Learn how to make your Spring Cleaning more sustainable this year by joining us for a Green Cleaning workshop. Participants will be able to expand their personal sustainability toolkits with recipes for everyday cleaners that can be easily incorporate into your household cleaning routine. This workshop offers truly effective cleaning solutions that are safe and natural but a step up from the old school vinegar and baking soda approach. Participants will make and take their own Green Cleaning starter kit.

Presented by Carisa Bunten:
Carisa Bunten, an NKU graduate and small business owner, has worked at her family owned and operated apothecary shop in Newport, Kentucky since 1999. Her brick and mortar shop carries an extensive line of essential oils, all natural bulk teas, herbs, and spices, handmade soaps and many other all natural household and body wares crafted and sold onsite. Stemming from her business she has had the honor of conducting hands on make and take DIY workshops throughout the tristate area Public Library systems, Senior Communities, and Civic Centers for over 15 years. Visit Carisa’s store at 114 East 7th Street Newport, KY or www.seventhstreetgifts.com

Join us for an evening of storytelling!

Being human is wild. And we’ve collected a few stories that tell of a moment when we were closest to natural life, to our primary relationship; to earth, atmosphere, water, to weather.

Rachel Cook will start the evening sharing stories of her life from the chapter in Southwest Wisconsin on wooded acreage while building a
so-called cabin, wherein the line that made “outside” out and “inside” in was very thin.

The floor will then open for all to share their own stories.

Optional Potluck at 6:00 pm; Conversation starts promptly at 7:00 pm.

About our presenter, Rachel Cook:
From a childhood embedded within the state parks of NY and PA, Rachel Cook went on to study wild foods and medicine, perennial food production in agriculture, organic vegetable farming – and the lives of our food producers in this country. In NY, WI, IL and KY, Rachel lived and worked on farms and in wild places. She became an off-the-cuff phenologist, and developed as an observer of whole interactive systems; both ecological organization and societal organization.

Concurrently, Rachel worked in physical theatre, with particular focus in early cultural practice of using theatrical device in ritual to pray for or about food. She worked in community radio as a news analyst of environmental and conservation issues.

In the last five years she has focused her study on functional medicine; human anatomy, physiology and nutrition. In 2017, Rachel moved to Enright Village and shares a lovely home with her mother Gretchen.