Our Day Programs
KIS Botanicals hosts day opportunities that are suited for the budding or master herbalist, the curious traveler, the novice or experienced ethnobotanist, highschool or college groups, and/or the whole family.
Depending on your interest, we can focus on cultural plants, the elemental framework, energetic herbalism, indigenous agriculture, or medicine making. Make sure you tell us your learning goals! Our intention is to show you how to work with plants and nature on a deep and personalized level.
We hope you’ll love what we’ve got planned out for you, mostly because we LOVE what we do!
Our current offerings for groups of 2-10:
1. CULTURAL AND MEDICINAL PLANT WALK
2. HALF DAY HERBAL DEEP DIVE
3. FULL DAY: THE CELEBRATION
4. BUILD YOUR HERBAL DAY
If your group is 10 to 20 people, we offer a special for $35 per person. It includes a plant walk (weather permitting), indigenous cultural stories, plant infusions, and making your own medicine product.
Message us for more details and to reserve your spot!
CULTURAL AND MEDICINAL PLANT WALK
How did our family survive in the jungle before running water, buses (and roads!) to the supermarket, electricity, and doctors nearby?
Come to walk leisurely with us while we share our local history and culture. During this interactive tour, you will meet 20-30 plants and we will share our family's indigenous Huetar stories about their uses of plants, and together explore the many gifts that Mother Earth has to offer. This is a great introduction to tropical herbs and local culture!
By appointment only.
Time: 1.5+/- hours
Cost: $20 per person
Kid friendly!
HALF DAY HERBAL DEEP DIVE
A 4 hour half day of botanical learning. You will take a deep dive with 10-15 plants, observing them on the farm, harvesting them and making a tea, tincture or salve with many of them. Small snack included. This is great for those who want to deepen their connection to plants culturally and energetically and start to understand the elements within nature and themselves.
By appointment only.
Time: 4+/- hours
Cost: $125 per person (or $200 if one person)
FULL DAY: THE CELEBRATION
A 6 hour day of learning about tropical herbs. We will talk about the elements of herbalism, go on a couple herbal walks, harvest from our farm, and enjoy making teas, tinctures, salves, and / or other herbal products. Lunch included. With 3 or more people, this can be a 2-day event.
By appointment only.
Time: 6+/- hours
Cost: $200 per person (or $300 if one person)
BUILD YOUR HERBAL DAY
Tell us what YOU want to learn, for a half day or a full day, and we will build a day especially for YOU. Select from: herbal walk, elements of herbalism, indigenous agriculture techniques, how to use the moon to plant your garden/farm, how we distil our own alcohol, how to make: a salve, a tincture, tea, vinegar, a hydrosol, plant / flower essence, a face mask using local plants and materials, a shampoo / conditioner using local plants, etc.
By appointment only.
This is great for groups.
Prices vary, please inquire.
Your participation helps support our educational programs we run within the local schools. We hope to show our grandparents' way of life still has value. We hope that students take these lessons back home with them and share their enthusiasm with their parents and grandparents, calling forth memories and providing inspiration. We are SO excited about providing this service to our community. THANK-YOU for your support!