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No matter where you live, there are healing plants underfoot and towering above. We live in a veritable sea of medicine. Embark on your herbal voyage with us at the helm. ~ We’ll provide the map. You provide the wonder.

Online Medicine Making Course

Imagine your medicine chest filled with homemade herbal tinctures, salves and syrups. A pantry brimming with culinary preparations, conjured up with your own herbal flair.

Online Herbal Immersion Program

Immerse yourself in the art of traditional herbalism. Our 1,000-hour course will guide you in creating the herb garden of your dreams and a truly abundant apothecary of hand-hewn botanical remedies.

You’ll befriend THE most common edible and medicinal wayside plants, including dandelion, stinging nettles, violet, yarrow, burdock, rose, goldenrod, and many others. Registration is only open once a year.

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As our communities recover from Hurricane Helene’s physical and emotional toll, we want to offer you a bright ray of hope and an unparalleled chance to help Appalachia rebuild.

As you may have seen in previous posts, the Chestnut School library and apothecary were destroyed in the flood.

TODAY ONLY: For every full-payment enrollment in the Herbal Immersion Program, we’ll donate $500 to the Herbal Relief Fund! (For all other enrollments, 10% will be donated.)

This is your LAST CHANCE to enroll with 20% off and make an impact.
The Enrollment Discount + Fundraiser ends TONIGHT at Midnight!

Let’s come together to support herbalists and their communities, one enrollment at a time.

Don’t wait—use code RELIEF20 at checkout to save 20% on enrollment before midnight tonight! Your enrollment supports the Herbal Relief Fund, helping us get donations into the hands of those who need them most.

Plus, your full-payment Herbal Immersion enrollment will add $500 to the Herbal Relief Fund!

Comment “HIP” and we’ll DM you the link to our Online Herbal Immersion Program.

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