Learn to read the wild, harvest with care, and heal with plants
The Wild Herb Table takes you from "I don't know a nettle from a weed" to confidently identifying, foraging, and preparing your own herbal teas, tinctures, salves, and more — no prior experience needed, just curiosity and a willingness to slow down and look.
Once you learn to really see a plant — to smell it, feel it, understand it — you can never walk through the world the same way again.
— dave test
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Confidently identify at least 20 common wild and garden herbs by sight, smell, and texture
- Safely forage herbs in the wild using ethical and sustainable harvesting practices
- Prepare herbal remedies including teas, tinctures, salves, and infused oils at home
- Understand the basic medicinal and nutritional properties of key herbs
- Grow a personal herb garden suited to your local climate and space
- Build a home herbal apothecary stocked with dried herbs, preparations, and reference knowledge
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 27 lessons
Welcome to the Herbal World
Builds your foundation by introducing herbalism's roots, how plants communicate through their senses, and the essential tools and mindset you need to begin.
- 1.1What Is Herbalism? A Beginner's OrientationIncluded
- 1.2Learning to See, Smell, and Touch PlantsIncluded
- 1.3Your Herbal Toolkit: What You Need to Get StartedIncluded
- 1.4Safety First: Toxic Look-Alikes and How to Avoid ThemIncluded
Plant Identification in the Field
Teaches you to confidently recognize at least 20 common wild and garden herbs across diverse habitats using reliable identification methods.
- 2.1Reading a Plant: Leaves, Stems, Flowers, and RootsIncluded
- 2.2Backyard and Garden Herbs: Your First 10 PlantsIncluded
- 2.3Wild Herbs of Fields and Roadsides: Your Next 10 PlantsIncluded
- 2.4Using Field Guides and Identification Apps ReliablyIncluded
- 2.5Seasonal Changes: Identifying Herbs Year-RoundIncluded
Ethical Foraging and Sustainable Harvesting
Guides you through the principles, laws, and hands-on techniques that keep wild plant populations healthy and your foraging legal and responsible.
- 3.1The Forager's Code: Ethics and Ecological ResponsibilityIncluded
- 3.2Know Before You Pick: Foraging Laws and Land Access in the USIncluded
- 3.3When and How to Harvest Each Part of a PlantIncluded
- 3.4Wildcrafting vs. Cultivating: Choosing What's RightIncluded
Understanding Herbal Properties and Plant Medicine
Gives you a practical working knowledge of the medicinal and nutritional properties of key herbs so you can use them with confidence and safety.
- 4.1How Herbs Work in the Body: A Plain-Language OverviewIncluded
- 4.2Nutritional Powerhouses: Herbs as FoodIncluded
- 4.3Medicinal Herb Profiles: Your Top 20 Herbs at a GlanceIncluded
- 4.4Herb Safety: Interactions, Contraindications, and Dosage BasicsIncluded
Preparing Herbal Remedies at Home
Walks you step-by-step through making the most essential herbal preparations — teas, tinctures, infused oils, and salves — using safe, beginner-friendly methods.
- 5.1Drying and Storing Herbs to Preserve Their PotencyIncluded
- 5.2Herbal Teas and Infusions: Hot, Cold, and Decoction MethodsIncluded
- 5.3Making Tinctures: Alcohol and Glycerin ExtractionIncluded
- 5.4Infused Oils and Herbal SalvesIncluded
- 5.5Herbal Vinegars, Oxymels, and Simple SyrupsIncluded
Growing Your Garden and Building Your Apothecary
Empowers you to grow your own herb garden and set up a organized, stocked home apothecary you'll use every day.
- 6.1Designing Your Herb Garden for Any SpaceIncluded
- 6.2Soil, Sun, and Water: Growing Herbs Successfully in Your ClimateIncluded
- 6.3Propagating Herbs from Seed, Cutting, and DivisionIncluded
- 6.4Stocking Your Home Apothecary: What to Have on HandIncluded
- 6.5Continuing Your Herbal Journey: Seasonal Practice and Lifelong LearningIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The backyard gardener
She grows tomatoes and basil but is ready to expand into medicinal herbs and finally understand what she's actually cultivating.
The trail-curious forager
He notices interesting plants on every hike but has never trusted himself enough to pick or use any of them — until now.
The grandmother reconnecting
She grew up watching elders use plants as medicine and wants to reclaim that inherited wisdom for her own household.
The wellness seeker
She's moved away from over-the-counter remedies and wants a grounded, informed foundation in plant-based home care.
The nature-curious homeschooler
He's building a nature-based curriculum for his kids and wants rich, hands-on botanical knowledge the whole family can explore together.
The urban apartment dweller
She has a sunny windowsill, a love of herbal teas, and a deep desire to grow and make something real — however small the space.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
dave test
Maybe you've stood in a field and felt that pull — that quiet sense that the plants around you have something to say, if only you knew how to listen. Or maybe you've flipped open a field guide, gotten immediately overwhelmed by Latin names and botanical jargon, and quietly closed it again. I've been there too. And I built this course because I believe that knowledge of plants shouldn't live only in academic textbooks or passed down in families lucky enough to have kept it. It belongs to anyone who's willing to slow down, pay attention, and show up with open hands.
What you'll find here isn't a lecture. It's more like a long walk with a knowledgeable friend — someone who'll crouch down next to a patch of roadside herbs and say, here, smell this, or feel how different these two leaves are, or this one has a look-alike and here's exactly how to tell them apart. The Wild Herb Table moves through the whole arc of herbal practice: learning to truly see plants in the field, foraging with ethics and confidence, understanding what herbs actually do in the body (in plain language, not pharmaceutical-speak), and making real preparations at home that you'll reach for again and again.
I want to be honest about what this course is and isn't. It's not a substitute for medical care, and it doesn't pretend to be. What it is is a grounded, careful foundation in a tradition that humans have practiced for as long as we've been walking this earth. By the time you finish, you'll be able to identify more than 20 herbs by sight, scent, and texture; forage legally and sustainably; stock a home apothecary with preparations you made yourself; and grow herbs wherever you live — windowsill, balcony, backyard, or beyond.
The thing I most want for you is not just a skill set. It's a shift in the way you move through the world — a new layer of noticing that, once it opens, never quite closes. You start seeing the plantain pushing through the sidewalk crack. You smell the difference between two mints. You know what's growing at the edge of that trail and what it's good for. That's the real gift of herbal study, and it starts right here. Come as you are. The plants are already waiting.
— dave test
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