Each month you'll learn:

  • How to plant, tend, and harvest one medicinal plant that is in season

  • How to process and store the plant in order to maintain its medicinal value and keep it from spoiling

  • How to best extract the plant for the greatest benefits

  • Safety, medication interactions, and who shouldn't work with the plant

  • How to "dose" the plant for yourself and your family

  • History, folklore, and cultural significance of the plant

Featured Plants:

Access captioned videos & slideshows, downloadable PDFs, and recipes!

    1. IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ

    2. Health Privilege

    3. Thoughts on Not "Using" Plants

    4. Herbal Safety

    5. Dosage

    6. Herb of the Month Club Discount

    1. Video: Meet Stinging Nettle

    2. Slideshow: Stinging Nettle

    3. Stinging Nettle Profile

    4. Video: How to Make a Nettle Infusion

    5. Stinging Nettle Recipes

    1. Video: Dandelion identification

    2. 10 min Slideshow: Dandelion

    3. Dandelion Profile

    4. Video: How to Make a Root Decoction

    5. Video: How to Make Dandelion Jelly

    6. Dandelion Recipes

    1. Video: Meet Plaintain

    2. 10 min Slideshow: Plantain

    3. Plantain Profile

    4. Video: How to Make a Plantain Poultice

    5. Plantain Recipes

    1. Video: Meet Lemon Balm

    2. 12 min Slideshow: Lemon Balm

    3. Lemon Balm Profile

    4. VIdeo: How to Make a Lemon Balm Glycerite

    5. Lemon Balm Recipes

    1. Video: Yarrow in Spring

    2. 15 min Slideshow: Yarrow

    3. Yarrow Profile

    4. Video: Harvesting Yarrow in Summer

    5. Video: How to make a Yarrow Tincture

    6. Yarrow Recipes

About this content:

  • $7.77 / month
  • 68 lessons
  • 5 hours of video content

Meet the Instructor - Jovie Hawthorn Browne

I created Rootcraft for those who feel they don't "fit in" with the herbal crowd.

Unlike many herbal teachers you can find, I didn’t grow up living off the land...

I’d love to say I did, but I grew up in the impoverished Mojave desert in military housing.

Thanks to colonization, I've never had access to elders who could teach me the healing traditions of my ancestors...

But I did have books and professors to teach me how cellular biology and phytochemistry worked as I earned my bachelor's degree in Biology and post-grad diploma in herbalism.

I don't preach the doctrine that "natural is the only way" or "everything is toxic and after you".

I used to. And I was... the worst. Through recovering from eating and anxiety disorders and examining privilege and internalized classism, I now encourage & teach leaning on whichever tools you have access to in order to get through this capitalistic, patriarchal hellscape we live in. 

I didn’t get to know plants through foraging and wildcrafting them.

I got to know them through cultivating and tending to them in several gardens for over a decade. 

I may not fit in with the herbal crowd. But the plants don't mind.

They allow me to continue learning and experimenting. My path has not been traditional. And that’s okay. Your path doesn't have to look like anyone else's path either. 

I’m just here to share what I’ve learned so far with all of you, in a way that I’m hoping will feel safe, non-judgmental, and balanced.

What if I can't grow the plants?

Do you still want to know how to harvest, process, store, preserve, and work with these plants? What about their traditional uses, history, and folklore? There's SO much more than gardening tips!

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