HARVESTING MEDICINAL ROOTS
November 2, 2025
10AM-3PM
In Person at CSHS
WITH AUTUMN SUMMERS
$90
Fall is one of the best times to harvest the roots of medicinal plants. Come to the CSHS garden and learn how to properly harvest and process herbal roots for their optimal medicinal properties. Class includes hands harvesting of echinacea, comfrey, elecampane, burdock and more. After harvesting we will discuss some of the ways to utilize these fresh roots for medicinal preparations.
COMMUNITY HERBALIST OPEN HOUSE
November 17, 2025
2-6PM
Masonic Lodge - 373 North Main St in Sebastopol.
It's right across from Safeway!
FREE
Come celebrate, learn and be inspired by the Community Herbalists as they share their year long projects. Come experience herbal medicine--teas, tinctures, vinegars, skin care, food as medicine, and herbal medicines for all people. Many of these products will be for sale. Come learn something—as each of our students share their final projects from the year. These subjects range from self care, community projects, herbal businesses, clinical work and more. Each student brings a unique focus to their path of herbalism. Come support these students, get inspired, learn something and invest in high quality products.
HERBAL HOLIDAY GIFT MAKING
December 6, 2025
10AM-4PM
In Person at CSHS
WITH AUTUMN SUMMERS & CLAIRE CARLOMAGNO
$95
Handmade holiday gifts are a valued treasure! Create holiday magic with unique and inspiring hand crafted herbal based gifts. Learn how to create decadent and cost effective gifts for the entire family that will have them begging you to make more year after year! You will learn how to make: herb infused oils, lip balm, hand cream, herbal cordials and more. Sourcing and samples will be provided.
HERBAL MEDICINE MAKING FOR BEGINNERS
April 11 & 12, 2026
10AM-4PM
In Person at CSHS
WITH TERRI JENSEN
$225
Why buy expensive herbal products when you can make them yourself? Now more than ever we should take steps to take care of ourselves and learning the basics of herbal medicine making is the perfect place to start! Learn from a professional herbal medicine maker with 40 years of experience. We will instruct and guide you in the process of herbal medicine making utilizing live demonstration and ample time for your questions. Curriculum covered will include ethical harvesting, drying, preserving, and preparing medicinal plants. Learn specific techniques for making medicinal teas, infused oils, salves, tinctures, vinegars, glycerites and more.
SPRING HERBAL ESSENTIALS 2026
5 CONSECUTIVE MONDAYS
April 13, 20, 27, 4, 11, 2026
1-5PM
In Person at CSHS
WITH GABRIELLE DOUCETTE-BOISSE & CLAIRE CARLOMAGNO
$400
FLOWER ESSENCE IMMERSION
May 3, 2026
10AM-3PM
In Person at CSHS
WITH CLAIRE CARLOMAGNO
$75
Invite the magic of flower essences into your life! Join us in the beautiful gardens of CSHS to experience the profound medicine of flower essences. Spend the day exploring the healing powers of specific flowers through the lens of folk and traditional essence medicine.
We will learn each step of how to make an essence, how to use them in your personal healing journey, and how to incorporate essences into your work in the communities you serve. We will touch on proving methods of flower essences, plant medicine poems, place-based essence making, essences as protection, and incorporating the blooms into your dreamwork.In these times of unrest flowers and the essences we make from them can be excellent teachers to help us become our most centered and honest selves. We hope you will join us. Each student will go home with your own individual essence made from the CSHS garden.
NATURAL PERFUMERY WITH ESSENTIAL OILS
May 9, 2026
10AM-4PM
In Person at CSHS
WITH ROBIN LANDER
$105
GROW YOUR OWN HERBAL MEDICINE
May 30, 2026
10AM-4PM
In Person at CSHS
WITH AUTUMN SUMMERS
$90
Learn how to grow medicinal plants from seed and cuttings in this class designed for the beginning gardener. We will focus on medicinal plants that grow well in California, including calendula, yarrow, chamomile, ashwagandha, holy basil/tulsi, elderberry, echinacea, angelica, yerba mansa and many more. This class will include hands on demonstrations of various techniques of growing and seeing the plants in person in the cshs garden showing where they thrive and how to grow them successfully. You will go home with seeds and plant cuttings.
LAVENDER HARVEST AND
DISTILLATION EVENING
June 18, 2026
4:30PM-8PM
In Person at CSHS
WITH AUTUMN SUMMERS
$55
Join us as we near the Summer Solstice. Our Lavender evening will begin with meeting at CSHS and carpooling to our herb farm a few minutes away. We will be harvesting fresh Lavender and then heading back to CSHS to distill our harvest, learn about the many uses of Lavender and make Lavender wands. You will go home with a freshly distilled Lavender hydrosol and what you harvested for your own use.
Bring food to eat while we are distilling the Lavender.