School of Plant and Place Connection

An herbal medicine school cultivating kinship with the natural world

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Commune with the Plants

Learn to listen deeply, heighten your awareness, and tune into your senses. These tools will guide you into relationship with the plants that surround you no matter where you live or where your travels take you. The plants have much to share, all we need do is open our hearts and minds and meet them where they are. Communing with the plants provides a pathway to kinship with all of the natural world.

Learn how to work with the plants as food and medicine

Learn how to identify and harvest plants in the wild and cultivate medicinal herbs in your own backyard or on your kitchen windowsill. Discover the many nutritional and medicinal aspects of our planty kin and how to prepare them for food and medicine. In working with the plants and weaving them into our lives, we deepen our knowledge and relationship with them. Together we'll craft nourishing herbal teas and wild salads, whip up potent tinctures and healing salves.

Find belonging in the natural world

Cultivate relationship with not only the place in which you dwell but those places that you visit. Once we have the methods, the tools, to better understand and communicate with the inhabitants of that land, relationship unfolds naturally, instinctually, effortlessly. This is what this program offers. A path of connection, beginning with the plants, to place. A path to deep and lasting relationship. A path that you will continue to cultivate and is sure to blossom and bear fruit in ways that you might have never imagined.

What participants have to say!

Shelley, Plant and Place Immersion

Christy, Plant and Place Connection Series

"The 2024 immersion surpassed all of my expectations. I began the program hoping to receive a solid foundation in herbalism, I finished with this and so much more. Heather is AMAZING; knowledgeable, authentic, and engaging. She and her wonderful guest teachers gave me the opportunity to explore the natural world from a variety of perspectives. The comprehensive scope combined with Heather’s natural teaching abilities and the home study practices led to an increase in my own observation skills and a deeper awareness of the natural world. I gained a solid foundation on medicinal herbs which covered every stage of the process, from proper identification to harvest to medicine making. The active hands-on style of the course increased my own knowledge immensely and, more importantly, equipped me with the skills to move forward on my own. It was much more than an education; it was an amazing experience!"

Christy, Plant and Place Connection Series

"I recently completed the Plant and Place Connection summer series, and I left it learning more than I expected and inspired to study even more about the plant world! While I was looking for an introduction to plants and nature, I was thrilled to explore topics ranging from forest bathing to foraging to botany and beyond. Heather provided a thoughtful and thorough curriculum in a relaxed manner and a beautiful natural setting. Most importantly, the series provided connection to not only the plants and the land but also to other like-minded souls. So grateful for this experience!"

Siri, Plant and Place Connection Series

Christy, Plant and Place Connection Series

Siri, Plant and Place Connection Series

"Heather’s knowledge of plants for medicinal and edible use is only surpassed by her love of the earth. During the “Plant & Place Connection Series” in the Summer of 2023 she fostered a greater love and respect of the forest while she taught us identification, uses, and preparations of common plants. Her reverence for the plants enhanced the experience of identifying and harvesting. Heather has a wealth of knowledge and I feel very lucky that she is willing to share it through her walks, talks and classes. Highly recommended."

School of Plant and Place Connection

An herbal medicine school cultivating kinship with the natural world

About

Commune with the Plants

Learn how to work with the plants as food and medicine

Find belonging in the natural world

The earth and all that dwell herein - the rooted, feathered, furred, scaled - are relations, our dear kindred. We live in a wild communion of absolute mutual dependence, connected in our ancestry and our continuation.

What participants have to say!

Shelley, Plant and Place Immersion

Christy, Plant and Place Connection Series

Christy, Plant and Place Connection Series

Christy, Plant and Place Connection Series

Christy, Plant and Place Connection Series

Christy, Plant and Place Connection Series

Siri, Plant and Place Connection Series

Christy, Plant and Place Connection Series

Siri, Plant and Place Connection Series

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