ENROLLMENT IS CLOSED FOR 2023
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2023
Community Herbal Program
In Person Session in Bryans Road, Maryland
Wild Ginger Herbal Center is excited to offer our flag ship program rooted in community is now in our 11th year! This program offers our community a chance to explore herbalism, and to understand natures ability to support our health, strength, and vitality. Most importantly this program focuses on building relationships between ourselves and the plants as well as with each other.
We hope to share the many ways there are to be a "plant person" and help those who join us find their unique path. This program is wonderful for folks who want to focus on supporting their own and their families health and wellness as those who would like to go on the professionally work with plants. The series is an in depth introduction and includes herbal fundamentals, North American and Mid-Atlantic medicinal plants (and others), practical applications of herbs, herbal preparations, harvesting and wild crafting plants, herbal gardening, herbal energetics and more.
This year our Community Herbal Program also includes registration for our annual Chesapeake Herb Gathering Festival as well! A chance to deepen our studies from expanded teachers as well as connect with our great plant and plant lover community!
Class Locations
This program will be held live an in person at our herbal center located in Bryans Road, Maryland. A few of our very beloved teachers have moved from our area, however they are still part of our program offering and those three classes will be offered live, online, for just our class members.
Due to COVID 19, we will be holding classes entirely outdoors, under the shade of our beloved crabapple tree. Additionally, we ask that attendees bring their own lawn chair or blanket to spread out on, water bottle, tea cup, scissors, plastic or paper bags, sunhat, weather appropriate clothing.
Class Session Topics:
- Exploration of Folk Herbalism
- Herbal Gardening and Herbal Medicine Making
- Phytochemistry & Herb Drug Interactions
-Ancestral Herbalism
- Medicinal Plants and Plant Walks
- Herbal Gardening
- Flower Essences
- People's History of Herbalism
- Doctrine of Signatures
- Herbal Actions, Tastes, & Energetics
- Botany & Herbal Plant ID
- Herbal Preparation Making
- Herbal Plant Walks
- Fermentation
- And More!
The Community Herbal Program Is:
~ For folks with an interest in herbal and nutritional wellness and self care.
~ Focused on empowering participants with basic knowledge and information on holistic health and self care.
~ Taught by skilled herbalists in areas of holistic health, herbs, nutrition, energy healing and more.
~ Is designed to give you practical skills as well as basic theoretical background on how to incorporate holistic wellness into your life, how to incorporate herbs into your diet and how to make basic herbal preparations.
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SPOTS ARE VERY LIMITED AND EXPECTED TO FILL FAST
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Program Locations:
All classes are at Wild Ginger Herbal Center in Bryans Road, Maryland, there will be field studies classes to an herbal farm in Frederick Maryland and three online classes also listed below.
Program Dates:
Welcome, Opening
Exploration of Folk Herbalism, Herbal Actions, Tastes, Energetics Garden Walk with Molly Meehan
July 1 from 10-4pm at Wild Ginger
Herbs Botany and Wild Plant ID with Holly Poole Kavana
July 2 from 10-4pm at Wild Ginger
Building Relationships w/ Our Plant Allies: Doctrine of Signatures, Flower Essences, Plant Journeys
Medicine Keepers - Herbal Preparation Methods & Herb Gardening, Tinctures, Teas, Oils, Salves
with Molly Meehan
July 15 from 10-4 at Wild Ginger
*Bring a clear glass jar or bowl for this class as well as 2 one ounce dropper bottles*
Herbal Growing and Processing - Field Studies at Fox Haven Farm in Frederick, Maryland
with Lacey Walker & Friends
August 5 from 10-4 at Fox Haven Learning Center
Nourishing the Nervous System & Herbal Mutual Aid with Samaria King
August 6 from 10-4 at Wild Ginger
A Peoples History of Herbalism & Ancestral Herbalism with Ayo Ngozi
August 16 from 5-9 pm LIVE ONLINE CLASS
Plant Myths - The Power of Plant Stories with Geoff Edwards
August 19 from 12-5 pm LIVE ONLINE CLASS
Intro to Phytochemistry and Herb Drug Interactions
with Olivia Fite
August 20 from 12-5 pm LIVE ONLINE CLASS
Herbs to Support Respiratory Health & Immune Support
September 9 with Yuma "Docta Yew" Bellomee from 10-4pm at Wild Ginger
Herbs for Digestive Support & Fermentation
September 10 with Suzanna Stone from 10-4pm at Wild Ginger
Chesapeake Herb Gathering
September 23 at Wild Ginger Herbal Center
Restoring Kinship for Collective Liberation with Aylén Maquehue
Root Digging, Seed Saving Ethical Wildcrafting & Plant Conservation w/ Molly Meehan
Student Herbal Showcase, Student Presentations & Closing Celebration at Wild Ginger
September 24 from 9-4
Apothecary Time: Alchemy of Energetics & Formulation: with Karen Culpepper
Virtual Recording from Karen Culpepper
COURSE MATERIALS
We will provide some materials on site necessary for example during medicine making classes and formulations. However we do have suggestions of other items to bring below.
