Have you ever felt confused trying to figure out which preparation is the most potent for each herb, or which remedy is truly effective for a specific condition?

At Gather & Garble: Herbal Medicine Making Intensive, we step away from screens and immerse ourselves in real, tactile herbal learning. Over six seasonal weekends, you’ll:

✔ Harvest and identify plants from your local ecosystem
✔ Make teas, tinctures, oils, salves, vinegars, and honeys
✔ Learn plant energetics, safety, and formulation
✔ Practice skills you can use on yourself or with clients

This is not just herbalism—you’ll experience herbalism, learning how herbs act in the body and mind through direct practice. Leave behind confusion and overwhelm, and walk away with knowledge, confidence, and living medicines you made yourself. This first-year offering is intentionally small, intimate, and responsive to the rhythms of the land.

 Each Weekend Includes

✔ Hands-on medicine making
✔ Plant energetics & anatomy education
✔ Ecological and ethical context
✔ Take-home herbal preparations
✔ Recipes, materia medica & handouts
✔ Western herbalism and clinical herbalism approach and understandings 
✔ Community learning in an intimate cohort

 First-Year Program Disclaimer

This is the first year of Gather & Garble. As a land-based, seasonal program, the curriculum may adapt due to weather conditions, plant availability, crop failure, or other natural disruptions.

Flexibility is part of the learning. When plans shift, we will adjust together — exploring alternative plants, methods, or timing as needed. These moments are not disruptions, but teachers in their own right.

 

Supplies Needed: fedco Clippers, large cutting board, cleaver, quart or half gallon mason jars, kitchen scale, olive oil, ethanol alcohol (ever clear is the best since its the highest ABV), notebooks, water bottle, lunch and snacks packed for the weekend. Once registered I will send out an email with links to supplies. 

Dress Code: Layers, sturdy shoes, clothes you don’t mind getting messy

Field Trips: Carpool from Bloodroot Apothecary (208 W Michigan Ave, Ypsilanti MI) to Dexter MI (30min drive) 

📍 Location

Classroom sessions held mostly at my land we will meet at bloodroot to carpool to Dexter, MI. 

Field sessions and distillation workshops held on private land (address shared upon registration)

 Ready to Join?

Spots are limited to preserve intimacy, land impact, and learning quality.

👉 Registration opens: January 12th

Tuition & Payment

Full Tuition: $900

Deposit: $300 non-refundable deposit secures your spot

Sliding Scale: Limited to 1–2 slots. Available for $700, $750, or $800. Priority given to low-income students, single mothers, and BIPOC folks. Request after paying deposit.

There is installment options at checkout with after pay as well. 

Remaining Balance: Paid via a secure payment link by March 1st (Flexibility here, but I need to have time to know how many people are signing up) 

Payment is handled in two steps: deposit first, remainder via secure link. Deposit is applied toward tuition.

Registration & Refunds
All deposits and tuition payments are non-refundable due to the extensive preparation and resources required for each participant. Your $300 deposit secures your spot and will be applied to your total tuition of $900.

Register HERE

See You On The Land 

xo, Alex