The 2025 Foundations Program is now open for signups! 

This course might be for you if:

• You feel that humans need to repair their relationship with the natural world
• You know that human health is related to environmental health
• You yearn for a deeper understanding of ways to confidently support your health and the health of your family with foods and herbal preparations that you can make yourself

Join Linda and guest teachers for a full day each month learning about identifying, growing, processing and using plants! Hands-on activities such as plant and plant family ID, propagation, harvesting, seed saving, and product making as well as some book learning about human physiology and herbal constituents help to provide a framework for future study that you will not find in online herbal programs.

Each daily class structure includes the following:
1. An herb walk
2. A botany lesson on a plant family
3. Body system physiology discussion
4. Growing, Harvesting, and Processing
5. Medicine Making

Tuition: $800 plus $140 for materials fee ($23.33 per class). 

Upon signup, you receive a coupon code for 25% student discount that can be applied to most of our products!

Classes take place at our farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. We have had students from as far as 3 hours away as well as students who have loved it so much that they have taken the class as many as three times. 

Materials fee includes all alcohol, oils, vinegar, honey, hydrosols, essential oils, jars and bottles used in class each month. Herbs are included with the cost of tuition.

Classes will be offered in your choice of three cohorts: third Sundays or third or fourth Mondays.  Classes run IN PERSON once monthly April, May, June, August, September and October from 11 am to 4:30 pm each day, rain or shine.

The ONLINE component of the course is a monthly 1.5 hour lecture with Q+A each month focused on a body system. Linda offers herbal approaches to supporting the health of each system in the lectures, which are offered via Zoom on Mighty Networks (our course community platform), are recorded, and will be offered on the first Monday evening of the month.

Our 2025 session details:

Monthly Online Physiology Lectures

Mondays from 5:00-6:30 PM on the first Monday of the month (4/7, 5/5, 6/9 (bumped due to May holiday schedule), 7/7, 8/4, 9/2 (Tuesday due to holiday), 10/6).  The lectures are recorded if you can't make it but you will get more out of live participation. 

Monthly On Farm Practical Experience

The 2025 Dates take place on your chosen day each month. These dates are subject to change.

Third Monday Group On-farm Dates

4/21, 5/19, 6/23 (4th Monday due to Holiday schedule changes), 8/18, 9/15, 10/20

Third Sunday Group On-farm Dates

4/27 (4th Sunday due to Easter), 5/18, 6/22 (4th Sunday due to Father's Day), 8/17, 9/21, 10/19

Fourth Monday Group On-farm Dates

4/28, 6/2 (bumped to following week due to Memorial Day), 6/30 (5th Monday due to Holiday schedules), 8/25, 9/22, 10/27

Students may arrange to switch groups in cases of travel or sickness to another day if needed. We also have an extensive online portion in which students have access to recoded lectures and materials if unable to make a particular month due to illness or travel. 

Frequently Asked Questions

I don't know much about herbs. Is this class for me? Yes! Linda teaches for both beginner herbalists and experienced herbalists who want more exposure to working with plants where they grow. When she started studying plant medicine, Linda learned by studying the plants where they grow with experienced herbalists in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. How to identify them, what kind of environment that they like, what kinds of plants grow together. She does her best to impart this knowledge unto her students because she believes that it is a missing piece of many herb programs.

The cost seems high. Do you offer payment plans? We understand that it is hard to part with every hard-earned dollar! We have not increased our course price in 3 years.  Be reassured in knowing that this is an investment in your future self, leading to a more independent, connected, and confident approach to herbs and self-care. We keep the classes small (12 students per group) and so while that does increase the cost per person, it also increases the value in that you have more intimate and attentive experience. The products that we make during each class offsets the investment as you build your home apothecary, as do the gleaning opportunities that you will have to harvest after class each month. And yes, you can choose a payment plan option at checkout.

What if I have vacation during my class time? You are welcome to switch your class day to another class, if necessary, with advance notice. Otherwise, we have recordings of most of the instruction that Linda provides so that you can catch up before the next class!

What if there is bad weather forecasted? This class is rain or shine. In 10 years, we have only cancelled class once. We will move the class to an indoor location in the case of rain when possible and will cancel only in the case of severe weather.

Is there homework? While outside reading is encouraged, we do not require that you complete assignments between classes. However, as with anything, you will get more out of the class if you put more in.

Do I need to buy lots of herbal supplies? No! All of the supplies that you need for every recipe made in class, including herbs, liquids, waxes and jars are all included in the course materials fee.