Calendar of Events
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List of Events on our Calendar
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Foundations of Holistic Herbalism
Establish a strong foundation on your path to learning herbal medicine with our Foundations of Holistic Course.

CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us.

Kids Day at Rhoneymeade
Join us in the Children’s Discovery Garden for a fun day of learning about plants and pollinators!

Rhoneymeade Fest ‘25
Exploratory music and arts in Centre Hall and State College. Come listen to more than 40 artists performing a large variety of genres. Note: not all events are at Rhoneymeade. View the event for more information.

CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us.

Foundations of Holistic Herbalism
Establish a strong foundation on your path to learning herbal medicine with our Foundations of Holistic Course.
Midsummer Drumfest HVGW
Midsummer Drumfest HVGW
Check here for more information when in comes available:

2-day Plein Air Painting Workshop
Susan Nicholas will be teaching a two-day plein air workshop at Rhoneymeade, a peaceful, inspirational place to paint. This exceptional location has extensive options for subjects, ranging from old unique trees, gardens, historic structures, fields, and mountain vistas with Central PA skies.

Foundations of Holistic Herbalism
Establish a strong foundation on your path to learning herbal medicine with our Foundations of Holistic Course.

CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us.

Hawthorn Botanical Gathering
This is a gathering of local and regional teachers coming together to celebrate the medicinal plants of Pennsylvania.

CommuniTea Garden Music and Picnic
Bring the whole family for an evening of music in the garden. Bring a dish to share or pack your own picnic if you prefer. Event is by donation to support the artist & garden.

CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us.

CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us.

Foundations of Holistic Herbalism
Establish a strong foundation on your path to learning herbal medicine with our Foundations of Holistic Course.
Music in the Garden (tentative) (Herbalists)
Music in the Garden (tentative) (Herbalists)

Mycofest
Find more information at https://events.humanitix.com/mycofest-a-mushroom-and-arts-festival-2025

CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us.

Foundations of Holistic Herbalism
Establish a strong foundation on your path to learning herbal medicine with our Foundations of Holistic Course.

CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us.

CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us.

Centred Outdoors Wellness Program
Centred Outdoors Wellness Program
Check here for more information and to register when more information is posted: https://www.centredoutdoors.org/events

Foundations of Holistic Herbalism
Establish a strong foundation on your path to learning herbal medicine with our Foundations of Holistic Course.

CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us.

Centred Outdoors Wellness Program
Centred Outdoors Wellness Program
Check here for more information and to register when more information is posted: https://www.centredoutdoors.org/events
Prospective Wedding Ceremony Kristin Hudy
Prospective Wedding Ceremony Kristin Hudy
Actual times TBD

Foundations of Holistic Herbalism
Establish a strong foundation on your path to learning herbal medicine with our Foundations of Holistic Course.

Centred Outdoors Wellness Program
Centred Outdoors Wellness Program
Check here for more information and to register when more information is posted: https://www.centredoutdoors.org/events

CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us.

Centred Outdoors Wellness Program
Centred Outdoors Wellness Program
Check here for more information and to register when more information is posted: https://www.centredoutdoors.org/events

Centred Outdoors Wellness Program
Centred Outdoors Wellness Program
Check here for more information and to register when more information is posted: https://www.centredoutdoors.org/events

CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us.

Centred Outdoors Wellness Program
Centred Outdoors Wellness Program
Check here for more information and to register when more information is posted: https://www.centredoutdoors.org/events
Handfasting Ceremony Sam Street (Private Ceremony)
Handfasting Ceremony Sam Street (Private Ceremony)

CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us.

CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us.

CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us.

CommuniTea Garden Potluck Picnic and Garden Tour
Bring the whole family for an evening of music in the garden. Bring a dish to share or pack your own picnic if you prefer. Event is by donation to support the artist & garden.

Open House/Centre Gives Party
With the Friends of Rhoneymeade, learn about the history of the Rhone House and lands, celebrate the present community, and join us in looking forward to the future together!

Centre Gives
When you support Rhoneymeade during #CentreGives, Centre County's 36-hour online giving event, your gift goes further. A minimum donation of $10 or more will help Rhoneymeade inspire and enrich our community as it fosters the connections between people, art, nature, and agriculture in our conserved historic rural landscape.

CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us.

OLLI
This is an opportunity to stroll around Rhoneymeade with Jame Lesher, Rhoneymeade Executive Director, and learn about the past and present of this treasure of a conserved farm property in Penns Valley. To join the tour, you must register with OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Penn State.


Beltane - Happy Valley Golden Wheel
Beltane - Happy Valley Golden Wheel
11:00 AM to 6:00 PM (times are approximate)



Communi-Tea Garden Evening
We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us. Starting April 1st we will be meeting every other Tuesday evening from 5-8pm to maintain the garden, you are welcome to join us!

