Grow Your Own Medicine Spring 2023

Grow + Connect + Reawaken: How to Grow Your Own Herbal Medicine Garden & start your Herbal Apothecary

Are you ready to Grow Your Own Plant Medicines, deepen your connection to the Plants, learn to craft herbal remedies & start or add to your home apothecary?

Are you feeling called to more nourishment, rest, play, connection to the Land, yourself, the Plants, Ancestors? Hearing the calls of our Plant kin? Join me for a Spring & Summer filled with Herbal Medicines, abundance, growth & connecting with the Earth and nourishing your nervous system.

Join me in connecting with the Plants & Growing Your Own Herbal Medicines. In this offering you will be guided through an entire growing Season from Spring to Fall, from Seed to Harvest to Making herbal Medicines. Suitable for urban environments, pots & apartments as well (best with balcony space!). Self paced to fit into your busy/full life & offer support + nourishment.

Walking with you through practical & energetic Land Tending (Gardening) of 8 Herbal Medicines. As well as sharing traditional Plant Medicine wisdom with each of these Plants. Weaving Ancestral wisdom, Clinical knowledge, Energetics, Ceremony, Earth magic & Practical gardening skills. This Medicine & tending to the Land is within you. My hope is that your hands & Heart will feel deep love as you remember & (re)connect with the Land. As you tend to yourself, family & community through making your own herbal remedies & engaging in regenerative + sustainable gardening. Remembering community + self reliance outside of systems meant to harm. Grow Your Own Medicine is rooted in relationship, in reciprocity & remembering ways we have always known.

Join now to receive your GIFTED Seed bundle 🌱

Suitable for most temperate garden zones {climates}, from Northern snowy places to the warmer damper West coast. I've had students join from Arizona, to Ireland all the way to Northern Alberta!

You will receive :

  • In depth wisdom & knowledge with step by step guidance throughout the entire growing season. Years of tending to the Land, the Soil, harvesting, processing, drying & making Medicines in a beautiful offering meant to support you in growing your most abundant & thriving Medicine garden with ease
  • GIFTED Seed bundle & special gift sent directly to you through April 5th
  • 2 Lessons per month in a self paced format = 12 lessons total {12 PDFs + 7 Videos}, as well as:
    • 8 Plant Medicine Monographs {7-10 pages each} ~ in depth teachings on the Plants healing properties, how to work with the Plants as Medicine, traditional uses, rituals, clinical knowledge on their medicinal effects & Plant Spirit communications
    • How to Make Your own Herbal Medicine recipe book, one of my favourite parts of this course! A 30 page recipe book on how to make create Medicines & formulas from the Plants you've grown
  • A deep dive into all things tending to an herb garden including Soil health, common 'mistakes,' (aka part of the process, "mistakes" are also beautiful teachers!), Seed starting, Propagation methods, natural fertilizing techniques, methods of irrigation & water care, optimal growing conditions, maintenance, gardening with the Moon cycles, Ceremony & ritual in the Garden, Flower Essences etc.
  • 8 Medicinal Plants that we will connect & deepen our relationship with throughout the season
    • You will learn how to start 8 specially selected Plant Medicines from seed, seedling, or cutting (propagation). Getting to know the Plants throughout their entire life cycle, deepening relationships with the Plants, the Land, Water, and yourself as you tend to them and receive their teachings throughout the growing Season. Receiving direct guidance & connection in working with their Medicine & traditional healing.
  • Access to Teachable portal to ask me & each other questions, share resources, chat with other Land tenders as we learn from one another & troubleshoot any issues that may arise - I'm here to help and answer questions during the entire process!
  • Infinite teachings from the Plant kin & Land, from Spirit & Nature as you spend time in ritual tending to the Plants, even if it's just a few minutes a day of connection ~ it ripples harmony into our daily lives
  • A deep understanding of growing & harvesting medicines by the Sun & Moon - as our Ancestors did. We all come from the Earth & have Ancestors who knew these ways of tending to the Land. Syncing your rhythms & beneficially supporting your overall health and harmony
  • Learning to REST, to align your own cyclical nature with that of the Land, Stars, Solar rhythms. Syncing your physiology and attuning to the rhythms of Creation
  • An expanded connection to the Earth & yourself as you tend to 8 Plant Medicines throughout their growing season {of course this is always accessible just by being with the Land & connecting}
  • Empowerment through taking steps toward self sustainability, community care, and radical change through returning back to the Medicines of the Earth, rhythms of Seasonal shifts - and remembering our Traditional ways
  • Lifetime* access to this course - so that you can come back to the lessons each year as you learn and grow. This course is meant to be an in depth resource for you to rely on year after year. Gardening is often something we learn over our lifetime, changing & growing each year

Who is Grow Your Own Medicine for?

