Herbal Apprenticeship
Beginner herbal apprenticeship
Join us for a weekly beginner herbal apprenticeship. Once or twice a year we open up the opportunity to apply to come to the land here at Vital Vessel Herbs.
Are you hearing the call of the plants?
In a small group of 4 or 5, through hands-on experience, we will craft herbal medicine, as well as, tend and harvest cultivated and wild plants. Together, we will create Materia Medicas, developing a deep relationship with local plants while learning from a vitalist perspective, honoring the innate intelligence of the body and the healing power of herbs.
This apprenticeship weaves structured learning with experiential practice, offering you the skills, confidence, and intuition to work with herbs in a deeply rooted and meaningful way.
Our time together is a combination of structured activities, and going with the flow of what’s needing to be made for the apothecary, and what’s popping up in the garden! We move with the season and adjust as needed, finding a balance of book learning, discussion, and hands on medicine making.
Whether you are embarking on your herbal path with an intention of being a practicing herbalist for your community, or just working with plants for your self, you will gather practical skills through this experience to carry in your personally unique medicine bag.
We gather for 2 hours weekly for 8-10 weeks.
Cost will be a sliding scale between $300-$500 for the session.
An Example day might look like this:
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We meet in the Apothecary and create a tea together, to sip throughout our time together.
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Take a walk to the garden to meet a plant or two, taste it, discuss it, harvest, and bring back to the space for processing, and making into a fresh tincture
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Decant and bottle an elixir that is ready, while sipping the tea we made
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Take some time to explore the plant we met from the garden, in some of the many herbal books in the library, and take notes for our material medicas together, while sharing what we each discover.
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Have a short introduction to the art of formulation, and make a Vital Vessel tea blend together, to be packaged and shared.
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Closing, apprentices take home some fresh herbs from our harvest to further process, leftover tea for drinking, and/or a needed remedy offered on deep discount.