The Medicine Garden

Come learn from Caroline's experience creating and stewarding our 10 year old forest garden. The heart of our community, our forest garden is full of medicine and food plants that support the health and wellness of our community. This space is a thriving forest garden ecosystem in suburban South Austin. Since 2011 this garden has grown alongside our community. Watch our segment on Central Texas Gardener to see what we are up to around here.

This course will walk you through the process of starting and tending a medicine forest garden. It includes the basics of cultivating soil and plants, working with the flows of nature and human systems. I will introduce specific plants, their needs, how they work within the garden ecosystem and broad strokes on their herbal actions and how they work to support our health and wellbeing.Plus follow up activities between classes to help move you along your personal design process

Beginners welcome!

Cost : Sliding Scale - $300 - $450. You pay the base of $250 as a deposit. Pay more if feel it.

Tuesday - Thursday evenings 6 - 7:30pm on Zoom

October 4th - October 27th

Bonus In Person Day - Saturday November 5th 10 - 12:30 pm -  In person hang time - seed swap plus plants from our medicine garden and plant remedy spritzers from our medicine garden! Garden Party!

Class 1  Tuesday October 4th 6-7:30 pm zoom

The Medicine Garden Ecosystem

~What is a medicine garden and how is it different from an annual edible garden.

~Community herbalism and garden activism

~Introductions

Class 2  October 6th 6-7:30pm zoom

Flows and the art of Observation

~Get oriented with the natural flows - sun, water, wildlife, people

~Create your own goal/context for your medicine forest garden

Class 3 October 11th 6-7:30pm zoom

Soil and Water -

~ Growing the Living Soil - no-till, succession, as above so below

~ Small Scale Earthworks to utilize water

Class 4 October 13th 6-7:30pm zoom

~ Plants for the soil - medicinals to grow healthy soil

~ Utilizing medicinal cover crops

~ Growing healthy soil takes time - a soil succession story

~ Working with the seasons to utilize the rain when it comes

Class 5 October 18th 6-7:30pm zoom

~ Design Basics - creating an easy functional scale design to get the job done.

~ Scaled designs to help us see the bigger picture and support our budgets and time

Class 6 October October 20th 6-7:30pm zoom

~Plants and succession through the seasons and years - working with perennials and annuals

~Plants for pollinators - Blooms for every season

Class 7 October 25th 6-7:30pm zoom

~Propagation stations for small scale needs

~Seeds, cuttings, division and a bit on grafting

Class 8 October 27th

~Design shares and celebrations

~Be the Fulcrum - Break ground - A Declaration!

Bonus In Person Day - Saturday November 5th 10 - 12:30 pm -  In person hang time - seed swap plus plants from our medicine garden and plant remedy spritzers from our medicine garden! Garden Party!