HERB GARDEN DAY W/ PEEKA TRENKLE

📆 Date: Saturday, May 31, 2025 ⏰ Time: 11 am - 2 pm

Location: Rodale Pleasant Park Community Garden

437 East 114th Street, NYC, NY 10029

Rodale Pleasant Park Community Garden is honored to welcome Peeka Trenkle, renowned herbalist and educator, for a day of hands-on herbal exploration and learning in the garden! Free!!!

Come explore how to use both cultivated herbs and wild plants (yes - even weeds!) as food and medicine. Whether you're looking to support your health naturally, build vitality, or deepen your connection to the natural world (even in the city!), this day offers practical tools and fresh inspiration.

All ages welcome! No prior experience necessary.

We have a compost toilet onsite. We will have water available but please bring a water bottle.

RAIN OR SHINE! Please dress appropriately for the weather.

About Peeka Trenkle:

Peeka Trenkle has forty years of experience as an intuitive healer, herbalist and

homeopathic consultant. Since 1996 she taught Green Medicine - a 4-month

foundational course in herbal medicine - at the NY Open Center until the center

closed in 2022. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological

Seminary where her thesis addressed the theological importance of our

connection with the earth - specifically in regards to healing. Her deep interest

lies in the integration of spiritual and physical healing and how our relationship

with the natural world affects our well-being.

www.peekatrenkle.com

Peeka Trenkle has been teaching about natural living and health for over thirty

years.

Gratitude:

This event was made possible through support from NYC Green Fund, Partnership for Parks, and City Parks Foundation, NYRP and GreenThumb.

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