The Home Herbalist

A Foundational Path

Take root in the healing traditions of your ancestors. Learn herbal medicine basics to care for yourself and your family. Align with the medicine of the seasons. Learn the language of plants. Engage the practical plant magic in the rituals of everyday.

  • Foundations

    The Home Herbalist includes foundational skills such as medicine making and a materia medica of 20 medicinal plants. We also deepen our connection through Plant Spirit Medicine.

  • Self Care

    The program is grounded in seasonal medicine and rituals. We cover basic herbal care including herbs for cold & flu, digestion, skin care, sleep, and stress.

  • Magical Tools

    Now and Then Herb School is oriented towards practical magic for daily life. Throughout the program we cultivate practices with basic magical tools, such as grounding, boundaries, clearing, altarwork, and offerings.

  • Social Justice

    We offer tools to contextualize herbalism within the greater systems of oppression that impact health and healing. We understand ancestral reconnection as a decolonial practice and hold space throughout the program to address how appropriation, exploitation, and commodification impact herbalism.

Join The Home Herbalist

We are now offering a virtual, self-paced version of The Home Herbalist as well as an in-person cohort.

The online version of The Home Herbalist has open enrollment. Sign up today!

The in-person cohort of The Home Herbalist is taking place in the East Bay on unceeded Chochenyo, Ohlone land in 2025. We’ll gather for one weekend per season: Summer Session is June 14 & 15, Fall Session is September 6 & 7, and Winter Session is December 6 & 7, and the Spring Session is March 7 & 8.

Submit an application for the 2025 in-person cohort today!

What does The Home Herbalist consist of?

  • The essential and indispensable skills, knowledge and frameworks that support your path as a home herbalist.

    • Basic Herbal Safety

    • Plants as People: Communication & relationship building with plants and the more than human world

    • Honoring Ancestral Medicine

    • Decolonizing/Unsettling Herbalism: Cultural appropriation, commodification, exploitation, and systems of power in herbalism

    • Plant Spirit Medicine

    • Basic Botany

    • Kitchen Witchen & Food As Medicine

    • Medicinal Gardening

  • Learn to work with herbs to navigate the discomforts of daily life. This is part of how we build resiliency and interdependence with the plants.

    • Herbs for Stress

    • Herbs for Sleep

    • Herbs for Digestion

    • Herbs for Skin Care

    • Herbs for Cold & Flu

    • Herbal First Aid

  • Make medicine together in your own kitchen. This model is great for building embodied experience of making medicine with the tools you have, while being able to ask questions as they come up to hone your skills.

    • Medicinal Teas: Infusions & Decoctions

    • Tinctures & Vinegars

    • Oxymels & Cordials

    • Infused Oils & Salves

    • Essences

    • Hydrosols

    • Herbal Gummies

  • Foundational knowledge of 20 plants that covers:

    • Energetics

    • Cultural context

    • Folklore

    • Physical medicine

    • Spirit medicine

    • Medicine making

    • Growing

  • The Home Herbalist is rooted in seasonal ritual and medicine.

    • Learn how to work with the seasons with herbal recipes

    • Embody class rituals for each season

    • Get to know the wheel of the year

  • The what, when, why, and how of basic spirit work. In other words, practical magic for daily life.

    • Grounding

    • Boundaries

    • Altars & Offerings

    • Clearing

The Investment

Virtual & Self-Paced

  • The virtual and self-paced version of The Home Herbalist is coming soon (likely this spring, subject to change).

  • We are offering Early Bird Pricing until June 1st. Payment plans are also available!

    Early Bird: $369
    Regular Pricing: $444

In Person

  • An in-person iteration of The Home Herbalist is coming to the East Bay in 2025.

    We’ll gather seasonally:

    • June 14 & 15 (Summer)

    • Sept 6 & 7 (Fall)

    • Dec 6 & 7 (Winter)

    • Mar 7 & 8 (Spring)

    Class will be from 9am-5pm PT on Saturday and Sunday, with one hour for lunch.

  • Sliding Scale $300-$400 per weekend, or $1200-$1600 total. Payment Plan schedule TBA.

A snapshot of your post program

It’s your first winter post apprenticeship, you are in your kitchen, it smells spicy sweet from the Ginger & Elderberry winter wellness tea you are brewing on the stove, and resinously aromatic from the solstice cedar boughs hanging over your doorways.

You are tending to the tinctures and oils you made last month, singing to them as you stir and strain, thanking them as they share with you their secrets and their gifts.

In walks your friend who has the cold that’s going around. You sit them down with a hot mug of your winter wellness tea as you prepare an herbal steam to sooth their congestion. You pour out an herb blend your ancestors traditionally used for colds, feeling your hands guided by the long lineage of healers that came before.

Your friend leaves, a little less congested, with spirits lifted by the magic of plants and the care of an herbalist. You spritz your home down with the germ-be-gone spray you made in herb class on your way to a steaming Rose & Mugwort bath you poured to mark the new moon and ease your sore muscles.

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