Backyard Apothecary

Categories: Herb Growing
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About Course

The Backyard Apothecary will set you up to:

  • set up your seed starting/potting space
  • start & care for medicinal herb seedlings
  • design your herb garden
  • prepare your garden beds
  • grow and tend herbs in the garden
  • learn in-depth about growing 12 beautiful medicinal herbs, with herbal grower monographs for each
  • harvest peak potency herbs
  • dry and preserve herbs
  • co-create remedies with the herbs you’ve grown

With easy to follow comprehensive videos & guides, and experience-based tips & tricks for growing these special plants.

Learn at your own pace, with easy access to content in our online course platform.

Over 80 pages of professionally designed pdf guides and printable worksheets like an ‘exploring your why’ page, a seed-starting record keeper, recipes, and more. 

One live Q&A session with Kris to ask questions, share stories and encouragement, and cultivate community with the course community.

Please note:

Modules for this course will be released throughout the year, as we make them. The first two modules are available now.

Purchase options:

We have Interac e-Transfer payments set up here. If you prefer to pay with a credit card, click here; after your payment, we will send you a promo code that can be used to access the course.

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What Will You Learn?

  • This beginner herb growing course will help you to:
  • Understand & Talk About - reasons to grow herbs, your herbal ancestry
  • Set Up - your own indoor seed starting space
  • Start Medicinal Seeds - with specialized techniques
  • Tend Seedlings - how to grow robust transplants
  • Design & Plant - a beautiful herb garden in your yard
  • Tend - the garden throughout the season
  • Connect - with the herbs and grow a relationship with them
  • Harvest - herbs at peak potency
  • Know - whether to co-create medicines with fresh or dry herbs
  • Dry & Preserve - the harvest with expert tips
  • Record - your seed starting and growing journey on our printable forms

Course Content

Module 1: Know Your Why
An exploration of why our local herbshed and resilience with local medicine is important. Think about and express your reasons for growing a herb garden and consider your herbal ancestry and how to grow with a spirit of reciprocity.

  • Know Your Why
    07:40

Module 2: Nesting – Gear Up
Everything you need – and a bit more – to get growing, including a greenhouse tour, supply overview, and tips on using the biodynamic calendar.

Module 3: Dream & Design
Garden visioning, permaculture considerations, types of beds, and a sample garden design process.

Module 4: Sow Seeds
The entire seed-starting process from mixing soil to specialized seed treatments to heat, light, and watering.

Module 5: Tend New Life
All you need to know to care for your seedlings, including amending, watering, growing strong seedlings, potting up, and more.

Module 6: Make Your Bed & Tuck Them In
Bed preparation and transplanting specifics – depth, spacing, companion planting, protection from elements, amending, and more.

Module 7: Tend Again
Continued care – mulching & weeding, pest & disease management, amending & encouraging healthy growth, cultivating connection.

Module 8: Harvest
How and when to harvest for peak potency herbs.

Module 9: Dry & Preserve
Home drying options, when to work with herbs fresh vs dried, tricks of the trade for well preserved herbs, and more.

Module 10: Co-Create Remedies
Ideas and recipes for making your own herbal remedies with the plants you’ve harvested.

Bonus Module: Custom Grower-Focused Herbal Monographs
Easy access info on our 12 featured herbs, tailored for gardeners.

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