Permaculture for Plant People

Are you ready to cultivate medicinal and edilbe plants for yourself and community? Are you ready to support the yourself, family and community with herbal medicine and fermented foods that grow all around us? Learn from Caroline and Taelor's experience creating and stewarding our 12 year old food forest along side her onsite community apothecary. The heart of our community, our forest garden is full of medicinal and edible plants that support the health and wellness of our community. We dream of every neighborhood having these resources to support our health, resilience and wellbeing.

This course will walk you through the process of starting and tending medicinal gardens, an introduction to propagation, harvesting, processing and storing techniques and herbal remedy making.  It includes cultivating soil and plants and working with the flows of nature and human systems.  I will introduce specific plants, their needs, how they work within the garden ecosystem. We will cover broad strokes on herbal energetics and actions and how they work to support our health and wellbeing. 

All classes will be recorded and available for you to participate live and watch at your own pace. Each class includes activities to help you along your journey. Participants receive 20% off our shop to help you stock your home apothecary, seeds and plant starts.

Cost : Sliding Scale - $800 - 1,200. Payment plans available.

Reparations scholorships available for our BIPOC community. 

Please reach out with questions. 

Monday - Wednesday evenings 6:30 - 8:30pm on Zoom

October 23th - November 29th

In person day Saturday December 2nd 11-2pm

More in person oportunities to learn during Community Herbalism Days

Class 1  

The Medicine Garden Ecosystem

~What is a medicine garden and how is it different from an annual edible garden.

~Community herbalism and garden activism

Class 2  

Flows and the art of Observation

~Get oriented with the natural flows - sun, water, wildlife, people

~Create your own goal/context for your medicine forest garden

Class 3 

Soil and Water -

~ Growing the Living Soil - no-till, succession, as above so below

~ Small Scale Earthworks to utilize water

Class 4 

~ Plants for the soil - No-till gardening

~ Growing healthy soil takes time - a soil succession story

~ Small scale earthworks, composting and medicinal plants through succession of your soil

Class 5 

~ Design Basics - creating an easy functional scale design to get the job done.

~ Scaled designs to help us see the bigger picture and support our budgets and time

Class 6 

~Seed To Remedy- An Introduction to herbal preparations -

~Herbal tastes, energetics and actions

Class 7 

~Propagation stations for small scale needs

~Seeds, cuttings, division and a bit on grafting

Class 8 

~Design shares and celebrations

~Be the Fulcrum - Break ground - A Declaration!

Bonus In Person Day - Saturday December 2nd 11 - 2 pm -  In person hang time - seed swap plusdivisions and currings from our food forest. We will also share tea -  Garden Party!