The People’s Medicine School was created to facilitate mutually beneficial healing relationships between people and plants.

To serve all, by centering BIPoC, Queer, Trans and those with a liberatory focus, in finding their roots in plant medicine; accessing lifelong support from the healing powers of nature, and in turn, becoming more connected to the earth and more invested in themselves and their community.

We continually commit to finding ways to prioritize the needs and safety of our most vulnerable kin. To that end, we will always offer our curriculum fully online, we will always have BIPOC scholarships, and we will always offer multiple course options.

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All course options feature:

• lifelong access to all course materials

• in-depth, seasonally aligned monthly modules spanning May - October

• solid foundation in decolonial community herbalism

• deep dive into relationship-based practices such as energetics, actions, virtues, medicine making, body systems, history, traditions, basic botany, formulation, care studies and more

• intentionally designed curriculum includes readings, audio recordings and captioned videos

• connection via student forums and study groups

• opportunities to join us in the garden at our optional, in-person immersions!

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If studying liberatory community herbalism with us feels aligned, we would love for you to join us!! and that journey starts by choosing one of our

3 virtual herb school options:
CONTENT, CORE or CONNECTION

BIPOC Scholarships*

The 2024 Scholarship Application Period is closed!
please join our waitlist for 2025!!

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Each year it is our incredible honor to be able to take one small step towards dismantling capitalism and racism through offering BIPOC Scholarships.

We work very hard to raise as many funds as possible through our Reclamation Fund so that we can offer as many scholarships as possible. That said, we receive a wild abundance of scholarship applications and are only able to support a small percentage of applications each year. In a sustained effort to uplift the most vulnerable, our scholarship funds are reallocated to applicants who do not have the resources to participate otherwise and to those who face multiple intersections of oppression under white supremacy. We will never ask applicants to disclose financial or other potentially triggering truths, we do not want to invoke your trauma, we want to invoke your joy. We so look forward to getting to know a little about what makes you amazing through reading your applications. 

We have a limited number Full and Half Scholarships to each of our 3 Curriculums.
You will be able to choose what Curriculum and what Scholarship you are applying for on the application.
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Scholarship applications close on February 12th.
Notification of application status will be provided by March 6th.

IMPORTANT NOTE: if you are applying for a scholarship to any of our curriculums (content, core, connection) you DO NOT need to fill out the non-scholarship registration/application for your chosen curriculum. in fact, if you do fill out both the scholarship application and the non-scholarship application/ registration, your scholarship application will be void. thanks!

FACILITATED BY AMANDA DAVID

Amanda is a mother of 3 living on unceded Gayogohó:no'/Onöñda’gega’ land near Ithaca, NY.

She has been practicing herbal medicine for over 25 years. Her teachings focus on decolonizing western herbal medicine, relationship building with accessible plants and uplifting QT and BIPOC herbalists.

Through her classes, workshops, courses and apprenticeships she has shared knowledge, laughter and tears with an abundance of amazing plant-loving students from all across the globe.