Course Notes:
All Course Documents and notes will be available to students digitally before class begins. You are welcome to print those to bring with you each class as we cover that material. We do not provide printed copies. Not all classes will have notes.
To Bring Each Class:
Your Mask (mandatory in indoor space - this class will be almost entirely outdoors expect in inclement weather)
Lawn Chair or Blanket for Class
Paper & Pen for Note taking
Phone or camara to take pictures of plants if you would like
Water Bottle & Tea Mug
Weather Appropriate Clothing & Sunhat/protection
Bag/Basket for Harvesting, Small Shovel, and Scissors
Book for Botany Class - we recommend getting it through local library by requesting ahead of time.
Newcomb's Wildflower Guide
Student Herbal Showcase
One the final day of class we will come together and each student will share between 3-5 herbal medicines they have created during their journey of this class OR they can share a 10 minute presentation of their choosing inspired in some way by their experience during our time together. This is often one of the most fun days of our entire time together, folks get very creative and its a beautiful way to collectively create together!
Community Values and Agreements:
Please note ~ we value deeply our shared learning space and community, and ask that before signing up for this or any of our courses you take time to thoroughly review and consent. to our Values and Agreements here at Wild Ginger that are meant to help hold and guide our time together. These will help guide our shared learning space together. In order to attend this program you must consent to these agreements.
Click Here to Read our Values and Agreements
Please note ~ we value deeply our shared learning space and community, and ask that before signing up for this or any of our courses you take time to thoroughly review and consent. to our Values and Agreements here at Wild Ginger that are meant to help hold and guide our time together. These will help guide our shared learning space together. In order to attend this program you must consent to these agreements.
Click Here to Read our Values and Agreements
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2023 Enrollment Now Open
FLASH SALE PRICING
OPTION 1 -
$999 - General Registration
$899 - Registration for Black, Indigenous and People of Color and Trans Community Members
How to Enroll:
1. Deposit of $199 to hold your spot.
2. Final Payment of $800 (general registration) or $700 (T&BIPOC) Due on our before June 1, 2023
IMPORTANT PAYMENT INFO:
- Please do not bring payments or cash to the classes, all payments must be complete before beginning the program.
- Payment Plans - we do offer further payment plans than what is listed above.
- Receipts - all payments will receive receipts. For online payments the are automatically generated, for cash payments they will be given in person.
- Please remember all payments are final, non-transferable and non-refundable.
This program sells out each year, we recommend registering ASAP to secure your space.
OPTION 1 -
$999 - General Registration
$899 - Registration for Black, Indigenous and People of Color and Trans Community Members
How to Enroll:
1. Deposit of $199 to hold your spot.
2. Final Payment of $800 (general registration) or $700 (T&BIPOC) Due on our before June 1, 2023
IMPORTANT PAYMENT INFO:
- Please do not bring payments or cash to the classes, all payments must be complete before beginning the program.
- Payment Plans - we do offer further payment plans than what is listed above.
- Receipts - all payments will receive receipts. For online payments the are automatically generated, for cash payments they will be given in person.
- Please remember all payments are final, non-transferable and non-refundable.
This program sells out each year, we recommend registering ASAP to secure your space.
REGULAR PRICING AS FOLLOWS:
OPTION 1 -
$1099 - General Registration
$999 - Registration for Black, Indigenous and People of Color and Trans Community Members
How to Enroll:
1. Deposit of $199 to hold your spot.
2. Final Payments are Due As Follows:
OPTION 1:
Remainder of $900(general registration) or $800 (T&BIPOC) Due on our before June 1, 2023
IMPORTANT PAYMENT INFO:
- Please do not bring payments or cash to the classes, all payments must be complete before beginning the program.
- Payment Plans - we do offer further payment plans than what is listed above.
- Receipts - all payments will receive receipts. For online payments the are automatically generated, for cash payments they will be given in person.
- Please remember all payments are final, non-transferable and non-refundable.
This program sells out each year, we recommend registering ASAP to secure your space.
