Afternoon Tea dates will be posted at 10 am on the following dates: 

Sept 9th - Tea dates posted for October and November

Nov 4th - Holiday Teas for late November & December

Afternoon Tea - Wednesday, July 23 - Filled

Delight in the quiet, relaxed atmosphere of a traditional tearoom as you savor the delicious homemade culinary specialties unique to Afternoon Tea. Our menu features salad, a variety of sandwiches, fresh fruit, assorted sweets, and warm from the oven scones which complement your bottomless pot of properly brewed loose leaf tea.

Wednesday, July 23 (Filled)
Select: 11:00 am, 12:00 pm, or 1:00 pm
Fee: $45.00/person (includes tax and gratuity)

Hormonal Ups and Downs

This class is for women battling with their hormones. There are herbs which can help to balance the hormones and herbs to help with hormonal acne, anxiety, fertility, and menstrual woes. Lots of info will be shared in this class just for the ladies. Instructors are Molly Sams of The Essential Herbal Magazine and Susanna Reppert of The Rosemary House.

Wednesday July 23rd
6:30 - 8:30

Fee: $25.00

Taking Tea and Tarot Reading - Filled

Enjoy a relaxing full afternoon tea provided by Sweet Remembrances and a four card private tarot reading by Rhonda of Dancing Moon Beam, Elizabethville, PA.
Each seating is limited to 15. Reserve early!

Sunday, July 27 
Select: 11 am - 1 pm (Filled)

OR

Select: 1:30 - 3:30 pm (Filled) 

Fee: $65.00, inclusive

Afternoon Tea - Friday, August 1 - Filled

Enjoy deliciously elegant afternoon tea. Delight in the quiet, relaxed atmosphere of a traditional tearoom as you savor the delicious homemade culinary specialties unique to Afternoon Tea. Our menu features a green salad, variety of sandwiches, fresh fruit, warm from the oven scones and several miniature desserts which complement your bottomless pot of properly brewed loose leaf tea. 

Friday, August 1 (Filled)

Select: 11:00 am, 12:00 pm, or 1:00 pm

Fee: $45.00/person inclusive

Afternoon Tea - Saturday, August 2 (Filled)

 Enjoy deliciously elegant afternoon tea. Delight in the quiet, relaxed atmosphere of a traditional tearoom as you savor the delicious homemade culinary specialties unique to Afternoon Tea. Our menu features a green salad, variety of sandwiches, fresh fruit, warm from the oven scones and several miniature desserts which complement your bottomless pot of properly brewed loose leaf tea. 

Saturday, August 2 (Filled)

Select: 11:00 am, 12:00 pm, or 1:00 pm

Fee: $45.00/person inclusive

Afternoon Tea - Friday, August 8 - Filled

Enjoy deliciously elegant afternoon tea in August. Delight in the quiet, relaxed atmosphere of a traditional tearoom as you savor the delicious homemade culinary specialties unique to Afternoon Tea. Our menu features a green salad, variety of sandwiches, fresh fruit, warm from the oven scones, and assorted sweets which complement your bottomless pot of properly brewed loose leaf tea. 

Friday, August 8 (Filled)

Select: 11:00 am, 12:00 pm or 1:00 pm

Fee: $45.00/person inclusive

The Secrets of the Still

Susanna Reppert will set up her small glass still and demonstrate distilling herbs to produce essential oils and their by-product hydrosols/floral waters. The conversation will continue into different ways oils and waters should and should not be utilized in the herbal home. Each participant will leave with a small hydrosol sample.

Tuesday, August 12th
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Fee: $20.00

Afternoon Tea - Wednesday, August 13 - Filled

Join us for Afternoon Tea as we celebrate summer in our selection of tea party treats. Salad, scones, sandwiches, fresh fruit, and desserts, will be featured at this public tea, with bottomless pots of tea of course.

