June 2026 Wild Food & Wild Medicine Herbal Intensive
4 Consecutive weeks- Thursdays June 4, 11, 18, 25
Early bird discount for JUNE dates ends May 10 -Save $50
4 weeks of Herbal Education, Wildcrafting, & Wild Food & Medicine Making with Erin Vanhee, Herbalist, LMT.
Outdoor spaces in Skagit County and Camano Island
Want to begin or advance your skills in practical, hands on bio-regional herbalism? Looking for a foundation of knowledge in nutrient dense wild foods?
Looking for an herbal education that lets you taste, touch, smell, and listen to the plants?
Are you feeling called to learn how to harvest, make medicine and integrate the plants in to your daily life for nourishment and healing?
This field-based herbal intensive includes exposure to diverse, beautiful harvesting environments around Skagit Valley and Camano Island, Washington. Each day class includes training in how to identify, harvest, and prepare wild plants in the wild,- Food and Medicine Making on the Fly!
Hands-on learning includes medicine making, wild edibles, harvesting, preservation, and field study of wild, edible & medicinal plants. We’ll have plenty of time running around in the woods and building your own personal herbalism practice and apothecary. The best part? All plant medicines made in class are yours to keep!
Dates: Thursdays June 4, 11, 18, 25, 2026. 10:00 am - 4:00 pm each day.
Tuition: $595 includes all instruction, hand outs, and all plants used in class. Early bird savings until May 10 $545
LOCATIONS: Wild habitat on public lands around Skagit County, Washington. One day class is held on Camano Island, Washington. Locations will be provided following registration- all classes are within 30 minutes of the I-5 corridor.
This Intensive can be taken as a stand-alone training, no previous herbal training required. It is an accepted pre-requisite to Trillium Medicine’s annual Herbal Immersion.
Wildcraft & Medicine making Intensive/June—In this wild food and medicine intensive- we meet Thursdays 10:00-4:00 for 4 consecutive weeks.
Dates: Thursdays June 4, 11, 18, 25 , 2026
Location: Outdoor spaces within Skagit County- May 7 on Camano Island
Tuition: Early Bird Tuition- $545 ($595 after May 10, 2026) Tuition includes all instruction, hand outs, all plant material used in class.
Class Policy
Sorry, no refunds, no transfers and no make up classes unless the school cancels a class. At that time, you will be fully refunded or offered a class voucher.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: How much do I need to know before about herbs? Do I have to apply?
A: No previous herbal experience is needed!
Q: How much physical activity is involved?
A: Students must be willing to hike moderate trails throughout program, but most physical activity is not strenuous in nature.
Q: What should I bring? Do I need to purchase anything to attend?
A: Water, a notebook (I recommend a “rite in rain” waterproof notebook in the event of rain!) pencil or pens, weather/protection (i.e. layers, rain gear as needed), sturdy hiking shoes, pruners, knife. You will need to bring supplies for medicine making. All plant medicines made in class are yours to keep. Supplies include apple cider vinegar, alcohol for tinctures (optional) honey, jars.
Q: What should I expect to learn in this class?
A: This course will include but is not limited to:
Field Study—
Plant identification in their native habitat, learning how to use observation, habitat awareness, and plant taxonomy as tools.
Wild-crafting and sustainable harvest techniques of spring roots and leaves
Materia Medica of wild plants of the PNW
Wildcrafting & Harvesting—
Maintaining harvest sites through re-populating wild plants through seed distribution, root and rhizome awareness and re-planting.
Harvest protocols, cultural practice
Food and Medicine Making—
Nutrient dense plants for optimum nourishment
Creating your own herbal medicine from fresh bio-regional plants
How to process medicinal and nutritional plants into infusions, tinctures, elixirs, honeys and vinegars.
Q: Can I return to harvest sites to harvest on my own?
A: All harvest sites in the Spring Wild Food Wild Medicine Intensive are within public lands and are open to the you or anyone else to return and harvest for personal use.
Q: I want to go to areas that are wild and away from the public. Do we go to those places?
A: To explore wild plant habitat in remote areas with Erin- you may want to consider the Integrated Plant Medicine Immersion. This training is held on private lands and remote areas of the Skagit Valley. See 2026 Herbal Immersion page for details
Herbal Foundations Level One
Begins August 2026