From seeds to sprouts to harvest baskets, this green archive contains everything you need to know about cultivating medicinal plants. If you’re the type of herbalist that likes to get down and dirty in the garden, you’ve come to the perfect place. We’ve compiled an array of our most popular herb gardening articles—on starting medicinals from seed, propagating and multiplying herbs, planning the herb garden of your dreams, and more! This round-up even includes tips for growing medicinal herbs in tiny yards, porches, and tight spaces (shout out to our urban gardeners!).

Are you itching to grow herbs but don’t have access to a garden? Or have you had lackluster results with potted porch plants? We’re here to lend a green thumb! Whether you have a small space to work with, or a luxurious outdoor area that’s begging for a medicinal makeover, it can be easy-as-elderberries to grow healing and culinary herbs. Porches, patios, and sunny windowsills are all prime-time real estate for the herb gardener. Take a wink at our Container Gardening Hub for a collection of resources that will have you growing potted plants like a pro.

Curious about how herbal home remedies can help boost your immune system and alleviate nasty cold and flu symptoms? Or perhaps you’re wondering how to use herbs to build up your immune system and prevent colds before they start? We’ve got you covered with everything you need to know about herbal immune stimulants, herbal immunomodulators, and antimicrobial herbs. Plus you’ll find links to our favorite herbal immune system recipes. Nip bugs in the bud here.

It can be frustrating trying to find reliable herbal information on the internet! We promise to always deliver the finest articles on using herbs medicinally—so that you and your loved ones can confidently use and prepare the highest quality natural remedies. You’ll find vital information like dosage, preparation, medicinal use, and precautions & contraindications in each and every materia medica. Ready to learn more about using medicinal herbs effectively? Get started here. 

Do you fantasize about having an apothecary brimming with herbs, tinctures, teas, and syrups? Homemade medicine, done right, can be some of the freshest, MOST effective herbal medicine on the planet. Want to browse our tips and cherished recipes? You can find an online library of our free resources right here.

Come steep yourself in herbal sunshine! Here is everything you need to know about calendula’s healing benefits, plus our recipes for making calendula oils, salves, and teas. Calendula is one of the sunniest herbs around, and one of our most versatile medicinals. Do you have skin issues? Digestive complaints? Or an immune system in need of a boost? Calendula’s your flower! To help you make the most of this merry medicine, we’ve compiled our favorite recipes and resources on preparing and using calendula right here.

This bright medicinal is a plant-lovers dream: it’s a premier ally for seasonal allergies, colds, flu, and urinary tract infections ~ a seasonal dye plant ~  a pollinator mecca ~ and a tasty culinary and beverage herb. Want to find out what the bees already know and love about goldenrod? This is your golden guide to gathering, growing, and using fall’s most iconic wildflower.

If ever an herb could steal your heart, it might be violet. As one of the earliest wildflowers of springtime, violet rolls out a green carpet of lush leaves and draws the eye with its watercolor blooms. Used as a traditional cleansing herb, respiratory remedy, and lymphatic, violet is a plentiful staple for both the home medicine chest and the clinical apothecary. Ready to meet the most welcome “weed” around? We’ve prepared the most florally comprehensive guide to finding, foraging, preparing, and using violet.

Ready to meet the witchiest witch of them all? Witch hazel works its herbal magic in the apothecary as a premier strengthener of the skin and blood vessels—its bark, twigs, and leaves are used for a cascade of conditions ranging from eczema to poison ivy to varicose veins. Come take a witchy wink! Pull up a toadstool and and pore over our wee spellbook of articles on growing, gathering, and using witch hazel.

Are you seeking a spectacular stash of herbal medicine books? We’re happy to present seven special reading lists that highlight our personal picks. There are selections for every kind of plant person: beginning herbalists, advanced and clinical herbalists, herb gardeners, foragers, medicine makers, and budding aromatherapists. We know a good book is worth its weight in goldenrod, and we want to set you up with a sweet stack!

Do plant i.d. and botanical terminology leave you weak in the knees? Do you feel a fascination for plant-ecosystem relationships? We’re right there with you! These topics are near and dear to our hearts, and we love spinning a good yarn about the extraordinary nuances of plant parts, habitats, and the great interconnected web of life. If you’d like to dial in on herbal articles that explore botany and ecology, this will be your cup of palmate-leaved jiaogulan tea.

Everything we take into our bodies is medicine! Which makes food one of our greatest potential healers. Would you like to whip up some of the herbal food-as-medicine recipes we prepare in our own kitchens? Or learn which nutrient-rich wild foods and herbs can impart deep and delicious nourishment? Join us for a colorful, flavorful, and seasonal exploration of food as medicine!

Whether you’re a seasoned medicine-maker or a novice in the apothecary, you can bet your bottom flower that you’ll gain brilliant insights into the art (and science!) of handcrafting your very own herbal remedies in our 150-hour Online Medicine Making Course. In addition to alchemizing the most medicinally-potent herbal preparations around, you’ll soon be crafting edible herbal delicacies and luscious homemade body products—perfect for pampering yourself, loved ones, or clients.

And the anise hyssop on top? If you aspire to set out your shingle as an herbal products entrepreneur, our 44-page Herbal Livelihoods Guide—included in the course—will set you up for success!

Ready to become BFFs with 21 of the most abundant and versatile wild starlets on the planet? Our 375-hour Online Foraging Course will teach you everything you need to know to confidently identify, harvest, and prepare wild food + medicine with the most abundant and nourishing weedy wonders around. You’ll also gain the botany & plant identification skills needed to set you up for a lifetime of foraging new plants in new places—safely and sustainably. The Foraging Course is only available for a small window each year (late winter through early spring).

Our 1,000-hour Online Herbal Immersion was designed with the truly passionate plant person in mind. Encompassing the Medicine Making Course, our seasonally-available Online Foraging Course, and so much more, the Immersion is THE most comprehensive online program in hands-on, sustainable herbalism that exists anywhere in the world.

Are you ready to dive deep? The program covers herbal materia medica, medicinal herb gardening, wild food and medicine foraging, medicine making, botany, plant I.D., and herbal livelihoods in 119 videos, 150+ lessons, and a gorgeous 1,446 page printable course manual.