Where plants, story, science, and relationship meet.
Effective herbal medicine begins long before a plant goes into a jar. At Cedar Mountain Herb School in Sandpoint, Idaho, Suzanne Tabert teaches the entire process: accurate identification, responsible harvest, plant constituents and their actions in the body, formulation, dosing and preparation methods that best extract and preserve the medicine. Her field experience and master storytelling make complex concepts easier to understand and remember. Students leave able to explain what they’ve made and why they made it that way.
Learning takes place across the varied ecosystems of the Pacific and Inland Northwest and on Suzanne’s farmlet, with its extensive herb gardens. In the Roots to Tips Herbal Apprenticeship, a small dedicated cohort spends 4 months learning and making medicine together, with guided study between in-person classes. Plant and land stewardship guide the fieldwork, while lessons in healthy living help students put their herbal knowledge to use in daily life. The time spent working together also builds a community of classmates who share skills and care for one another.
For students learning from home, Herbal Materia Medica Monthly provides a year of in-depth study of twelve plants with a bonus of 20 plants at the end of the subscription. Weekly lessons cover identification, constituents, actions, safety, harvesting, preparations, recipes, formulation, anatomy and physiology, videos and more. Cedar Mountain Herb School also offers in-person intensives, one day workshops, webinars, educational articles and ebooks, podcast episodes and a free Introduction to Herbalism eBook.
Suzanne Tabert is a bioregional herbalist, storyteller, author, and educator who has taught thousands of students over nearly 40 years. She is an adjunct instructor in Bastyr University’s Botanical Medicine Department, where she has taught for 14 years, and regularly speaks at in-person and online herbal conferences and events. Her writing appears on the Mountain Rose Herbs blog and in Homestead Living, Willow & Sage, Christian Herbal Magazine, and other publications. Suzanne is the author of Quest for Calm: Using Herbs & Lifestyle Changes to Create Resilient Emotional Health and Wild & Beautiful: An Herbal Encyclopedia for Naturally Healthy Skin; her forthcoming book, The Forager’s Apothecary: Remedies and Recipes for 50 Common Wild Plants, will be published by Lyons Press in March 2027.
Learn more at cedarmountainherbs.com.