APPRENTICESHIPS WILL INCLUDE:
Field Trips: Each and every week, we go to amazingly beautiful wild places to harvest wild plants for food and medicine.
Botanical Identification: Meet the plants you will be working with during the course of your apprenticeship and for life!
Materia Medica: Learn the medicines of the plants you'll be harvesting and their applications.
Plant Formulas: As you begin to gain knowledge of the medicine of the wild plants individually, you'll learn to recognize the formulas the plants create living in close proximity to each other.
Medicine Making: Medicinal oils, tinctures, salves, tea blends, herbal vinegars, poultices, creams, decoctions, syrups, honeys, oxymels, cordials, witch hazels, candied herbs, chutneys and oh so very much more.
Preservation Methods: Learn the best ways to preserve the plants for optimum medicinal and nutritional values.
Medicine in the Herb Garden: Culinary herbs are medicinal! Grow medicinals in your front door garden, in pots, on acreage.
Cultured Foods: Learn the art and health benefits of making and eating cultured and fermented foods such as sauerkraut, beet kvass, kefir, cultured butter and simple cheeses.
Natural Chicken Care: Our gals will tell you what they need to be healthy, happy and productive.
Herbal Lore and Ethnobotany: Hundreds upon hundreds of stories of how peoples of generations past used local plants for food, medicine, clothing and shelter.
Aromatherapy: Breathe in the healing aromas of botanical oils direct from nature.
Herbal Support for Body Systems: Building strong immune, reproductive, respiratory, cardiac and digestive (including the liver!) systems. Learn about herbs appropriate for health issues of each system.
Canning: As the seasons progress, we'll harvest wild and garden foods and learn safe canning procedures.
The focus areas will be on the wild plants of the myriad bio-regions of Washington State's Skagit and Island counties from high up on the mountain passes to the river valleys and into the Sound.
Each season's programs bring their own unique wild plant harvesting and field trip opportunities. We go out in the field each and every day we meet; every season will bring occasions for putting up the harvest that is presented to us. Of course, what is listed is only a portion of what you'll learn! xo
Field Trips: Each and every week, we go to amazingly beautiful wild places to harvest wild plants for food and medicine.
Botanical Identification: Meet the plants you will be working with during the course of your apprenticeship and for life!
Materia Medica: Learn the medicines of the plants you'll be harvesting and their applications.
Plant Formulas: As you begin to gain knowledge of the medicine of the wild plants individually, you'll learn to recognize the formulas the plants create living in close proximity to each other.
Medicine Making: Medicinal oils, tinctures, salves, tea blends, herbal vinegars, poultices, creams, decoctions, syrups, honeys, oxymels, cordials, witch hazels, candied herbs, chutneys and oh so very much more.
Preservation Methods: Learn the best ways to preserve the plants for optimum medicinal and nutritional values.
Medicine in the Herb Garden: Culinary herbs are medicinal! Grow medicinals in your front door garden, in pots, on acreage.
Cultured Foods: Learn the art and health benefits of making and eating cultured and fermented foods such as sauerkraut, beet kvass, kefir, cultured butter and simple cheeses.
Natural Chicken Care: Our gals will tell you what they need to be healthy, happy and productive.
Herbal Lore and Ethnobotany: Hundreds upon hundreds of stories of how peoples of generations past used local plants for food, medicine, clothing and shelter.
Aromatherapy: Breathe in the healing aromas of botanical oils direct from nature.
Herbal Support for Body Systems: Building strong immune, reproductive, respiratory, cardiac and digestive (including the liver!) systems. Learn about herbs appropriate for health issues of each system.
Canning: As the seasons progress, we'll harvest wild and garden foods and learn safe canning procedures.
The focus areas will be on the wild plants of the myriad bio-regions of Washington State's Skagit and Island counties from high up on the mountain passes to the river valleys and into the Sound.
Each season's programs bring their own unique wild plant harvesting and field trip opportunities. We go out in the field each and every day we meet; every season will bring occasions for putting up the harvest that is presented to us. Of course, what is listed is only a portion of what you'll learn! xo
I rely on and appreciate all of my apprentices so much! Apprentices will have opportunities to further and deepen their apprenticeship by assisting with product making, helping with classes, running the farmers market booths and experiencing the "business" of herbs. Must be currently enrolled in the apprenticeship program or have formerly apprenticed with me to be included in these valuable opportunities.
When you go to the habitats where plants live, they teach you about their lives, where they grow, the other plants that grow nearby, who and what it attracts to spread its pollen. The plants are talking all the time. When you look at a plant's shape, color, markings, it's telling you about its medicinal properties. My apprenticeships are geared towards teaching you how to recognise the relationships plants have with each other and your role in beginning your own relationship with them.
My main purpose of my apprenticeships is to teach students to use herbs just as I was taught - by growing, wild harvesting, preparing medicines, eating and healing with herbs as a part of daily life.
