Herbal Education Classes

From time to time, we offer a variety of herbal classes such as herb and tree walks, traditional water-bath canning, soap making, herbal extracts, vinegars, plant-based salves, and basket-weaving with invasive vines. Come learn and grow with us!

Spring Beds with Rolando Boye: Regenerative Practices

Learn the different techniques and tools used to prepare Spring
planting herb beds using regenerative techniques! We will discuss soil ecology and soil health, what regenerating soil means, and the benefits of building soil health. 

Get your hands dirty by using tillage tools to prepare plant beds to give your herbs the best start possible, as well as simple tools to incorporate cover crops on a small-scale for long-term fertility. 

Rolando Boye is a former natural products educator, freelance writer, herbalist and current farm owner and operator of The Herbstead, a small-scale medicinal herb farm in Asheville, NC. The farm is dedicated to using ecological, regenerative and holistic agricultural growing practices to grow high quality medicinal herbs. A native Texan with roots in Chile, Rolando has always had a love of plants, the great outdoors and a passion for understanding the ecological relationships of microbiology in the plant Kingdom. He lives with his wife and two children in Western North Carolina.

*Refunds available up to one week before the workshop.