SPRING 2026 Herbal Intensive- Early bird pricing open!
4 weeks of Herbal Education, Wildcrafting, & Wild Food & Medicine Making with Erin Vanhee, Herbalist, LMT.
Thursdays, April 2, 9, 16, 23, 2026. 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 September 20, Friday, September 27, Friday, October 11, and Friday, October 18, 2024 from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm each day.
Tuition: $595 (Early bird pricing extended $545 until March 1, 2026) includes all instruction, hand outs, and all plants used in class.
LOCATIONS: Wild areas around Skagit County, Washington. One day class is held on Camano Island, Washington.
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.
““Erin’s enthusiasm, energy, and love for what she does comes through in every class. She is in her element outdoors and sharing her knowledge of the plants, their uses and how to create an herbal Apothecary comes easy to her. I enjoyed her hands on approach.””
About Your Instructor…
Erin Vanhee, Herbalist, LMT, and Founder of Trillium Herbal Medicine has been an advanced practitioner of herbal medicine in the Wise Woman tradition for almost 30 years. She grew up in the Upper Skagit area of the Pacific Northwest, and grew up foraging and connecting with the plants of the region with her grandmother. Her connection with healing plants began when she was adopted into the Tlingit tribe in southeast Alaska in her early 20’s and has continued to deepen with each layer of herbalism training.
Erin was the first certified Organic grower of herbs in Washington State. As a medicinal plant specialist, Erin has taught groups of apprentices since 1993, and has been a speaker and teacher at Bastyr University, Pacific Women’s Herbal Conference, Three Rivers Herbal Gathering, the Northwest Herb Fair, AHG WA Chapter Green Gathering, and Planthealer’s Good Medicine Confluence. She teaches groups of students plant medicine in Skagit Valley, Washington.
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?
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, oil, 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.