SATURDAY APPRENTICESHIP!
Long awaited and much asked for, I am offering a spring apprenticeship on Saturdays in 2012! There will be 2 programs available: Tuesdays, March 6th to May 22nd and Saturdays, March 10th to May 26th. Same program, 2 distinct day options; meaning that your apprenticeship meets either on Tuesdays or Saturdays. If this is a success, there will be Saturday summer and autumn apprenticeships available in addition to the usual Tuesday programs.
Fee for either day is $650 and there will be a maximum enrollment of 12 per program.
DATES & FEES:
Spring 2012:
Tuesdays, Mar 6 - May 22
Saturdays, Mar 10 - May 26
10 am - 5 pm
Fee: $650 each program
83+ hours of study per program
Summer 2012:
Tuesdays, Jun 5 - Aug21
9 am - 5 pm
Fee: $800
100+ hours of study
Autumn 2012:
Tuesdays, Sep 4 - Nov 20
10 am - 5 pm
Fee: $650
83+ hours of study
If you wish to participate in multiple sessions, fees will be reduced. 2 sessions - $75 discount. 3 sessions - $150 discount.
Be prepared to attend all sessions to gain full benefit of these very intensive programs. There are no make up days or refunds for missed classes.
Apprenticeship programs are open to students 18 years and older.
HOW TO REGISTER:
email: Suzanne@cedarmountainherbs.com
Visa/MasterCard accepted for all apprenticeship programs with a small processing fee.
(Checks and cash always welcome)
WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
BOOKS:
You will be required to purchase Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast and Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West for the course.
TOOLS/SUPPLIES: You must provide your own wildcrafting paraphernalia such as leather gloves, quality pruners, shovel, digging fork, bags/baskets for harvesting out in the field. In addition, alcohol, olive oil, bottles/jars and other expenses necessary for medicine making must be brought to class. Notice in advance will be given to give you time to buy supplies. Be prepared to be out in all weather as we will be out in the field each time we meet. Due to the high cost of fuel, traveling costs will be shared. A Discover Pass, a $30 annual required on state-managed recreation lands managed by Washington State Parks, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Department of Natural Resources must be purchased. The pass can be purchased at any state park.
Long awaited and much asked for, I am offering a spring apprenticeship on Saturdays in 2012! There will be 2 programs available: Tuesdays, March 6th to May 22nd and Saturdays, March 10th to May 26th. Same program, 2 distinct day options; meaning that your apprenticeship meets either on Tuesdays or Saturdays. If this is a success, there will be Saturday summer and autumn apprenticeships available in addition to the usual Tuesday programs.
Fee for either day is $650 and there will be a maximum enrollment of 12 per program.
DATES & FEES:
Spring 2012:
Tuesdays, Mar 6 - May 22
Saturdays, Mar 10 - May 26
10 am - 5 pm
Fee: $650 each program
83+ hours of study per program
Summer 2012:
Tuesdays, Jun 5 - Aug21
9 am - 5 pm
Fee: $800
100+ hours of study
Autumn 2012:
Tuesdays, Sep 4 - Nov 20
10 am - 5 pm
Fee: $650
83+ hours of study
If you wish to participate in multiple sessions, fees will be reduced. 2 sessions - $75 discount. 3 sessions - $150 discount.
Be prepared to attend all sessions to gain full benefit of these very intensive programs. There are no make up days or refunds for missed classes.
Apprenticeship programs are open to students 18 years and older.
HOW TO REGISTER:
email: Suzanne@cedarmountainherbs.com
Visa/MasterCard accepted for all apprenticeship programs with a small processing fee.
(Checks and cash always welcome)
WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
BOOKS:
You will be required to purchase Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast and Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West for the course.
TOOLS/SUPPLIES: You must provide your own wildcrafting paraphernalia such as leather gloves, quality pruners, shovel, digging fork, bags/baskets for harvesting out in the field. In addition, alcohol, olive oil, bottles/jars and other expenses necessary for medicine making must be brought to class. Notice in advance will be given to give you time to buy supplies. Be prepared to be out in all weather as we will be out in the field each time we meet. Due to the high cost of fuel, traveling costs will be shared. A Discover Pass, a $30 annual required on state-managed recreation lands managed by Washington State Parks, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Department of Natural Resources must be purchased. The pass can be purchased at any state park.
"I will teach you how to hear the words of the leaves as the wind blows through the trees. Learn how to listen to the medicine of plants you have just met. Begin to see patterns in flowers, in habitats, in plants' responses to weather changes. Savor the sweet ambrosia of the vital force of wild plants in their seeds, their stems, their leaves, berries and roots. Open your eyes to the relationships of plants and animals living together and how to develop your connection with them." - S. Jordan
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suzanne@cedarmountainherbs.com
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