This is a dish, especially for winter, easily made on a wood stove or baked in a conventional oven Mike’s Winter Wood Stove Root Dish Use a cast iron fry pan, 12 inches in diameter. Get a variety of winter root veggies. There are many possibilities and I have used beets, garlic, carrots, ginger, onions,… Continue >>>
Category Archives: Educational Resources
Tools for Wild Crafting
Here is a list of tools used for the vast majority of the harvesting, gardening and general plant collecting I do for my clinic, the herb school and personal reasons. Keep in mind the variables involved with choosing this type of tool collection. These variables include:1. Personal preference and budget2. Plant parts collected – bark,… Continue >>>
How to Make Herbal Tea: Infusions and Decoctions
Water Extraction“Tea”- Infusions and Decoctions The word tea refers to the plant (Camilla sinensis) commonly known as the tea bush. Many types of tea come from this bush including black, green, Chinese, Darjeeling and others. In everyday English, tea is used to refer to many hot water beverages made with a variety of plants. These… Continue >>>
How to Find Food and Medicine Plants When Exploring a New Environment
Know the Water SourcesThese may be springs, seeps, tanks, ponds, seasonal run-offs or perennial streams.In arid country, both the diversity and quantity of flora increase near water.Explore canyon bottoms.There are many arroyos and mostly dry drainages in arid country.Even these areas that appear bone dry most of the year, they receive extra precipitation from snowmelt… Continue >>>
Tincture Making: Macerations
Tinctures can also be called : Alcohol-Water Extractions or Hydro-Ethanol Extracts Vocabulary1. Menstruum – any fluid used to extract therapeutic properties from plants. Usually a water-alcohol mix.2. Marc – the herb being extracted3. Maceration – the soaking of the marc in the menstruum. The final product will be a mixture of water and alcohol. This… Continue >>>
Client Compliance When Using Herbs
One of the key challenges in the successful use of herbs is actually ingesting the plant preparation, known as compliance. This is a basic issue and one that often gets overlooked. Regardless of the quality of the herb or the herbal tradition from which it is given, herbal medicine will not be successful if the… Continue >>>
Yarrow in Herb Formulas
This page shares formulas using Yarrow (Achillea millefolium). These formulas are always meant to be used in context with a person making necessary lifestyle and diet changes. Classic Herb Triplet for Influenza FeversUse equal parts Yarrow, Elder Flower and PeppermintMake as a cup of hot tea and sip as hot as is comfortableCan be combined… Continue >>>
Herbal Formulas to Support the Digestive System
The following herb formulas are some of the blends that I have used with good success over the years. They are shared here in the hope you find them helpful also. 1. Catnip Leaf (Nepeta cataria) + Fennel Seed (Foeniculum vulgare)Use equal parts whole fennel seed and catnip leaf. I prefer to store the fennel… Continue >>>
How to Make Herbal Balls
Herbal Balls are a lesser known but very effective way to take herbs. The method allows for much creativity. It takes herbal medicine into the food realm and can be good for people who are resistant to taking bad tasting teas and tinctures. The basics are to mix a nut butter with either an oil… Continue >>>
Cooking on a Wood Stove
The first major snow of the winter is around the corner and our wood stove is doing its job keeping us and our kitties toasty warm. Over the past several winters, we have been cooking more and more with wood to the point where we actually use less propane with the kitchen stove in the… Continue >>>
Latest Courses
Three Weekend Intensive: Advanced Topics in Herbal Medicine 2026
This series of workshops addresses topics geared for people who have previous training and experience in healing and working with herbs. It is especially geared toward students who have completed beginning or intermediate coursework at other herb schools. Pre-requisites are required for this course. Topics Presented: Cardiovascular Health *Supporting a healthy heart v treating disease… Continue >>>
Pre-requisites for “Advanced Topics in Herbal Medicine”
The “Three Weekend Intensive: Advanced Topics in Herbal Medicine” is a course that begins where most introductory programs end. This course assumes that students have completed either an introductory course in herbal medicine or done extensive independent study in order to have a working knowledge of several basic foundation skills for practicing herbal medicine. The… Continue >>>
Educational Resources
Becoming a Clinical Herbalist
This most recent offering of this course is full and registration is closed. This same Clinical Herbalist training is also available on an individual basis and to private small groups. Our communities need more clinical herbalists. You have my full support in your herbal journey! ***************************************************************************************** How does an herbalist take all the information gathered… Continue >>>
Three Weekend Intensive: Advanced Topics in Herbal Medicine 2026
This series of workshops addresses topics geared for people who have previous training and experience in healing and working with herbs. It is especially geared toward students who have completed beginning or intermediate coursework at other herb schools. Pre-requisites are required for this course. Topics Presented: Cardiovascular Health *Supporting a healthy heart v treating disease… Continue >>>
Pre-requisites for “Advanced Topics in Herbal Medicine”
The “Three Weekend Intensive: Advanced Topics in Herbal Medicine” is a course that begins where most introductory programs end. This course assumes that students have completed either an introductory course in herbal medicine or done extensive independent study in order to have a working knowledge of several basic foundation skills for practicing herbal medicine. The… Continue >>>
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