Forrest Green Farm
Whole Living Class: A Comprehensive Course on Herbalism & Gardening
2025 Whole Living Class Enrollment Now Open!
We are only offering Thursday sessions of Whole Living for the 2025 summer season. This means that the class will fill up fast, don't procrastinate getting registered to hold your spot. Class dates are listed below. Pay in full in one transaction and receive a $200 dollar discount at checkout with code "Wellness200".
Unleash your passion for the natural world with this immersive course on herbalism, gardening, seasonal eating, and the healing properties of food. Take class on a working herb farm in Louisa, Virginia and enhance your knowledge and skills in a hands-on environment.
Embark on a transformative journey as you cultivate, gather, nurture, and harness the power of herbs and vegetables in your daily life. Explore the wonders of nature and harmonize with its rhythms to lay the groundwork for vibrant living. Learn to embrace stillness, observe, form connections, and unlock the endless potential of our natural world. With newfound knowledge and confidence, you'll discover how to safely and effectively utilize herbs for nourishment and healing for yourself, loved ones, and community.
This course offers a hands-on experience in both gardening and herbal medicine, deepening your understanding and relationship with plants throughout a growing season. Apply this knowledge to create top-quality herbal remedies, combined with whole foods for a stronger, more self-sufficient lifestyle. Upon completion, you'll receive a certificate of completion and you will have built your own apothecary of 70+ herbal remedies to start your journey to wellness.
Wellness Simplified! ✨
Modern Sustainable Living
Whole Living Class focus is primarily based on herbs that can be grown in Central Virginia.You learn to identify and connect with the culinary and medicinal herbs that are grown at Forrest Green Farm and you make medicine from them. During Whole Living, we build relationships with our herbal allies and begin to see how they help us maintain daily wellness. This gives you a connection with the plants and the medicine you make from them.
Krista & Rob have been farming and gardening at Forrest Green Farm for 30+ years. They use their practical experience from their own success and failures to help mentor you, in a realistic way, on how to incorporate Whole Living principles into your own life.
Join us for our 16th year of Whole Living class at the farm for a growing season of observing and learning the beauty, harvest, food/nutrition and medicine from the plants that we grow.
This is a Hands-on Class!
You will take home projects from every class. You will take home 70+ projects throughout the course! This is a learning opportunity and a chance to produce and immediately start using your new skills to enhance your lifestyle with the projects you make in class.
Body Systems
Discover effective strategies to address prevalent health issues that may arise in each of the 12 body systems. Explore the potential benefits of incorporating nutrition, herbs, and lifestyle modifications to promote optimal well-being and restore balance.
All 12 Systems Covered in Class: skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, urinary, reproductive, integumentary, and immune.
Build Your Own Apothecary
70+ projects to build your medicine chest
Spend an Entire Growing Season at the Farm
See the ins and outs of a real working herb and animal farm April - October
Mentorship & Guidance
In-person hands-on learning
Community
Make friends with like-minded individuals
Course Topics
Learn 125+ Herbs!
78 hours of in class learning throughout a growing season on a working farm (13 classes).
Wildcrafting: ethics & safety of wild plants.
Harvesting Medicinals: learn the right parts to harvest, when to harvest, and drying times and methods.
Medicine Chest: herbs for first aid, colds & flu and everyday ailments.
Medicine Making: teas, tinctures, glycerites, elixirs, syrups, oxymels, oils, vinegars, infused honey, flower essences, salves, liniments, poultices, shrubs, herbal candy/gummies, smudging and aromatherapy.
Herbal Body Care and recipes.
Herbs and Food as Medicine: delightful culinary dishes, everyday food as medicine, seasonings and seasonal eating to support the body systems includes a full recipe cookbook for the seasons.
Body Systems: overview with common aliments and support to gain back wellness.
Foundational Herbalism: Individualized Constitutions, Plant Energetics, Tissue States, Herb Tastings, Diagnosis and Formulations.
Cordials, Meads, Water Kefir and Kombucha/Fermented Drinks
Navigating the Food Systems: learn about cooking with herbs and healthy foods as well as the preparations for obtaining optimal nutrition from your food.
Fermented Foods: kefir, yogurt, sodas, kombucha, and vegetables.
Preserving Herbs & Vegetables: dehydrating, pickling and fermenting.
Gardening From Seed: ordering, starting, storing, transplanting, saving seeds and greenhouse growing.
Soil: amending & creating biologically active soil.
Fertilization: organic materials, natural amendments and understanding soil samples.
Preparing Beds: layering/ no till, when to rototill, raised beds and containers.
Companion Planting: the science and enhancement of growing complementary plants.
Crop Rotation, Cover Crops & Natural Mulches
Herb Growing: planting & tending.
Vegetable Growing: planting, tending, protecting, harvesting and preserving.
Insects: beneficial insects & pest control.
General Garden Care for Success
2025 Class Dates
Thursdays, 9am-3pm
April 17
May 8 & 29
June 12 & 26
July 10 & 24
August 14 & 28
September 11 & 25
October 16 & 23
Whole Living Class Cost
PLEASE READ!
$2,400, which includes 70 take-home projects, a copy of our book Wellness Simplified! Herbalism From The Ground Up, a copy of our cookbook Wellness Simplified! The Everyday Seasonal Cookbook, a gardening textbook, samplings of seasonal whole food recipes, and all other project-making materials (except for alcohol for tincture making). Space is limited!
Payment Plan Options
Option 1: Pay in full in one transaction and receive at $200 dollar discount at checkout with code "Wellness200".
Option 2: We have four payment plan options. The total for cost for class is $2400.
8 Months: WL payment plan $300 every month for 8 months recurs on original purchase card on the same day of the month as when the initial order was made.
6 Months: WL payment plan: $400 every month for 6 months recurs on original purchase card on the same day of the month as when the initial order was made.
3 Months: WL payment plan: $800 every month for 3 months recurs on original purchase card on the same day of the month as when the initial order was made.
2 Months: WL payment plan: $1200 for 2 months recurs on original purchase card on the same day of the month as when the initial order was made.
How the payment plans work
Payment plans are automatically renewed on the same day as the original order, using the card that was initially used. You have the option to cancel your payment plan, but in doing so, you will not receive a refund for any payments made and you will not be registered for the Whole Living Class. Once all required payments for your selected plan have been made, your subscription will be canceled. Please ensure that the class is fully paid for before the start of the first class on April 17, 2025.
You MUST be paid in full by the start of class!
To be considered registered for class you must fill out the registration form and pay in full or make your first payment.
A 3% processing fee is included for all payments made with a credit card.
*Whole Living Class is non-refundable and non-transferable.