Events & Appearances
Join the Mother Hive at upcoming workshops, community events, and educational talks throughout Connecticut.
Public Talks & Presentations
How to Grow Your Own Tea Garden
Learn how to grow your own tea and herbs. Join us for this hands on workshop where you'll learn tips on choosing and growing herbs, and how to harvest and prepare herbs for your own tea. You'll be able to blend your own samples of teas and herbs at the end of the event.
This program takes place at the Beardsley Branch Library located on 2536 East Main Street, Bridgeport, CT and is free and open to the public. Registration is required and is capped at 15 patrons. To register, go to this site, call 203-332-0025 or email Andre at amassa@bridgeportpubliclibrary.org.
Herbal Clinic at Perennial (Sept 3, 2026)
Drop-in herbal guidance + personalized mini consultations in Manchester, CT
Learn more here.
Herbal Clinic at Perennial (Oct 1)
Drop-in herbal guidance + personalized mini consultations in Manchester, CT
Learn more here.
Herbal Clinic at Perennial (Nov 12, 2026)
Drop-in herbal guidance + personalized mini consultations in Manchester, CT
Learn more here.
Bone Health in Midlife: What’s Actually Happening and What You Can Do
A free event from Konenki Menopause Solutions. Join Adam Gray, Sarah Weaver and Genessa Zickefoose to learn about ways to support bone health in midlife.
Grow Your Own Healing Herb Garden
Join us to learn about ways to grow your own herbs, which can be made into various herbal preparations to support you and your family.
This is a free event sponsored by Friends of the Cragin Memorial Library. Learn more at Cragin Memorial Library site here.
Growing A Healing Herb Garden
Experienced herbalist and holistic wellness educator Genessa Zickefoose will teach you how to plan, grow, and harvest your own herbal garden—no matter your experience level or space. This workshop introduces easy-to-grow medicinal herbs and how to use them to support skin health, digestion, nervous system balance, sleep, and minor aches. You’ll leave with practical knowledge and a simple plan to start your own healing garden. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Thompson Public Library. Learn more here.
Holistic Approaches to Managing Menopause
Join us for an informational presentation on holistic approaches to midlife wellness. Genessa Zickefoose will cover ways to support digestion, lessen brain fog, and manage stress while supporting healthy sleep habits with herbal preparations, lifestyle changes, and nutrition.
Herbal Tea Blending for Healthy Skin & Hair
Join clinical herbalist Genessa Zickefoose for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn to blend your own herbal teas and hair rinses. Genessa will guide participants through the basics of herbal tea formulation, including preparation and storage tips. You'll also be introduced to a variety of herbs traditionally used to support healthy skin and hair. Attendees will have the opportunity to create personalized blends to enjoy at home or gift to others.
Herbal Tea Blending for Wellness
Join clinical herbalist Genessa Zickefoose in this hands-on workshop to learn how to blend your own herbal teas. Genessa will guide you through the basics of herbal tea formulation, tea preparation, and storage tips. She will introduce you to the properties of several herbs and then you will have a chance to make your own tea blends to enjoy at home or gift to others. Per the instructor's request, there is a maximum of 10 participants.
Holistic Approaches to Midlife Wellness
Genessa Zickefoose, M.A., M.S., will talk about holistic approaches to menopause: herbal and earth-based healing traditions blended with current scientific understandings about maintaining vitality in midlife. She is the founder of The Mother Hive LLC, a healing arts company located in Amston, Connecticut. Genessa leads midlife folks to awaken their resilience and restore harmony through herbal consultations, educational workshops, healing rituals, and coaching programs. Join us for this informative program! Please register by visiting, calling #860-584-7790, or going online:
Herbal Medicine for Women
HERBAL MEDICINE FOR WOMEN (VIRTUAL) at the Bloomfield Public Library.
Join us for an informative presentation by clinical herbalist, Genessa Zickefoose of The Mother Hive, LLC to learn how herbs, flowers and mushrooms can support your health and wellness journey. She will include topics such as hormonal shifts, healthy sleep habits, digestion, and stress relief. She will describe the herbal profiles of some of her favorite herbal allies for women’s wellness, as well as ways to get started with different herbal preparations such as infusions, decoctions, extracts, and more.
