BIOREGIONAL HERBALISM COURSE & PLANT WALK SERIES
A hands-on outdoor course exploring bioregional herbalism, botanical ecology, plant id, ethical wildcrafting, plant spirit medicine, herbal alchemy, spiritual ecology, medicine making, growing herbs, & more!
Plants are also integral to reweaving the connection between land and people.A place becomes a home when it sustains you, when it feeds you in body as well as spirit. To recreate a home, the plants must also return.
-Robin Wall Kimmerer
The medicines of this earth offer more than their medicinal actions: they offer a return to a knowing and kinship with who we truly are.
Herbalism is about much more than using plants medicinally it’s about embodying a deeper connection to nature, ecology, and the plants themselves. The plants are a bridge reweaving people back into relationship with the land. Humans have always been in relationship to the land and the ecology that supports them. It is only in the last few hundred years or so that we have become disconnected from this foundational relationship, severed from our roots.
This in-depth course will explore bioregional herbalism as a way to cultivate deeper relationship with ourselves, the land, our ancestral traditions, and the plants themselves. Bioregional Herbalism is rooted in the practice of working with the medicinal plants growing around you and I believe it to be the most effective and sustainable way to work with medicinal plants.
The medicine we often need most is growing right beneath our feet. After all, such plants are growing, adapting, & learning to thrive in the very environment we are.
The Rocky Mountains of Colorado are full of beauty, medicine, wildlife, and adventure. Despite being a harsher climate these mountains are home to a rich selection of medicinal plants. From the foothills to the high mountains and subalpine there is a wide range of medicinal wildflowers, trees, shrubs, and lichens.
This course will be a series of plant walks and intensives exploring many facets of bioregional herbalism from ethical wildcrafting to growing medicinal herbs and making medicine.
We will spend our days in herb gardens, forests, and mountain meadows cultivating relationship with the flora of this land.
2025 Dates/Times:
May 24. Meeting the Flora- Plant Spirit Communication & Wildcrafting Ethics. Starhouse, Earthstar Garden. Boulder, CO. 10-2. $50
June 7. Seed to Apothecary. Cultivating a Medicinal Herb Garden. Starhouse, Earthstar Garden. Boulder, CO. 10-2. $75
June 14. Natura Sophia- Intro to Alchemical Herbalism and Weaving Earth and Stars. StarHouse, EarthStar Garden. Boulder, CO. 10-2. $75
June 24th. PlantSong with Saoirse Watters- Weaving Ritual & Herbalism. Starhouse, Earthstar Garden. Boulder, CO. 4-7 PM. $40
July 12th. Wild Mountain Flora- An Introduction to our Mountain Ecologies. Nederland, CO. 10-2. $50
July 16th. Herbalism in the City- Hawthorn, Resilience, and, Reconnection with Asia Dorsey. Denver, CO. 4-7 PM. $40
July 26th. Forest Medicine- Making Medicine with the Trees. Nederland, CO. 10-2. $75
August 9th. High Mountain Flora- Sub Alpine Plant Walk. Ward, CO. 10-2. $50
August 23. Growing and Making Medicine in the High Mountains. Rollinsville, CO. 10-2. $75
HOW TO APPLY/REGISTER:
*FULL SERIES $475- simply sign up below.
*This course can be taken as a full series or the above plant walks/intensives will be offered as stand-alone for those that cannot commit to all the dates.
*If you are not doing the full series and wish to attend any of the above dates you must email Courtney to register and apply for individual plant walks and intensives.
*EMAIL: courtney@honeybeeherbals.co
*No refunds if you cancel less than five days before the class date.
*One BIPOC scholarship available directly email Courtney to apply
This course will go over:
Identifying Ecological Zones
Botany and Plant ID
Ethical Wildcrafting
Sustainable Harvesting
Herbalism and Utilizing Plants as Medicine
Safety and Considerations when Harvesting Wild Plants
Plant Spirit Communication
Herbal Alchemy
Land Stewardship and Spiritual Ecology
Cultivating Medicinal Herbs
Medicine Making
Logistics:
These courses will be in the field, and we will be exploring the great outdoors rain or shine! The locations will be within an hour of the front range. Attendees are required to be at the trailhead/meetup location at the designated time.
Once you register for the course a separate email will be sent with more logistics, alongside a gear list, waiver, and course handouts, and further resources to explore.
Each plant walk or intensive will have a capacity.
Who are your teachers?
Courtney was born and raised in the mountains of Colorado and has spent her whole life exploring them. In 2013 Courtney began her studies in the field of herbalism and natural medicine. Courtney is a Certified Clinical Herbalist through the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism and she has also completed a Rocky Mountain Field Botany Certificate Program where she spent a whole summer exploring the botanical ecology of the Rocky Mountains. She has been teaching and leading plant walks in Colorado ever since. Courtney is passionate about connecting others to the natural world through rekindling an appreciating of the beauty and medicine it provides.
Guest Teachers
Asia Dorsey a Nutritional Therapist and Bioregional Rootworker raised by a collective of radicals in the Five Points Community of Denver. She inherited the Five Points Fermentation Company from Milan Doshi in 2016. After reversing her own depression she was committed to bring food as medicine to the people and ran a successful fermentation business serving bars, restaurants, grocers and everyday folks deliciously fermented food and brews. In 2020, after apprenticing with Wise Women across the globe, Asia founded Bones Bugs and Botany a radical organization committed to supporting gut health and seed embodied liberation through food and herbal medicine education. Find her on the Petty Herbalist Podcast helping her people to rise together in the power that is their birthright and at www.bonesbugsandbotany.com.
Saoirse Watters is a musician, folk herbalist, mama, land steward, eco feminist, and wild creative. She began PlantSong Programs in 2022 to weave together her work in all of these fields. In PlantSong we explore the magic of plants and songs through herbalism, regenerative agriculture practices, homesteading, essential art, and the voice. PlantSong strives to help humanity to realize her part in the dream of the land.
“The land knows you even when you are lost”
