Herbal Medicine Making

Receive the Guidance and Remember the Skills of Creating Herbal Medicine at Home that will Support you, your Family and your Community Throughout the Year

Stock your herbal apothecary at home with herbs from your very own garden and high quality medicines that are handcrafted in your kitchen as you learn to cultivate a relationship with the herbal allies you use every day. These potent medicines will offer constant support to you, your family and your community’s wellbeing!

Yes! I am in

Can you visualize having your own herbal apothecary stocked in your kitchen, or on a special shelf in your house? What feelings come up for you in knowing that you are prepared to take care of yourself, your family and your community throughout the year? Does being a part of the herbal creations that are in your medicine cabinet make you feel excited, supported and empowered? In this course you will be able to focus on specific medicines to create what is needed in your own home and within your family, to ensure health and vibrancy! This is what the Herbal Medicine Making course is all about! We will learn how to make tinctures, as well as understand the difference between an infusion and a decoction when making tea, infused honeys and syrups. We will dive into the world of herbal oils, as well as explore an overview into the energetics and tastes of herbs. We will discuss what to grow in your garden this year in preparation for making your own herbal medicine, and so much more! We will also be getting creative with how to actually use and apply these types of herbal medicines to your daily life. Making tea into ice pops, turning tincture doses into herbal gummies, using your infused oils for cooking, learning about herbal body oiling and medicinal salves, crafting ferments with herbal honeys and making medicinal syrups!

Payment Plan Here

Course Details

A 5 week live, online, hands on herbal medicine making course with replay recordings available. Registration will close April 13th, so folks have time to order the supplies needed to follow along in each class!

1. Curious about herbal medicine? Skeptical about buying generic remedies? Wishing herbal medicine was more accessible or more affordable? Make your own! Wanting more sovereignty when it comes to the health and wellbeing of your family? This is for you!
2. Medicine Making Supplies and Ingredients
3. Class 1 Recording: What to Grow in Your Garden and The Tastes, Energetics and Qualities of Herbs
4. Class 1 Handout
5. Rosalee De La Foret's Tastes and Flavors of Herbs
6. Rosalee de la Forêt's 7 favorite herbs to grow for making herbal oils
7. Rosalee de la Forêt's Alchemy of Herbal Energetics
8. Sajah Popham's Herbal Energetics Table
9. Sajah Popham's Human Constitution Table
10. Class 2 Recording: The Magic of Making Medicinal Teas: Infusions and Decoctions
11. Class 2 Handout
12. Tea herb ideas for stress, anxiety and the nervous system
13. Herb of the Week blog for more tea herb ideas
14. plant monographs
15. Tea herbs for the immune system
16. Herbal Electrolyte and Ice Pop Recipe Handout
17. Basic Herbal Syrup recipe
18. Simmered Concentrates & Syrups
19. Class 3 Recording: All About Herbal Infused Oils
20. Class 3 Handout
21. Dried Calendula And Fresh Lavender Infused Oil Recipe Videos
22. Kami McBride 7-herbs-healing-oils-ebook-word
23. Benefits of Herbal Body Oiling
24. Kami McBride's Infused Oils for Cooking
25. Benefits of Gotu Kola (Centella asiatica)
26. Topical Uses of Calendula
27. The Herbal Kitchen by Kami McBride
28. Lovely Lotion Recipe
29. Salve Recipes
30. Class 4 Recording: The Yumminess of Honey Medicine: Herbal infused honeys, medicinal syrups, oxymels and more
31. Class 4 Handout
32. Basic Syrup Recipe
33. Iron Tonic Syrup
34. Simmered Concentrates & Syrups
35. Infused Herbal Honey
36. Herbal Honey are cold and flu
37. Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine: Herbal Honeys and Syrups
38. Chai Honey Recipe: Instant Herbal Tea
39. Garlic Honey
40. INFUSED HONEYS+ELECTUARIES+PASTILLES
41. Oxymel
42. Tulsi Oxymel
43. Class 5 Recording: Tincture Making
44. Class 5 Handout
45. Introductions to Tinctures: FOLKLORIC + RATIO METHODS
46. Alcohol Tinctures and Kids
47. Herbal Gummies

