Wild Ginger Herbal Center Community Herbal Center
Online Herbal Medicine Course
Part 1 - Foundations in Herbalism
Registration Open Now!
Have you always wanted to attend a Wild Ginger Herbal Center course but haven't had the time or availability to make it to one yet? Now is your chance! It is with great join we invite you to join us for our online herbal medicine course! Gain a strong foundation in herbal medicine right from the comfort of your own home! Our Online Herbal Medicine Course provides a foundation in folk herbalism and is oriented towards those interested in self care and learning to care for their families and loved ones. Our students will learn how to source, prepare, and utilize their own herbal medicine preparations! Additionally participants will gain a basic understanding of how to understand the medicine of the plants through herbal tastes, herbal energetics, and we will cover basic herbal formulations and building your home apothecary as well.
Our course is self paced, there is no pressure and no rush. You will have lifetime access to our course and course videos. All students will need for the course is access to the internet in order to tune in and stream our course videos. Additionally downloadable helpful course notes and resources as well as are included as well. The course page includes a recommended supply list to students but its nothing fancy, but our goal is to make herbalism easy to do at home, from your kitchen, without having to purchase additional expensive equipment.
Please keep in mind we are not professional videographers or editors, and our best intentions and focus were put into including lots of important info as herbalists! We thank you for your consideration and patience with this! <3
Course Topics:
- Introduction to Folk Herbalism
- Basic Herbal Preparation Making (teas, tinctures, linaments, oils, salves, syrups)
- Intro to Herbal Tastes
- Intro to Herbal Energetics
- Plant Spirit Meditation
- Building Your Home Apothecary
- Resources Lists!
The Online Herbal Medicine Course Is:
~Based in folk tradition and great for those looking for accessible, easy to understand information - the course is not oriented towards clinicians or those focused on scientific and lab study oriented information.
~ Usually taught over the course of one or one and a half days, this is foundational and not a certificate program.
~ For individuals 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 a skilled herbalist in areas of holistic health, wellness, and herbs.
~ 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 remedies.
We encourage course students to join our Wild Ginger Herbal & Birthkeepers Network Group on Facebook to share their journeys, post their herbal preparations and connect along the way!
Give as a gift
*Place the name and email of the person you are gifting the course to when you check out and
we will send them their enrollment information!*
Course Cost $160
Now On Sale for $110
To register, first put the email address (either yours or the person you are gifting this course to) in the text field below labeled EMAIL ADDRESS for LOG IN. Then press Buy Now. Once paid, we will send an email with instructions for online log in to the course to the email listed on the text field below.
*all payments are final, non-refundable and non-transfearble*
Now On Sale for $110
To register, first put the email address (either yours or the person you are gifting this course to) in the text field below labeled EMAIL ADDRESS for LOG IN. Then press Buy Now. Once paid, we will send an email with instructions for online log in to the course to the email listed on the text field below.
*all payments are final, non-refundable and non-transfearble*
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About Your Instructor
Molly Meehan Brown is 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! As the founder and director of Wild Ginger Community Herbal Education, Molly lives with her family 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 DC areas first community based herbal apprenticeship program, facilitates youth programming, and coordinates the annual Chesapeake Herb Gathering!
Molly’s background includes working in Community Outreach and Education for the Centre for Agricultural and Environmental Stewardship at the Accokeek Foundation, particularly working in partnership with the Rural Coalition on outreach to socially disadvantaged farmers though the USDA 2501 Federal Grant Program. She coordinated the Federal Nutritional Benefits Program at the FreshFarm Dupont Circle Farmers Market, and previously ran the Cross-Cultural Group & Internship Programs at Punta Mona Centre for Regenerative Design and Botanical Studies in Costa Rica. Molly began her career coordinating the volunteer and medical evaluations program for clients at Survivors of Torture, International.
She has a BA in International Studies / Human Rights, as well as an MA in Sustainable Development and Non-Profit Management from the School for International Training.
Molly studied herbalism at the Self Heal School for Herbal Medicine in California, with various traditional herbalists in Costa Rica for the last decade, and attended the clinical herbal program at Sacred Plant Traditions. Molly enjoys facilitating workshops as well as connecting people and plants, speaking at conferences in the US and abroad, and building in community.
Molly Meehan Brown is 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! As the founder and director of Wild Ginger Community Herbal Education, Molly lives with her family 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 DC areas first community based herbal apprenticeship program, facilitates youth programming, and coordinates the annual Chesapeake Herb Gathering!
Molly’s background includes working in Community Outreach and Education for the Centre for Agricultural and Environmental Stewardship at the Accokeek Foundation, particularly working in partnership with the Rural Coalition on outreach to socially disadvantaged farmers though the USDA 2501 Federal Grant Program. She coordinated the Federal Nutritional Benefits Program at the FreshFarm Dupont Circle Farmers Market, and previously ran the Cross-Cultural Group & Internship Programs at Punta Mona Centre for Regenerative Design and Botanical Studies in Costa Rica. Molly began her career coordinating the volunteer and medical evaluations program for clients at Survivors of Torture, International.
She has a BA in International Studies / Human Rights, as well as an MA in Sustainable Development and Non-Profit Management from the School for International Training.
Molly studied herbalism at the Self Heal School for Herbal Medicine in California, with various traditional herbalists in Costa Rica for the last decade, and attended the clinical herbal program at Sacred Plant Traditions. Molly enjoys facilitating workshops as well as connecting people and plants, speaking at conferences in the US and abroad, and building in community.