  • YOU! If you're here & are feeling called to deepen your relationship to the Plants, to support food + medicine sovereignty, your health and grow your own Herbal remedies this offering was created to offer support!
  • Fam in urban environments as well as those with access to Land, to raised beds or to pots, Grow Your Own Medicine can be modified to support growing & tending to Plants in most environments
  • Anyone who is interested in growing & working with Herbal Medicines - even if you've grown some before, growing in Community offers deepened connection. You also receive in depth Plant teachings {herbal monographs} & a Medicine making recipe book with some of my favourite formulas
  • Folks who are hoping to delve deeper into the medicinal impacts of Plant Medicines, as well as harvesting & processing techniques to ensure the most potent Medicines.
  • Those interested in making Medicines & herbal remedies to expand the home apothecary
  • Those who are longing to connect back to the Land + their Ancestors through Earth Tending and Growing their Medicinal Plants & would like some guidance and support in this remembering
  • Anyone who wishes to build a deeper relationship & connection to themselves, and the Earth
  • Fam who are noticing the impacts of our 'modern' over-culture & environmental harms, and want to create change through sustainable & regenerative ways of being in co-creation with the Land
  • Folks who feel called be more self-sustainable & self-reliant, for ourselves, family & communities, including the Land. Knowing you are able to grow & tend to your fam during times of uncertainty
  • Those looking to heal through working with Plant Medicines, and to share that healing through Medicines you craft
  • Mamas, Papas, NB/Trans Kin, Aunties, Uncles, or any other Caregivers who want to share the magic of gardening with the little elders {kids} in their life. A lot of the Plants we'll talk about are amazing for children - and it's vital to support a connection to the Earth in our Youth. It's so beautiful to do this course with little ones!
  • If you're feeling the stirrings of Spring after a long Winter & looking to plant some seeds for the future

Growing your own medicines, and caring for the Plants is one of the most beautiful ways of deepening our relationship with the Land & Plants, as well as ourselves. In this offering, you will learn a lot of the practical details to growing your own herbs & creating your own home apothecary; but you'll also deepen you're relationship to Nature {which, includes yourself} and learn in depth teachings about the Plants, rituals, Intuitive Plant Medicine & how to make your own Medicines from what you grow. Growing your own Medicines is returning to our roots. In this way we also receive healing on our journey. The rooted intention is deepened connection to the Earth, your Ancestors & Self. Tending to the Plants in this way brings many Teachings for us to receive, as well as healing & harmony rippling out to all our Relations as we remember. Honouring our responsibilities to the Land.

This offering is shared through my lens as a mixed White + Native Yakama, Irish & Eastern European person. Much of what I share has been gifted through experience & directly from the Plants, Dreamtime, and tending to them over the years as well as Naturopathic Doctor training, human Teachers & gardening with my parents, and Grandparents.

I am so excited to share this course with you all & grow with you this Season! This offering may be adapted to different growing zones, and to apartment container + planter gardening as well. A reminder that this is all within you! This offering is meant to be a supportive guide & share wisdom, knowledge & teachings.


This course is closed for enrollment.

 
 

Your Instructor


Dr. Jacqui Wilkins, ND
Dr. Jacqui Wilkins, ND

Dr. Jacqui, ND is a mixed Indigenous Yakama, Irish, + East European Plant Medicine person, Naturopathic Doctor, and birth worker with a passion for connecting others to their Medicine, Ancestors, the Land + Stars for deep healing. Rekindling this remembrance you have deep in your Bones of who you are. Helping us to remember our sense of belonging, and awakening our gifts & responsibilities at this time. Tending to one another, tending to ourselves & returning to the Land in all ways. Repairing & restoring these kinships. You, in your medicine, in joy, in your most aligned self, are vital to the times we are in. Dr. Jacqui's teachings are rooted in direct communication with the Plants, Dreamwork, many human teachers + guides (as shared within courses & monographs, from books and in person teachers), as well as their Naturopathic Doctorate background. A conduit between the Earth and Stars. Bringing forth Medicine & teachings for healing, reclaiming and remembering. Join Jacqui in remembering your connection the Plants, the Land, and reclaiming your Medicine + Gifts ♥ xo


Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
Grow Your Own Medicine is self paced! We begin planting seeds between now & the end of April with the waxing Moon. The first lesson of Grow Your Own Medicine is up immediately for you to read. Seed bundles will be mailed out for all who enrol before they run out! (I'll announce that here if they are out). You can start your seeds whenever you receive them! I love to plant these seeds during the waxing Moon, between March 28th-April 5th or April 25th-May 4th. Depending on your growing zone you may choose to start them earlier such as the first week of April! Lesson 2 on starting your seeds will be out on April 1st. This allows some time to read through the first Lesson & gather materials to set up space for starting your seedlings. You will have access to the course indefinitely, and can come back to the material year after year for guidance & support as you and your Plants grow! {Lifetime = As long as this domain is active. You can absolutely download the materials & print them for ease of use as well!}
How long do I have access to the course?
Lifetime access!! After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices. {Lifetime = as long as Teachable is up :}
What format are the Lessons in?
The Teachings are a mix of PDF & Video Teachings ~ you receive 12 full PDF lessons, 8 full PDF Plant Medicine monographs, 7-8 Videos, BONUS lessons and a beautiful Herbal formula + potions recipe book!
Do you offer Scholarships?
There are some Full & Partial Scholarship spaces available for *Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous & racialized folks* with financial constraints. Email [email protected] to be added to the list with the email subject "GYOM Scholarship" as well as full or partial {very important step kin, this helps make sure I don't miss your submission}. Applicants will be chosen at random. Scholarship application closes on March 31st, 2023 & will be announced by April 5th or sooner. {Please be patient as it is just me reading through each email & getting back to people}
Is this suitable for where I live??
Likely, yes!! But feel free to send me an email if you are unsure. Most of these Plant kin are adaptable to different garden zones & climates. There can be modifications made depending where you live. We typically start our seeds indoors even when it's still snowy & cold outside! This gives them time to grow a bit before we transplant them outside. I also share direct sowing techniques if you don't want to start them indoors :) If you are in a hot desert climate you may need to adjust their timing and Plant during the cooler season & in pots to ensure adequate Water.

This course is closed for enrollment.