Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • Intro to Plants: Ecology, Nomenclature, Botany

    • Nourish and Drain Diary

    • Choosing Your Medicine

    • The Six Steps of Healing

    • Copy of The Six Steps Observation: Dandelion and Oregon Grape Root Comparison

    • General Herbal Medicine Terms Glossary
  2. 2

    • Recommended Reading
  3. 3

    • Nettle – Urtica dioica

    • Fresh Wild Greens Pesto Recipe

    • Alnus rubra Alder

    • Nettle, Urtica sp., cont.

    • Dandelion, Taraxacum officinale

    • Dandelion, Taraxacum officinale, cont.

    • Rumex sp. cont.
  4. 4

    • Plant Families For Herbalists
  5. 5

    • Making Mineral-Rich Herbal Infusions

    • Water-based Preparations Home Study

    • Water-based Preparations 101

    • Herbal Infusions Benefits
  6. 6

    • Fresh Wild Greens Pesto Recipe

    • Harvesting Nettle

    • Why Vinegar?

    • Making Herbal Vinegars

    • Making Herbal Shrubs

    • Make a Recipe: Wild Foods Bring Wild Thoughts!
  7. 7

    • Plant Walk: Entering Harvest Sites

    • Plant Walk: Choosing Harvest Sites

    • Plant Walk: Assessing Harvest Sites

    • Harvest Protocols

    • Harvest and Gathering Rituals
  8. 8

    • Plant Meditation

    • Home Study Project: Wild Plants in Daily Life
  9. 9

    • Choosing Your Menstruum

    • Tinctures 101

    • Tincture Making Using Dried Plants

    • Why Vinegar?
  10. 10

    • Horsetail, Equisetum arvense

    • Rumex sp., Yellow/Red/Curly Dock

    • Dicentra formosa, Bleeding Heart LOW DOSE BOTANICAL

    • Blue Elderberry

    • Willow– Salix sp
  11. 11

    • Copy of Herbal Lineage

    • Happiness Chemicals (and how to get them)

    • Endorphins & Pain

    • Grounding Practice

    • Copy of Herbal Oils

    • Herbal Oils Home Study

    • Botanical Oils 101

    • Choosing your oil menstruum

    • Building a Home Apothecary

    • Copy of Making Herbal Oils & Salves
  12. 12

    • Plants for Emotional Pain

    • Hawthorn Crataegus sp.

    • Leonuras cardiaca, Motherwort

    • May Botanicals Review/Emotional support plants

    • Lemon Balm
  13. 13

    • Oregon Grape– Mahonia sp.

    • Oregon Grape, Mahonia nervosa, cont.

    • Beach Mugwort and Desert Sage

    • Arnica

    • Saint John's Wort– Hypericum perforatum

    • Hypericum perforatum

    • Yarrow Achillea millefolium

    • Verbascum thapsus, Mullien

    • Red Clover, Trifolium pratense

    • Copy of Intro to Willow

    • Copy of Willow– Salix sp

    • Copy of Plant Walk: Willow Habitat

    • Copy of Plant Walk: Harvesting Willow Bark

    • Copy of Plant Walk: Young Willow Along the Skagit

  14. 14

    • What, how, when?

    • Gathering Considerations

    • Spirit of the Plants - Song
  15. 15

    • Deep Listening

    • Spirit, or "Drop" Doses

    • Step by Step Flower Essences

  16. 16

    • Copy of Plant Walk: Botanicals at the Beach- Grindelia integrifolia

    • Copy of Plant Walk: More on Grindelia

    • Copy of Grindelia Honey