plant knowledge, earth-based magic, and the radical idea that healing belongs to everyone.
She has spent over a decade building bridges between the plant world and the people who need it most — teaching not as an expert on a stage but as someone who genuinely believes that plant medicine belongs in every kitchen, every household, and every daily ritual. Wild Kitchen Rituals grew directly from her conviction that the best way to learn plants is to make things with them, cook with them, and let them become part of how you move through the seasons.
When she's not in the kitchen or the garden, Colleen is doing the work she believes in most — building a community of people who understand that our relationship with the plant world is not a hobby or a wellness trend, but an act of reciprocity. One that strengthens us, connects us to each other, and roots us in something that has always been there, waiting to be remembered.
@lovewildbotanicalsJoin for the full season
Six months of seasonal plant medicine — June through November. Add all 6 classes to your cart and use code WKR222 at checkout. Your total drops to $222 automatically.
Ready to start building your plant medicine practice?
Full Season — $222 Any 3 Classes — $99 Single Class — $44