Immersion Description
Based on a collective desire to dive deeper into what we learned in the intro to herbalism immersion, the apprenticeship will serve as our opportunity to put theory into practice. In this 6 month herbalism apprenticeship we will be
deepening our relationship with the plants—from seed to harvest.
This apprenticeship will take place on Plants to the People farm where we grow herbs for our mutual-aid plant distribution, make herbal remedies, and share space with the plants throughout the seasons. This 6-7 month study will be an opportunity to grow alongside the plants we are tending to, develop a new level of intimacy with the land, and dive deeper into individual and collective care.
This apprenticeship will include class time, alongside land practices and tending. We will spend time building beds, planting seeds, caring for our starts, planting them in the ground, harvesting, making medicine, distributing fresh plants at Plants to the People events, and harvest seeds for the following growing season. This apprenticeship will be an opportunity to participate in a full growing season and continue weaving with Herban Cura community.
Apprenticeship Includes
Please note that this apprenticeship is for participants who have completed the intro to herbalism immersion.
Dates are subject to change based on group availability: Sunday Saturday April 12th (tentative), Saturday May 23rd, Sunday June 14th, Sunday July 12th, Sunday August 16th, Saturday September 26th and Sunday October 11
All sessions: 11:00am-4:00pm
Sessions will be 5 hours, with a 1 hour break in the middle. Sessions will include lectures, hands- on whole group and small group time.
Please note this is a tentative flow and may shift depending on participant interests
Session 1 - Sunday April 12th (tentative)
Listening and observing the garden
Choosing seeds
Seeding
Garden cleaning
Prepping beds
Making herbal teas
Session 2 - Saturday May 23rd
Plant ID - Building relationships to plants
Listening and observing the garden
Planting
Tending to plants
Making vinegars
Tinctures
Session 3 - Sunday June 14th
Plant ID - Building relationships to plants
Listening and observing the garden
Garden tending
Herbal Mutual Aid
Herbal Balms
Harvesting and drying
Session 4 - Sunday July 12th
Plant ID - Building relationships to plants
Listening and observing the garden
Garden tending
Herbal salts
Medicine making
Bottling
Oils
Session 5- Sunday August 16th
Plant ID - Building relationships to plants
Listening and observing the garden
Garden tending
Harvesting and drying
Medicine making
Glycerites
Session 6 - Saturday September 26th
Plant ID - Building relationships to plants
Listening and observing the garden
Garden tending
Seed harvesting
Fermentation
Cooking
Session 7 - Sunday October 11th
Plant ID - Building relationships to plants
Listening and observing the garden
Garden tending
Seed harvesting
Root medicine
Aside from topics covered in class, students will engage in reading and hands on assignments that will support their ability to integrate the material into their personal healing practices.
Topics are subject to change depending on student interests, what is growing and timing.
More topics covered
Awareness practices
Plant identification
Body Systems
Ferments
Flower essences
Fortifying plant relationships
Mutual aid
Access to the Living Library
During our time together students will have 6 months FREE access to our Living Library which has access to over 200 hours of knowledge shares. These knowledge shares will serve as supplementary and additional education. The 2026 herbal apprentice cohort will have the opportunity to communicate between sessions, share resources, questions, practices, recipes and strengthen connections between participants.
Participants will have access to the complete Living Library platform.
Exchange
Sliding Scale:$1,000 - 2,400 (for all six-seven sessions). Tuition covers material costs
There are limited spots for each tier. When choosing the tier on the sliding scale please be honest with what you can afford. If you can pay at the higher end, please do so as that gives space for folks who can’t.
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REGISTRATION Open until to Monday March 29th
Spaces are limited to 20 people
If you would like to organize a payment plan please email connect@herbancura.com
In Person Gathering
11-4pm EST
Our immersion will take place primarily at the feet of the Catskill Mountains in Saugerties, NY on Lenape Territory. Our time together will be a combination of study, conversation, gardening and practice.
Our primary learning space will be the Herban Cura Plants to the People Farm, but we will may also visit neighboring parks and reserves throughout our time together so that we can meet different plants.
Facilitator
Antonia is a Chilean-American clinical herbalist, gardener, educator, community organizer, and founder. Born and raised in New York City, in a first-generation household which nurtured the values and principles of nature appreciation, land stewardship, interdisciplinary education, and social justice—Antonia’s lifelong passion for herbs and plant medicine helps to bridge the relationships between rural and urban spaces. Antonia combines a decade of experience studying and working with plant medicine, with her studies in environmental and urban studies at Bard College, Clinical Herbalism at Arborvitae School of Traditional Herbal Medicine, and learning with herbalists and elders throughout Central and South America. Antonia facilitates workshops and produces events as the co-founder of NY-based collective—Brujas—and as founder of Herban Cura: An herbal medicine and education project which centers the knowledge and stories of Indigenous, Black, Queer and Trans communities. Antonia’s work is rooted in her passion for sharing knowledge that interrupts notions of individualism and separatism from nature to grow towards collaborative and symbiotic communities.