Earth Day
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CommuniTea Garden Drop-In Work Time
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area is hosted at Rhoneymeade. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us. Starting April 1st we will have drop-in sessions to maintain the garden, meeting every other Tuesday evening from 5-8pm or every other Friday from 10am to 1pm, alternating Tuesday and Friday each week. Please check herefor changes in the schedule due to weather, etc. You are welcome to join us! Meet in the CommuniTea Garden south of the house.


Pink Moon Dinner Hosted by Chef Rebecca Dale
Full Moon dinner, Rebecca Elman, tentative

Watershed Cleanup Day
Watershed Cleanup Day at Rhoneymeade
Rhoneymeade is a site for the 29th Annual Watershed Cleanup Day. If you would like to join us sprucing up Rhoneymeade, please sign up here . There is a “Preferred site” field on the form where you can request Rhoneymeade.
For more information about the event, visit the Clearwater Conservancy page for the event. Annual Watershed Cleanup.

Happy Valley Golden Wheel volunteer workday
Happy Valley Golden Wheel volunteer workday

Communi-Tea Garden Evening
Communi-Tea Garden Evening
A public medicinal tea garden including a children’s discovery area hosted at Rhoneymeade in Centre Hall, PA. We have a regular group of volunteers helping keep the garden beautiful and would love for you to join us. Starting April 1st we will be meeting every other Tuesday evening from 5-8pm to maintain the garden, you are welcome to join us!
Sofia and Briel
Meet in the Communi-Tea Garden south of the house.

Rhoneymeade Volunteer Party
Rhoneymeade Volunteer Party
Have you been or will you be a new volunteer at Rhoneymeade? If so, you are invited to a party! There will be wine, beer, a special Rhoneymeade spring cocktail, along with lots of appetizers and desserts.
Please RSVP to Kristine Clark <klc5@psu.edu>

Hormonal and Endocrine Health
Hormonal and Endocrine Health with Briel at Rhoneymeade. Join us as we explore herbs to support our hormonal system.



Foundations of Holistic Herbalism - Class 5
Class 5: In this class you will learn how to make a well-rounded herbal formula. We will taste/experience a variety of tinctures/herbs and share course end projects. This class is only open to students who have taken at least 3 classes in the series.
Establish a strong foundation on your path to learning herbal medicine with our Foundations of Holistic Course. This five-class sequence offers an excellent introduction to herbal medicine by combining of hands-on learning, lecture, projects and getting out in the field to harvest and create a variety of herbal medicines.
We will cover 20 common Pennsylvania-based medicinal herbs, how to make a variety of herbal medicines (tinctures, salves, liniments, herbal vinegars, bitters, and teas), and how herbs apply to basic systems of the body. We will also present an integrated philosophy for understanding herbs by their common herbal actions, drawing upon holistic herbalism and traditional Western herbal foundations.
By the end of this course, you will feel confident in how to make your own herbal medicines and integrate their use into your daily life.
Note: This course serves as the foundation for our Holistic Herbalism Certificate.
Dates: June 30, July 28, August 25, Sept 29, and October 27th 2024, 9:30 – 2:30pm..
You can sign up for the 20 hour certificate course/all 5 sessions
- or -
Single sessions (if space allows).
All materials are provided as well as herbal tea and light snacks.
If you are interested in the certificate program but can not make all of the dates, lecture portions of class will be video recorded and available for a limited time after each session. If preferred, private makeup sessions will be available at an additional cost.
See Foundations of Holistic Herbalism Course and Details Page for information and Registration
Pennsylvania School of Herbalism Website
Fall Festival Fundraiser
Rhoneymeade will host a Fall Fest Fundraiser, Oct 12th, 12-4pm. There will be a pig roast, mum and einkorn flour sales, tea tasting from the CommuniTea garden, tours, kids’ activities, an art exhibit by Jen Shuey, and more.
Art Exhibit, Jen Shuey
Join Jen Shuey for a two-day Pop-Up Exhibition at Rhoneymeade Arboretum & Sculpture Garden.
October 11 from 4 - 8 pm
October 12 from 10 am - 8 pm
Friday evening will feature an opening reception mix and mingle.
Saturday coincides with Rhoneymeade's Fall Fest Fundraiser from noon - 4 pm with a pig roast and other food, music, kids' activities, mums, herbal teas, and tours of the Rhone House and grounds. They will also be selling Einkorn flour, an ancient wheat grain grown organically in Rhoneymeade's fields.