OPTION 1 -
$1099 - General Registration
$999 - Registration for Black, Indigenous and People of Color and Trans Community Members
How to Enroll:
1. Deposit of $199 to hold your spot.
2. Final Payments are Due As Follows:
OPTION 1:
Remainder of $900(general registration) or $800 (T&BIPOC) Due on our before June 1, 2023
IMPORTANT PAYMENT INFO:
- Please do not bring payments or cash to the classes, all payments must be complete before beginning the program.
- Payment Plans - we do offer further payment plans than what is listed above.
- Receipts - all payments will receive receipts. For online payments the are automatically generated, for cash payments they will be given in person.
- Please remember all payments are final, non-transferable and non-refundable.
This program sells out each year, we recommend registering ASAP to secure your space.
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Geoff Edwards of Nu Healing Arts
Geoff Edwards is an herbalist and licensed acupuncturist and has spent most of his post graduate study focusing on herb cultivation and herbal applications for traumatic injuries.
Geoff has worked as a clinical supervisor in the Chinese Herbs dispensary at MUIH and enjoys teaching students herb identification, preparation, and the art of combining and formulating herbal medicines. While completing his studies in acupuncture Geoff began the process of cultivating what he now calls the “Healing Arts Garden” which includes a wide selection of perennial herbs and continues to expand each year. It is a combination of native North American, African and Asian medicinal plants and culinary herbs. The herb garden library’s focus is primarily education, preservation and conservation of plant based medicines
Beyond his healing arts practice, Geoff maintains a growing studio art practice and teaches arts & literature to homeschoolers in the area. Locally and nationally he facilitates workshops across on the common uses of local herbs, herb cultivation, expressive art therapies for mental health, and community health and wellness.
Geoff Edwards is an herbalist and licensed acupuncturist and has spent most of his post graduate study focusing on herb cultivation and herbal applications for traumatic injuries.
Geoff has worked as a clinical supervisor in the Chinese Herbs dispensary at MUIH and enjoys teaching students herb identification, preparation, and the art of combining and formulating herbal medicines. While completing his studies in acupuncture Geoff began the process of cultivating what he now calls the “Healing Arts Garden” which includes a wide selection of perennial herbs and continues to expand each year. It is a combination of native North American, African and Asian medicinal plants and culinary herbs. The herb garden library’s focus is primarily education, preservation and conservation of plant based medicines
Beyond his healing arts practice, Geoff maintains a growing studio art practice and teaches arts & literature to homeschoolers in the area. Locally and nationally he facilitates workshops across on the common uses of local herbs, herb cultivation, expressive art therapies for mental health, and community health and wellness.
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Holly Poole-Kavana
Holly Poole-Kavana practices as a clinical herbalist, grower, and medicine-maker in Washington DC, where her priority is connecting people to local plants. She holds a BS in botany from Cornell University and studied with several experienced herbalists before starting a clinical practice in 2011. Her business, Little Red Bird Botanicals, has offered an herbal CSA since 2010. Holly also works as a midwife's assistant in the DC metro area. |
Ayo Ngozi of The Creative Root
Ayo is an herbalist, artist, and cultural worker committed to documenting traditional herbal practices of the African diaspora and making evidence-based herbal education accessible to all. She is a longtime instructor at Wild Ginger Herbal Center, has contributed to courses at the Herbal Academy and Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine, and teaches at conferences and herbal programs in the US and abroad. Ayo is based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where she owns a small herbal business, The Creative Root.
Ayo is an herbalist, artist, and cultural worker committed to documenting traditional herbal practices of the African diaspora and making evidence-based herbal education accessible to all. She is a longtime instructor at Wild Ginger Herbal Center, has contributed to courses at the Herbal Academy and Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine, and teaches at conferences and herbal programs in the US and abroad. Ayo is based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where she owns a small herbal business, The Creative Root.
Molly Meehan Brown of Wild Ginger Community Herbal Center
Molly Meehan Brown (she/her/hers) is an herbalist, gardener, and organizer passionate about community based herbal and food systems and specifically working cooperatively to keep the knowledge of our food, herbal medicine, seeds, and our healing traditions alive and vital within our communities! Molly and her family manage Wild Ginger Community Herbal Center programs while they live half the year in the DC Area and the other half the year in Talamanca, Costa Rica. She coordinates and teaches as part of the community based herbal apprenticeship program, facilitates youth programming, and coordinates the annual Chesapeake Herb Gathering, Ylang Ylang Gathering & more! Molly enjoys spending time with her family and kids in the garden or at the beach, facilitating workshops as well as connecting people and plants, and building in community.
