• FULL FOR 2024.

• WAIT LIST AVAILABLE in case of any cancellations

• Community Herbalist Skills Program - 2024 - 9 months, 9 Saturdays 9-5

• In person 9 month workshop with plant and tree ID walk every meeting, weather permitting - this will not be over rough terrain but may include mud, insects, and hot weather so dress accordingly

• You will build your own complete herbal apothecary

• Online technical handouts for teaching skills, charts, resources, access to video library

• Limited class size allows for interactive hands-on learning

• Grow your knowledge and first hand experience of our local herbal medicines and foods - including actions, energetics, safety, harvesting, preserving and safety

• Learn to grow your own food and medicinal herbs and visit gardens, plant herb seeds and root cuttings

• Learn local mushroom identification for harvesting food and making medicines

• Visit greenspaces, wild spaces and farms around our region

• Practice doing intake notes and applying assessment skills, constitutions, reading test results, notes and questions - whether you work with family, friends or wider community - so when anyone asks you for herbal advice you know where to begin

• Understanding safe and effective dosage of herbs

• Creating herbal formulas for specific conditions - herbal tea or tinctures or topicals - including Triunes

• Sustainable harvesting and processing of bark, seeds, leaves, berries

• Making medicine including syrups, alcohol tinctures, vinegars, oxymels, glycerins, salves, oils, lotions and more!

• Hydrosols anyone can make at home - No large copper kettle required

• Herbal first aid - make your own home and travel kits

• Supervised practice decision making around timelines, herbs for supporting common conditions and making effective delivery systems and formulas

• Safety and legal priorities for all herbal work

• Growing healthy gardens for food and medicine in our region and climate, all year!

• Herbal medicine in the kitchen and the grocery store

• Economic, emotional and cultural realities

• Alcohol-free options, basic nutritional training, flower remedies

• Foundations of Traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic herbal medicine

• Flower remedies

• Herbal medicinal and nutritional support for canines

• Personal herbal protocol

• Visiting guest herbalists and farmers to be announced soon

• Class supplies will be provided for making products in classes

• One year membership in United Plant Savers

• You will be expected to complete an herbal project (or 2) and homework is encouraged

• Certificate of completion

Special guest teachers to include:

Abby Artemesia: botanist, forager, herbalist and wild food expert: https://www.thewanderschool.com/

Bronwen: Safe identification of local mushrooms, in the field as well as processing for food and medicine

Rhonda Reno, director of Quiet Gardening - sustainable gardening, native and non-native plants and more!

Nori, the rescue dog.

IN Person Near Stone Mountain, GA - we will meet outdoors whenever possible.

Meeting dates: February 24, March 16, April 20, May 11, June 8, July 13, August 3, September 21, October 19. We will make up any dates we miss due to weather or emergencies.

$899 until Jan1 - $999 after Jan 1 limited class size

Email Leslie at Herbalist.Williams@gmail.com for interview to apply

Limited work exchange available

You may bring your child or baby if needs be.