June 24, 2025 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Join Shelly and Kathy at Sacred Space Holistic Center for a fun hands on monthly herb workshop. Discover the history medicinal and spiritual benefits of each plant – and learn how to use them in your daily life. Â $20.00 includes a gift bag full of our products. RSVP 209-880-9067
July 21, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Join Shelly and Kathy  for a fun-filled day of community connection and local shopping at  our Community Vendor Fair! Discover unique handmade goods, wellness  products, delicious treats, and more — all from amazing local  businesses.  Bring your friends and family for a day of shopping, self-care, and supporting local creatives. We can’t wait to see you there!Â
May 27, 2025 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Join Shelly and Kathy at Sacred Space Holistic Center for a fun hands on monthly herb workshop. Discover the history and medicinal benefits of each plant. Learn how to use these plants in your daily life.
We had another successful herbal workshop last night. The last Tuesday of every month we join together with Amanda at her shop Sacred Space, located in Modesto. We had a few new faces that joined us last night. It is always exciting as well as nerve wrecking meeting new people. Talking to groups of people always makes me a little uneasy. Thankfully everyone listened to me nervously ramble about all the neat information that I have collected about Calendula. Each month everyone gets a few pages about the herb we are discussing. First time participants always get a folder to place all their herbal info into. I then put together a few pages of information and recipes on whatever herb we discuss. Everyone brings the folder back and adds the new information from the workshops into their folders. Kathy make us delicious treats and beverages. Last night she made some tasty Calendula cookies. She put together Calendula margaritas or a mocktail for those who didn’t want to drink. We created herbal bath blends with a mixture of herbs known to be helpful with dry irritated skin. The herbs we used included marshmallow root, lavender, chamomile, rose, and rosemary. Of course, we had the herb of the month, Calendula. We had oatmeal already ground up and ready to be added to their herbal bath blends. After they finished creating the blends we then had them create a Calendula sugar body scrub. Everyone left with a gift bag. It contained some lovely items that we create and sell. Everyone went home with a small Calendula plant. We had a great group of people who enjoy a night of mixing herbs and good conversations. Next month the 24th of June we will be discussing the mint family.
This month’s Herb of the Month is Mint. As always, our herbal workshops are on the last Tuesday of every month. This month we will be playing with a few varieties of the mint family. There are so many different varieties of mint that we will cover in our mint workshop. Additionally, there are many types of herbs in the mint family. Â We will create a tasty beverage. We will also make some type of yummy treat from the few varieties that we have growing. Everyone will have the opportunity to eat and drink this super tasty plant. We always ask everyone to make sure to RSVP the weekend before the workshop. If you tap on either picture they will take you to our Instagram page. Message us and we will get you on the list. Â We need time to create the right amount of gift bags and folders for everyone attending. Â We always have a hands on creative process when we gather to discuss our herb of the month. So be prepared to taste, touch and smell mint the 24th of June.Â
Last Tuesday night in our monthly herbal workshop we taught everyone how to make a motherwort tincture. Then everyone created a salt scrub. Kathy infused honey with motherwort and drizzled it on top of some yummy cornbread. Everyone tried a delicious motherwort herbal tea blend. It is always such a fun night hanging out and playing with herbs with other people who enjoy herbs. There is so much that our plant kingdom has to offer us. We enjoy sharing our herbal knowledge with the community. Â Our next workshop will be on Hibiscus! Join us August 26th at 6:30 pm over at Sacred Space in Modesto.
We gather every 2nd Tuesday of the month with Andrew and Bethany Basmajian from Cool Company. The meeting is at 3:30 at the Odd Fellows Lodge on Main St in Knights Ferry, California. We help them hand out nutritious food to those who need it. Tonight the Knights Ferry Free Market Fundraiser will be hosting a raffle table. It is full of beautiful ways to help raise funds. These funds will be used to build up the Knights Ferry community garden. After we finish giving out the boxes of food, we will head over to Ricks saloon. There, local musicians will pay tribute to the Beatles. We have donated a gift set and cute succulent arrangement that will be on the raffle table.
“The Knights Ferry Free Market is an up and coming non-profit organization. We serve residents and patrons of Knights Ferry and its surrounding rural areas. We provide food, household and hygiene items, farm fresh fruits/vegetables, art classes and educational workshops to those in need. Bridging gaps and opening doors to bring our community to a higher level of living. Our goal is to give help to those in need. Specializing in supporting local farms, artisans, businesses and entrepreneurs. Highlighting land conservation and organic living through out all the work we do. We see the work we do as a vital role that is missing in communities. Free Market has been serving the Knights Ferry community since 2021. We now see a greater need growing. We are ready to grow now to meet that need.
