wild medicine making year 

Every act you make in kinship with the Earth is an act of peaceful resistance. Every seed you plant, every cup of tea you drink, and every wound you heal with a homemade remedy is a powerful declaration of independence, peaceful resistance, and resilience.

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Folk herbalism represents a bond and trust in the wild and natural world, and working with wild native medicinal plants enhances that connection with your immediate environment and the whole. When you allow the land to support your healing process, you consciously choose to work in partnership with wild untamed expressions of life to heal mind, body, and spirit.

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This apprenticeship is rooted in folk herbalism, in the old intimacy between people and plants. Here we are not studying clinical charts nor abstract categories of disease. We are apprenticing ourselves to the wild, to the green family that grows around us, and to the old ways of craft, ritual, and embodied relationship.

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This program is not just about herbalism though, it's much larger than that. It's about a healthier greener way of living, personal development, self awareness, observation, service, and reweaving connection while dreaming yourself into BEing. Throughout the year together, we not only speak about plant allies and folk traditions, but also explore ways of fully integrating them into daily life through conscious nourishment for the head, heart and hands.

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Season by season we mindfully sip and blend healing infusions, nourish ourselves with delicious freshly prepared seasonal wild foods, medicinal syrups, and herbal drinks, we lovingly create remedies, tonics, and sensory formulas, consciously craft our own natural body products, we explore and develop our own unique ritual tools, creative herbal expression, and more. We discuss themes such as radical peace, ethnobotany, environmentalism and ecology, plant myths, magic, folklore and poetry, regenerative land stewardship, reciprocity and giving back, sustainability and the need for sustainable herbalism, ethical foraging practices, rewilding in modern society, full sensory BEing, indigenous practices, elemental skillsets, ways of walking lightly in our daily life, and so much more.

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Our herbal apprenticeship program takes place in the beautiful Alpine countryside, giving you the opportunity to work outdoors and hands-on with wild native medicinal plants in the surrounding mountains, forests and meadows. Here you will meet a whole new world of wild land dreaming and full sensory plant healing on an intimate level.

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Now entering its fifteenth year, this apprenticeship has carried many through the seasons. Together we walk a year-long rhythm: season by season, plant by plant, ritual by ritual. You will work hands-on with wild native herbs, learning their properties not as a list to be memorised, but as conversations with living beings. You will learn how to listen with your senses, your intuition, your intellect – how to recognise patterns of harmony and disharmony in the body – and how to weave healing into daily life.

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

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• How herbs act upon the body’s systems and organs.

• How to read the energetic signatures of plants through taste, touch, scent, and presence.

• How to prepare remedies, infusions, syrups, and salves, not as commodities but as kin-gifts.

• How to craft ritual tools and sensory formulas that root your practice in creativity and reverence.

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OUR PLACE OF LEARNING

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Our classroom is both wild and sheltered: the mountains and meadows of the Austrian Alps, and my own community clinic and dispensary. Here, learning is intimate. Here, we step into a world of plant kinship, carried by the seasons, grounded in tradition, and alive with possibility.

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IF YOU FEEL CALLED TO:

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• Work with wild native herbs as companions and allies.

• Learn to harvest, craft, and prepare remedies in sustainable, respectful ways.

• Enrich your connection to nature and deepen your own sense of belonging.

• Step into a circle of fellow travellers committed to living in kinship with the land.

 

Then you are warmly invited to join us....

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To apprentice yourself to the plants is to step into an older rhythm – one of patience, reverence, and reciprocity. If you feel the tug of the green world at your sleeve, if you are ready to sit at the hearth of folk tradition and learn directly from the wild, then this path is waiting. Come, join us in 2026 and walk the seasons with us – root, leaf, flower, and seed.