Community Herbalist Clinical Skills
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.