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April

Mondays: 4/14, 4/21, 4/28
Saturday: 4/19

  • The taste of herbs and how they affect the body (an ongoing theme in the course)

  • Herbal Actions and Energetics - another ongoing theme in the course that will give you a strong foundation and ability to match plant energetics to people's energetics

  • Responsible and ethical wild-harvesting practices

  • Plant allies - choosing a plant ally or letting it choose you

  • Plant spirit meditations

  • Spring edibles - cooking up the wild green bounty

  • Intro to medicine making - Teas, nourishing infusions, decoctions, tinctures, and elixirs

  • Plant walks and what's popping up NOW in Minneapolis and surrounding areas

May

Mondays: 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, NO class 5/26
Saturday: 5/17

  • The nervous system and corresponding materia medica - Oats, Rose, Wood Betony, Skullcap, and grounding roots including Kava, Burdock, Aralia spp.

  • Spring ephemeral flowers and traditional uses

  • Spring cleaning, detox myths, fad diets, and kidney health

  • Blood-building, blood deficiency, foods, herbs

  • Medicine making - infused oils, salves, syrups, honey, and pastes

  • What's popping up NOW in Minneapolis and surrounding areas

June

Mondays: 6/2, 6/9, 6/16, 6/22, 6/30
Saturday: 6/21

  • Special focus on meeting Hawthorne, Rose and celebrating Summer Solstice, wild berries, other edibles

  • Sweet Medicines and honeyed healing.

  • Cardiovascular system and corresponding materia medica

  • Heart chakra and heart-based awareness—Herbs for the Spiritual Heart

  • In-depth focus on Rose medicine, Hawthorn berry, and Cacao beans

  • Boundaries

  • Making Flower Essences

  • Body care preparations to nourish heart space and self-care rituals

  • Making body creams, ritual bathing, using flower essences in healing and self-care

  • What's popping up NOW in Minneapolis and surrounding areas

July

Mondays: 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28
Saturday: 7/19

  • Making summer medicines and wild-harvesting, preserving

  • Enchanted Elderflower medicine

  • Monarda fitsulosa

  • The musculoskeletal system - bones, muscles, joints, and connective tissue and corresponding materia medica.

  • Botany in a Day and other fun learning plant ID.

  • What's popping up NOW in Minneapolis and surrounding areas

August

Mondays: 8/4, 8/11, 8/18, 8/25
Saturday: 8/16

  • Digestive system and corresponding materia medica

  • Nutrient assimilation, probios, our bodies inner eco-system, and fermentation

  • What helps you to “digest” things (In life, prayer, meditation, yoga, communing with nature, etc)

  • Current societal issues relating to digestion - bacterial overgrowth, leaky gut, food allergies, and candida

  • Herbal first-aid

  • Reading the body - tissue states, human energetics, and constitutional systems - Humoral temperaments and Doshas

  • What's popping up NOW in Minneapolis and surrounding areas

September

Mondays: 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29 No Class 9/1
Weekend Campout*: 9/19-21

  • Respiratory, Immune, Lymph systems and corresponding materia medica.

  • Lungs and tree medicine

  • Cold and Flu remedies, prevention, etc

  • Practice clinicals

  • Pulse and tongue diagnosis

  • Wild root medicines and grounding into autumn with medicinal mushrooms

*More about the weekend campout - We will leave Friday evening and come home Sunday morning/early afternoon. The weekend will consist of wandering the land, wild harvesting, cooking, and enjoying the company of our fellow classmates. There will be more information when the trip gets closer.

Please note - This lesson plan is subject to change and will evolve just like our great green earth.

Ready to get started?

The most important consideration for signing up for this herbal apprenticeship are the dates we hold class, and whether or not you can make the commitment to attend and be a vital member of the apprenticeship community. We also want to get to know you and be sure that this course will be a good fit for you.