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Dandelion Herbal Center offers classes and field trips for herb students ranging from the beginner interested primarily in basic herbal crafting techniques to advanced students seeking to enhance their careers in complementary medicine.

We welcome students to our beautiful classroom and teaching gardens in Kneeland, CA in northern Humboldt County as well as for adventures across the region.

Our lifelong love affair with medicinal plants finds a perfect setting here in the magnificent coastal mountains of Northern California. From pristine tide pools to lush wetlands and the majestic redwood forests, we are surrounded by a glorious abundance of herbs to admire and study.

2021: Allison, Jane, & Jessica at DHC
2020: backpacking in the Siskiyou Wilderness
2011: on a Lost Coast Seaweed Adventure
2000: on a class trip to Pacific Botanicals
2022: Allison + Jessica on their 1st day of classes at DHC!

A note from Jane:

Dear Friends,
As in nature, all things must transition in order to begin anew and so the time has come for me to pass the torch along to the next generation of herbal teachers who will bring new light & life to DHC! I am so grateful to be accomplishing this shift with such connected, talented & esteemed herbalists as Allison Poklemba & Jessica Shepherd who both began studying with me way back in 1999! It has been such an honor and a pleasure to share herbal magick & wisdom with all of you throughout the years. You have brought so much joy, wisdom, & light to Dandelion. I am deeply grateful for you all and the plant teachers that have brought us together.
I will still be very much part of DHC and will drop into the 2022 10-Month Herbal Studies class to share plant wisdom, make tea, do rituals & play in the garden. I am very much looking forward to spending more time being with the plants…and towards this next exciting evolution of Dandelion Herbal Center!

With gratitude & much appreciation to the plants,
Jane


A note from Allison:

For the past 17 years or so I have taught pieces of Jane’s annual Herbal Studies Program, and each and every time I do I think to myself: “This is my absolute favorite. This is where I’m meant to be.”

Since my time as a student of Jane’s at the turn of the century (yes, that long ago!) we have become dear friends and even “neighbors.” It feels like a tremendous honor to share more of my skills and love of plants with the Dandelion Herbal Center community as we write more pages of the DHC story together.

I bring with me my skills as a teacher, botanist, herbalist, environmental educator, small business owner (Backcountry Press), artist, mother, friend, and always curious student of nature. I’m so looking forward to celebrating plants, making medicine, and nerding out with you all!

(Fun fact: Jessica and I have been reveling in the beauty and magic of plant medicine together since we took our first herb class together, Jane’s Beginning With Herbs, back in 1999!)


A note from Jessica:

Jane and the Dandelion Herbal Center changed my life by introducing me to the magical world of plant medicine over 20 years ago.  After my very first class, I knew immediately that I had found my path; to become an herbalist and be in service to the plants.  This path led me to working as a community herbalist at Humboldt Herbals for 17 years and teaching myriad of classes.  Along with pursuing extensive studies and certifications in the field of Aromatherapy, including distillation.

I couldn’t have imagined, way back then, what a pillar Jane and the DHC would have become for me and my knowledge of herbs.  From the foundations she laid out in my early years of learning, I went on to develop successful product lines, top-selling tea blends, and created an award-winning recipe published in the book: Fire Cider. 

I have had the honor of teaching at the Dandelion Herbal Center for the past 6 years now and look forward to building upon that with Allison.  Together Allison and I combine our herb nerd skills and deep love for plant medicine, all which grew from the legacy of seeds that Jane first planted. 

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Was so happy to find a vibrant little patch of St. John’s Wort volunteering in the garden today!

Of course if this plant was in flower it would be easy to recognize (☀️☀️☀️), but it’s important to be able to identify your herbal allies in all the forms they take throughout the wheel of the year.

This one is easy: pluck a leaf, hold it up to the sun, if you see all the pinpricks of light shining through you have the “holiest” of leaves: St. John’s Wort!

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A rainy morning visit with our Algal Allies & thei A rainy morning visit with our Algal Allies & their friends, and the first little harvest of the season.!

💙 Thank you Mama Ocean for nourishing us in all ways 💙

🌊 Just 2 spots left in our Seaweed Adventure weekend May 19-21 if you’d like to join us!
Details at L I N K

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Have you been noticing this lovely little wildflow Have you been noticing this lovely little wildflower blooming everywhere in the redwood forest right now?

Meet Milkmaids (Cardamine nuttallii) AKA Nuttall’s toothwort.

A member of the Mustard family (Brassicaceae), so you know it’s edible!

Try a leaf, add them to your salads and pestos, and enjoy their fresh spicy kick!

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Syrup, Shortbread, Sugar, and Such…

💜 What delicacies are you concocting with these heavenly blooms this year?

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Nature is our greatest teacher, healer, and inspir Nature is our greatest teacher, healer, and inspiration. 

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🕸️ deepen your relationship with the natural world

✨open up channels of plant communication

🌀 and broaden your view through spiritual ecology,

then we invite you to check out the Co-Creative Partnership with Nature mentorship program with our dear friend Pam Montgomery!

Pam is such a wise teacher who has been deep in this work for decades. Her online class (plus personal mentoring!) gives you tools you’ll reach for always. 💫

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Journey to the spectacular tide pools of the Lost Journey to the spectacular tide pools of the Lost Coast of Northern California!

>> Only 5 spots left! <<

You’ll bring the intertidal “seaweed blur” into focus by learning to identify and ethically harvest the bountiful sea vegetables that grow along their rocky shores: Nori, Kombu, Wakame, Sea lettuce, Bladderwrack, Sea cabbage, and many more. 

We'll camp along the gorgeous & serene Mattole River and create a dinner feast (including dessert!) with our foraged sea vegetables.

Campground class time includes hands on lessons on how to use common seaweeds for food, medicine, first aid, self care, and fun!

Class meets: 6pm Friday May 19 to noon on Sunday May 21 in Petrolia, CA for one of the best low tides of the year (a -1.4' at 6:40am Saturday)

$300 Tuition includes camping, product samples, and several meals

Find all the details and save your spot at our L I N K

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