Regenerative Foraging and Ethical Sourcing

Regenerative Foraging and Ethical Sourcing

"Regenerative Foraging and Ethical Sourcing" is a short guide for wild food foragers, herbalists, and homesteaders. This downloadable PDF provides food-for-thought for gatherers to develop practices that consider how they interact with the environment to preserve the ecosystem, the plant population, and the animals and insects that depend on those plants. Tips on sourcing herbs are included.

Download the PDF here: https://www.trilliumcenter.org/ethical-foraging

2026 - Community Herbal Intensive 1: Getting Grounded

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Welcome to the Community Herbal Intensive 2026

  • How to Navigate this Course1
  • Radical Responsible Herbalism: Lessons in Herbal Safety from the Front Lines2
  • Regenerative Foraging and Ethical Sourcing
  • Monthly Materia Medica - Plant Study
  • Suggested Activities
  • Intro Quiz
  • Course Outline

March

  • What is Herbalism?
  • Ground Rules
  • Tree Identification.pdf2
  • Hydrotherapy.pdf
  • Respiration.pdf
  • Materia medica
  • Suggested Activities and Experiments2
  • March Webinar
  • March Slides
  • March Quiz

April

  • Early Spring Botany
  • Community Project Frameworks
  • Digestion and Detoxification.pdf
  • Herbal Powders.pdf
  • Legal Issues
  • How much? How often?.pdf
  • Materia medica
  • Suggested Activities
  • April Webinar
  • April Slides
  • April Quiz

May

  • Late Spring Botany1
  • Weaving a Web
  • Herbs for Children
  • Herbs for Reproductive Systems
  • Materia medica
  • Herbal Actions.pdf
  • Infusions&Decoctions.pdf
  • Suggested Activities
  • May Quiz
  • May Webinar
  • May Slides

June

  • Midsummer Botany
  • Getting Started with a Project
  • Nervous System.pdf
  • Materia media
  • Ethical Foraging.pdf
  • Nourishment as a Foundation of Herbalism.pdf
  • Suggested Activities
  • June Quiz
  • June Webinar
  • June Slides
  • Syrups & Cordials

August

  • Late Summer Botany
  • Project Planning
  • Lymph and Immunity.pdf
  • Herbs by Taste.pdf
  • Materia medica
  • Suggested Activities
  • August Quiz
  • August Slides

September

  • Autumn Botany
  • Implementing Projects
  • Kidneys, Bladder & Adrenals
  • Musculoskeletal System
  • Materia medica
  • Vitalism
  • Doctrine of Signatures
  • Suggested Activities
  • September Quiz
  • September Slides

October

  • Autumn Botany
  • Evaluating Projects
  • Circulatory System.pdf
  • Materia medica
  • Colors of Vitality.pdf
  • Suggested Activities
  • October Quiz
  • October Slides

November

  • Late Autumn Botany
  • Evaluations
  • Presenting Your Project
  • Endocrine System.pdf
  • Materia medica
  • November Quiz
  • November Slides