Molly Meehan Brown (she/her/hers) is an herbalist, gardener, and organizer passionate about community based herbal and food systems and specifically working cooperatively to keep the knowledge of our food, herbal medicine, seeds, and our healing traditions alive and vital within our communities! Molly and her family manage Wild Ginger Community Herbal Center programs while they live half the year in the DC Area and the other half the year in Talamanca, Costa Rica. She coordinates and teaches as part of the community based herbal apprenticeship program, facilitates youth programming, and coordinates the annual Chesapeake Herb Gathering, Ylang Ylang Gathering & more! Molly enjoys spending time with her family and kids in the garden or at the beach, facilitating workshops as well as connecting people and plants, and building in community.
Olivia Fite of OHerbals
Olivia June Fite (she/her) is a therapeutic herbalist, whole-foods nutritionist, mother, and community educator. After graduating from MUIH (formerly Tai Sophia Institute) in 2012 she built Oherbals, an apothecary/sanctuary/teaching space/clinical practice in Baltimore, MD. There she worked with individuals and led community workshops for 5 years, focused on increasing people's sense of empowerment & connection to nature. Since 2018 she has been living in Lisbon, Portugal, offering virtual herbal mentorships, studying medicinal plants of the region, and teaching alongside Portuguese herbalist & author Fernanda Botehlo. Olivia loves working with the Wild Ginger Herbal Community and is always grateful when asked to return to this wonderful herb school focused on the power of plants, justice, and love. You can find out more about what she is up to at oherbals.com and on IG @olivia_oherbals.
Olivia June Fite (she/her) is a therapeutic herbalist, whole-foods nutritionist, mother, and community educator. After graduating from MUIH (formerly Tai Sophia Institute) in 2012 she built Oherbals, an apothecary/sanctuary/teaching space/clinical practice in Baltimore, MD. There she worked with individuals and led community workshops for 5 years, focused on increasing people's sense of empowerment & connection to nature. Since 2018 she has been living in Lisbon, Portugal, offering virtual herbal mentorships, studying medicinal plants of the region, and teaching alongside Portuguese herbalist & author Fernanda Botehlo. Olivia loves working with the Wild Ginger Herbal Community and is always grateful when asked to return to this wonderful herb school focused on the power of plants, justice, and love. You can find out more about what she is up to at oherbals.com and on IG @olivia_oherbals.
Yuma Bellomee of Yew360
Yuma "Docta Yew" Bellomee is a Certified Holistic Health Consultant, herbalist, wellness advocate/educator, and musical artist, who has been featured in numerous radio programs, natural hair, health & beauty expos, magazine articles, and community and school programs as a speaker and workshop facilitator on wholistic wellness. He is also the founder of Yew-360 Wholistic Health & Wellness (yew360.com), co-founder of Ni Dembaya African Drum & Dance Ensemble, and a member of the Collective Health Initiative (CHI) and African Wholistic Health Association (AWHA).
Yuma "Docta Yew" Bellomee is a Certified Holistic Health Consultant, herbalist, wellness advocate/educator, and musical artist, who has been featured in numerous radio programs, natural hair, health & beauty expos, magazine articles, and community and school programs as a speaker and workshop facilitator on wholistic wellness. He is also the founder of Yew-360 Wholistic Health & Wellness (yew360.com), co-founder of Ni Dembaya African Drum & Dance Ensemble, and a member of the Collective Health Initiative (CHI) and African Wholistic Health Association (AWHA).
Suzanna Stone
Suzanna resides in Scottsville, VA. She founded and directs Owlcraft Healing Ways, an outdoor herb school, where she offers clinical herbal consultations and leads in depth community and clinical apprenticeships, herb camps for kids, and workshops in herbal medicine, traditional food-ways, and plant spirit medicine. She was raised in a home where plant medicine and whole foods were the foundations of health and has spent the last 19 years broadening that foundation and deepening her knowledge of the herbal arts. She teaches at herb schools and conferences throughout the country and is co-founder and co-director of The Gaia Gathering For Women in Charlottesville, VA. She stewards fourteen acres of plant filled land to provide sanctuary, healing, and accessible education for all who hear the call of the plants.
Suzanna resides in Scottsville, VA. She founded and directs Owlcraft Healing Ways, an outdoor herb school, where she offers clinical herbal consultations and leads in depth community and clinical apprenticeships, herb camps for kids, and workshops in herbal medicine, traditional food-ways, and plant spirit medicine. She was raised in a home where plant medicine and whole foods were the foundations of health and has spent the last 19 years broadening that foundation and deepening her knowledge of the herbal arts. She teaches at herb schools and conferences throughout the country and is co-founder and co-director of The Gaia Gathering For Women in Charlottesville, VA. She stewards fourteen acres of plant filled land to provide sanctuary, healing, and accessible education for all who hear the call of the plants.
