Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • Waiver & Release

    • Intro to Plants: Ecology, Nomenclature, Botany

    • Nourish and Drain Diary

    • General Herbal Medicine Terms Glossary

    • Plant Families For Herbalists
  2. 2

    • Making Mineral-Rich Herbal Infusions

    • Why Vinegar?

    • Making Herbal Vinegars

    • Choosing Your Menstruum

    • Tinctures 101
  3. 3

    • Dandelion, Taraxacum officinale

    • Plant Walk: False Dandelion

    • Dandelion, Taraxacum officinale, cont.

  4. 4

    • Oregon Grape– Mahonia sp.

    • Oregon Grape, Mahonia nervosa, cont.

    • Plant Walk: Oregon Grape Habitat
  5. 5

    • Plant Walk: Entering Harvest Sites

    • Plant Walk: Choosing Harvest Sites

    • Plant Walk: Assessing Harvest Sites

    • Harvest Protocols

    • Harvest and Gathering Rituals

    • Gathering Considerations
  6. 6

    • Nettle – Urtica dioica

    • Nettle, Urtica sp., cont.

    • Fresh Wild Greens Pesto Recipe

    • Harvesting Nettle

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

    • Building a Home Apothecary
  8. 8

    • Hawthorn Crataegus sp.
  9. 9

    • 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

  10. 10

    • Plant Walk: Conifer Medicine

    • Alnus rubra- Red Alder

    • Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  11. 11

    • Tincture Making Using Fresh Plants