Imagine this: Spring arrives and you know exactly which plants to harvest locally and how to weave them into your life for greater wellbeing. You’re a confident herbalist and forager, who knows how to make dozens of wild and wonderful recipes from the plants outside your door—maybe even from your own backyard!
In our Foraging Bundle, you’ll find all the resources you need to forage with confidence this spring, including in-depth plant profiles and dozens of herbal recipes so you can have fun in the kitchen, right away!
In this bundle, you will learn:
ENROLLMENT in the Botany & Wildcrafting Course where you will gain a solid foundation in botanical identification, biology, and ecology, paired with ethical wildcrafting tips and instructions for making herbal formulas, like oils, salves, and teas, from your foraged botanicals.
A PHYSICAL COPY OF the Botanical Illustrations Workbook to help you cement your knowledge of wild plants. While coloring each plant, you will learn about its identifying features and edible and herbal uses.
COMPLIMENTARY ENROLLMENT in The Foraging Course, where you can find an additional 48 recipes using the botanicals you learn to identify and harvest locally!
A PHYSICAL COPY OF the Forager’s Pocket Guides. With these two handy pocket guides, you’ll have the information you need and record-keeping capability close at-hand as you embark on your foraging adventures.
BONUS #1: Access to the private, live webinar: Herbs and Lifestyle Tips for Cabin Fever on February 27. (We’ll share the replay link with anyone who can’t make the live event.)
BONUS #2: A digital download of our Herbal Recipes for Seasonal Affective Disorder Ebook, which includes wonderful herbal recipes and profiles to brighten your mood after as we transition into spring.
BONUS #3: A digital download of our Evergreen Foraging Guide to inspire a foraging adventure, even if spring hasn’t quite arrived in your neck of the woods.
“I love this course, it’s a great way to get started in foraging.
The information that this course gives you about the plants that you can find in your backyard is wonderful.”
– M.B., The Foraging Course graduate
Grab your jacket and a harvest basket, because there’s plenty of foraging to be done in the wild and wonderful world of herbalism! Imagine knowing exactly how to identify various wild plants and how to use them in your apothecary and kitchen, including delicious time-tested recipes like nettle pesto and red clover blossom biscuits along with apothecary staples, like tinctures, oils, and teas. You’ll be prepared when the dandelions bloom!
Lesson 1: Welcome to class! Course overview.
Lesson 2: An introduction to plants as living beings—how they grow and develop, how they nourish themselves, how they reproduce and spread, as well as when plants appeared on Earth.
Lesson 3: Explore how plants fit into and interact with the diverse web of living organisms on our planet and why it’s relevant for herbalists. Examine plants and pollinators, soil microorganisms, plant evolution, and more.
Lesson 4: What is bioregional herbalism? Plus, the importance of building relationships with local plants, knowing how much to harvest, and building respect for common “weeds.”
Lesson 1: This entire unit is chock-full of videos and slideshows for you to get an up-close look at wild plants and their identifying features. Learn to ID with greater accuracy as we explore the anatomy of flowers, leaves, and fruits!
Lesson 2: Taking a deeper look at plant anatomy, we’ll deep dive into botanical nomenclature, leaf structure, and how to identify unknown plants using dichotomous keys.
Lesson 3: Explore a new way to look at the plant kingdom so that you can begin to understand patterns in nature and what they tell us about plants and their uses.
Lesson 4: In this hands-on lesson, you will further connect with plants through a drawing exercise with Kristine Brown, a registered herbalist and the author/illustrator of Herbal Roots zine.
Lesson 5: Learn how to create your own herbarium as a learning tool for identifying plant species in your area!
And finally, the harvest!
Lesson 1: Understand the ethics of wildcrafting, seasonal patterns, foraging tools, and sustainable harvesting techniques.
Lesson 2: Explore at-risk and threatened plant species, like slippery elm, ramps, and American ginseng, so you understand what not to harvest, and why.
Lesson 3: Take an urban herb walk to meet common city-foraged plants, including horsetail, jewelweed, ginkgo, and more, paired with conversations about respecting property boundaries and understanding potential pollutants.
Lesson 4: Learn how to preserve foraged herbs for year-round use by drying herbs in a way that maintains their vitality.
Lesson 5: Make basic herbal preparations, including infusions, decoctions, tinctures, syrups, infused oils, salves, poultices, and compresses with confidence using your foraged botanicals.
The Botanical Illustrations Workbook includes 25 botanically accurate illustrations of fun-to-forage plants that commonly occur in the United States, summary monographs to expand your learning experience of these plants, and blank pages for additional sketches and note-taking! Coloring each plant as you learn about its identifying features and edible and herbal uses is a great way to cement your knowledge of these special wild plants.
No matter where you call home, this course will be relevant. New students are joining us each and every day. When you are ready to begin your studies, you’ll be registering with a group of students working through the same lessons you are. Be sure to join our ever-growing student community spaces after you register to connect with herbalists online (and maybe even locally!).
Discover commonly foraged edibles and wild herbs in class with 24 in-depth plant monographs, 48 recipes, and guided videos. This 5-lesson roadmap will be your inaugural crash course into foraging—nothing lightweight about it! We will guide you all the way from planning a foraging adventure to preparing your wild harvest. Absolute beginners, we’ve got you covered, and experienced foragers there’s plenty here for you, too!
Get inspired! It’s time to start your foraging adventures, and we will guide you in doing so safely. Learn all about the benefits of foraging, ethics and sustainability, safety considerations, and harvesting tips and techniques. Discover the tools you’ll need and considerations you’ll need to make before heading out the door.
