• Build a foundation for using herbs safely
• Identify, harvest and use local wild herbs
• Learn cultivation techniques to grow herbs for food and medicine
• Create optimum nutrition with traditional food preparation
• Learn to make and use herbal remedies
• Cultivate skills in observation
• Create a personal materia medica
• Gain skill and confidence to sort through health care options and be an informed advocate for healing
• Develop an understanding of health using elemental energy, seasonal cycles and patterns
• Develop life enhancing communication skills
• Access the Wise Healer within

• 18 days of class time/instruction, approximately 110 hours
• Level 1: Class text - Healing Wise by Susun S. Weed and Herbal Ally Notebook.
  Level 2: Class text - Botany in a Day by Thomas J. Elpel and Herbalism of Place Notebook
• 18 lunches
• Access to a 1,000 volume multi-media library, i.e. books, videos & tapes
• Access to tools for herbal medicine making, i.e. hydraulic press, cider press, dehydrators
• Direct experience with integrated webs of life incorporating greenhouse, gardens, small livestock rearing, apothecary, herbal store & cottage industry
• Level 1: 1 dried herb a month, 9 different herbs, for use during the course of study Level 2: 1 herb or herbal remedy, for use during course of study.
• Access to an established, eco-friendly herb garden with over 350 varieties of herb, native and exotic plants where plant material for food & medicine making will be gathered

• Pay in full. Bring the total payment to interview or 1st class
• Use the trimester payment plan.

Stewardship Option
Participate in our hands-on training program by working on the croft. It is an exceptional opportunity to receive training, gain experience and reduce your tuition by 1/3. By participating in this training program you gain valuable hands-on experience.

Requires a commitment of ONE 5hr day per week for 6 months, April thru September. Work is Thursday, 9:30am - 3:00pm.

The total payment for HGU and the Stewardship option is $1750. By participating and fulfilling your commitment in this program you receive a $500 reduction in tuition making your total cash payment $1250.

• Be on time.
• Be prepared to work at indoor or outdoor activities on any day.
• You will need: work gloves, & rubber boots. Required equipment: hand clippers and small hand weeding tool.

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