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Payment 2 for The Complete Plant Medicine Series

Join us for the first five Plant Medicine courses of the Cascadia Bioregion and enjoy a big discount on the price!

 

All classes are taught live, online via Zoom, on Thursdays from 6 - 9 pm PST. A meeting code will be emailed to you before the beginning of each class.

 

Plant Medicine I: Tree Medicine

February 20 & 27, March 6 & 13

In this first class we look at the important trees of Cascadia, including conifers like Western Redcedar, Douglas Fir, Juniper and Pines, as well as essential deciduous tree medicines like Hawthorn, Oak, Cottonwood, Willows, Quaking Aspen, Red Alder, and more.

 

Plant Medicine II: Herbs, Flowers, and Weeds

April 10, 17, 24, and May 1

In our second class we turn our attention to herbaceous plants, both native and naturalized. Important medicines like stinging nettles, dandelion, and yarrow are taught alongside some lesser known plants of the lower elevation riparian valleys, forests, Columbia Gorge and coasts.

 

Plant Medicine III: Cascadia Mountain Medicine

May 8, 15, 22 and 29

In our third class we’ll cover some of the very important medicines of the middle and higher elevations of the Pacific Northwest. Many medicinal plants such as Oregon Grape, Devil’s Club and Red Root will be discussed in depth with regard to energetics, historical uses, experiential plant communication, and how to work with these mountain plants in medicinal healing context.

 

Plant Medicine IV: Western Mountains and High Deserts

September 4, 11, 18 and 25

We continue our Plant Medicine series spending four weeks with the plants typically found in the mountain ranges such as the Western Rockies, Eastern Oregon’s Ochocos, Blue Mountains, Wallowas, and Steens; as well as high deserts and canyon-lands. We’ll discuss Ponderosa-Aspen parkland habitat and Juniper Sagebrush plateaus as well as more remote desert plants. Wild Peony, Oshala, Bitterroot, Aspen, Juniper, Sagebrush, Green Ephedra, Arnica, Lomatium, and many other plants will be discussed in depth.

 

Plant Medicine V: The Klamath-Siskyoos

October 2, 9, 16, and 23

Southern Oregon, including the Rogue and Illinois Rivers and the Klamath and Siskiyoo ranges as well as the Kalmiopsis wilderness, is one of the most diverse plant regions of North America. We’ll discuss plant adaptations to fire and serpentine soil types, ecology, and recovery after some of the largest fires in Oregon history. In this class Oshala Ligusticums, wild Angelicas, California Spikenard, Yerba Santa, Yellow Coneflower, California Bay, Cobra Lily and many other plants including rare endemics.

Payment 2 for The Complete Plant Medicine Series

$100.00Price
  • When you purchase the class you will be emailed a link to download a PDF file containing details about the class and other necessary instructions. This link will be active for 30 days. If the link expires you may email us for a new link. However, as we prefer to spend our time in the woods rather than on the computer, we recommend downloading the file immediately.

The Elderberry School of Botanical Medicine

Portland, OR 

elderberryschoolpdx@gmail.com

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