Welcome to the Free School
Course Offerings:
HERBAL FOUNDATIONS (Learn more)
IN THE FIELD (Learn more)
HERBAL MEDICINE MAKING (Learn more)
COMMUNITY + CLINICAL CARE (Coming in 2024)
About Herbalista
Since 2013, Herbalista has provided free community health services and herbal education, empowering folks to care for themselves, support their neighbors and to steward the land around them.
What started as the Herb Bus (a free mobile clinic in Atlanta, Georgia) grew to include the Atlanta Herb Cart and the Dublin Herb Bike and several other community-based projects.
Herbalista Courses
In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the very first Herb Bus Clinic, we launched our first Teachable course on February 6th 2023. Our Herbal Foundations course helps us build strong foundations upon which our practice as community herbalists can thrive.
On May 1st, in honor of Bealtaine (the midpoint between the spring equinox and the summer solstice) we launched our second course, In the Field, to help us build our direct relationships with the plants.
And finally, in June we launched our Herbal Medicine Making Course, allowing us to make effective and vibrant medicine in our own kitchens.
In late 2024, we will launch our final course of the series, Community + Clinical Care.
You can take each course on its own as a stand alone, diving deep into each particular areas. Or you can take all the courses for a more complete exploration of Community Herbalism.
Herbalista Experience
The Free School courses are based directly on our practice. In fact, the info, resources and tools we provide in the course are the very ones we use at Herbalista.
The recipes are developed and used in our clinics; the medicine-making worksheets are designed to help us craft high quality and potent remedies; and the forms are used to manage and run our community projects.
From HerbCare Stations to First Aid Stations; Community Health Fairs to Community Gardens; Fire Cider Brigades to Foot Clinics-- there are so many ways to share herbs with other and we can't wait to explore them all with you!
DISCOVER THE PILLARS
OF COMMUNITY HERBALISM
Community Clinics +
Mobile Medicine
Plant Botany +
Herban Foraging
Herbal Explorations +
Plant Wizardry
Herbal Arts + Formulation
Community Medicine Making
Sharing is Caring
FAQ's
Does this course come with a certification?
- "Herbal Certification" does not exist in the United States at either a federal or state level of qualification. Since there is no set standard for certification, anyone can simply print out a certificate and insta-presto, you are a "certified" herbalist.
- Here at Herbalista, we feel that a certificate should stand for something. Since this course doesn't have graded assignments or offer personalized feedback at this time, we can't vouch for your level of participation and therefore don't feel comfortable awarding certificates.
- If there comes a time where we begin to assess your work and provide feedback, we will happily then provide a certificate.
- But this isn't to say that YOU don't know the level of effort you are putting into these courses. So there ain't no reason why you can't make one yourself to acknowledge all your hard work! After you finish the course, please feel free to craft yourself a Certificate of Participation! We've all got to pat ourselves on the back from time to time. We've a little section at the end of each course to help you make one, reminding you of the areas covered in the course.
How long does each course take?
- Since the courses are self-paced, that really all depends on you. However, we do not recommend moving too quickly through the material to give yourself time to really explore and deepen your herbal relationships.
- To give you an approximation, each course is made up of several modules. Each of those modules has several video lectures or demonstrations.
- Herbal Foundations has 9 modules.
- Herbal Medicine Making has 15 modules.
- In the Field has 4 modules.
How is it free?
- The Herbalista Free School is supported by our sustaining members who pay small monthly donations that help to maintain all of our programming.
- If you would like to support the work and ensure that the Free School continues, please consider joining our sustaining members program or making a one time donation.
Is there closed captioning for the videos?
- Teachable has finally begun offering closed captioning! We are thrilled this option has become available and have initiated the auto-generation caption feature. We hope they are helpful.
Herbalista welcomes students, volunteers, partners, patients, clients, guests, and friends of any race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, economic strata, ability, sexuality, and gender-orientation to join us! We believe in diversity, not discrimination!
We believe that true healthCARE is based on a foundation of mutual respect and mutual aid– Solidarity not Charity!
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