NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Join Herbalista as we dive into the exiting world of herbal medicine and explore a range of skills and techniques for creating potent plant medicines.

Appropriate for complete beginners or for folks wanting to hone or acquire additional apothecary skills, this is a self-paced course open for enrollment at anytime!

In addition to hours of videos and demonstrations, this course offers extensive resources, including instructional handouts, medicine making worksheets, delish recipes and other helpful resource listings.

Your teacher is Herbalista Lorna, founder of the Herbalista Free Clinic and Free School. She is a practicing herbalist, foot worker, medicine maker, and driver of the Herb Bus.

COURSE CONTENT

This course covers a wide array of preparations and medicine making techniques:

  • Tincture Making
  • Weight : Volume Method
  • Basic Maceration of Fresh and Dry Plants
  • Mixing Custom Menstruums
  • Percolation
  • Alcohol-free Extraction
  • Hot Glycerite Extraction
  • Vinegar-based Extraction
  • Water Medicine
  • Infusions + Decoctions
  • Syrups
  • Hydrotherapy
  • Oil-based Medicine
  • Infused Herbal Oils
  • Salves
  • Herbal Distillation
  • Hydrosols + Essential Oils
  • Herbal Candy + more

GOOD HERBALISTA PRATICES

In addition to the basics of medicine making, we will also take a look at how to build and maintain an herbal apothecary, using the Herbalista dispensary as an example. We will share tips on concepts such as:

  • Proper Labeling
  • Record-keeping + Tracking
  • Proper Identification and Using Organoleptics
  • Sanitation + Bottle Cleaning

We share a mini-tour of the original Atlanta Herbalista Apothecary and hope to share with you all the simple methods that we use to create a highly functional community dispensary.








GET WHAT YOU NEED
GIVE WHAT YOU CAN

Pour a cup of tea and join us as we build community through herbalism!

No matter where you are, you are surrounded by herbal medicine. Even in the urban concrete jungle there is healing all around us.

Herbal medicine is the oldest and most widely used form of medicine in the world! Effective, affordable, environmentally friendly, with minimal side effects, and tantalizing to all the senses, herbs are a vital part to a healthy present and future!

Hop aboard the Herb Bus and join us on our adventures in herbalism.