$330
Payment Plan Available
Five 2 hour live zoom classes with replays available

I am ready

In this course we will:

Have you ever bought a generic herbal blend to support your headache, or your child’s cold, but quickly realized it didn’t do what you had hoped? In this course, we will learn how to create quality, herbal medicines that are specific for you and your family’s needs, so that herbal medicine can be truly supportive.
Have you ever grown herbs in your garden or purchased elderberries in the past, only to realize that you didn’t know how to extract the potent medicine from them? In this course, we will learn what to do with the abundant herbs around us, and how to use them in an effective and medicinal way.
Know the ingredients of your medicines: be able to support local, choose the quality of your ingredients, get creative and specific with what’s in your herbal blends
Stock your herbal apothecary at home with nourishing tea blends, immune support tinctures, luxurious herbal oils, as well as infused honeys & syrups, and so so much more!
Connect with the plants as your allies, as you cultivate a relationship with the herbs you use every day to support you and your family’s wellbeing, vitality and health throughout the year!

Why Make Your Own Herbal Medicine?

To be sovereign in how we take care of our bodies, mind and spirits. To be able to take care of ourselves, our families, and our communities from a holistic perspective. To be deeply connected in such a way that we are able to trust where our medicines are coming from. To be fully empowered, intuitively guided, and connected to a thriving life.

Payment Plan Available here

Why Folks Love to Make Their Own Herbal Medicine

“Making herbal medicine is always an opportunity for me to come back home to myself. It’s a way for me to honor the rhythms of my body and the rhythm in the seasons. Through creating remedies and nourishing myself I am able to cultivate a deeper relationship with the world within and around me.” ~Jamie C.
" It’s connection to the Earth and her seasons. It’s connection to my ancestors and to myself. It’s radical responsibility and self reliance for the health of myself and my family. It's inspiration to create in all aspects of my life. It’s beautiful and fun and rewarding. It’s sharing with others who need the medicine of the Earth, of your hands and of your heart." ~Alison T.
"Connection to the earth. To my vessel. Empowerment through healing. Alchemy. Education." ~Emily O.
"WOW. I am floored by the medicine of mama milky oats. My nerves haven't felt so calm in weeks. It is quite remarkable to feel such a shift. This is the power of medicine making" ~Maria G

Bio

Laura Mayer is the creatrix of Backyard Harvest and rootsy herbalist and nurse who is passionate about food as medicine, herbs as allies and connection as guidance. She is dedicated to offering mamas and families support and inspiration that nourishes mind, body, soul, spirit and the Earth. Her offerings weave the traditions of Traditional Western Herbalism, Ayurveda, Earth Based Teachings, Traditional Innate Postpartum Care, and the Wisdom of the Plants. Creating nourishing tea nest spaces, magic in the kitchen and connecting with the plants brings Laura continuous hope, inspiration and joy! Backyard Harvest creates herbal remedies, based on the inspiration of the seasons and the abundance of the harvests! This path of Earth Based Medicines and Remembering my Connection to my Ancestors that carried this plant wisdom in their bones has been a huge part of my own healing journey. I believe is it our birthright as humans to remember our connection to our heart and to the Earth and to have access to local food, supportive community and holistic health care. My Why is to spark that remembering from deep within of who we are.

Come make medicine with me

Herbal Medicine Making

"Connection to the earth. To my vessel. Empowerment through healing. Alchemy. Education." ~Emily O.

"WOW. I am floored by the medicine of mama milky oats. My nerves haven't felt so calm in weeks. It is quite remarkable to feel such a shift. This is the power of medicine making" ~Maria G