Meet The Green
Upcoming Programs and Classes
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Next Cohort Begins January 1st, 2025
We've taken our online course Plant Camp @ Home and redesigned it to give you a better toolkit of skills you'll need to begin your path as a community herbalist.
Become a medicine making, wild food cooking, herb gardening herbalist with a vibrant home apothecary or step into the business owning shoes of running your own herbal company.
In-Person Classes
I’m teaching east to west this year, with classes in Colorado, New Mexico, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
Botany, plant ID, Ancestral skills, and more plants learning!
Forest to Field Festival
September 5-9, 2024
Forest to Field is an immersive weekend festival reviving the innate lessons of Earth and creating a link between the deep slow wisdom of the wild forest, to the nourishing relationship between humans and the land they cultivate.
Hands-on workshops, live music, camping in orchards of a apples and peaches.
Held at Big B’s Delicious Orchards, Hotchkiss, CO
Early Bird Ends April 6th!
Use Code F2F25 to get 25% off Full Weekend Tickets
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Hi, I’m Kat Mackinnon
HERBALIST + FOUNDER
I created Meet the Green because I wanted to create rich, meaningful, reciprocal relationships - between people, the earth, and their community.
Most of my work is as a teacher and a clinician, and I approach both of those things from a Vitalist perspective. This means I believe that we all have a fundamentally intelligent life force that drives us and that this is in fact what I’m constantly in communication with and in service of.
I’m a certified clinical herbalist and nutritionist, as well as a certified Bach essences practitioner through the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, where I studied with Paul Bergner in the Vitalist tradition.
YouTube Videos
I make videos on everything from botany to herbal medicine - give it a look:)
Identifying Wilds Plants e-Course with Kat Mackinnon and Briana Wiles
Winter Botany - Juniper Cones
Herbal Musings
Discover the Green
Along with basic introductions to things like herbal terminology and botany, I love writing about herbal medicine and especially connecting to my bioregion.
FREE GUIDE
Herbal Terms and Medicinal Preparations
Get to know the basic terms used for herbal treatments and applications