Wednesday, August 13 (Filled)
Choose: 11:00 am, 12:00 pm, or 1:00 pm
Fee: $45.00 per person, (includes tax and gratuity)

Evening Tea Party and Book Chat (Filled)

This evening is for book enthusiasts. Join us for an evening tea of salad, sandwiches, savory scone, dessert, and tea, followed by a book discussion of The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson. It spans several generations following a Dakhota family's struggle to preserve their way of life. This book is available new, used and on audiobook, and we have copies that you may borrow. Reading the book is encouraged or read reviews of the book and join us for an evening tea party and chat.

Thursday August 21 (Filled)
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Fee: $45.00

Afternoon Tea - Saturday, August 30 - Filled

Join us for Afternoon Tea. We will begin with a salad followed by the three tiered tea tray which will feature assorted sandwiches, oven fresh scones, fresh fruit, and tasty tidbits for dessert, all accompanied with a bottomless pot of properly brewed tea.

Saturday, August 30 (Filled)

Select: 11:00 am, 1:00 pm
Fee: $45.00 per person, inclusive

FAIRY FESTIVAL - September 6 & 7

Calling all fairies, elves, wizards, hobbits and gnomes to this 30th annual event! Fairy Rose Fairy will be back to delight and entertain. Lots of crafts and activities including fairy wings to decorate, free fairy tattoos, free mining for gem blessing stones, free fairy dusted potpourri, and ivy halos.
Visit our “Fairy Food on the Fly” table. 
Check our website for the time schedule for music and entertainment (updated early August).
Perfect for ages 3 –11 and all who believe! Additional fees may apply for crafts.

Saturday, September 6
Sunday, September 7
10 am – 4 pm
Fee: $7.50 Admission

Rain or shine.
Please note: our gardens are unable to accommodate strollers, sorry for the inconvenience.

Apprentice Gardener Night

Consider volunteering to work in the herb garden during Apprentice Gardener Night. Benefits include an educational opportunity as you help to maintain the herb gardens under the guided tutelage of Susanna Reppert, surplus seeds or plants harvested from the garden, a 10% discount in the shop the night you help, and an herbal dinner in the tea room.

Friday September 12 (Filled)
5:00 - 8:00 (call if bad weather threatens)
Free. Limited to 5 eager herb gardeners.

Witchcraft, Faith-Healing, & Pow-Wow in Pennsylvania

Interested in charms, enchantments, occult history and lore that have been found all over the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania? According to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, "Pennsylvania is a national leader in religious diversity and expression." This cultural heritage beginning with Pennsylvania's founder, William Penn, has continued to this day. Because of this, you can see why Pennsylvania has been the home of such a wide variety of views, from the most free-thinking to the most conservative. The magic found within this land has influenced and been influential in spiritual & occult expressions all over the world, from Appalachian folk practices, to the Hoodoo Candle Shop magic, to the Obeah of the Caribbean, and many other places where those with a penchant for all things hidden (occult) can be found. We'll be starting from the early 1800s and work our way through to our modern times. Out instructor is Matt D, who loves midnight bonfires with friends, the folklore of herbs and plants, and nature walks in the woods.

Tuesday Sept. 16th
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Fee: $25.00

Pennsylvania Tea Festival - Sept. 19th - 20th

We are delighted to be the host for the eighth annual Pennsylvania Tea Festival. This event will be held in the herb gardens of The Rosemary House and Sweet Remembrances and celebrates the wide variety of specialty teas, herbal tisanes, tea preparation and tea culture. A range of tea merchants and vendors selling all things TEA will be on hand to share their knowledge about tea and tea culture. This two day event will feature lectures on tea, specialty workshops and tea tastings. Whether you are a beginning tea enthusiast or a seasoned tea guru, there will be something for everyone. 

Our Tea Festival Sponsors include: Tea Time Magazine, The Essential Herbal Magazine, Jing Si Tea, Tea-For-All, Tea by Two, and Kanlo Tea. Tea festival tote bags are provided by The Mid-Atlantic Tea Business Association.

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Tickets are $15.00 in advance or $18.00 the day of the event. Tickets will be available via Humanitix on July 1st. If you want to avoid service fees, stop in at The Rosemary House to pick up your advance ticket. Or contact Susanna (no later than Sept. 13), she will mail them to you in advance!


