Welcome to the Cedar Mountain Herb School!

Our Herbal Empowerment Workshops are specifically designed to help you learn all-things-herbal, whether for your own personal health or herbal business. Reconnect with nature, community, and most importantly — yourself!

 

Nature has the solution…
We’ll teach you how! 🌿
Join Suzanne and Heather as they take you to their favorite wildcrafting sites in the Pacific and Inland Northwest to learn about plants hands on and in-person! 🌿

All About Our Workshops

In-Person Workshops

Based in Sandpoint Idaho and Seattle Washington, CMHS is one of the longest-running herbal schools in the Pacific Northwest. Community workshops are held at a variety of locations in Western and Central Washington and Sandpoint, Idaho, and will be plainly noted in the workshop descriptions.

Each workshop covers medicinal uses for the plants harvested, case study stories, anatomy and physiology, with best preparations for extracting and preserving the medicinal constituents and appropriate applications.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Online Herbal Fireside Chats

Regardless of where you live, we’ve got an amazing ONLINE lineup for everyone! Online workshops focus on HPA axis and how to reduce triggering, winter essentials, tea blending, uplifting herbs, botanical skin care, alcohol free medicine making, culinary herbs, eating with the seasons, creating your herb garden and tincture making using correct alcohol proof!

Check out the workshops, we’re confident that what we have on offer is exactly what YOU need! And best yet, you can learn in the comfort of your home.

ONLINE HERBAL FIRESIDE CHATS

Upcoming Workshops

North Idaho

Herbal Apprenticeship Program 2023

May - September 2023

Location: Sandpoint, ID
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Suzanne Tabert

The herbal apprenticeship program here in Sandpoint is for those who have a strong desire to strengthen their skills and fill their herbal tool belts and apothecary with plant medicine from both the wild and garden. CMHS delivers intensive in-the-field plant identification with hands-on harvesting, formulation, medicine making and holistic health practices.

Get Cultured with Butter & Ferments

March 18, 2023

Location: Sandpoint, ID
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Suzanne Tabert

Intestinal health depends on over 500 different strains of beneficial flora known collectively as probiotics. Probiotics’ many health benefits include strengthening the immune and nervous systems, stimulating digestion and protecting against the spread of harmful yeast overgrowth, lowering cholesterol and guarding against cancer. Learn how to make cultured butter and fermented curtido.

Wild Harvesting Adventure ~ Cottonwood Buds

March 25, 2023

Location: Sandpoint, ID
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Suzanne Tabert

Late winter and early spring may seem like a barren time with little to harvest, but it is actually the BEST time to harvest Cottonwood buds! These heavenly scented buds are incredibly medicinal. This is an especially wonderful opportunity to get out into nature in the winter and enjoy fresh air while learning all about a very ecologically important tree.

Wild Harvesting Adventure ~ Nettles 2023

April 29, 2023

Location: Sandpoint, ID
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Suzanne Tabert

Nettle is bursting with beneficial goodness! The lovely stinging nettle, Urtica dioica, is a micro-nutrient rich green that our bodies recognize as food and medicine. Good nutrition is the crucial foundation for building a healthy body, mind and spirit!

Wild Harvesting Adventure ~ Dandelions

May 13, 2023

Location: Sandpoint, ID
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Suzanne Tabert

Dandelions are everywhere! And we are thankful for that. They tend to show up where they are most needed, yet we don’t always recognize their generosity and incredible wealth of health benefits. We'll harvest dandelions and make remedies to take home.

Wild Harvesting Adventure ~ Willow

May 27, 2023

Location: Sandpoint, ID
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Suzanne Tabert

You’ll learn more than you thought possible about amazingly versatile willow and spend the day out in nature in the fresh air harvesting and processing your bounty right on the sandbar next to a peaceful creek.

Hydrosol Distillation & Flower Remedies

June 24, 2023

Location: Sandpoint, ID
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Suzanne Tabert

Discover the beauty of creating effective flower remedies and plant hydrosols for health and wellness as we look to the garden for inspiration.

