2023 Winter/Spring Classes
Now Enrolling
Albuquerque Herbalism offers a variety of classes including both one-day specialty topics as well as in-depth series. Our classes fill up ahead of time, so please plan ahead and register early.
- Join our Herbalism Series as a semester enrollment that includes our core program, as well as all four one-day specialty courses.
- Or register for single-day specialty classes or short series courses listed below.
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The Ecology of
Herbal Medicine:
Dara’s Book
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Featuring ecological/botanical story-telling,
a richly referenced materia medica,
and detailed color photographs
Semester Enrollment
Herbalism Series
January 17-April 11, 2023 (Weekly In-Person + 3 Live Online Sessions)
A 17-class series that includes a variety of herbal topics, hands-on remedy making, and field trips!
One Day Specialty Classes
Take any – or all! – of these four below as single classes or as part of the full Herbalism Series. Semester Enrollment students are automatically registered.
Western Herbal Energetics & Constitutions
January 28, 2023 (Live Online)
Learn assessment techniques, constitutional types, and plant energetics through case studies and sensory experience
Medicinal Mushroomery
February 25, 2023 (Live Online)
Explore, identify, and make a double extract with medicinal mushrooms of our region
Supporting Our Resilience
March 18, 2023 (Live Online)
Addressing trauma with practices of Mexican traditional medicine, or curanderismo
Edible and Medicinal Weeds
April 11, 2023 (In-Person)
Resilient local weeds can nourish our own resilience as food and medicine!
One Day Special Event
(Not included in Semester Enrollment but semester students have a similar field class included in their course schedule.)
Summer Solstice Medicinal Plant Walk in the Bosque
June 2023 Date TBA (In-Person)
Celebrate this time of transition with an evening stroll through our local Bosque wild lands.
Advanced Herbalist Group
Advanced Herbalist Group
6 Saturdays April-September, 2023 (In-Person)
For continuing students, this spring/summer field series is half of a yearlong course and includes guided walks, independent study, and peer group discussion
Made by Students
Instructors
Meet this semester’s expert teachers
Dara Saville
Anna Marija Helt
Donna O'Donovan
Atava Garcia Swiecicki
From Our Students
“I wanted to let you know how much the classes I have taken with you have meant to me. I now have the confidence to take what you’ve given me and continue my own home studies and to experiment on my own – something I never would have done before your classes. I am so grateful to have herbs and herbalism as a regular part of my life now and that has happened because of you and your very accessible way of teaching and the affordability of your classes. I am indebted to you more than I am to any book or online blog or website I’ve ever read or seen, because you made it real for me and gave me the tools to do this on my own.”
Ecological Herbalism Series photo credit: Bill Pentler
“I was so very moved this evening to hear your words around our beautiful Bosque. I can’t even describe to you how much your words meant, hearing from your perspective, its story, plant connections, relationships, and also its waning….I was so moved! I have heard about you a long time from mutual friends about taking your classes and was so excited I finally got in!…Truly, your words and data/information, but how your heart speaks to it, is mind-blowing and moving. Big hugs and thanks again for teaching our community your wonderful class…and doing the work you do!!”
Get In Touch
Want to be the first to hear about our 2021 classes?
OR: Want to request one of our classic classes – herbal cocktails, kitchen herbs, botanical drawing & more listed here? Just let us know!