The Home Herbalist

A Foundational Path

Take root in the healing traditions of your ancestors. Learn herbal medicine basics to care for yourself and your family. Align with the medicine of the seasons. Learn the language of plants. Engage the practical plant magic in the rituals of everyday.

  • Foundations

    The Home Herbalist includes foundational skills such as medicine making and a materia medica of 20 medicinal plants. We also deepen our connection through Plant Spirit Medicine.

  • Self Care

    The program is grounded in seasonal medicine and rituals. We cover basic herbal care including herbs for cold & flu, digestion, skin care, sleep, and stress.

  • Magical Tools

    Now and Then Herb School is oriented towards practical magic for daily life. Throughout the program we cultivate practices with basic magical tools, such as grounding, boundaries, clearing, altarwork, and offerings.

  • Social Justice

    We offer tools to contextualize herbalism within the greater systems of oppression that impact health and healing. We understand ancestral reconnection as a decolonial practice and hold space throughout the program to address how appropriation, exploitation, and commodification impact herbalism.

Returning Soon

In our 4th year of teaching this foundational path, we will be offering two versions of The Home Herbalist.

One version will be self-paced and virtual. This option includes educational videos, resources, and embodied exercises.

The other version will be an in-person program somewhere on the west coast of Turtle Island in 2024.

What does The Home Herbalist consist of?

  • The essential and indispensable skills, knowledge and frameworks that support your path as a home herbalist.

    • Basic Herbal Safety

    • Plants as People: Communication & relationship building with plants and the more than human world

    • Honoring Ancestral Medicine

    • Decolonizing/Unsettling Herbalism: Cultural appropriation, commodification, exploitation, and systems of power in herbalism

    • Plant Spirit Medicine

    • Basic Botany

    • Kitchen Witchen & Food As Medicine

    • Medicinal Gardening

  • Learn to work with herbs to navigate the discomforts of daily life. This is part of how we build resiliency and interdependence with the plants.

    • Herbs for Stress

    • Herbs for Sleep

    • Herbs for Digestion

    • Herbs for Skin Care

    • Herbs for Cold & Flu

    • Herbal First Aid

  • Make medicine together in your own kitchen. This model is great for building embodied experience of making medicine with the tools you have, while being able to ask questions as they come up to hone your skills.

    • Medicinal Teas: Infusions & Decoctions

    • Tinctures & Vinegars

    • Oxymels & Cordials

    • Infused Oils & Salves

    • Essences

    • Hydrosols

    • Herbal Gummies

  • Foundational knowledge of 20 plants that covers:

    • Energetics

    • Cultural context

    • Folklore

    • Physical medicine

    • Spirit medicine

    • Medicine making

    • Growing

  • The Home Herbalist is rooted in seasonal ritual and medicine.

    • Learn how to work with the seasons with herbal recipes

    • Embody class rituals for each season

    • Get to know the wheel of the year

  • We engage with 4 mystery herbs throughout the year.

    • Cultivate embodied knowledge of the plants

    • Develop deep personal relationships and intimacy with the plants

    • Learn personal practices around plant sits

  • The what, when, why, and how of basic spirit work. In other words, practical magic for daily life.

    • Grounding

    • Boundaries

    • Altars & Offerings

    • Clearing

The Investment

Virtual & Self-Paced

  • The virtual and self-paced version of The Home Herbalist is coming soon (likely this spring, subject to change).

  • Until this foundational path is officially released, we are offering Early Bird Pricing for students who are ready to sign up for the program.

    Early Bird: $369
    Regular Pricing: $444

In Person

  • An in-person iteration of The Home Herbalist is coming to the west coast of Turtle Island sometime in 2024.

    Sign up for the waitlist to be informed of when and where.

  • Sliding Scale and Payment Plan TBA.

A snapshot of your post program

It’s your first winter post apprenticeship, you are in your kitchen, it smells spicy sweet from the Ginger & Elderberry winter wellness tea you are brewing on the stove, and resinously aromatic from the solstice cedar boughs hanging over your doorways.

You are tending to the tinctures and oils you made last month, singing to them as you stir and strain, thanking them as they share with you their secrets and their gifts.

In walks your friend who has the cold that’s going around. You sit them down with a hot mug of your winter wellness tea as you prepare an herbal steam to sooth their congestion. You pour out an herb blend your ancestors traditionally used for colds, feeling your hands guided by the long lineage of healers that came before.

Your friend leaves, a little less congested, with spirits lifted by the magic of plants and the care of an herbalist. You spritz your home down with the germ-be-gone spray you made in herb class on your way to a steaming Rose & Mugwort bath you poured to mark the new moon and ease your sore muscles.

The Home Herbalist is returning for its 4th year

Join the waitlist to be the first to learn about the new versions of this foundational program

We will be offering a self-paced, virtual program and an in-person version on the West Coast.

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