Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine

What’s new:

Now Enrolling: Self-paced Fundamentals of community Herbalism.
Guided Fundamentals and Advanced Community Herbalism: Applications open September 8th.

A SCHOOL WITH A VISION

The Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine offers online and in-person education from our home in Marshall, North Carolina, in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. Terra Sylva exists to meet the growing need for environmentally and socially conscious herbalists able to support their communities as healers, educators, and emissaries of the plants. From basic energetics and botany, to medicine making and human physiology, all the way to herbal formulation and clinical skills, our programs impart the knowledge, skills, and experiences that best support the practicing community herbalist.

This year, we rebuilt our program around integration weeks, because life happens, and because understanding takes time.

Our guided cohort programs now move in four-week blocks: three weeks of new material, then a full week with none. No new information—just time to review, catch up, practice, and let it settle in. Brains need a break.

On integration weeks you also meet with your peer group for a session of structured review, discussion, and practice—herbs to taste together, a reading to discuss, a skill to practice out loud. Hearing and learning from each other is how education comes alive.

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"One of the most valuable things about my two years at Terra Sylva was simply that the structure kept me in the channel of thinking about plants, making medicine, and most of all learning new things on a daily basis. It really is a portal, and I cherished it for reminding me daily of my investment in the best parts of myself."

Emma T.
"I am closing out year two with a systems level analysis that is so far beyond anything I entered the program with. I am asking questions, seeing patterns and finding solutions that I did not know how to ask, see or find a year ago."

lily bo
"As someone who often feels overwhelmed and helpless by the state of the world, Terra Sylva has taught me tangible ways to be in service to my loved ones, my community, and my extended ecosystems (human and more than human!) while also caring for myself in the process."

Emily K.