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APPRENTICESHIPS WILL INCLUDE:

Field Trips, Botanical Identification, Materia Medica and applications, Ethics of Wildcrafting, Field Pharmacy, Harvest & Preservation Methods, Body Systems: Basic functions and herbal support, Medicine Making (old-timey and modern practices), Food as Medicine, Wild Plant Foraging, Herbs of the Seasons, Seaweed Intensive, Herbal Lore, Aromatherapy and Ethnobotany.

The focus areas will be on the wild plants of the myriad bio-regions of Washington State's Skagit, Whatcom & Snohomish counties from high up on the mountain passes, to the river valleys and into the Sound.
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.
AUTUMN APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM!

Long awaited and much asked for, I am offering an apprenticeship from August 31 - November 16. As with each apprenticeship session, Fall brings its own unique wild plant harvesting and field trip opportunities, preparing herbally for winter ailments, plus an extra bonus of homesteading skills such as chicken butchering, canning, drying and putting up the harvest for winter.
Fee is $600 and there will be a maximum enrollment of 12.
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, harvesting, eating and healing with herbs as a part of their daily lives.
Apprentice with me. I will teach you what I know.
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Apprenticeships meet every Tuesday.
SPRING 2010:
March 2 - MAY 18
10 AM - 4:30 PM
FEE:$600
78 HOURS OF STUDY

SUMMER 2010:
JUNE 1 - AUGUST 17
9 AM - 5 PM
FEE: $800
96+ HOURS OF STUDY
AUTUMN 2010:
AUGUST 31 - NOVEMBER 16
10 AM - 4:30 PM
FEE:$600
78 HOURS OF STUDY

If you wish to participate in both the Spring and Summer sessions, the fee will be $1325 for 174+ hours of very valuable and in-depth herbal study.

Be prepared to attend all sessions to gain full benefit of this very intensive apprenticeship. There are no make up days or refunds for missed classes.

Live-in apprenticeships not available. Both apprenticeship programs are open to students 18 years and older.

Summer session includes an overnight trip to Eastern Washington to harvest high desert plants. Always fun and informative!