Friday, September 19
Saturday, September 20
9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Admission: $18.00 (day of event)

Intro to Plant Based Foods for Fall Entertaining

 Join us for a festive and flavorful Vegan Fall Food Class! This interactive class is designed to inspire you to create delicious, plant-based dishes that will please everyone at the table. Whether you're new to the lifestyle, need to cook for a vegan guest, or have been eating plant-based for years, our instructor Rissa Miller will have tips, techniques, and recipes to make the season's eatings flow seamlessly. Tastings will include winter greens salad, sage gravy over roasted butternut squash, shepherd's pie, and pumpkin bread pudding. Guests will receive a recipe packet of wintery vegan recipes to create tasty, compassionate new meal traditions!

Wednesday, Sept, 24th
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Fee: $45.00, inclusive

Make Your Own Herbal Medicine

Interested in learning how to make your own tinctures, salves, creams, poultices, bath blends and more. Susanna Reppert-Brill will demonstrate the many medicines that you can create from your herb garden. Everyone will sample, sniff, touch, or taste many medicines. Fast Moving, Entertaining and Informative, this is a very popular class. 

Thursday, Sept 25th
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Fee: $25.00

The Wives of Henry the VIII Tea Party & Program

Spend the afternoon enjoying a royal tea party prepared by Sweet Remembrances followed by a Herstory program inspired by the six wives of Henry the VIII. Presentation by Angelica Brill.

Sunday, Sept 28 (Filled)
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Fee: $60.00, inclusive

All About CHAI

Masala chai (or more casually shortened to 'chai' in America) is the traditional drink of India and defined as a blend of black tea, milk, sugar, and spices. We will explore the history of chai, the spices both "cooling" and "warming", and their health purposes as well as how to prepare a variety of chai tea blends and chai lattes. Taste several different varieties of Chai during this informative tasting session. Susanna Reppert Brill of The Rosemary House is the instructor.

Tuesday, September 30
6:30 - 8:00
Fee: $25.00

Embrace Your Dark Side Afternoon Tasting

Join Mike Slater and Thomas Roache authors of H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon, the legendary and forbidden cookbook of the dead that is "alien to all sane and balanced readers." This cookbook contains many dark (but still delicious) secrets within its pages. The book comes with desperate warnings about the recipes and is infested with sanity-melting and mouth-watering illustrations, but only those who are brave enough to undertake a taste will discover the true genius and deliciousness of this book. This afternoon will be a tasting and sampling of a few of the funny, horrible and bizarre dishes interspersed with tales from the authors of their inspiration and creation of Red Duke Games, Wrightsville, PA. Cookbooks available to purchase, if you dare.

Sunday, Oct 5th
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Fee: $45.00

Bay Leaf Kitchen Wreath

Create a very easy and quite pretty kitchen wreath made with dried bay leaves, chili peppers, cinnamon sticks, dried orange and apple pieces and more. Fun for all ages, children aged 8 and up welcome.

Wednesday October 8

7:00 pm –8:00 pm
Fee: $25.00

Edible Gifts with Herbs

Everyone loves a homemade gift!  Instructions to make vinegars, flavored oils, mustards, liqueurs, beverage mixes, herbal rice and other seasoning blends all made with either fresh or dried herbs will be shared. Participants will be provided recipes and taste samples!

Thursday, October 16
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Fee: $25.00

Herbs to Support your Nervous System

This will be a discussion of favorite nervine herbs and specific herbs that are deeply calming and relaxing. Do you feel stressed, anxious, not sleeping well? These are the herbs that you need to learn about! Susanna Reppert, instructor.

Tuesday, Oct. 21st
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Fee: $20.00

Trials and Tribulations of Witches & Afternoon Tea

Enjoy a seasonal Afternoon Tea party followed by a program about Witch Trials from ancient times to the nineteenth century, including the only recorded witchcraft trial in Pennsylvania. Mark Podvia, presenter, is a member of the emeritus faculty of the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Strange Case of Dr. Paul Schoeppe as well as over 75 articles and reviews.

Friday, October 31 (Filled)
1:00 - 3:00
Fee: $60.00, inclusive

Tea Blending Fun!

