California School of Herbal Studies

08/13/2025

Do you dream of starting your own at-home herbal apothecary but don't know where to begin?

Join us on September 27th and 28th for our Herbal Medicine Making for Beginners workshop!

Learn from Terri Jensen, a medicine maker with over 40 years of experience, how to make a variety of herbal preparations.

You will learn to make teas, infused oils, tinctures, glycerites, creams, and more, and will leave with a foundational knowledge to begin making medicine at home!

Hope to see you here! Visit our website to sign up. 🌿

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07/22/2025

Join teachers Gabrielle Doucette-Boisse and Claire Carlomagno for a journey into fall through the lens of the 5 senses. 🌀

Taste, view, smell, touch, and hear the language of the plants. Learn to incorporate herbs into your daily life to support health and wellness as we move through seasonal changes. 🍃

This 5 week series will include hands on medicine making, cooking demos, herbal inspiration, and plenty of goodies to bring home!

Class dates: September 8, 15, 22, 29, and October 6.

Gabrielle is a CSHS alumni, resident medicine maker, chef, as well as the Wellness + First Aid tent coordinator for the Northern California Women’s Herbal Symposium. She loves sharing food as medicine and empowering students with approachable first aid for all of life’s bumps and bruises.

Claire is a q***r herbalist, teacher, artist, and threshold worker who is deeply committed to earth healing, community, homesteading, flowers, friends, and her family. She is currently co-director of Youth Programming at the Sonoma Community Center.

Click the link in our bio or go to our website to sign up! 🌿

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06/16/2025

Summer is here which means time to harvest St John's Wort! Autumn Summers, one of the CSHS teachers, is offering a St John's Wort harvest class at Pepperwood Preserve east of Santa Rosa. Come learn all about this amazing herb and harvest your own to make your own medicinal oil and tincture. Besides being known to support a good mood, St. John's Wort is wonderful for bruises and sprains, wound healing and nerve pain.

Take part in a great way to remove an invasive plant: turning it into medicine! Join herbalist Autumn Summers for an evening on the land where you will not only learn the uses of St. John's Wort, but also how to identify, harvest, and process it into a medicinal oil.
Sign up here: https://www.pepperwoodpreserve.org/?event=medicinal-plant-workshop-st-johns-wort

05/08/2025

Join us and our amazing guest teacher in our upcoming workshop, Menopause Metamorphosis. 🌀

Gain the knowledge and tools to navigate the physical, psychological, and emotional changes that occur from perimenopause through post-menopause.

The more you understand your body and its changes, the better equipped you’ll be to navigate the menopausal journey with confidence and agency—embracing a healthier, more vibrant, and pleasurable life.

Classes fill fast, so click the link in our bio to sign up! 💫

05/03/2025

*Natural Perfumery with Essential Oils* class next weekend!

🌸 Saturday, May 10, 2025 | 10AM-4PM
California School of Herbal Studies, Forestville, CA

In this immersive class, you’ll learn how to create your own fragrances with pure, natural essential oils — a sensual art and science that combines intuition, imagination, and a passion for aroma! Based on the Slow Scent® method of perfumery developed by Mandy Aftel Aftelier Perfumes we’ll dive into the history of perfumery, blending guidelines for top, middle & base notes, dilution ratios, and much more! 🌿💧
With over 20 carefully selected essential oils, CO2s, and absolutes, you’ll leave knowing how to craft your own natural perfume + your two unique solid perfumes to take home. ✨
I can’t wait to share these beautiful aromas and inspiring knowledge with you all! 💖”
https://cshs.com/workshops/

04/23/2025

Here’s some highlights from the last month of classes at CSHS -harvesting nettles, making medicine, geeking out on plants and an amazing hike on our camping trip. 🌱🌸☀️

03/09/2025

Registration is open for our 2025 classes! Come join us for your herbal journey this year! 💚
Starting next weekend is our Handcrafted Herbalism 9 month weekend course! You will cultivate confidence in herbal knowledge + medicine making.
Spend time rooted in our beautiful outdoor classroom, medicinal herb garden, and medicine making lab, where you will create personalized herbal medicine. 🌱
This is an extraordinary opportunity to learn medicine making as a step by step process, straight from the garden to the lab!
You will leave this course with foundational knowledge in:
- Herbal medicine making, such as tinctures, glycerites, infused oils, salves, + so much more!
- Materia medica
- Plant ID
- Growing + harvesting medicinal plants
- Seasonal herbalism for common ailments
This course can be combined with Body Systems, our other monthly weekend course, for a solid foundation to base your herbal practice on.
https://cshs.com/handcrafted-herbalism/

02/10/2025

Join teachers Gabrielle Doucette-Boisse + Claire Carlomagno in a seasonal exploration of herbal remedies, food as medicine, plant spirit connection, medicine making, + so much more in our upcoming 5 week program Spring Herbal Essentials! 🌱

Gabrielle is a CSHS alumni, resident medicine maker, chef, as well as the Wellness + First Aid tent coordinator for the New England Women's Herbal Symposium. She loves sharing food as medicine + empowering students with approachable first aid for all of life's bumps and bruises.

Claire is a q***r herbalist, teacher, artist, and threshold worker who is deeply committed to earth healing, community, homesteading, flowers, friends, and her family. She is currently co-director of Youth Programming at the Sonoma Community Center where she develops curriculum and teaches a multitude of art classes.

This 5 week series will include hands on medicine making, cooking demos, herbal inspiration, and plenty of goodies to bring home!

Class dates: Every Monday from April 14th - May 12th 🌷