Learning to identify wild medicinal plants amongst your local unkept ecosystems is vital in understanding the core practices of herbalism. During these wild medicine, foraging, and wildcrafting sessions you will learn how to channel your inner herbal naturalist. You will differentiate the key characteristics of medicinal plants from the surrounding environment, learn extensive guidelines for foraging, and begin to build a Materia Medica. 

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Expect to spend time directly in nature, with the plants, learning the nuances of bioregional herbalism. Grounded in resilience, understanding reciprical relationship, allyship with the land, wild botany, ancestral and natural history. 

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Expect To: 

• Gain an extensive knowledge of foraging local wild herbs and edible plants

• Learn how to mindfully wildcraft with these plants in a way that supports your body and the environment

• Build a wild bioregional-based apothecary and basic materia medica

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Building a Materia Medica: A Materia Medica is an extensive written account of a plant that includes:

• A plant's scientific name

• Origins

• Botanical vocabulary that describe the appearance 

•  How it is cultivated  

• The plant's history as well as its modern day use

•  The plants herbal actions, constituents, and energetics.

• The modalities in which the plant is used. 

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