Nine-Month WEEKEND Foundations
This program is for those wishing to help their friends and families maintain health, deepen their plant knowledge. The curriculum is dynamic, contemplative and provides a sense of community as we move through the seasons learning each step of the process.
We will begin by learning how to listen to the landscape before we even make a change in the garden. We learn Stephen Buhner’s Deep Diagnostic work as well as other techniques for working directly with the land. We then move to permaculture & biodynamic practices to see that medicine is borne of the soil and the environment. Herbalists are synonymous with eco activists as we tend and steward all places to protect the medicines. We will learn the nature of nature – ours as well as our gardens, fields and meadows. In June we will take a field trip to Southern Virginia Herbals, home and herb farm of Robbie Wooding. We will see woods grown goldenseal, ginseng and other woodland medicinals and experience the challenges, possibilities and enchantment of living the tradition of the land.
“Kathleen reminded me how to live like I am really part of this planet and its rhythms. In her foundations course I not only discovered a rich world of plants, spirits, and healing, but I found a place of peace, and an amazing and supportive circle of friends.”
Anatomy & Physiology
- Western as well as energetic models
Field Work
- Plant ID
- Wildcraft (harvest) techniques and ethics
Gardening
- Permaculture Basics
- Sowing from Seed
- Planting methods
- Harvest and tending the garden
Apothecary Practices
- Tincturing
- Teas
- Cosmetics
- Compresses, poultices, fomentations
- Oils, salves, creams
Nourishment Food ways
- Fermentation
- Bone broths
- Wild foods
“Kathleen,
If you needed any comfirmation that your non traditional set up allowed for something deeply personal and transformative to occur-well there it was on that last day. Each and every person to a greater and lesser degree changed their life trajectory. That it could happen for women in their 20s through the 60s-well-amazing.
Thank you again for creating and holding that space / trust / peaceful hominess / transcendent acceptance and genuine love of the subject all together. I am confident that the degree of change I have been able to achieve these last 6 months are in no small part as a result of my taking part in your sacred tradition.
With love and respect”