REGISTER HERE: Herbal Medicine for Women
44th Annual Home & Garden Show
Genessa will be an exhibitor and speaker during the 44th Annual Home & Garden Show at the Earth Tower Expo & Convention Center at Mohegan Sun, Montville, CT
Starts: Fri Feb 14th, 2025 @ 5:00 PM EST
Ends: Sun Feb 16th, 2025 @ 4:00 PM EST
SESSION 1: Foraging Your Own Backyard
Getting started with foraging is as easy as walking out your door and noticing the plants all around you. Learn to safely identify and forage some of the most common plants in the region, including edible “weeds,” berries, roots and flowers. This workshop will cover safety, ethical harvesting, resources for proper identification, as well as foraging tools, tips and storage suggestions. You will also learn how to use the foraged plants to make common herbal preparations, such as infusions, decoctions, poultices and oils.
SESSION 2: Growing a Healing Herbal Garden
Each of us has the power to create and tend to our own herbal garden to support us on our individual healing journeys. Learn how to plan, grow and harvest your own herb garden, no matter your skill level or amount of space. This workshop will introduce you to the beauty and power of growing herbs to support healthy skin, soothe digestive upset, balance your nervous system, support better sleep, and ease aches and minor pain. You will learn about popular and easy to grow herbs from several healing traditions, including Wise Woman, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and Western herbalism.
Holistic Approaches to Midlife Wellness
Genessa Zickefoose of The Mother Hive LLC., will join us for an informational discussion on herbal and holistic approaches to midlife wellness. Genessa will cover topics like hormonal shifts, menopause and perimenopause, healthy sleep habits, nourishing foods, and brain fog. Sponsored by WLA.
REGISTER HERE: Holistic Approaches to Midlife Wellness
Triple Spiral: 13 Moon Priestess Circle: June
Join Genessa for this monthly live virtual circle as we gather to learn the way of the priestess. A priestess trains to be an open channel to the divine, and serves her community in service to the divine. Sessions will often include calling in the directions, journaling, singing/chanting, sharing from the heart and simple rituals. These practices draw upon Genessa’s training & personal practice as a priestess since 2015, and are based upon the teachings of the priestess traditions of several traditions including Celtic, Avalonian, and Baltic. Answer your heart’s call and join us in discovering these hidden mysteries.
Fee: $20 Click here to register.
Registration required. Zoom link and additional information to prepare for the session will be provided via email upon registration.
Triple Spiral: 13 Moon Priestess Circle: May
Join Genessa for this monthly live virtual circle as we gather to learn the way of the priestess. A priestess trains to be an open channel to the divine, and serves her community in service to the divine. Sessions will often include calling in the directions, journaling, singing/chanting, sharing from the heart and simple rituals. These practices draw upon Genessa’s training & personal practice as a priestess since 2015, and are based upon the teachings of the priestess traditions of several traditions including Celtic, Avalonian, and Baltic. Answer your heart’s call and join us in discovering these hidden mysteries.
Fee: $20 Click here to register.
Registration required. Zoom link and additional information to prepare for the session will be provided via email upon registration.
Triple Spiral: 13 Moon Priestess Circle: April
Join Genessa for this monthly live virtual circle as we gather to learn the way of the priestess. A priestess trains to be an open channel to the divine, and serves her community in service to the divine. Sessions will often include calling in the directions, journaling, singing/chanting, sharing from the heart and simple rituals. These practices draw upon Genessa’s training & personal practice as a priestess since 2015, and are based upon the teachings of the priestess traditions of several traditions including Celtic, Avalonian, and Baltic. Answer your heart’s call and join us in discovering these hidden mysteries.
Fee: $20 Click here to register.
Registration required. Zoom link and additional information to prepare for the session will be provided via email upon registration.
