In-Person & Online Apprenticeships
BEGINNER:
CREATING YOUR HOME APOTHECARY
CREATING YOUR HOME APOTHECARY
You’re invited to join this herbal adventure, following the rhythm of the plants, building season by season an herbal apothecary that will bring vitality, beauty and connection to your home.
🌿 Comprehensive Study of 40 medicinal plants, detailing the habitats, harvests, uses & preparations of locally abundant and occasionally exotic herbs, and of each of the systems of the body, including how things go wrong and how to cultivate + return to health + vitality
🌿 Herbal Medicine Making: Learn how to make, store, and use herbal preparations like tinctures, tea blends, fresh herbal infusions, elixirs, salves, oxymels, infused oils + honeys, cordials, cough syrups, bath soaks, flower essences, compresses, fire cider, and more...
🌿 Wildcrafting, Plant Attunement + Gardens: Learn from the plants first-hand: touching, smelling, tasting, and observing them, learning the mysteries of root, blossom, leaf, and seed.
... and more, as determined and inspired by the seasons, the plants, the students, and the teacher!
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
🌿 All Materials to create your apothecary, including medicinal herbs, glass jars and bottles, alcohol for tincture making, oils for infusing, beeswax for salves, honey for oxymels and elixirs, vegetable glycerine for glycerites, labels, boxes, in-depth materia medica worksheets, and more.
🌿 36+ Hours of small group class time, wildcrafting, making plant medicines, learning about the medicinal herbs and about personal and family health, creating your apothecary, etc.
🌿Gaining the Knowledge (and the take-home apothecary!) to take care of yourself, your family, and your friends with safe, local, lovingly prepared medicinal plants.
This course is in-person only. Classes are held in Bristol + Lincoln, Vermont.
Questions about this course? Reach out!
INTERMEDIATE:
PRACTICAL HERBALISM INTENSIVE
REGISTRATION IS CURRENTLY OPEN FOR THIS COURSE
PRACTICAL HERBALISM INTENSIVE
For the serious student of herbal medicine, human health, and the ancient, sophisticated connection between people and plants.
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
🌿 The Art of Formulation: how to create individually-tailored herbal formulas, and when to consider simples rather than formulations
🌿 Plant Energetics: hot/cold, damp/dry; the medicinal qualities of taste, how energetics change with preparation, and more
🌿 People Energetics : via traditional Chinese, humoural, western herbal, and allopathic lenses
🌿 Diagnostic Tools: face + body, tongue + pulse + eye
🌿 Materia Medica: in-depth overviews of many medicinal plants, including preparation + dosages
🌿 In-depth Study of Body Systems: a deep, comprehensive understanding of each, what can go awry, and how to address
🌿 Preparation Skills: alcohol, vinegar, glycerine tinctures; tea blends; topical preparations, and much more, taught with specific ratios to allow for comprehensive dosing
🌿 Case Studies: real-life examples of common health issues and herbal protocols to support healing
🌿 Individual Projects: deepen your learning in an area that particularly interests you, either alone or in a small group. The final two classes are dedicated to project presentations, and are a course highlight!
and more, as determined by the teachers, the students, and the seasons…
LOGISTICS + PRICING
This course includes 35 (online) / 42 (in-person) hours of in-class time
AND
~ 30 hours of guided out-of-class time, which is spent practicing diagnostic tools, working on individual/ small group projects, wildcrafting, medicine-making, and completing readings.
Your Investment: $2099
Monthly payment plans ($350/ mo for 6 months) available.
A certificate will be awarded upon successful completion of the course.
2026 IN-PERSON DATES
Class is held 9:00am - 3:00pm
in Bristol, Vermont
Saturday May 9
Saturday June 13
Saturday July 11
Saturday August 8
Saturday September 12
Saturday October 10
Sunday October 11
Sunday September 13: this is a make up day; we’ll only meet this day if we’ve had to cancel an earlier class.
2026 ONLINE DATES
Classes run from 9:00a-12:30p EST on Zoom
Friday May 1
Friday May 29
Friday June 19
Friday July 10
Friday August 14
Friday September 11
Friday October 10
Friday November 13
Friday December 11
Friday December 18
Friday November 20: this is a make up day; we’ll only meet this day if we’ve had to cancel an earlier class.
This course is open to students who have completed the Creating Your Home Apothecary course or comparable study elsewhere. The goal of this intermediate year of study is to increase the depth and breadth of your understanding of the human body and emotions, the pharmacopeia of medicinal plants who surround us, the intersections between these plants and our health and well-being, and the movement and mechanism of disease through ecosystems and our bodies.
This is not a course intended to launch you directly into a clinical practice, but is a hugely supportive stepping stone if that is the path you are hoping to follow. Think of this year of study as a middle step in a path toward becoming a full-time clinical herbalist, and as a strong, comprehensive foundation if your path is one of personal, family, and community support. It is a way of seeing yourself and your loved ones through a lifetime of changing health - both long-term trends based on individual constitution and in-the-moment support as needs arise. If you are a healthcare provider, it is a complementary addition to your current healing work.
Questions about this course? Reach out!
ADVANCED:
CLINICAL
PRACTICUM
ADVANCED CLINICAL PRACTICUM
Designed for those who wish to gain the depth of knowledge and confidence that only real-time clinical observation, mentor-led discussions, and corresponding custom-tailored herbal formulation can offer, this Clinical Practicum offers the following:
🌿4 small-group, advanced classes, including 6 full-length initial consultations with volunteer clients in a group setting
🌿 6-10 follow up consultations with the same clients
🌿 Interactive clinical time that offers both observation and engagement for each student
🌿 Group discussions of health issues presented and the formulation of custom-blended herbal protocols for each client
🌿 Practical skill-building: intakes, health histories, assessment techniques, client/herbalist rapport, formula-making
🌿 In-depth study of whatever health issues our clients share
🌿 An understanding of how to approach each clinical interaction holistically, taking into account both physical and emotional well-being and addressing each to the best of our ability with appropriate herbal, lifestyle, and dietary suggestions.
This advanced practicum is open to students who have completed both the Creating Your Home Apothecary course and the Practical Herbalism Intensive, or comparable study elsewhere.
Healing happens most often when we are able to see, and help our clients see, how rarely health concerns arise in isolation. We learn instead to recognize the interconnectedness of each individual’s past and present lifestyle, diet, relationships, stressors, and more, which we then do our best to understand, respect, and support in the context of physical and emotional well-being .
Questions about this course? Reach out!