Backyard Herbs for Vibrant Health
Sharing joyful, hands-on education and wellness through plant medicine while honoring all our herbal traditions.
We are a non-profit organization rooted in our deep love and respect for plants and wild places, our reverence for the human body and spirit, and our joy for sharing our work and creations with the world.
It is our mission to share joyful, hands-on education and wellness through plant medicine while honoring all herbal traditions. Our approach is rooted in sharing a sense of place, nurturing curiosity and creativity, inspiring ecological stewardship and and growing wellness sovereignty for individuals and communities. We foster community action to enhance equitable access to the abundance of seasonal, local plant medicine, to build resilience, and to promote the practice of the honorable harvest.
Our Programs
Heal Local
Grow your wellness sovereignty, support local community herbalism, and stock your herbal medicine chest with a Spoonful Herbals CSA Membership! We offer one substantial share, finely crafted with the bountiful harvest of the entire season in late November/ early December.
Cultivate Skills
Take one of our classes or workshops! Dive deeper with our 6-month introductory community herbal medicine apprenticeship program focused on learning the region’s native and locally grown plants, while producing high quality plant medicine for the local community.
Engage With Us
Katherine and Kara are Spoonful Herbal’s primary consultants, offering a variety of services for farmers and homesteaders such as “Know your Backyard Apothecary” tours and consultations, medicine making classes, and garden planning/landscaping guidance.
Engage With Us
Know Your Backyard Apothecary
Partner with us to learn about the untapped resource that already exists in your backyard, farm or homestead- your living apothecary! Katherine and Kara are Spoonful Herbal’s primary consultants, and offer a variety of services for farmers and homesteaders including individual or group plant walks, medicine making classes in your kitchen, personalized wellness consultations, and/or landscaping recommendations.
Community Workshops
Join an existing workshop or host us for your own by request! Katherine and Kara are skilled educators teaching at various venues in the community. Common sites are Shelburne Farms, Rock Point, City Market and the Railyard Apothecary. Join us to deepen your wellness sovereignty (aka skills to care for yourself and loved ones with local plant medicine!).
Herb Mobs
These gleaning, gardening and plant medicine processing opportunities, with the guidance of skilled herbalists, offer hands-on connection with the plants, and bring experience and community-building for volunteers while enhancing our community’s access to local plant medicine.
Upcoming Workshops & Events
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