2021 Winter & Spring Classes + Events
Albuquerque Herbalism offers a variety of classes including both one-day specialty topics as well as in-depth series. Our classes often 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 listed below.
COVID Information: We anticipate ongoing concerns through the spring and plan to continue holding classes in our live online interactive format through the end of the semester. If conditions permit, we are planning to resume in-person field classes for our solstice plant walk in June. We will post updates through our newsletter, Facebook page, and website.
The Ecology of
Herbal Medicine:
Dara’s New Book
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Featuring ecological/botanical story-telling,
a richly referenced materia medica,
and detailed color photographs
Semester Enrollment
Herbalism Series
February 16 – May 18, 2021: Online
A 17-class series that includes a variety of herbal topics, hands-on remedy making, and field trips!
One Day Specialty Classes & Events
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.
Medicinal Mushroomery in the Rocky Mountains
February 27: Online
Explore our region’s fungi and make your own mushroom medicine
Hydrosols and Distillates
March 20: Online
Learn to make your own still and take home aromatic preparations
Natural Strategies for Autoimmunity & Chronic Inflammation
April 10: Online
Discover botanical strategies for building and maintaining wellness
Edible and Medicinal Weeds
May 4: Online
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 20: In-person – EVENT IS FULL
Celebrate this time of transition with an evening stroll through our riparian forest
Advanced Herbalist Group
Advanced Herbalist Group
Spring/Summer session of this year-long series begins in April: In-person and outdoors
International Herb Symposium (Online)
Join Dara for sessions at this year’s virtual Symposium:
- Organizing & Implementing Native Medicinal Plant Restoration on Public Lands
- Anemopsis californica: A Plant’s Ecological, Cultural, and Medicinal Importance
Good Medicine Confluence (Online)
Dara will be at this year’s virtual Plant Healer conference, July 16-18. Join her for:
- Shrubs: The Medicine of our Times
- Tales from the Land: Medicinal Plant Landscapes
- A Medicinal Plant Walk
Made by Students
Instructors
Meet this semester’s expert teachers!
Angie True
Anna Marija Helt
Dara Saville
Donna O'Donovan
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!