The first part of this class will provide participants with an overview of botanical safety guidelines, including critical thinking, dosage strategies and primary considerations. The second part of the class will introduce the basics of combining herbs to make therapeutically effective and great tasting tea blends.  This lecture and demonstration style class will cover the most important elements involved in herbal tea formulating, including herbal actions, properties, proportions, and intuition, as well as special considerations such as an individual’s constitution, season, and climate.  Each participant will go home with a tea blend of their making.