Home Herbalism

Knowledge of proven, effective medicine-making is central to healthy living and local resilience.

We will use sketching, journaling and all of our senses to build a deep relationship with some of the most important natural medicines to form a core of your home apothecary. You will learn to ethically gather, grow, and prepare them, and the practical ways to integrate your medicine work into daily family life.

Emphasis is given on plants that grow wild in abundance in our bioregion.

Membership registration is open now! The home herbalism class will begin on April 10, 2020.

Some topics covered include...

  • Strategies for building a broad-reaching yet simple home apothecary

  • Ethical wildcrafting of native, introduced, and invasive medicines

  • Food as medicine, and using wild plants for hyperlocal cuisine as medicine

  • Making tinctures, decoctions, infusions, hydrosols, vinegars, glycerites, oils, balms, syrups, honeys, poultices… and the principles behind when and why to use different forms of medicine

  • How to gather easy-to-identify, native mushroom medicines

  • The role of home herbalism, and how to interface with professional healers

  • Gardening with medicinal plants and fungi

  • Deep dive into some specific important medicines

Instructor

Jason Padvorac

Jason Padvorac grew up with organic gardens and an amateur garlic farm in the backyard. Since he was a child he has always felt most at home in natural settings, hiking in the words and picking berries. A love for the science of life and desire to serve humanity with it led him to a degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Washington.

After graduation he continued independently by integrating the study of permaculture design, forest gardening, herbal medicine, economics, wildcrafting and many other topics to search for workable solutions to the challenges we face. Since 2017 he has been teaching community-focused experiences to connect people with the land.

Jason lives with his wife and two young daughters on their half-acre homestead, along with their beloved ducks, chickens and quail.

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