Helpful Resources

Assorted dried herbs, flowers, and leaves in small wooden bowls, with fresh green leaves and yellow flowers nearby, in a herbal apothecary setting.

Herb Companies

Gorgeous bulk herbs, grown in Oregon, or ethically sourced.
Small company out of Colorado, great quality tinctures, glycerites, teas. Mostly preformulated products.
Really awesome company based out of Fort Collins area. The owners/founders are deeply committed to creating high-quality products to support parents pre- and post partum, as well as creating an excellent work environment for their employees, and a healthier planet. 10/10
Bulk herbs and other supplies.
A wee bit more expensive, but these folks really know their stuff, sell beautiful herbs, and create well-thought-out products.
Beautiful organic herbs from VT.

Close-up of garden rows with young leafy plants and small ground cover plants in dark soil, marked by small white and brown plant labels.

Sources of Seeds and Plants

- Ballek’s Garden Center, East Haddam

Land Stewardship & Conservation

Person examining a flowering plant with a magnifying glass, learning botany in Colorado.

Botany Resources

A useful selection of botanical terms, alphabetical and everything:)
- Botany in a Day, by Thomas Elpel - excellent book for identifying plant family patterns, with information on their edible, medicinal, and potentially poisonous natures. If you are ever in Montana, Tom is a fabulous teacher.
- Plant Identification Terminology, Harris and Harris - and illustrated glossary of botanical terms, super useful if you plan on going deeper into the nerd forest of botanical keying, or plant family patterns.
- Wildflowers, Ferns, and Trees of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, & Utah
- https://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/
- http://easterncoloradowildflowers.com/
- Biota of North America
  - Species range maps
  - Where you can find the range of the species you think you have
Join herbalist and botanist Kat Mackinnon for a free mini course on botany and plant identification. Perfect for beginner students looking to introduce themselves to botany, and safely engage with the world of edible, medicinal, and poisonous plant identification.
This course is free of charge to support liberation and connection for as many plant lovers as possible!

Modern house with wooden siding and large window in a landscape of mountains and grassy terrain.

Materia Medica - Herbs

Herbal Terms and Medicinal Preparations
Discover the Green Blog
- Northeast School of Botanical Medicine. 7-song’s school and website
  - http://www.7song.com/
- Jim McDonald’s Website - jim (lowercase intentional:) is an excellent herbalist and teacher, who has useful write ups on all sorts of topics
- North American Institute of Medical Herbalism and Med herb - Paul Bergner’s school and website. One of my primary herbalism mentors - he’s the best.
- Bot Med Rocks - Eric Yarnell’s website full of free articles and other resources on herbalism. Eric is an ND I really respect, and who has made this resource accessible and free. Highly recommend any of his works.
- Tisserand Institute - Robert Tisserand’s Blog, excellent resources on Essential Oil safety and applications
- Herbal Vade Mecum, by Gazmund Skenderi - an excellent reference guide for herbal action, cautions, and contraindications.
- Herb Manuals by Micheal Moore - available as free downloads from his newly updated website
- The Herbal Medic, by Sam Coffman - written by a former Green beret medic, excellent book on herbal first aid, as well as medicine making. His classes are also amazing and incredibly relevant for emergent care.
- Herbal Constituents, by Lisa Ganora - this is a more scientific perspective on what plant constituents do in the body, as well as the best methods for extracting them. Also has excellent online courses.
- The Medicine Makers Handbook, James Green
- All books and information by Gregory Tilford

A modern house with wooden exterior on a hillside, with stone steps leading to the entrance, surrounded by grass and mountains in the background.

Medicine Making

Various dried herbs and flowers in small wooden bowls, a green leaf, a mortar and pestle, and bottles of herbal extracts in the background, suggesting a herbal apothecary or natural medicine setup.

Herb Schools

Item description
Item description
- Herbal Medics Academy - Austere and emergency medicine blended with herbalism and other skills for dealing with emergent situations. Awesome folks, unique courses, very service oriented towards community.

Close-up of garden bed with rows of young green vegetable seedlings in dark soil.

Individual Ailments

Garden bed with rows of leafy green seedlings and plants, some markers, and dark soil.

Blogs from Herbalists I Trust

Herbal guide cover with a mortar and pestle surrounded by greenery, titled 'Herbal Terms and Medicinal Preparations.'

Grab the free Resource

Ready to take the next step?

Register for one of our upcoming classes or schedule a consultation

GET STARTED NOW