Events

Approximately 150 wild medicinal/edible plants and trees can be found in HRM.  Some are native, others are well known weeds, some are sensitive and not suitable for harvest, while most are abundantly available for personal use as food and medicine.  Connect with our green landscape and learn how to identify and utilize the herbs right outside your door.   $15 each or all five in the series $65 (plus HST). Bring cash or send etransfer $17.25 to: 

Spring Herb Walk at Point Pleasant

Summer Herb Walk at Fort Needham Park

Visit our web page for details and registration.

https://bloominstitute.ca/courses/nature-camps-for-adults-at-blue-forest/

Nature Camp for Adults

Join me for a tour of my herbal garden and surrounding wild medicinal landscape. Learn to identify the medicinal weeds growing in your yard and how to use them. We will make an infused oil and salve, both helpful for summer skin applications such as burns, bites and rashes.

Please pre-register, $15 payment can be made at the time of the event.

Herb walk and medicine making

Approximately 150 wild medicinal/edible plants and trees can be found in HRM.  Some are native, others are well known weeds, some are sensitive and not suitable for harvest, while most are abundantly available for personal use as food and medicine.  Connect with our green landscape and learn how to identify and utilize the herbs right outside your door.   This park is at the very end of Novalea Drive, north end Halifax. $15 each or all five in the series $65 (plus HST). Bring cash or send etransfer $17.25 to: 

Summer Herb Walk at Seaview Park Lookoff

Summer Herb Walk at the Frog Pond

Join me in my herb garden in Head of Jeddore for a workshop on the Umbelliferae family. We will harvest and sample several plants, making a tea, and spice blend, with discussion of their botany and many uses, plus the interesting history of the poisons among them, with a story to illustrate how they became poisonous.  Thursday, Sept. 8, 6:30-8pm. $17.25 (includes HST) Please send an email to register: 

The Carrot Family - food, medicine, poison.

Approximately 150 wild medicinal/edible plants and trees can be found in HRM.  Some are native, others are well known weeds, some are sensitive and not suitable for harvest, while most are abundantly available for personal use as food and medicine.  Connect with our green landscape and learn how to identify and utilize the herbs right outside your door.   $15 each or all five in the series $65 (plus HST). Bring cash or send etransfer $17.25  (includes HST) to: 

Fall Herb Walk at Point Pleasant

Your kitchen spice cabinet doubles as a medicine cabinet. Common culinary herbs and spices offer a wide range of benefits for health and wellness. Learn about their medicinal uses and preparation methods for making home remedies with them. There will be lots of tastings and recipes shared. Part 1 - culinary herbs and Part 2 culinary spices. $17.25 each or both for $28.75 includes HST  Please register by sending an etransfer to: 

Medicinal Uses For Herbs & Spices

In this two part series you will learn strategies for creating a solid foundation of immune health for your children using herbs and nutrition, and tips for dealing with cold and flu. There will be time for questions and chatting with other parents.

Feb. 22 Herbal Remedies with Savayda Jarone, registered herbal practitioner

March 1 Nutrition with Jacqueline Rubin, BEd,  BA in Nutrition

Naturally Healthy First Foods for Baby: The Best Nutrition for the First Year and Beyond

To reserve your space, please send payment via etransfer to: 

Jacqueline Rubin is a nationally recognized nutritionist, author and educator. She is also an aromatherapist, herbalist, reflexologist and healthy cooking expert and communicator who inspires people to eat and live well.

She is the author of the bestselling book, "Naturally Healthy First Foods for Baby", (Sourcebooks, 2008) and her first book, "Healthy Cheeks", self-published in 2006. She has conducted interviews on international and national TV and radio stations, including the popular CTV “Live at 5” show in Halifax. 

With over 30 years of experience in nutrition and education, she is known for her ability to get even the pickiest of children, and their families, on the path to better wellbeing and resilient living. When it comes to babies and children, Jacqueline believes that how and what they eat today will impact their digestive and immune systems for life.

Jacqueline incorporates other healing modalities including Ayurveda and Chinese medicine into her practice. She is passionate about natural and wholesome living and is called on for her custom blends of aromatherapy and herbal remedies. 

Through her company Healthy Cheeks, Jacqueline offers seminars and private consultations specializing in pre-natal, infant and  children's nutrition. She also supports women as they transition through the lifecycle from young adulthood to perimenopause,  menopause and seniors.      

She graduated from Ryerson University with a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Nutrition and Family Studies and received her Bachelor of Education from York University, both in Toronto, Ontario. When not teaching and consulting, Jacqueline enjoys nature walks, swimming, yoga, Bootcamp and travel. She lives in Halifax with her husband, Lawrence, and has two adult children.

Cold and Flu Care for Babies and Children

Bloom is delighted to present Rev. David Maginley M.Div CSPC, who will lead us through a journey of discovery about terminal illness and death.  David is an interfaith spiritual care provider at the QE2 cancer center, and author of Beyond Surviving: Cancer and Your Spiritual Journey. He has also survived cancer four times, which led to a profound near death experience and explorations in consciousness and the connection of body, mind and spirit. With degrees in philosophy and as an ordained minister, David has a deep sense of purpose in supporting others in their spiritual journey. He knows cancer from both sides of the hospital bed, and knows this life from both sides of the veil.

This interactive workshop will provide a framework for supporting someone (or yourself0 who has been given a terminal prognosis, along with guidance for coping yourselves as health care providers, friends and family. We will also explore the dying process, the dynamics of ego-deconstruction through suffering, and the shifts in consciousness as one moves into the transformative fields at the end of life. Nearing-death awareness, near-death experiences, and contemporary research in the field of consciousness studies will be reviewed.

This workshop is open to the general public and care providers, and will appeal to anyone wanting to gain strength and guidance for supporting someone with terminal illness.

Limited in-person capacity 50 people, register early, payment is required to hold your space, first come first seated.  $86.25 (includes HST)

Please register here and send payment by etransfer to: 

Coping with Terminal Illness and Death

Bloom and Blue Forest Shores Nature Retreat look forward to welcoming you for our long-weekend nature getaways.

Activities include: herbal harvests and medicine making, island expedition with seaweed foraging, all natural seaweed facial, herbal first aid, dreaming with herbs, wood fired sauna, sunset harbour cruise, evening bonfires, happy hours with herbal mocktails, and more.  Enjoy nature based learning, relaxation and good times with fellow campers!

Your registration notifies me of your interest and I will send you more camp details via email.

Each herb walk in the series will feature 12 or more different wild medicinal and edible plants, by the end of the series you will encounter over 60 useful plants in the urban setting.

Urban Herb Walk Series

Activities include: herbal harvests and medicine making, island expedition with seaweed foraging, all natural seaweed facial, herbal first aid, dreaming with herbs, wood-fired sauna, sunset harbour cruise, evening bonfires, happy hours with herbal mocktails, and more.  Enjoy nature based learning, relaxation and good times with fellow campers!

Join local herbalist Savayda Jarone to discover the wild medicinal and edible plants growing all around us and learn how to use them.

$15, please pay cash on site or via etransfer: 

Herb Walk, Oyster Pond

Activities include: herbal harvests and medicine making, island expedition with seaweed foraging, all natural seaweed facial, herbal first aid, dreaming with herbs, sunset harbour cruise, evening bonfires, wood-fired sauna, happy hours with herbal mocktails, and more.  Enjoy nature based learning, relaxation and good times with fellow campers!