120-HOUR CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Newly re-designed course!
Co-Taught by Community Herbalist & Product Developer Rebekah Sutter, and Community Herbalist and Forager Cate Nixon. Guest Teacher appearances by Herbalist & Twin Star Director Lupo Passero.
We are so very excited for the rebirth of this one-of-a-kind program, nearly ten years in the making. Join Community Herbalists, Foragers and Herbal Product Development Specialists Rebekah Sutter, Cate Nixon and Lupo Passero as they share their combined decades of knowledge and experience when it comes to harvesting local plants and making them into sustainable and efficacious herbal products to share with your community.
This course is designed for folks who want to learn how to design, create, formulate, label and market their own herbal products with herbs & mushrooms that have been foraged. By wildcrafting plants & fungi that grow locally, students will form a deep relationship with sustainably native, naturalized and invasive plants. Throughout the program we will use these herbs to prepare herbal teas, salves and tinctures and more. Students will learn and experience ethical foraging techniques along Western Connecticut, practice proper plant and fungi identification and harvest, prepare herbs according to medicine making or drying needs, all while co-formulating special herbal products and building the home apothecary.
Participants in the class will formulate and co-create one Community Apothecary Share (CSA), featuring six to eight different herbal remedies with the herbs they have locally wildcrafted. Students learn how to properly formulate, label and market their CSA shares and receive one share to take home after they are complete. CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT 2022 WOMB WARRIOR KIT!
MEET YOUR TEACHERS
Rebekah Sutter is a community herbalist & artist residing in the rolling hills of Northwest Connecticut. Bekah's passion lies in combining the healing physical, energetic & plant spirit magic of the herbal world with the creation of beautiful hand-crafted artwork and herbal remedies. Rebekah leads and guides the group in formulation, design, medicine making, marketing and more!
Cate is a lifelong organic practices gardener, viticulturist, and community herbalist whose passion is sharing the wonders of our plant friends with others. Cate uses her connection with nature and the energies around us in her practice as a green witch and loves connecting others to the magic she has found there. Cate guides the group in foraging and harvesting medicinal herbs and fungi around the CT & NY area.
CLASS SCHEDULE:
This course meets in-person on the last Monday of each month April through November (2nd Monday) from 9:30 am to 5 pm. All classes will be led and supervised by Community Herbalists Rebekah Sutter & Cate Nixon of Twin Star Herbal Education, and will meet in or around New Milford, with special location destinations in CT including Roxbury, Litchfield, New Preston, Hammonasset beach, and Dover, NY. Carpooling together to locations will be encouraged.
2023 DATES:
Full Days, In-Person 9:30 am to 5 pm: April 24, May 22, June 26, July 31, August 28, September 25, October 23, November 6 - GRADUATION Saturday 11th
TOPICS COVERED:
• Work with over 50 local medicinal herbs
• Sustainable Harvesting + Wildcrafting Techniques
• Monthly Giving Back Ceremonies
• Plant Rescue and Native Planting
• Herb Justice Practices & Protocols
• Properly drying, processing, and storing herbs
• Advanced Medicine Making and Formulation
• Teas, Tonics, Tincture and Topical
• Plant Rescues + Native Planting
• Tea blending + Bagging
• Proper Labeling + Packaging
• Batch Numbers, Standard Operating Procedures + DSHEA Guidelines
• Wholesale, Retail and Online Sales
• Designing and Marketing Your Products
• Learn to take your medicine to market
• Designing & Handcraft a Community Supported Apothecary Share (6+ bangin’ products to take home)
• Experience working herbal farmers market and herb festivals (TBD & optional)