The Forest Apothecary: Medicinal Trees and Shrubs of Colorado / May 4th
Step into the forest and discover the healing power of medicinal trees and shrubs. Learn how to identify and safely harvest over 10 medicinal tree and shrub species using botanical features. Get into the nitty and gritty of herbal actions and energetics, phytochemistry, medicine making, and herbal safety.
This is a hands on class, with tastings, plant ID samples, and medicine making demonstrations, covering everything from teas and tinctures to resin salves and medicinal powders Participants will take home samples of 3 wildcrafted herbs to begin your own forest apothecary.
Kat is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild and a certified clinical herbalist and nutritionist from the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, where she studied under Paul Bergner. She teaches workshops on herbalism, wild foods, and botany, while also running her clinical practice through Meet the Green. Approaching her work from a Vitalist perspective, Kat believes in the intelligent life force within us all. For 12 years, she worked at the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism in Boulder and Lafayette, CO, where she served as faculty and Clinical Program Director, and is one of the co-creators of Apothecary Academy, an online herbalism program. Originally from the East Coast, she has a passion for bioregional herbalism, especially the herbs and ecology of the Southwest.
Cancellation policy: Due to limited space, if you need to cancel please give as much notice as possible. We can only offer refunds on classes cancelled at least 48 hours before the event. Thanks for your understanding.
