Community Offerings
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My passion is in sharing my knowledge and educating my community on the many benefits that herbal medicine can provide for them. I teach in a wide variety of formats: via local herbal apothecaries, herbal conferences and events, in person one-on-one sessions, or online. See below for a list of current class offerings.
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Would you like to book me to teach at your event/school? Please contact me to do so!
Podcast Episodes
Herbs and Dreams Podcast with Lauren Morgan
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The 4 Seasons Herbal Apprenticeship
Information soon to come!
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Community Class Offerings
Come take a college level course with me! Bastyr University offers nonmatriculated course electives
that community members can take. Here are two awesome classes I am teaching this summer that you can join. Contact Rhonda Moore to sign up- 425.602.3404. Registration for these courses closes on June 20th so be sure to sign up before then to reserve your spot!
For more information or if you have any issues trying to register for the course please contact me at chamby@bastyr.edu.
Herbal Medicine Making for All
Summer Quarter - Wednesdays 3:00 – 5:50pm - BO9100
Come make your own effective herbal remedies and stock up your medicine cabinet
Herbal Medicine Making for All covers the core foundational principles of herbal medicine making that involves hands-on learning in our fabulous botanical medicine lab! This 8 week course covers the methods for making a variety of simple home remedies- those attending will learn how to make the following products:
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Water Based Preparations: teas, syrups/elixirs, compresses/poultices, herbal gels
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Oil Based Preparations: infused oils, salves, vapor/muscle rubs, creams/lotions
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Delicious Culinary Inspired Preparations: honey, vinegar, and wine extractions
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Concentrated Extracts: tinctures and glycerites
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Whole Herb Preparations: pills, lozenges, capsules, and delicious electuaries
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Essential Oil Based Preparations: hydrosols and essential oil-based products
PNW Herb Experience Elective
July 24-26 - BO9116
Instructors: Lauren Morgan and Crystal Hamby
There is a $250 activity fee (in addition to tuition) that covers camping fees, medicine making supplies, and food for the weekend. Carpooling is recommended to reduce travel costs. This year’s course will be held in Port Angeles WA, on a private residence nestled
into the second growth forest of the Olympic Mountains.
Come join instructors Lauren Morgan and Crystal Hamby on a three-day plant exploration into the wild of the Olympic Peninsula.
This 3 day herbal medicine field course is designed to introduce students to the what, where, why, who and how of land-centered herbalism in the Pacific Northwest. Students will learn to identify dozens of native and naturalized plants, will engage in the theory
and practice of ethical wildcrafting, and dive deeply into the terrain of medicine making. The importance of connection to land, place, plant and heart will be woven throughout our journey of hands-on, minds-on skills building. Come ready to be enchanted, delighted, inspired and touched while you learn the practical skills essential to the path of the herbalist.
Some of the plants we will meet include: devil’s club, oregon grape, arnica, yarrow, wild rose, stinging nettle, st. john’s wort, plantain, chickweed, cleavers, trillium, usnea, blue elderberry, fireweed, western red cedar, douglas fir, red alder, cottonwood, coastal mugwort, wild carrot… and much more. Students will have the opportunity to harvest small amounts of plant material at each of the locations visited throughout the weekend.
This camping experience includes several field sojourns to explore various habitats and ecosystems, processing harvested plant
material, and sharing group meals together.
Friday- we will meet at our base for the weekend and begin by first introducing ourselves to the land, and then to the plants that
grow there. The capacity to walk in relationship with the plants with whom we co-create will grow and ground within you over the weekend.
Saturday- we will take a field trip down the mountains to visit the water and coast. We will have a picnic lunch along the beautiful Dungeness River (bring a swimsuit). Saturday evening we will dive deeply in the practical and enchanting terrain of making medicine from the plants we’ve collected on our travels.
Sunday- we will circle up for a final time to share the herbal preparations we’ve made from the plants, harvest our closing thoughts,
and share our intentions moving forward. After lunch we pack up and everyone heads home.
Lauren Morgan is a folk herbalist, teacher, mother, medicine maker and author of the book Seasonal Herbalism: A Beginner’s Path to Medicine Making and Dreaming with Mother Earth. She graduated from Basytr in 2010 with a degree in Herbal Sciences and since t
hen has taught popular classes on folk and plant spirit herbalism. She grows or wildharvests most medicines used to bring healing to
the people she serves as a village herbalist. Crystal Hamby is a community herbalist and faculty member at Bastyr teaching Bot Med
Lab, Herbal Preparations, Herbal Medicine Making for All, Plant Identification 1-3, and First Aid for Herbalists. Her passion is PNW plant identification, medicine making, and materia medica. We would love to hear from you if you plan to attend or are thinking about
it and have questions. Don't hesitate to email Crystal @ chamby@bastyr.edu or Lauren @ lauren@herbsanddreams.com.
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Herbal Conferences/Events
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