120-HOUR CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
One of our most popular courses now in Asheville, NC. Co-Taught by Community Herbalist & Product Developer Lupo Passero, and Community Herbalist and Forager Melissa Fryar. Guest Teacher appearances by Community Herbalists
We are so very excited for the rebirth of this one-of-a-kind program, nearly ten years in the making now available at Twin Star Sorth, in Asheville, NC. Join Community Herbalists, Foragers and Herbal Product Development Specialists Lupo Passero and Melissa Fryar as they share their combined decades of knowledge and experience when it comes to harvesting local plants and making them into sustainable and efficacious herbal products to share with your community.
This course is designed for folks who want to learn how to design, create, formulate, label and market their own herbal products with herbs & mushrooms that have been foraged. By wildcrafting plants & fungi that grow locally, students will form a deep relationship with sustainably native, naturalized and invasive plants. Throughout the program we will use these herbs to prepare herbal teas, salves and tinctures and more. Students will learn and experience ethical foraging techniques throughout Appalachia, practice proper plant and fungi identification and harvest, prepare herbs according to medicine making or drying needs, all while co-formulating special herbal products and building the home apothecary.
Participants in the class will formulate and co-create one Community Apothecary Share (CSA), featuring six to eight different herbal remedies with the herbs they have locally wildcrafted. Students learn how to properly formulate, label and market their CSA shares and receive one share to take home after they are complete.
2026 DATES: Full Days, In-Person 9:30 am to 5 pm: April 24th, May 22nd, June 26th, July 24th, August 28th, September 25th, October 23 & November 20th
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