Self Reliant Herbalism ~ Building YOUR Apothecary: Teas, Tinctures, Herbal Infused Vinegars & Honeys

July 15, 2023

Location: Sandpoint, ID
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Suzanne Tabert

Whether you’re new to herbalism or are more experienced and want to add to your self-reliant herbal tool belt, you'll gain the skills needed to feel confident knowing when to pick plants at their strongest medicinal and nutritional value and how to process them into highly effective herbal remedies.

Self Reliant Herbalism ~ Building YOUR Apothecary: Medicinal Oils, Salves, Creams, Lip Balms

July 22, 2023

Location: Sandpoint, ID
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Suzanne Tabert

Whether you’re new to herbalism or are more experienced and want to add to your self-reliant herbal tool belt, you'll gain the skills needed to feel confident knowing when to pick plants at their strongest medicinal and nutritional value and how to process them into highly effective herbal remedies.

Seattle

Seattle Roots to Tips Wildcrafting Training Program 2023

March - July 2023

Location: Seattle, WA
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Heather Bruno

The Roots to Tips Wildcrafting training Program in the Seattle area is an excellent weekend opportunity over a 5-month period, a perfect option for you to expand your herbal knowledge and skills and to go deeper in learning about the plants of our own unique bioregion!

Spring Botanical Primer 2023

May 12 - June 2, 2023

Location: Seattle, WA
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Heather Bruno

Whether you are just getting started in the amazing world of herbal medicine or a seasoned herbalist desiring to go deeper in herbal studies with hands-on field work, the Botanical Primer is an excellent opportunity for a deeply rooted exploration of wild plants, with a focus on ethical harvesting practices, constituents and why knowing them is vital to making effective healing remedies, plant energetics, and the positive impacts plants have on our anatomy and physiology!

Summer Botanical Primer 2023

June 16 - July 7, 2023

Location: Seattle, WA
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Heather Bruno

This is the time to get out in nature! Summer is such a bountiful time of year-with so many plants at their peak! Whether you are an absolute beginner or a seasoned herbalist desiring to go deeper in herbal studies with hands-on field work, the Summer Botanical Primer is for you!

self reliant herbs

Fall Botanical Primer 2023

September 22 - October 13, 2023

Location: Seattle, WA
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Heather Bruno

Whether you are just getting started in the amazing world of herbalism, continuing with your studies, or a seasoned herbalist desiring to go deeper with hands-on field work, the Botanical Primer is an excellent opportunity for a deeply rooted exploration of wild plants, with a focus on ethical harvesting practices, understanding plant energetics, and the positive impacts plants have on our anatomy and physiology! We also cover plant constituents and why knowing them is vital to making effective medicine.

Spring Wildcrafting: Nettles in the Park 2023

March 24, 2023

Location: Seattle, WA
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Heather Bruno

Nettle is bursting with beneficial goodness! The lovely stinging nettle, Urtica dioica, is a micro-nutrient rich green that our bodies recognize as food and medicine. Good nutrition is the crucial foundation for building a healthy body, mind and spirit!

Spring Wildcrafting: Willow By The River 2023

May 4, 2023

Location: Seattle, WA
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Heather Bruno

Come celebrate the arrival of Spring in a magical and memorable way! Willow is a powerful symbol of spring, rebirth, and renewal and of hope, resiliency, and strength… It’s time to re-fill our cup from the deep wells of Mother Earth!

Spring Wildcrafting: Hawthorn Blossoms 2023

May 27, 2023

Location: Seattle, WA
Setting: In-Person
Instructor(s): Heather Bruno

Hawthorn is considered a primo herb for supporting overall cardiovascular health. We’ll delve into plant constituents to learn the “why and how” hawthorn is working with our anatomy and physiology to improve the health of not only the cardiovascular system, but of the nervous system as well. We will discuss protocols for the use of hawthorn and adjunct therapies to manage anxiety and panic attacks and relieve the effects of stress.

Online

Introduction to Herbal Tinctures

March 17, 2023

Location: Zoom Video
Setting: Online
Instructor(s): Heather Bruno

Introduction to Herbal Tinctures

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