Medicinal Forest Garden Design Course

Are you interested in growing a range of plants with medicinal effects? Forest gardens provide a wonderful opportunity to bring together many plants that could be used for health purposes. This online course offers guidance and information on permaculture design with these healing plants, especially trees and shrubs, in order to choose well and establish for the longer term. Including 10 lessons with short videos, activities, quizzes, information sheets and further reading, this course takes you through key processes involved in successfully designing with medicinal plants, and integrating healing trees and shrubs with herbs and other plants. 

You will learn about designing and managing a medicinal forest garden. Benefits will include: assessing a site for potential growth of medicinal plants; finding out about medicinal uses of a range of trees and shrubs; developing your purpose and a design plan using permaculture principles; identifying other herbs to grow with the trees and shrubs; ideas for propagating and sourcing medicinal plants; hints for successful establishment of plants and ongoing maintenance; ways of monitoring progress so that you can adapt as needed. Your instructor is Anne Stobart, an experienced herbal practitioner and grower. This online course includes optional Zoom sessions with the tutor. 

No special experience is needed. If your garden is very small there are design suggestions for smaller spaces. If you want to grow for profit there is discussion about the market for herbs. Purchase of this course helps to fund the Medicinal Forest Garden Trust which seeks to raise awareness about the sustainable cultivation and harvesting of medicinal trees and shrubs.

Several other courses are offered by the Medicinal Forest Garden Trust. If you are keen to make your own remedies from trees and shrubs then see our Medicinal Forest Garden Harvest course, which provides guidance on harvest and drying for best quality and sustainability plus recipes for self-help. If you are keen to understand the healing actions of trees and shrubs then see our Medicinal Trees and Their Healing Properties course, which provides an overview of the many ways that trees can heal, from aromatic antiseptics to stress-busting tonics.