High Summer Herbal Apprentice

Old Ways Herbal School of Plant Medicine offers a personalized, hands-on apprentice program for students looking for an in-depth, deeply personal, transformative experience.

Our apprenticeship is not classroom-based; instead, we learn by doing. If you’re interested in personalized learning about seasonal and ecological herbalism, medicinal foods and edible medicines, growing at-risk medicinals, wildcrafting in harmony with the turn of the year, and making and using a wide variety of medicines based on local abundance and seasonal availability, then this is a good program for you. Taught by a Registered Herbalist (AHG) and Family Nurse Practitioner in the farms and forests of Southern Vermont!

Apprentices work side by side with Juliette to learn skills related to medicinal plant propagation and cultivation, botanical sanctuary and food forest maintenance, organic gardening and harvesting, wildcrafting, medicine making techniques, plant identification and basic botany, formulation, clinical assessment skills, food as medicine, and much more. Curriculum is tailored to the individual interests and needs of each year’s apprentices, to ensure that they get the most out of their experience.

We work primarily from a bioregional and seasonal perspective, with native and invasive plants of the Northeast. As the season blooms and goes to seed we discuss the medicinal virtues of the plants around us from the perspectives of Traditional Western Herbalism, Folk Herbalism, and Medical Herbalism, informing our understanding with aspects of other philosophies including Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine.

Apprentices complete a personal culmination project that reflects their unique interests in herbalism. Past culmination projects have included multi-year garden plans, a garden plot, clinical intakes, materia medica, and co-teaching workshops. Apprentices receive a certificate reflecting completion of the program, their culmination project, and hours of study.

Fridays, July 3 through August 28