Hebron Farmers' Market
June 3, July 1, August 5, September 2, October 7
(First Saturday of the month) 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Hebron Farmers' Market
June 3, July 1, August 5, September 2, October 7
(First Saturday of the month) 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Hebron Farmers' Market
June 3, July 1, August 5, September 2, October 7
(First Saturday of the month) 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Colchester Farmers' Market
Join us all season long on Sundays from 9AM-1PM on the Colchester Town Green
Hebron Farmers' Market
June 3, July 1, August 5, September 2, October 7
(First Saturday of the month) 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Restore Roots: Herbs & Holistic Approaches to Balancing the Earth Element: A Virtual Workshop
Discover herbs and practical tips that can help you feel grounded and nourished all season long. The earth element is associated with the physical layer of your being, and is responsible for feelings of safety, security, and stability. When this element is out of balance, you feel scattered, anxious and experience difficulty moving out of survival mode. Join Genessa for this live 2 hour virtual event taught via Zoom. During this workshop you will reconnect to your root chakra through guided meditation, journaling and breath work, and meet several herbs that can support you in restoring balance on a physical level.
No experience necessary. Pre-registration required. Replay will be available.
$47 Workshop PLUS Restore Roots self-care kit—a collection of curated products to help you balance the Earth Element (shipping included)
$22 Workshop only
Colchester Holiday Market
You won't want to miss this fun annual Sip & Shop Holiday Market over at St. Joseph's Polish Club this year! Fun and merriment awaits you for an incredible shopping experience. Gifts and goodies of all kinds will be here! Bring your friends and make a night of it!
395 South Main St. Colchester, CT
Holiday Maker's Fair
If you are looking for a one of a kind or a truly unique and awesome holiday gift, either a hostess gift, teacher or coach gift, or the perfect, personalized something for the ones you love...this is the place to find it. We had such a large variety of MAKERS last year that it was impossible to go home empty handed. Join us for a day of fun, shopping and gift scavenging, then enjoy dinner and a movie at the mall!
Restore Balance Mini-Retreat
Come together in a beautiful setting to celebrate your resilience and practice restoring balance from the inside out.
This 1/2 day mini-retreat is designed to help you slow down, reconnect to your heart's intentions, and find connection to others in sacred ritual. We will begin with a cleansing ritual and calling in of the 4 directions.
I will then lead you through a shamanic cacao ceremony with music, gentle yoga and guided meditation. There will be time for reflection, integration and journaling.
Next we will learn about some of the local plants and how they can support you in bringing more harmony and balance into your daily life while enjoying healthy snacks and herbal tea.
This interactive herbalism workshop will give you hands-on experience with how to source, prepare and use these commonly available herbs.
Our herbal tea room and shop will also be open for browsing and shopping afterwards.
This retreat includes water, tea, cacao, snacks and a Mother Hive "swag bag" of goodies to take home!
Please bring: hat, sunscreen, chair/blanket/cushion, your own mug, journal & pen, eye pillow or scarf.
COVID precautions will be in place. Weather-permitting, we will be mostly be outside for this event. In the case of extreme inclement weather, we reserve the right to reschedule.
Summer Solstice Cacao Ceremony “Finding Inner Balance”
$40pp - Experience stillness and reflect on ways to find more balance within, while also welcoming in the power of solar energy.
Tea & Tarot Open House
Come hang with us at Azura Zen Den in Middletown, CT this Sat March 20th 10-2!
Check out our line of herbal teas, cacao, and other tinctures and all of our free events below...
Open House Schedule:
Spring plant foraging talk 10:00-10:30
Cacao talk 11:30-12:00
Tarot readings 12:00-12:45
Shamanic journey 1:00-1:30
and learn more about our offerings and services (both virtual and in-person).
Triple Spiral Women’s Circle
In this weekly offering, Genessa will create a safe space for you to join in sisterhood with other women as we explore topics ranging from health and wellness, motherhood, shamanism, yoga, herbalism, divine feminine, spirituality and more. Each circle begins with opening sacred space followed by teachings on a theme. Circles often include readings, singing/chanting, gentle movement, and time for reflection and journaling.
MEETS THURSDAYS - 6:30-8:00 PM EST
$20.00 in person at Azura Zen Den CLICK HERE TO BOOK IN PERSON
$10.00 virtual on Zoom CLICK HERE TO BOOK ONLINE