Medicinal Forest Garden Harvest Course

Are you keen to learn about how to harvest for quality and best practice in drying and storing healing plants? Are you interested in making herbal remedies based on a range of plants including trees and shrubs? This course offers guidance and information about successful harvesting, processing and using plants from the medicinal forest garden based on bark, flowers, fruits, leaves and roots of trees and shrubs. The course covers a variety of native and introduced medicinal trees and shrubs. 

The course is based around 10 online lessons with short videos, activities, quizzes, information sheets and further reading. Benefits include: suggestions for plant identification; details of a range of trees and shrubs with medicinal qualities; making herbal infusions and creating tea combinations; understanding tinctures and extracts using alcohol and water; using fresh and dried herbs for body and skin remedies; ways of making herb powders and capsules and pills; distillation for producing hydrosols and essential oils; demand for herbal products and upscaling the harvest to develop a herb business; seasonal harvesting, keeping records and samples; using herb products safely; knowing how to find further professional advice. 

No special experience is needed, just an interest in harvesting and using medicinal plants including trees and shrubs. Several other courses are offered by the Medicinal Forest Garden Trust. If you want to grow medicinal trees then also take a look at the Medicinal Forest Garden Design course, taking you from planning with permaculture principles to successful establishment of a medicinal forest garden. To better understand the healing actions of trees and shrubs see the Medicinal Trees and Their Healing Properties course, which provides an overview of the many ways that trees can heal, from aromatic antiseptics to stress-busting tonics.