Resilience

  • $40

10 Herbs I Can't Live Without

Herbs are the original dietary supplements. Increase the diversity of your diet by adding plants that don't usually make it to the table. This short course features 10 herbs to improve wellness and pique your senses. Each herb profile includes how and when to use each herb with recipes and ideas to integrate herbs into a daily routine. I've worked with hundreds of herbs, learn why I can't live without these 10 herbs.

  • $1,222 or 4 monthly payments of $315

2025 - Community Herbal Intensive

  • Closed

The Community Herbal Intensive is a 9-month program focusing on plant identification, herbal techniques, herbal safety, and assessment techniques based on traditional and conventional approaches to herbalism. Includes 6 in-person sessions, 8 video meetings, 4 text books/ebooks, monthly lessons on plants and healing, study guides + optional quizzes for those who are building an herbal resume.

  • $120 or 6 monthly payments of $22

A Year of Trees in Folk Lore & Folk Medicine

Trees are mysterious and full of stories. Trees hide fairies and provide the sustenances for all of the worlds. Trees offer medicine, food, fuel, and materials for tools, jewelry, furniture, and homes. Trees hold unique magic according to legends and tradition. Experience trees in this year-long online experience that will help you put your own roots down and cultivate relationships with these vital Standing People.

  • Free

Art of Resilience: Seasonal Gardening

We created an email-based seasonal gardening guide for the Great Lakes region, because living deeply in a place means knowing a bit about the non-human communities and how they interact with each other. The seasonal gardener learns to watch plant communities and wildlife when making decisions about when to do what. This guide was paid for by The Pollination Project.

  • Free

Becoming a Community Medic

This training is being offered on a sliding-scale basis. That means that the trainer and the host are incurring costs to make this happen but we don't want to exclude anyone based on income. That said we will take donations onsite via cash or venmo, but will not turn anyone away. The suggested donation for Part 2, a five-hour section of the full street medic training, is $10-50. Please donate extra if you are able.

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Community & Herbal Approaches to Disaster Situations

  • Starts Jan 6, 2027

Sometimes all I've had in a desperate situation is the people and plants around me. My lessons learned show you how to be more prepared for disasters through community and herbal strategies for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. Course includes a webinar, two virtual scenarios, online materials, and activities to help you hone your skills, prepare your mind and body, and create a disaster plan.

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Community Distillation for Herbalism and First Aid

Today essential oils are often mass produced using industrial farming and distillation techniques. To make distillation cleaner and closer to home, I'm creating a community of herbal distillers to practice distillation in person and/or receive distilled products for personal use. Community distillation gives us access to locally made products for healing and first aid.

  • $1,765

Community Herbal Intensive - Level 2 - Getting Rooted

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CHI2 delves into the ancestral and cultural aspects of herbalism. Explore seasonal traditions, concepts and techniques in assessment, when and how to use herbs, seasonal recipes, herbal safety, and ideas for further exploration. Includes 12 monthly online sessions, reading materials, assessment practice, case studies, and four weekend retreats. Learn to match herbs to people, not disease.

  • Free

Community Medic Training

  • Starts May 23

This training is being offered on a sliding-scale basis. That means that the trainer and the host are incurring costs to make this happen but we don't want to exclude anyone based on income. That said we will take donations onsite via cash or venmo, but will not turn anyone away. The suggested donation for the 3-day medic training, is $30-150. Please donate extra if you are able.

  • Free

Fire & Ice

Fire & Ice is similar to yin/yang but influenced by living in North America. Develop a foundational understanding of the principles of Fire & Ice in ancient healing techniques that persist today. This introduction to Northways Herbalism is part of the process of re-envisioning North American herbalism as a distinct expression of traditional healing techniques rooted in the people of this continent.

  • Free

Herbal Resilience in Uncertain Times

My personal stories from working in free clinics during environmental and political disasters and how I translated my experiences into post-traumatic growth and resilience using herbalism.

  • $77 or 2 monthly payments of $42

Mushrooms: Magic, Medicine, and Lore

Fairy circles, visionary experiences, and culinary delights: mushrooms are magical and mystical, offering deep nourishment and profound healing. My decade of using wild mushrooms as food and medicine will guide you through practical ways of integrating mushrooms into daily routines. Learn culinary and medicinal techniques to enjoy the benefits of wild and gourmet mushrooms while avoiding common mistakes.

  • Free

Radical Responsible Herbalism: Lessons in Herbal Safety from the Front Lines

Radical Responsible Herbalism is about getting to the root of the problem for effective and safe use of herbs. A radical approach means addressing root problems to support healing of the whole body-mind-spirit. My lessons come from working with people in emergent situations, helping them recover from burn-out and trauma, and developing long-lasting resilience.