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 foundational Roots Apprenticeship in person, on the land. Students gather for weekly hands-on classes in our gardens in Central Vermont over seven months each year.

Our Family and Clinical programs are delivered online, in a synchronous format. Students attend weekly, live classes, moving through the curriculum together in real time, interacting with teachers and fellow students in a virtual classroom. Both programs also include a 6-day in-person intensive each summer–a time to make medicine, explore different ecosystems, practice hands-on skills, and deepen connections with each other and the plants.

Our virtual 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.