Karen Culpepper
Karen L. Culpepper is a clinical herbalist and licensed massage therapist in the DMV. She is the founder of The KLCC Collective, a healing arc that is a container for us to reimagine what healing, wellness, vitality and reclamation can look like for every body. She works in Maryland and holds space for herbal consultations, bodywork, runs a closed end apothecary and is the creatress of small batch organic herbal products and potions that keep folks, communities and movement spaces well and thriving. Karen can be found on Facebook Karen L. Culpepper, IG @klcccollective (you can find all the handles there) and she can be reached at [email protected]
Karen L. Culpepper is a clinical herbalist and licensed massage therapist in the DMV. She is the founder of The KLCC Collective, a healing arc that is a container for us to reimagine what healing, wellness, vitality and reclamation can look like for every body. She works in Maryland and holds space for herbal consultations, bodywork, runs a closed end apothecary and is the creatress of small batch organic herbal products and potions that keep folks, communities and movement spaces well and thriving. Karen can be found on Facebook Karen L. Culpepper, IG @klcccollective (you can find all the handles there) and she can be reached at [email protected]
A NOTE ON CERTIFICATION:
We are often asked if after taking our programs if participants will be a certified herbalist. As far as certification, here are no legal certification or license for herbalists in the US. Herbalists are free to practice, some are "folk" herbalists and practice from information passed down generation to generation, while others go and get masters degrees in herbalism, and still others attend community based schools such as ours and then go on to practice. There is no legal difference and no certification or lack there of has any legal meaning whatsoever. We feel telling someone they are a certified herbalist is unethical and not our place. Herbalists cannot legally practice medicine. Herbalists themselves come in many forms, some cultivate herbs, some see clients as wellness consultations (herbalists are not allowed to practice medicine, only doctors are), some make beautiful herbal medicinal preparations, some teach, some do research, there is not a finite definition. Because this program is being offered online and folks may not be watching live, we will not be offering a certificate of completion of the course this round because we do not have a way to determine who has attended what unlike our in person courses. Our program classes are geared towards beginners and are a great place to start for those who want to lay the foundation to be a professional herbalist, whatever that may be. We are not a clinical herbalism program, rather we focus on folk herbalism, keeping our traditional knowledge alive and vital at the community level. Those completing our program are no more legally allowed to practice as an herbalist than you are, or than a grandmother in her kitchen treating her grandkids, or than a person who has a Masters Degree. Our program is a great way to gain a better understanding of herbs and medicinal plants, to refine your knowledge moving from a more mechanistic approach of "this herb is for this issue" instead toward looking at patterns, interrelationships, and systems of the body and their relationship with herbs, a more wholistic view. Its not geared towards clinical herbalists, however provides an in depth foundation for those who are on that path.
Here is a great resource:
http://www.americanherbalistsguild.com/legal-and-regulatory-faqs
We are often asked if after taking our programs if participants will be a certified herbalist. As far as certification, here are no legal certification or license for herbalists in the US. Herbalists are free to practice, some are "folk" herbalists and practice from information passed down generation to generation, while others go and get masters degrees in herbalism, and still others attend community based schools such as ours and then go on to practice. There is no legal difference and no certification or lack there of has any legal meaning whatsoever. We feel telling someone they are a certified herbalist is unethical and not our place. Herbalists cannot legally practice medicine. Herbalists themselves come in many forms, some cultivate herbs, some see clients as wellness consultations (herbalists are not allowed to practice medicine, only doctors are), some make beautiful herbal medicinal preparations, some teach, some do research, there is not a finite definition. Because this program is being offered online and folks may not be watching live, we will not be offering a certificate of completion of the course this round because we do not have a way to determine who has attended what unlike our in person courses. Our program classes are geared towards beginners and are a great place to start for those who want to lay the foundation to be a professional herbalist, whatever that may be. We are not a clinical herbalism program, rather we focus on folk herbalism, keeping our traditional knowledge alive and vital at the community level. Those completing our program are no more legally allowed to practice as an herbalist than you are, or than a grandmother in her kitchen treating her grandkids, or than a person who has a Masters Degree. Our program is a great way to gain a better understanding of herbs and medicinal plants, to refine your knowledge moving from a more mechanistic approach of "this herb is for this issue" instead toward looking at patterns, interrelationships, and systems of the body and their relationship with herbs, a more wholistic view. Its not geared towards clinical herbalists, however provides an in depth foundation for those who are on that path.
Here is a great resource:
http://www.americanherbalistsguild.com/legal-and-regulatory-faqs
