The 2024 Foundations Program is OPEN for enrollment starting Saturday, 11/18!
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 ($20 per class).
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: Fridays, Saturdays or Mondays. Classes run IN PERSON once monthly from April through November from 11 am to 5 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 Tuesday evening of the month.
Our 2024 session details:
Monthly Online Physiology Lectures
Tuesdays from 7:30-9PM on the following dates: 4/2, 5/7, 6/4, 7/2, 8/6, 9/3, 10/1. The lectures are recorded if you can’t make it. You are welcome to watch the recording but if you can make it live you will get more out of participation.
Monthly On Farm Practical Experience
The 2024 Dates
Friday Group:
4/19, 5/17, 6/14, 7/19. 8/16, 9/20, 10/18
Saturday Group:
4/20, 5/18, 6/15, 7/20, 8/17, 9/21, 10/19
Monday Group:
4/22, 5/20, 6/17, 7/22, 8/19, 9/22, 10/21
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 an experienced herbalist 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 2 years and 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.
