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Cultivate your knowledge
Seed offers robust education for beginners and professionals alike. Join us in a collaborative learning environment to explore more about herbal therapies and traditional healing. Learning more about the human body, the environment, and getting hands-on experience with the plants can be transformational to your health journey.
Workshops
Explore your enthusiasm for herbal medicine through our workshops where you can develop your skills and engage with a community of fellow plant lovers. Learn to care for yourself, your family and your community with the healing properties of herbs.
Below you'll find a selection of our upcoming in-person workshops, online webinars, and recorded classes.
02/11/25
Planning Your Medicinal Herb Garden
Mid-winter is the perfect time to plan and dream of getting your hands in the dirt! Seed herbalists Alberto, Tori and Abrah will share with you their diverse experiences in growing medicinal plants. They will offer you tips on easy to grow herbs and share our knowledge of creating a medicinal herb garden with a long term vision.
03/11/25
Harvesting Your Medicinal Herbs
Join Alberto, Tori and Abrah as they discuss harvesting medicinal herbs. They will talk about how you know the medicine in the plant is at its best, a plant’s medicine and the moon, and different harvesting techniques for different parts of the plant. We will also include a focus on harvesting with an intention of sustainability.
04/22/25
Herbal Preparations
During this workshop, Seed herbalists Alberto, Tori and Abrah will talk about the different types of preparations herbalists use regularly including: tinctures, teas, baths, liniments, powders & syrups. They will discuss the benefits and downsides of each type of preparation as well as when each preparation is best used in a healing protocol. The plant knowledge shared in this webinar will be off plants that can be grown in a medicinal herb garden. This webinar comes with notes that you can download & keep on the essentials of making each preparation.
THE ANNUAL, WEEKEND-LONG
Outaouais Herb Gathering
Join us for a weekend of workshops, herb walks, story telling, ceremony, medicine making and more! As a bilingual herb festival, the Outaouais Herb Gathering brings together a vibrant community of plant lovers and instructors from Ottawa-Gatineau and surrounding regions. The third annual gathering takes place August 9-10, 2025. Tickets go on sale early May!
Herbal Education for Professionals
Explore advanced educational opportunities designed at the professional level. Taught by our team of expert Clinical Herbalists, these resources will provide critical insights into the benefits, holistic frameworks, and applications of herbs across various healthcare sectors.
Enhance your skills and business while connecting with others in the wellness profession.
Clinical Herbal Apprenticeship
Our 3-year Clinical Herbal Apprenticeship offers real world, hands-on training in herbal medicine with experienced Clinical Herbalists Abrah Arneson, Alberto Carbo, and Tori Lubbers. This apprenticeship is not just the academic study of herbs; it is a three year journey to fully embodying the healer that resides within you.
Embarking on the path to become a Clinical Herbalist is an exciting endeavour. This profession offers a fulfilling and diverse career filled with creative possibilities, while also providing a sustainable livelihood. It’s also a wonderful opportunity to nurture the gifts within you, allowing them to flourish into the world and help ease the many challenges that people struggle with.
However, cultivating your gifts often goes along with inner work. In other words, the truth of “Healer Heal Thyself” continues to hold significance even after completing the program and transitioning to supporting others’ well-being through plant medicine. Join us as we delve into the world of herbs, gain experience in assisting others through herbal medicine, and nurture the healer already within you.
Clinical Herbalists are in a unique position to offer herbal medicine rooted in both traditional forms of medicine and the medicine people are familiar with - one could say a Clinical Herbalist is a bridge between the medicine of yesterday and the medicine of the future. At Seed, we are committed to creating a world with more herbalists who have solid footing in both the traditions of the past and the biomedical model practiced today.
Our Clinical Herbal Apprenticeship is a unique learning experience. The herbalists at Seed are dedicated to holistic medicine and therefore believe that herbal medicine is best learned in a holistic model. We do this by offering a hands-on approach to learning herbal medicine.
YEAR 1
Provides a foundation for understanding the profound relationship between herbal medicine and the human mind/body. You will learn the language of herbal medicine; explore the many ways plants support health in the body; learn about your body from both biomedical models of anatomy & physiology and traditional understandings; and you will experiment with different types of medicine making. This is the year to see if clinical herbal medicine is a path for you.
YEAR 2
Take a deep dive into using herbal medicine to support others in a clinical setting. You will continue to develop your appreciation of the relationship between the plants, the medicine they carry, and the human being. The primary focus of the second year is the development of clinical skills: you will learn how to offer a full health assessment and create individualized formulas & health protocols. The second year is rich in hands-on experience and learning.
YEAR 3
Continue to develop your clinical skills and herbal knowledge. The third year is designed to build your confidence as an herbalist by offering you many opportunities to test your new found skills and knowledge.