ONSITE Herbal Programs

When you apply to the school, you can specify this option on your application.  You may apply for the Introductory and Intermediate together by Applying here. Upon successful completion of the intermediate, you may apply for advanced practitioner herbcraft classes if you are completing our Community herbcraft program or have completed 250 hours or more of comparable introductory and intermediate studies elsewhere.

Homea nd Family Programs take 3-6 months to complete, Community Programs take 6-12 months to complete, and Practitioner Programs can take 1-2 years depending on your track

To register for one program, the first step is to apply.  All students register by paying $250 dollars and then holding their place with the appropriate fee depending on the course.  Once you have applied, we will be contacting you to follow up with this information.

You may test into our intermediate or advanced programs.  Please specify this on your application.  Due to the rigorous nature of our programs, we require you to pass certain assessment tests in order to do so.

Yes, we offer payment plans through automatic withdrawal every month.

Not in 2021 due to the ongoing pandemic.  Please send us an email and specify your interest in your application.

No.  You can go straight to the button that says view all of our onsite and online courses and choose the online option.  You will be directed to a link to pay and receive login credentials.  Please go directly to our online platform here

Programs are open to groups of 10-20 people that come together to learn over several months, sometimes up to year with mainly classroom, lecture, homework, projects, labs and demos.  We take more people, and there is a lot more content covered.  Apprenticeships are only open to small groups of 5 or so students per season, depending on the topic.  Preference is given to current program students but all may apply, and they may be taken more than once, as the seasonal content changes.  This additional training allows for more hands-on work in the gardens, or with specific topics like women's health or clinical mentorships or outdoor skills.  Apprentices work directly with herbal clinicians and teachers, and spend more time with handson training, than lecture.  This is a good add-on to your program if you want to go deeper into working directly with herbs. Otherwise, we suggest you start with the Home and Family Program to learn basic herbalism.  These are only available to intermediate Community Herbcraft and Practitioner Herbcraft Students

REFUNDS, CANCELLATIONS, WITHDRAWALS POLICIES

Individual Classes

If the class does not make or has to be cancelled by our school for some unknown reason(weather, sickness etc), we refund your payment back and will inform people asap as to the situation.  You may also choose to apply your payment to the rescheduled class date or another class.

Please note that plant walks and classes held outside will only be rescheduled if the weather is unsafe for travel. This does not include drizzle and rain. We will always check in the afternoon and post what the verdict is prior to a class if floods or tornadoes may keep a class from being safe to attend.

We require pre-payment to register for most individual classes.   If you decide to just show up at an event because you are unsure of whether or not you are going to be able to make it, and decide to pay at the door please contact us and let us know that. Only those that prepay will be ensured handouts and a seat.

There are no refunds for individual classes.

We hope you understand this policy is to create respect for our teacher's time and energy and ensure that they are able to teach in the future. We offer several free events a year to ensure everyone can learn and access herbalism, the people’s medicine. Our teachers are extremely talented and committed and your payment and commitment help them to dedicate their lives to herbalism.

Application Deposit and Fee

All application fees are nonrefundable if accepted into a program.  If we cannot accept you into your desired program for some reason, we will return this fee minus a $50 administrative fee.

Program Withdrawals and Cancellations

Please refer to the paperwork you sign when you register for the program.  Withdrawals are refundable within the time-frame indicated in your program paperwork and signed before classes start.  If you withdraw after the time allotted, your place has been held, you are liable for the full amount.  Once a program has started there are no refunds.

If you have not signed paperwork yet, our general policy is that we will refund registrations within a 72 hour window of someone making the payment.  In some instances we are able to apply credit to future classes.

If you believe your situation is what would be considered an emergency hardship (death, illness, accident), please let us know asap, and we will schedule an appointment to speak with you, as we treat things as much as possible on a case by case basis. We require anyone requesting this meet with us on the phone or through zoom.

We are a small, woman-owned school and many funds are immediately applied to infrastructure costs as soon as they are made.

Supplies/Preparations

If you receive a product you are unhappy with or that you have concerns about, please promptly contact us within 1 week of purchase.  We are happy to try to replace any damaged or otherwise problematic items if we are able to.  If the item is damaged in shipping, we may also need the tracking number so we can take it up with the carrier.

Other issues: please email us and we will try to address them

Hi Herbalists! Due to the ongoing pandemic we are limiting onsite offerings.  We have many online options for folks now, or if you live in Texas, and would like to participate in our hybrid programs in 2021, we will be following the following protocols for introductory and intermediate studies:

• Outdoor Classes are underway and masks are optional upon proof of vaccination.
• Many of our lectures will be online live streams or recorded with live demos.  You will have the option of purchasing a herb kit from us to follow along at home.
• We continue to have extra sanitation guidelines in place, keep doors and windows open whenever possible, and we will be going back into the indoor classroom with masks optional for those that show proof of vaccination.
•  If someone in your household or workplace has tested positive for the COVID 19 in the past 10 days, we ask you stay home and quarantine.  All lectures will be recorded and so will outdoor classes so if you cannot attend in person, we will still be able to get you the content. Thanks for your kind attention to keeping everyone well.
• Anyone not adhering to our protocols or endangering others may be asked to leave the program and still be liable for the full amount owed.

Please see our statement on inclusivity.  In order to make our classroom as inclusive and create a safer space for people, we ask that folks agree to some communication cornerstones and guidelines before we work together.  One of the biggest is not to make assumptions about each other.  One example of this is to ask what someone's preference of pronoun is before addressing them by he, she, or they.  Please ask people before touching them, and in order to create a classroom that is safer for all we ask that you stay 6 feet apart from each other during the COVID 19 pandemic whenever possible.  If a situation arises and there is conflict between the teacher or students, please alert the administration so it can be dealt with directly.