Deep Green Medicine:
Wildcrafting a Natural Pharmacy
Would you like to...
Learn to make your own plant medicines for you, your loved ones, and your community?
Develop a deep knowledge of the plant world around you?
Replace many of the over-the-counter medicines that are harmful for you and the planet with hand-gathered, wild plant medicines?
Develop more natural resilience for future challenges that we may face as a society and world by creating your own medicines?
Feel a sense of belonging and connection to the natural world?
Connect and learn from expert teachers and join a like minded-community of plant people?
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Then take a deep dive with us in our 9-month, once a month, Plant Medicine Making Intensive (September to May)-One Saturday per month starting on September 28th. Each Saturday we'll meet from 9am-3pm PT for an immersive class including lecture, hands-on work, demonstration, field exercises, and more!
Tuition: $947 for all 9 Sessions ($500 deposit due on registration, $847 Early bird price until September 15th ($500 deposit required), or Pay $847 total for full tuition discount!
Core Learning and Principles of the Course:
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Deepening connection to the world of plants and plant medicine including learning local plants and breaking down the "green wall"
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Learn ethical and smart wildcrafting based on ancient and modern principles and approaches
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Making and creating a Green Pharmacy of wild plant medicines for common ailments
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​Deepening familiarity and relationships with plants and plant medicines of all types including external medicines, tinctures, teas/infusions, herbal smokes and smudges, flower essences, and others
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At the end of the course, participants will be given permanent links to all of the class material including the ability to download a PDF of relevant info, and summary of what has been covered!
Wild Plant Medicine Making Intensive
About the Class
In this 9-month online series, herbalist and author Liz Neves and author and ethnobotanist Nate Summers will guide you on a deep journey into reconnecting and rewilding your mind, body, and spirit through the world of Herbal Medicine Making.
All classes meet via Zoom and will be recorded and available for your viewing convenience!
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Session 1: September 28, 2024-Identification, ethical harvesting & sourcing, processing (drying, garbling, storing), offerings, herb bundles (smoke cleansing/smudging), plant spirit connection and meditations.
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Session 2: October 19, 2024- Water infusions (tea), simples, steams, baths/footbaths, washes, compresses, poultices
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Session 3:November 16, 20240-Vinegar preparations, oxymels
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Session 4: December 7, 2024-Sweet things: infused honey, electuaries, syrups, lozenges
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Session 5: January 18, 2025-Alcohol tinctures & glycerites
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Session 6: February 22, 2025-Infused oils, salves, lotion
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Session 7:March TBA, 2025-Elixirs
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Session 8: April TBA 2025-Formulating compounds
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Session 9: May TBA, 2025-Flower essences, sacred smokes, ceremony, and ritual with herbs
Instructional Team
Liz Neves
Lead Instructor
Liz Neves is an herbal educator, dream guide, reiki & healing drum practitioner, mama, and student of life. She is a bridge who opens portals to the plant realms, empowering you to deepen your relationship with the healing plants. This alignment with the wisdom and medicine of the plant spirits opens the way to deeper intimacy with your self and the Universe.
Liz is the author of Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness (Timber Press).
Links:
gatheringground.nyc https://www.gatheringground.nyc/
Instagram @gatheringground: https://www.instagram.com/gatheringground/
Facebook @gatheringnyc: https://www.facebook.com/gatheringnyc
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpKabVlM2jgbQkwFJP0QTEg
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NATE SUMMERS, M.Ac.
Lead Instructor
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Nate Summers is the author of Primal: Why We Long to Be Wild and Free and Awakening Fire: The Essential Guide to Flame, Ignition, and Wood. Nate has served as a faculty member at the Wilderness Awareness School, the Desert Institute of Healing Arts, and the Asian Institute of Medical Studies. He practiced Chinese Medicine in a clinical setting for over 10 years and has taught survival skills, ethnobotany, herbal medicine and natural movement to people all over the country and all over the world.
