Botany & Plant Identification
Discover how to accurately identify medicinal tree and shrub species by using key botanical features, plant family patterns, and tapping into your senses.
Medicine Making
Learn practical techniques for crafting remedies from bark, leaves, berries, and more from simple home equipment and materials.
Herbal Actions & Applications
Explore how herbs interact with the body to support health and healing, and how to decide which herb to use when, based on a person's symptom picture, their energetics, and particular condition
Phytochemistry
Understand the chemical compounds within trees and shrubs that make them powerful allies in herbal medicine, and how phytochemistry can help us make more effective medicinal preparations.
Herbal Safety
Learn the guidelines to working safely with herbs by understanding the individual cautions and contraindications of each plant.
Ecology and Wildcrafting
Learn the unique roles each species plays in their plant communities, how they grow, the challenges they face, and how these factors influence the way we approach wildcrafting these medicines.
Course Details
6 Live Classes with Kat Mackinnon
Classes are online, 2 hours long, held once a week every Tuesday from 6-8pm MST, beginning January 5th and ending February 9th. Each class will be recorded and posted for downloading.
Downloadable Plant Profiles, Handouts, and Videos
For each tree or shrubs we cover, you'll get a detailed write-up including the botanical features, herbal actions, dosage, herbal safety, and more. You'll also recieve downloadable handouts and videos on other course content, including medicine-making methods, recipes, and more.
Forest Apothecary Kit
The course includes the beginnings of your own apothecary, with samples of tree or shrub medicine we cover in the course, including tinctures, bulk herbs, oils, elixirs, and honey. Students will have access to all course materials beginning January 1, 2027 through February 28th, 2027.
About Kat
Most of my work is as a teacher and a clinician, and I approach both things from a Vitalist perspective. I believe that we all have a fundamentally intelligent life force that drives us and that this is what I’m constantly in communication with and in service of. I am a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild. I’m also a certified clinical herbalist and nutritionist through the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, where I studied with Paul Bergner in the Vitalist tradition. Before stepping into the world of herbalism, my education was focused in forestry, specifically ecological restoration.
Step into the Forest
EARLY BIRD PRICING - SIGN UP BY NOVEMBER 24TH, 2026 Use the code FULLMOON at checkout to get 20% off the course, including payment plans. Please Note - processing fees apply for all credit card payments. Get $15 off when you pay with Check or Venmo. Email kat@meetthegreen to inquire about this option.