Botanical Eyes

Community Herbalism Program

Welcome more of the herbal world into your daily life habits and gain access to the tools and knowledge that will support your and your family’s health. Returning to the foundations beneath you and deepening your connection to community and local ecologies, the Community Herbalism and Nutrition two-year program prepares you to see and source the abundance around you while growing your herbalism practice into its next season of wisdom. From nutrition empowerment to plant identification to herbal remedies addressing root causes of symptoms and common ailments, weave a tapestry of community and herbal allies to guide you and foster your wellbeing. 

In this two-year comprehensive program you will have access to:

• Live and recorded online lectures and workshops
• Downloadable worksheets and herbal informational guides
• Optional in-person medicine-making workshops
• Access to lead instructor, and online community forum 

Year 1 hosts:

• Herbal actions and energetics of Southwest plants lectures series (January - June)
• Plus companion field study work for those who interview and apply
• Foundational Herbalism (June - October)
• Foundational Nutrition September - (December)

Year 2 hosts: 

• Lectures series on the ethical use of toxic botanicals and clinical uses of common plants (February - June)
• Plus companion field study work for those who interview and apply 
• Clinical Herbal Formulations and Constitutional Theory (July - November)

By the end of the two-year program you will be able to: 

• Answer basic physiology questions and nutrition for optimal health
• Determine organ system involvement in symptomatology
• Understand herbal responses to common ailments such as colds, heartburn, skin issues, and more
• Apply herbal remedies to address acute and generalized symptoms based upon the person’s need and history
• Identify edible weeds and common lookalikes
• Ethical and sustainable harvesting and medicine making

Who should join this program?

This program is right for you if you are ready to deepen your commitment to yourself

and your community through a better understanding of how nutrition affects our daily lives

and how to address common deficiencies through herbal remedies and wildcrafting. 

Especially if you:

• Yearn for a deeper connection with nature
• Have an interest in natural health
• Have a desire to source local medicine
• Work in a herb shop or health food store
• Have an interest in working clinically with your community 
• Are already enrolled in one class
• And you want to expand your work with Sage Country Herbs
• Then we look forward to connecting with you! 

When can I get started?

• If you want to sign up for the online program with the field work, it starts with requesting an interview.
• Interviews for the Field Apprenticeship open in August - until we are full. There are 14 Field Apprentice spots per year.
• If you want to sign up for the online program, click the sign up button on this page.
• Registration for the Community Herbalism program opens twice per year.
  • Nov. 15th - Jan. 15th registration opens to begin our online program with Actions & Energetics of Southwest Plants.
  • During this registration period, approved Apprenticeship applicants can sign up.
  • April 15th - June 15th registration opens to begin our program with Foundational Herbalism. 
• If you have filled out the form on this page or signed up for our free mini-course series, then you are already on the list for preregistration.

Cost

Discounts for program registration over ala carte course purchase

Community Herbalism & Nutrition Online 

2 year program $4450

One time payment of $3500 (saving $950!)

OR

22 Payments of  $165 (saving over $800)

2 year Community Herbalism Program online program with field apprenticeship

* An interview is required for this option.

Go to the Apprenticeship page & request one.

1st year Field Apprenticeship plus Botanical Eyes CHP

Payment in full for first year $3600, (saves $850)

Or 12 payments of $310

1st year must be completed before acceptance into 2^nd year field

2nd year Field plus Botanical Eyes CHP

Payment in full for 2nd year is $3000

OR

10 payments of $300

(offering $500 in savings)

Understand how your body works with the macro and micronutrients needed

for you to thrive.

• Role of pH
• Food & Inflammation
• Blood Sugar
• Digestive physiology
• Fabulous Fiber
• And so much more...

​​​​​​Learn all aspects of integrating herbal medicine into your life today:

• Medicine Making
• Smoke as Medicine
• Exploring Solvents
• Herbal Stress Support
• Tea Formulation
• How to address common health Issues
• And so much more...

Immerse yourself in the ecology, history, and incredible abundance of Southwest plants.

• What are plant actions?
• Herbal energetics
• Identify weedy edible plants
• Medicine of SW plants
• And so much more... 

Take your herbal practice to the next level.

• Herbal formulation
• Ethics of working clinically
• Energetics of plants people and place
• Physiology of stress & Inflammation
• Autonomic nervous system
• And so much more...