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Medicinal Plants Course

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Medicinal Plants Course Details:
Dates: See our Courses page for dates
Duration: 9am Sat - 4pm Sun
Location: Monroe, WA
Instructors: Chris Helander & Jason Knight
Cost: $200
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In this course you learn how to use a diversity of native wild plants for medicine. The course covers the how-to of making salves, tinctures, infusions, decoctions, and infusions, as well as using fresh wild plants for first aid situations. You create a salve and tincture to take home.

This course covers:

  • Plant identification techniques
  • Ethical harvesting and safety considerations
  • Creating tinctures, salves, infusions, decoctions, etc...
  • Hands-on practice with harvesting and preparing plant medicines
  • Detailed information on key medicinal plants in North America



Chris Kenworthy photo Instructor: Chris Helander has been teaching wilderness courses for over 15 years. She is the director of The Coyotes Path Wilderness School which she founded in 1994. She now lives in the Northeastern Cascade Mountains on 160 acres in a remote cabin off the grid. Chris has been a registered nurse for 27 years working in ER & ICU and is well versed in both modern and herbal wilderness medicine.


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