A Year in Plants
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An online course in Herbalism. Video classes every month will start out with an introduction to plant medicine and will evolve into how to identify and work with them in the garden, how to make oils, salves, tinctures, creams, and syrups with them as well as how to work with the Moon and Planets to best plant, grow, and harvest and deepen our relationship with them. Join this course month by month, or sign up for an entire year. Get to know wetland, woodland, prairie, and plants of the garden.
January
Introduction to Herbalism — How to engage the five senses to open the sixth sense. Plant flavors/colors/plant signatures.
Plant actions — Learn how Plants are grouped into categories (alteratives/diaphoretics/carminatives/etc…) depending on their actions in the body. Learn the language used by Herbalists to refer to Plants and their medicinal actions.
Begin Simple — Working with intention to begin your journey to find your simple. A plant simple is a singular plant that resonates with you, an herbal ally that is particularly attuned to your current overall health needs.
Herbs for Winter Health — Learn to work with Plants to strengthen the immune system, support the lungs and improve overall health during the winter months.
The Land — A land acknowledgment, and a presentation of Treaty Rights and being in Right Relation.
February
Herbs of St. Brighid’s Day/Imbolc
Plants of the Heart and Love — Learn about herbs that are good for the heart, the cardio-vascular system, and the spirit.
Herbal Astrology — How to work with the Moon, Planets, and Constellations to better commune with the Plants and their medicines. Plant astrology from a Celtic Cultural Perspective.
Herbs for the Bodies many systems/An Overview — Learn about herbs good for each of the major systems of the body. Herbs for the Respiratory System, the Cardiovascular System, the Nervous System, the Digestive System, the Urinary System, the Integumentary System.
Plant Biochemistry - Learn about what gives plants their medicinal actions on a biochemistry level. Learn about what gives certain plants certain colors of flower. Learn about how these biochemical constituents are used in the body to help fight infection, reduce inflammation, and bring the body into better balance and harmony.
March
Spring Cleanse — Herbs of the Liver and Gallbladder,
Making Digestive Bitters — Many cultures use digestive bitters to improve digestion and as an extension, overall health. Learn how to make a digestive bitter tincture.
Herbs for Children — Will focus on herbs that are helpful in maintaining Children’s health.
April
Making the Spring Tonic — An Apple Cider Vinegar based tonic that can include many of the spring bitters and ephemerals.
Virtual Spring Plant Walk — A video plant walk to meet the early spring ephemerals of the woodlands, wetlands, and Prairie.
Making Nettle Pesto
Cooking with the wild Plants — Learn to cook with fiddle head ferns, hosta shoots, and other wildcrafted and foraged foods.
May
Herbs of Bealtaine
Herbs for Reproductive Health — Herbs for Women, Herbs for Men, Herbs for People that help regulate the hormones and endocrine system in the body.
Virtual Spring Plant Walk
Herbs for Headaches
Herbs for Allergies
June
Making herbal oils — How to harvest, and prepare herbal oil that can later form the base of herbal salves, and creams.
Virtual Plant Walks
Herbs of the Summer Solstice
July
Making herbal salves — Learn how to make an herbal salve. Gain insight into why you work with different medicinal oils, and essential oils to effect the body in different ways.
Making an Herbal First Aid Kit
Virtual Plant Walk
August
Virtual Plant Walk
Case Studies - creating herbal formulas.
Herbs for Anxiety and the Nervous System.
September
Making Elderberry Syrup
Virtual Plant Walks
Herbs of the Fall Equinox
Case studies - creating herbal formulas
October
Making an Herbal Lung Support Syrup
Virtual Plant Walks
Case studies - creating herbal formulas
November
Making Fire Cider
Case studies - creating herbal formulas
Creating a Healing Program: Six steps Towards Healing.
December
Herbs of the Winter Solstice
Reflections on a Year in Plants
Zoom gathering for participants in a Year in Plants