Centro Ashé is excited to offer our Grassroots Herbal and Holistic Wellness Program, a community based herbal program – we’re dedicated to putting herbal medicine in the hands of the people! This program offers our community a chance to explore folk herbalism from various traditions, and to understand natures ability to support our health, strength, and vitality. The series is an introduction and includes herbal fundamentals, North American and Mid-Atlantic medicinal plants (and others), practical and therapeutic applications of herbs, herbal preparations and medicine making, harvesting and wild crafting plants, permaculture and herbal gardening, herbal energetics and more. A strong sense of social, racial, healthy, economic and environmental justice is integral to our program. Our focus at Centro Ashé is to provide an inclusive learning environment that celebrates the voices and contributions of people of color, indigenous, LGBTQ, women and more. All are welcome in our program with an open heart and dedication to a safe and respectful collective space. You will receive instruction from the abundance of local, expert knowledge.

During our Grassroots Herbal Program, we build cooperatively to keep the knowledge of our food, herbal medicine, seeds, and our healing traditions alive and vital within our communities. Our belief is that plant medicine is the people’s medicine, everyone of us comes from a lineage of plant people, and this knowledge is our birthright. We are a community rooted educational center, our goal is to keep our classes affordable & accessible while honoring the time, energy, and knowledge our instructors come to share. We celebrate the richness and diversity of folk herbalism while providing practical knowledge that can support each of us, our families and communities. We honor the incredible knowledge present within our communities and our teachers are all local herbalists and plant people in the communities we work, the knowledge is right here! By attending this program you are supporting and are part of this cosmovision, creating alternatives to the dominant paradigm, and you are helping us to provide employment to local herbalists and to keeping our dynamic educational center & teaching gardens running. We thank you for your interest and support, and we look forward to building with you!

Our schedule is intensive, we are together for long days and we ask that by enrolling students to commit to being present for each class except in case of emergency, and that students arrive at least 15 minutes ahead of class beginning. This is truly a collective journey so everyones presence is central to our work together. Rooted in the knowledge this this schedule is an intense committment for those who join us, timely attendance helps to respect fellow students and facilitators time.

Class Session Topics:
– Herbal Healing Traditions
– Kitchen Herbalism
– Social, Environmental and Economic Justice in Herbalism and Healthcare
– Medicinal Plants and Plant Walks!
– Fermentation
– Nourishing Herbs
– Herbal Gardening & Permaculture
– Herbal Therapeutics
– Flower Essences
– Doctrine of Signatures
– Herbal Actions, Tastes, & Energetics
– Botany & Herbal Plant ID
– Herbal Medicine Making
– Nutritional Healing
– Herbal First Aid
– Grassroots Herbalism and Social Change
– Intro to the Herbal Apothecary
– Introduction to Ayurveda
​- And More!

The Grassroots Herbal Program Is:
~ For individuals with an interest in herbal and nutritional wellness and self care.
~ Focused on empowering participants with basic knowledge and information on holistic health and self care.
~ Taught by skilled herbalists in areas of holistic health, herbs, nutrition, energy healing and more.
~ Is designed to give you practical skills as well as basic theoretical background on how to incorporate holistic wellness into your life, how to incorporate herbs into your diet and how to make basic herbal remedies.