Join us if you want to:

• build reciprocal, nourishing, joyful relationships with community, plants and land
• root into values of mutual aid, sustainability and justice
• work towards a practice of herbal medicine that’s accessible, integrative, and liberatory
• stay curious, work hard, and fall even deeper in love with the beauty and magic of plants!

We offer our Roots Apprenticeship in person, on the land, and in the gardens. Our Family and Clinical programs are now offered in a low-residency format which students can attend completely remotely, if desired. Family and Clinical students are no longer required to live locally or to travel to Vermont for intensives, as they have in the past. These programs are delivered online, in a synchronous format, meaning students attend weekly, live classes on a schedule; courses are not self-paced.

For Family and Clinical students, there are on-site learning opportunities for students who are able to travel and desire the in-person experience, offered via two 6-day intensive sessions each year in Vermont. Intensives are offered in a hybrid format, combining virtual and in-person students in synchronous learning. Again, in-person time is optional, though everyone must attend intensives, whether virtually or in Vermont.

Our hybrid format is intended to expand the reach of our programs, bringing our relational, integrative and liberatory approach to herbal medicine to more people, as students are able to grow their skills and deepen their practices within their own communities, while connected to a tight-knit cohort of students and faculty. We also hope to increase access to our programs for folks historically and currently marginalized in many herbal education settings, e.g. BIPOC students; those who are disabled, immunocompromised or chronically ill; folks who lack financial resources to move or travel; and/or students who have learning styles better served by a virtual or remote format.

We continue to be committed to teaching and learning through building reciprocal relationships with each other, the plants and the land. Despite our own trepidation, through the crucible of the pandemic, we’ve come to appreciate the depth and quality of connection that can be achieved in virtual learning spaces. Whether online or in-person, we’re invested in continuing to create a rigorous, transformative and joyful learning environment for all of us.