ARE YOU EAGER TO LEARN MORE ABOUT GROWING AND PROCESSING HERBS?
READY TO GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY?
Gardening is not the sort of thing you can learn from a book. You can read about it all you want, but you won’t know how to do it until you actually dig in.
And the same goes for plants — reading about them only goes so far. Nothing can match the experience of working with them, around them, and for them. It’s the many hours of gentle weeding, pruning, tending, and enjoying plants that add up to a deep intuitive understanding of them.
This season-long apprenticeship is designed to teach you every aspect of organic herb gardening as well as harvesting the herbs and turning them into healing medicines.
You will learn to be fully self-sufficient in the realm of herbal medicine, from growing the herbs to making the remedies.
We will meet once a month for four hours (9am-1pm). We will spend the first 3 hours working in the garden and the last hour processing herbs and making medicines from them.
There will be two options: a Tuesday option and a Saturday option. You can select the day that works for you. The class size is limited to only 7 apprentices per group.
GARDENING SKILLS YOU WILL LEARN:
Starting Herbs from seed: scarifying, stratifying, and the unique challenges of propagating herbs
Planting Herbs
Waking up the Garden: Pruning, Tilling, and Nourishing the soil
Planting
Weeding
Root Division
Seed Saving
Harvesting leaves, flowers, seeds, fruits, and roots
Perennial vs. annual garden maintenance
HERBAL SKILLS YOU WILL LEARN:
Drying leaves, flowers, seeds, fruits, and roots
What to wash and what to not
Garbling and storing dry herbs
Herbal Infusions
Flower essences
Herbal Tinctures
Herbal Oils
THIS APPRENTICESHIP IS FOR YOU IF:
You don’t have an herb garden but still want to spend time outside with the plants
You have a garden but want to incorporate medicinal herbs
You grow herbs but don’t know how to process or use them
You’re an experienced herb gardener and you want to hang out with friendly folks while gardening
You’ve been studying herbalism online and are looking for an affordable hands-on component
You are considering working on (or starting) an herb farm and want to see what it’s like before taking the leap
THIS APPRENTICESHIP IS NOT FOR YOU IF:
Physical labor is difficult for you (e.g it’s hard for you to lift more than 30 lbs; you’re not comfortable digging; it’s hard for you to bend over; your back, knees, or hips get sore easily)
You don’t like weeding (and you don’t want to learn how to like weeding)
You don’t like working in full sunlight for multiple hours
You don’t like sweating and getting dirty
Spots are limited to 7 spots per Tuesday or Saturday option.