Learn the basics of the different teas, how to properly brew tea and discover many guidelines for creating your own tea formulas using a large variety of ingredients such as herbs from the garden, black tea or green tea, spices from the cupboard, and fruits and nuts. Everyone will try their hand at making a tea blend. Susanna Reppert Brill instructor.

Thursday November 6th
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Fee: $25.00

Fly Girls Afternoon Tea Party & Program - Filled

Join us for a delicious afternoon tea party followed by a program on female pilots of WWII. Established by the Army Air Force in 1943, the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program opened to civilian women with a pilot's license who could afford to pay for their own transportation, training, and uniforms. Presented by Sarah Parry Myers, Assoc. Prof of History and author of Earning Their Wings. Sarah is delightful and brings the plight of these heroic women to life. 

Sunday, Nov 9th (Filled)
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Fee: $60.00, inclusive

Merry Mechanicsburg Mercantile

This special town wide event features over 40 vendors and food trucks throughout downtown Mechanicsburg. At The Rosemary House, we will have a curated selection of 8 vendors under the pavilion and in the garden. A special blend of tea will be served in the shop.

Saturday, Nov. 15th
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
FREE (But there will be plenty of opportunities to purchase treasures!)

FIRE CIDER and Herbs for Winter Health

Want to learn more about medicinal herbs? This is the class for you! We will explore the many herbs and remedies that can be used to keep you and your family healthy over the winter. Class will also review the many different versions of fire cider. All supplies will be provided for participants to make their own fire cider to take home. Remedies for coughs, colds, flues and general wintertime tonics will be explored.

Wednesday, Nov. 19 

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Fee: $25.00

A Way of Life - Practical Herbalism Course - Monthly Sessions: Sunday, Jan - Oct, 2026

The Rosemary House is excited to offer this 10 month immersive herbalism course beginning in January 2026 and running through October 2026. This class, now in its 5th year, combines herbal pioneer and superstar Rosemary Gladstar's Science and Art of Herbalism Correspondence Material with Susanna Reppert's years of herbal experience. All participants will receive Rosemary's highly esteemed course (valued at $375). If you already own her course, we will happily deduct that from the cost of our program.

Practical Herbalism is the unique blend of extensive information and full sensory experience in the classroom and the garden. The Rosemary House which serves as the "campus" for this course is the not so silent teacher/partner in the program providing a venue that offers the herbs to see, touch, taste and smell while learning. A Way of Life Practical Herbalism Course teaches not just medicinal herbalism but dips into gardening, crafting, culinary and lifestyle tips with herbs.

About the Instructor: Susanna Reppert is a 6th generation herbalist eager to share her passion for herbs. In addition to being a student of Rosemary Gladstar's program and a graduate of David Winston's School of Herbal Therapeutics, she has a wealth of knowledge gleaned from 50 years behind the desk at The Rosemary House. Rosemary Gladstar whose course work will be the basis for the class, is a pioneer in the herbal movement and has been called the "godmother of American Herbalism". She is the founder of the California School of Herbal Studies, the oldest running school in the US and the author of the Science and Art of Herbalism at-home course. She is also the author of numerous books.

Program Includes:

• All materials including Rosemary Gladstar's Art and Science of Herbal Medicine
• A one year online subscription to The Essential Herbal Magazine
• Presentations by Guest Lecturers
• Tastes and Samples of Herbal Teas
• Hands on "make and take" projects
• Certificate from Rosemary Gladstar's Science and Art of Herbalism Course
• Certificate from 'A Way of Life' Practical Herbalism Course 
• (Note: Receipt of both Certificates based upon attendance and completion of assignments). 

Program dates for 2026: 

Jan 18, Feb 15, Mar 15, April 19, May 17, 

June 21, July 19, Aug 23, Sept 20, Oct 11.

Program Time: Sundays 10 am- 4 pm

Program Tuition for 2026: $1,300.00 if registered before 12/10/2025; if registered after 12/10 tuition is: $1,450.00.

A non-refundable deposit of $400.00 is required by Dec 1st.  Individual payment plans may be arranged. 

Program Level: Beginner/Intermediate