Foundations of Holistic Herbalism - Class 4
Class 4: This class will delve into constitutional energetics – how the energetics of plants interact with the environment of our bodies. We will dive into the integumentary system and the lymphatic system, learn how to make oils and salves and get first hand experience with foraging/wildcrafting.
Establish a strong foundation on your path to learning herbal medicine with our Foundations of Holistic Course. This five-class sequence offers an excellent introduction to herbal medicine by combining of hands-on learning, lecture, projects and getting out in the field to harvest and create a variety of herbal medicines.
We will cover 20 common Pennsylvania-based medicinal herbs, how to make a variety of herbal medicines (tinctures, salves, liniments, herbal vinegars, bitters, and teas), and how herbs apply to basic systems of the body. We will also present an integrated philosophy for understanding herbs by their common herbal actions, drawing upon holistic herbalism and traditional Western herbal foundations.
By the end of this course, you will feel confident in how to make your own herbal medicines and integrate their use into your daily life.
Note: This course serves as the foundation for our Holistic Herbalism Certificate.
Dates: June 30, July 28, August 25, Sept 29, and October 27th 2024, 9:30 – 2:30pm..
You can sign up for the 20 hour certificate course/all 5 sessions
- or -
Single sessions (if space allows).
All materials are provided as well as herbal tea and light snacks.
If you are interested in the certificate program but can not make all of the dates, lecture portions of class will be video recorded and available for a limited time after each session. If preferred, private makeup sessions will be available at an additional cost.
See Foundations of Holistic Herbalism Course and Details Page for information and Registration
Pennsylvania School of Herbalism Website

Foundations of Holistic Herbalism - Class 3
Class 3: In this class we will enter a holistic mindset and look into how herbs can be incorporated into our food. We will discuss the botanical spectrum from food to poison. The digestive system will be covered as well as how to make bitters, vinegars and liniments.
Establish a strong foundation on your path to learning herbal medicine with our Foundations of Holistic Course. This five-class sequence offers an excellent introduction to herbal medicine by combining of hands-on learning, lecture, projects and getting out in the field to harvest and create a variety of herbal medicines.
We will cover 20 common Pennsylvania-based medicinal herbs, how to make a variety of herbal medicines (tinctures, salves, liniments, herbal vinegars, bitters, and teas), and how herbs apply to basic systems of the body. We will also present an integrated philosophy for understanding herbs by their common herbal actions, drawing upon holistic herbalism and traditional Western herbal foundations.
By the end of this course, you will feel confident in how to make your own herbal medicines and integrate their use into your daily life.
Note: This course serves as the foundation for our Holistic Herbalism Certificate.
Dates: June 30, July 28, August 25, Sept 29, and October 27th 2024, 9:30 – 2:30pm..
You can sign up for the 20 hour certificate course/all 5 sessions
- or -
Single sessions (if space allows).
All materials are provided as well as herbal tea and light snacks.
If you are interested in the certificate program but can not make all of the dates, lecture portions of class will be video recorded and available for a limited time after each session. If preferred, private makeup sessions will be available at an additional cost.
See Foundations of Holistic Herbalism Course and Details Page for information and Registration
Pennsylvania School of Herbalism Website

Foundations of Holistic Herbalism - Class 2
Class 2: This class will cover herbal energetics though hands on experience. We will cover the basics of the immune system and nervous system and how they relate to our herbal practice. We will also learn how to properly dry herbs and make herbal teas.
Establish a strong foundation on your path to learning herbal medicine with our Foundations of Holistic Course. This five-class sequence offers an excellent introduction to herbal medicine by combining of hands-on learning, lecture, projects and getting out in the field to harvest and create a variety of herbal medicines.
We will cover 20 common Pennsylvania-based medicinal herbs, how to make a variety of herbal medicines (tinctures, salves, liniments, herbal vinegars, bitters, and teas), and how herbs apply to basic systems of the body. We will also present an integrated philosophy for understanding herbs by their common herbal actions, drawing upon holistic herbalism and traditional Western herbal foundations.
By the end of this course, you will feel confident in how to make your own herbal medicines and integrate their use into your daily life.
Note: This course serves as the foundation for our Holistic Herbalism Certificate.
Dates: June 30, July 28, August 25, Sept 29, and October 27th 2024, 9:30 – 2:30pm..
You can sign up for the 20 hour certificate course/all 5 sessions
- or -
Single sessions (if space allows).
All materials are provided as well as herbal tea and light snacks.
If you are interested in the certificate program but can not make all of the dates, lecture portions of class will be video recorded and available for a limited time after each session. If preferred, private makeup sessions will be available at an additional cost.
See Foundations of Holistic Herbalism Course and Details Page for information and Registration
Pennsylvania School of Herbalism Website