Let’s dig into wild edibles from burdock, dandelion and chickweed to nettle, purslane, and more. This lesson covers wild food nutrition and the many other benefits of consuming foraged edibles, specific safety considerations for wild foods, and plant monographs documenting all you need to know about commonly foraged edible plants that grow in many different parts of the world.
Explore the many benefits of feasting on foraged food—as if you needed more reason than the sheer joy of harvesting your lunch from the forest or field! Discover how to incorporate wild edibles into your diet so that you can begin reaping the nutritional and health benefits associated with them. From soups and stews to salads and stir-frys, this lesson provides 24 delicious and nutritious wildcrafted recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and, don’t forget, dessert!
How do you use wild botanicals in herbalism? From mimosa and mugwort to pine, plantain, and rose, this lesson dives into specific safety considerations for wild herbs and provides in-depth monographs on commonly foraged herbs that grow all around the world. You’ll learn all about these plants from leaf to root with information on herbal use, herbal actions, energetics, dosage, and safety.
From field to apothecary, this lesson is all about application! Learn how to make herbal preparations with your wild foraged herbs with basic tutorials for making infusions, decoctions, syrups, honeys, tinctures and other extracts, infused oils, salves, compresses, and poultices. We’re expanding on these basics with 24 tried-and-true herbal recipes that showcase our spotlight herbs discussed earlier in Lesson 4.
Every forager needs to keep a record of their findings, and the Forager’s Pocket Guides will keep your adventures and plants organized in the best of style! This set of two 5×7” pocket-friendly books include the Foraging Guide Book, complete with identification and harvest tips for 23 commonly foraged plants along with other useful foraging resources, and the Foraging Record Book. With these two handy pocket guides, you’ll have the information you need and record-keeping capability close at-hand!
“I would and have recommended this course to several people. I have learned a lot about proper identification of plants, and how to make them into useful mixes to help my family. The layout is simple and easy to follow. I am looking forward to my next class!”
– D.H., Graduate
“This course is super straightforward and very easy to understand. I am enjoying learning about every single aspect about the art of foraging. I am only on Lesson 1 and I have already learned so much. I am amazed by all the things I would have never thought to look for. Thank you for providing this course.”
– SL, Graduate
“This class was great. I’m taking it side by side with the introductory course and the information in this class paired perfectly with the introductory course. Starting out in herbalism can seem daunting and expensive but learning more about the plants all around me really helped me figure out that I can dip my toes in without a big upfront investment.”
– RA, Graduate
“I would recommend that anyone interested in learning more about the natural world surrounding them take a course like this to appreciate the complex interplay of nature and human wellness! We need each other to support our ongoing harmony and health.”
– WJB, Graduate
“This course is great for someone who knows nothing or for someone who needs a refresher. Filled with useful information.”
– HCM, Graduate
Only for students of the Foraging Bundle, this exclusive webinar will help you learn how to recognize common symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and then start using simple lifestyle recommendations and mood-lifting herbs, like St. John’s wort, lemon balm, and mimosa, to support a more balanced mood. Bring your questions to this live webinar, which is hosted by Herbal Academy teacher and clinical herbalist, Lindsey Feldpausch RH(AHG) and will take place on Tuesday, February 27th at 2 p.m. EST. If you can’t attend the live event, then make sure to check your email for the replay link.
In tandem with the live webinar (above) you’ll be excited to jump into your kitchen and start whipping up recipes to brush off winter’s sluggishness and prepare for spring. The Herbal Recipes for Seasonal Affective Disorder Ebook features nine recipes with mood-lifting herbs, including a St. John’s Wort Mocktail, a Tulsi Electuary, a Shiitake Soup Seasoning Mix with vitamin D-rich mushrooms, and more!
Looking for inspiration to spend time outdoors? Just because spring isn’t here quite yet, doesn’t mean there’s not plenty of foraging to enjoy now! It’s a great time to walk through the woods and identify the evergreens growing near you, like fir, hemlock, pine, and spruce. This handy, downloadable Evergreen Foraging Guide is a fabulous resource to print and take with you on your next hike.
The final price of this amazing spring Foraging Bundle, including access to BOTH popular courses, their accompanying 3 workbooks, and 3 exclusive bonuses, is….ENROLLMENT in the Botany & Wildcrafting Course
A PHYSICAL COPY of the Botanical Illustrations Workbook
A PHYSICAL COPY of the Forager’s Pocket Guides
COMPLIMENTARY ENROLLMENT in The Foraging Course.
BONUS #1: Access to the private, live webinar: Herbs and Lifestyle Tips for Cabin Fever.
BONUS #2: A digital download of our Herbal Recipes for Seasonal Affective Disorder Ebook.
BONUS #3: A digital download of our Evergreen Foraging Guide.
This bundle has never been offered before.
The discount is limited.
The bonuses are limited.
And it closes on Monday, February 26!
We know you’ll love this bundle! You have 14 days to try the courses yourself, and if you don’t feel they’re a fit, email our team and return your workbooks and bonuses for a full refund. There’s no risk!
ENROLL BY FEBRUARY 26
Join an ever-growing community of more than 100,000 new and returning students at the Herbal Academy! Secure your seat in class while this limited-time offer is open – we’ll “see” you in class!
“The Herbal Academy stood out to me when reviewing schools for my herbalist education. The courses were easy to follow and packed with amazing information and inspiring videos. I’m so happy I finally decided to take the classes and begin my career as an herbalist. Thank you Herbal Academy for helping me make my dream come true.”
– Christine Metzel, Herbal Academy student
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