
1.Start with what you already have and what you consume regularly during the season your in. If you always have watermelons in summer or cucumber find out what it is made of it’s chemical constituents and the climate it grows in. Take any food or spice item and dive into other ways you can prepare it and other foods that it teams well with. Once you find out which spices, herbs etc it teams well with experiment with making other things.

2. Try the below free programmes:
● Herbalista Free School currently offers 4 free programmes link immediately below
Herbalista Free School
● New Vitality Tuition have the below free course
https://www.newvitalitytuition.com/courses/introducing-herbal-medicine
● Udemy Free courses
Below is a link to the Udemy Free Herbalist Courses list
https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?price=price-free&q=Free+herbalism&src=ukw

3.Follow Youtube channels by herbalists and Botanical experts. Here’s a list of YouTube videos. There are a variety of videos about Herbalism, some I’ve watched, some are by YouTubers that I respect and trust their information. The below videos will start you off on your path or open up other pathways dependant on your interests and hopefully give you some ideas about avenues you could take whilst still giving you some fundamental skills for zero bucks.
https://youtu.be/HWd118P7syY?si=TVlo_uLrh_TqxY3x
The School of Evolutionary Herbalism
4. Try these blogs by Herbalists
Mountain Rose Herbs
https://blog.mountainroseherbs.com/creating-your-home-herbal-apothecary
https://www.henriettes-herb.com/archives/best/1994/index.html
5. Use Your Local Library and Book Swaps
One of the most powerful yet overlooked ways to study herbalism for free is through your local library. Many libraries carry classic herbal texts, and even if they don’t, you can often request them through interlibrary loan. Look for foundational books like Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West by Michael Moore, Herbal Medicine From the Heart of the Earth by Sharol Tilgner, The Herbal Medicine-Maker’s Handbook by James Green, and Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide. You can also search for older texts such as Culpeper’s Complete Herbal or Maude Grieve’s A Modern Herbal. Key topics to explore include the history of herbal medicine, materia medica, plant energetics, the body systems approach, preparation methods (tinctures, teas, salves), and field guides for plant identification.
A summary of popular free Online Resources and Self-Study Tools
The internet has opened a world of free herbal knowledge, making it possible to build your own self-study curriculum without paying a penny.
Some excellent resources include: (1) Herbalista Free School, (2) LearningHerbs free guides, (3) American Herbalists Guild webinars and archive, (4) The Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine blog, (5) The Herbal Academy’s free articles and monographs, (6) Susun Weed’s Wise Woman tradition resources, (7) HerbMentor’s free podcast episodes, (8) United Plant Savers’ plant profiles, (9) Herbal Reality’s educational hub, and (10) the Plants for a Future database.
These tools allow you to deepen your herbal path step by step, exploring plants through many traditions and practical applications.
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