Forest Medicine ~ fall intensive
October 18th – November 15th 2015
$565
Classes meet from 9am-4:30pm every Sunday for 5 weeks (37.5 hrs of instruction). Classes are located at Jessy’s home in Brentwood Bay and in the nearby forests and wild places.
Visit fireweedschool.com for registration info
Join herbalist, herb farmer, wildcrafter and medicine maker Jessy Delleman for this five week intensive on working with our herbal allies of the West Coast forest. During this 5 week program, each class will center around one of our native medicinal forest plants and will incorporate plant spirit work, plant identification, materia medica, ethical wild harvesting, and medicine making. At the end of each class students will go home with detailed handouts on course material, a herbal product that they prepared in class, and will be steeped in connection to their new herbal ally in the forest.
The plants we will be working with for the fall 2015 intensive of Forest Medicine are:
Old Man’s Beard (Dolichousnea longissima)
Black Cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa)
Oregon Grape (Mahonia nervosa)
Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata)
Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum)
The herbal medicines we will be preparing in class include:
Fresh plant tincture
Infused vinegar
Liniment
Infused oil
Salve
*Intensive tuition includes all materials and medicine making supplies
*A $100 deposit toward tuition is required at time of registration, the remainder of the Intensive tuition is required on the first day of class.
*Payment plans can be arranged as needed.
Jessy Delleman is a herbalist, herb farmer and medicine maker. She operates Fireweed Farm, a small organic medicinal herb farm located in Brentwood Bay BC. Jessy is the founder of the organic seed business Ravenhill Herb Seeds, and makes high quality herbal products for her business Miss Mullein’s Herbals. She grew up surrounded by her mothers folk herbal remedies and foraging in the pristine Yukon wilds where they homesteaded in her early years. Jessy has formal herbal training with various herbal practioners including Jasmyn Clift of Wild Seed School, and Sajah Popham of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. Jessy is a practicing herbalist specializing in herbal medicine for families and women’s health. Jessy is an avid wildcrafter, goatkeeper, and homesteader. She believes in the power of nature to heal.