WHO do we work for? Knights Ferry residents and patrons. Including the surrounding Knights Ferry rural areas. We believe the Free Market ultimately belongs to The Divine Creator, an follow where the Spirit leads. All people are served with complete transparency, truth, and humility. We do not discriminate against any person. No matter what race, ethnicity, religious belief, sexual orientation, class, status, etc.
We are very excited about Free Markets 2025 calendar!” This was on a post on their Instagram account. Any of the free market pictures will take you to their Instagram profile. Give them a follow and keep up with all of the amazing stuff going on out in Knights Ferry California.
Keep your eyes out for their monthly newsletter! Released on the 1st Tuesday of the month. Direct message or email them to see how you can get involved. They are always looking for volunteers at the events and always welcoming donations to keep them moving.
The Modesto Love Center is what makes this whole program possible. All the food boxes are assembled for the KF Free Market at this location. This program is focusing on residents and patrons of Knights Ferry and our surrounding rural area. The organization offers two different programs. The first is The Modesto Love Center food box. This program provides food to anyone in need. All ages, individuals, & families. There are no income or age requirements.
(We do however require proof of address. )
The second food program is the Commodity Supplement Food Program (CSFP)…..
This program provides USDA food boxes to low income seniors (60+ in age). ( to apply= proof of residence , I.D., & proof of income, must be resident of Stanislaus county)
Special accommodations can be made if needed.
The Free Market has recently started receiving generous donations. This support has allowed them to start offering things like seasonal fruit and staple household/hygiene supplies. Free market is a three branch operation. Food Distribution, The Trading Post, and The ARK.
Everyone was so nice. All of our fellow vendors and all the people who stopped by to say hi and shopped and bought local. We small business owners appreciate the support of our community.
This last event we brought some of our loose leaf herbal blends. We had tea blends, smoke blends, bath blends. We had some of our topical blends such as lip balms, body salves, chap stick and our essential oil rollers. On our other
It was great meeting all the other vendors. One vendor in particular caught our attention. We met a young woman who creates the most amazing homemade journals.
Her booth was set up next to ours. The way she creates some of them them from recycling and reusing older books she collects from thrift stores. Such a creative idea! It is always great witnessing the youth stepping into their own creative powers. This young lady has already started her own business doing what she loves. I wanted to shout out her Instagram page, Holly’s Handmade Journals. Go check her page out. You can go directly to her page by clicking on the photo of one of her amazing journals. We as a community should rally around and support our youth as they showcase their heart in their creations.
It’s always a great day joining community events and selling our products.
We grew a bunch of home grown veggies and lettuce from seeds in spring. The seeds were in one of those variety packs. We ate on the plants until they turned to flower. One plant in particular has flowered with flowers I have never seen on a lettuce plant. So now I wonder what have we been eating? What type of plant is this? Does anyone know?
We will be vending the Community Vendor Fair at Elevate Community Yoga within the Roseburg Square in Modesto. We will have our succulent arrangements, crystals, herbal blends and our new apothecary line. It should be a pretty fun day. There’s a rumor that Good Day will be going live from the Community Vendor Fair the 10:00 am hour. We are thinking about having a build your own succulent station. I think kids as well as adults will enjoy a moment of playing in the dirt and planting something cute. I mean I still enjoy playing in the dirt.
Creating succulent arrangements is such a meditative practice for me. I enjoy the process of collecting the cuttings. I don’t just randomly cut pieces off. They are selected one by one. I take a moment with the plants. The pieces themselves decide who wants to be a part of the arrangement. Then I collect a nice collection of cuttings and start my creation process. Then I begin by putting a taller succulent into the pot first. I then begin the process of choosing who goes where and always aware of how they will eventually grow together. Some arrangements get cute succulents that dangle out of the pot. Some have spiky little cactus buddies. All of my arrangements have crystals in them. I like to have at least 1 crystal point, amethyst or a rose quartz chunk in each arrangement. Every one of the arrangements are unique and carry their own little bundle of energy. And sometimes I add cute tiny wooden lady bugs or bees. We will be at the community vendor fair on July 21st. The event is from 10 am until 3:00 pm.Â
