Learn how to make your incense! Les Mûres have bees guide you to choose your ingredients and make your incense stick, cone or powder with local plants.
Incense is used in religious holidays but also at home to create a zen atmosphere, warm, welcome friends...
With Blueberry from Les Mûres have Bees, discover and choose the ingredients that go into the composition of a quality incense.
First, take a little tour of the world of the use of incense. Then, Myrtille presents the plants, wood and resins that make it up. Beekeeper obliges, Myrtille explains the benefits of propolis that can be used as resin in incense and presents you with regional plants that can be harvested and enter into your incense composition.
The second part of the workshop will be practical with the manufacture of incense in different forms: powder, cone, stick.
Choose your recipe and realize, step by step, your own incense: mortar, mill, sieve and doser will be your companions.
Are you a “sleep”, “meditation” or “anti-mosquito” recipe...?
Practical information:
Appointment : 9:30 am
Duration : 2:30 am
Good to know : limited number of places, only by registration. Ticketing on enm.lillemetropole.fr or at the reception
Public : from 12 years
Site hours : Laundry from 10 am to 12 pm and 2 pm to 6:30 pm
Exhibition “Nature retrouvée” from 2:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Welcome for the «Green by Nature» from 9 am
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The next and final Nature Green appointment:
Saturday 4 October: the art of basketry