Medicinal Gardening in Colorado
March 22nd-April 12th
Save your spot and register at the bottom of the page ~
Questions: reach out to hello@mineralroots.com
Pictured: Chamomile, German (Matricaria recutita) happy and flourishing at an MRN trials site.
A medicinal, herbaceous annual - chamomile provides a wide spectrum of benefits for humans, habitat, and soil.
CULTIVATE GENERATIONS OF MEDICINAL ABUNDANCE
A 4-week, hands-on course - designed to deliver you the skills and knowledge necessary to grow abundant and mineral-rich medicine, food, and soil.
Pictured: Freshly harvested Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) and Marshmallow (Althea officinalis) roots. Mineral Roots Farm
Medicinal Gardening in Colorado gives participants the inside scoop on how to grow wildly abundant medicinal grade plants, build truly regenerative and mineral-rich soil, design curated backyard medicine gardens and food forests, and apply diverse agroecology lineages to foster long-term homestead resilience.
Researcher, farmer/educator, and medicinal nursery owner, Amy Kousch, opens the door wide open to the wonderous world of medicinal ecology in order to give you a detailed, step-by-step, tour of the nuanced strategies and techniques she uses to cultivate prolific, exceptionally healthy, medicinal grade nursery stock, create living soil, and to create living medicinal food forests with roots in conservation biology.
Do you want to…
Cultivate medicinal, food-forest, gardenscapes for your family?
We’ve got you covered.
This comprehensive, applied, 4-week program will give you the tools, knowledge, and SUPPORT you need to understand the science and strategies behind difficult to germinate medicinal plant species in addition to well-known favorites - and to grow deeply nutrient-dense plant medicine (and food) for you and your family at the home to small-farm scale… and more.
Enrollment in Medicinal Gardening in Colorado CLOSES March 17th, 2025
SPECIAL PRICING ENDS ON MARCH 12, 2025
Class is IN SESSION beginning March 22, 2025.
Pictured: Herbalism students taking part in an autumn root harvest at in-person medicinal ecology immersive.
The Medicinal Grower includes a robust field of study, including the following course credit hours:
Foundational Soil Science for Growers
Soil Biology for Growers
Medicinal Nursery Propagation
Ecological Garden and Farm Design
Creating sanctuary and approaches to planning/design
Materials, sourcing, and ingredients
Amendments and inputs
Guild communities
Beneficial insects and pollinator science
Growing medicine
Agroecology lineages
Permaculture
Biodynamic
Where the Wild Things Grow
Pictured: Ashwagandha to Angelica to so many in-between. Mineral Roots nursery stock ready to go to their new homes. Learn how to grow these plants and more!
Watch A Preview…
Here’s a mash-up from a live, medicinal ecology 101 session instructed by Mineral Roots’ head grower, Amy.
Strong Plants. Strong Roots.
Starts with Hands-on Learning…
Pictured: Elecampane (Inula helenium) starts, at about 3 months old from seeding. Mineral Roots Nursery
Mineral Roots Founder and Head Grower, Amy Kousch ~ Your Lead Medicinal Gardening Instructor
A leader in the field of medicinal plant and soil/water research, Mineral Roots founder, Amy Kousch, has been growing, studying, teaching about and learning from plants for twenty years and has pursued an intense, small-scale greenhouse propagation trajectory for a decade as a trained medicinal plant specialist (B,S. Natural Resources, M.S. Agricultural Sciences, current PhD student, plant sciences). Mineral Roots operates a medicinal herb farm, research plots, a propagation greenhouse, and more…all on a small-scale.
Amy’s experience as a medicinal plant educator spans a robust portfolio of public presentations, guest teacher intensives, conference proceedings, community demonstrations, university instruction, and online teaching. At the heart of healing plants resides an innate calling to coach others in the propagation of these incredibly special living species. Students often provide feedback that names Amy’s down-to-earth connection building with individuals and generous, servant-leadership teaching style.
Once a therapeutic, writing teacher for high-school students in a large city - and a graduate student in Special Education - Amy honors the student experience as paramount to grower success and weaves exceptional instruction with quality mentor guidance.
Mineral Roots Nursery is an active member of:
Big Medicine.
Small Space.
Featured In:
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NOCO STYLE
Sowing Seeds of Strenth.
June, 2024
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Sugar Beet
On Restorative Agriculture and Medicinal Herbs
With Amy Kousch, food systems expert and head grower of Berchta Botanicals.
August, 2023
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Living Permaculture Podcast
Grower Profile
Fall 2024
Meet Your Classmates…
Pictured: Medicinal grade Mt. Bee Balm (Monarda fistulosa) grown from organic, wild seed just lands different.
A Sample of Medicinal Species From The Course… (common names)
Motherwort (Chinese, Siberian, and Official)
Skullcap (Chinese and Official)
Rhodiola
Vervain (European and Official)
Valerian
Sage, white
Self-heal
Arnica, meadow
Echinacea angustifolia
Moroccan mint
Marshmallow
Ashwagandha
Compass plant
Mountain bee balm
Tulsi basil
And so many more…
Course Content
Medicinal Gardening in Colorado includes 4 weeks of applied, medicinal garden instruction learning over the course of four Saturdays and each session is designed to ensure skill transfer and to catalyze your ecological growing dreams into abundant life.
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Pictured: Living water (Cameron peak wilderness); Rosa woodsii (Rawah wilderness); Community of herbalists learning (Mineral Roots Workshop); Chinese skullcap (Mineral Roots hoophouse) Chinese motherwort flowering plant (Mineral Roots hoophouse); Brilliant calendula blooms (Mineral Roots Field Trials).
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Pictured: Biodiverse, medicinal species represented in our residential/suburban, demo, backyard greenhouse. nursery stock. Mineral Roots Research Site.
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Pictured: Pictured: Oats ( Avena sativa) a medicinal annual in the grass family - providing a wide spectrum of nutrients for humans and for soil (Mineral Roots Nursery Field Trials) ; Annual, flowering buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) growing alongside perennial lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) as a companion cover-crop (Mineral Roots Field Trials); Mineral Roots restoration sites over the years; Borage and milkweed as pollinator refuge (Mineral Roots Grow Sites).
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Pictured: A lovely fresh herbal harvest; Chinese skullcap flowers, chamomile dried and ready for storage, marshmallow root harvest, towering yarrow, and a close-up of the flowering structure of Agastache foeniculum. (Mineral Roots Various Sites).
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Sample Content Area: Soil Biology
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Sample Content Area: Plant-based, Mineral Amendments
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Sample Content Area: Heirloom, Ancient Grains and Companion Food
Pictured: Diag amaranth - a native, heirloom variety from Mexico.
Testimonials
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I was very pleased by my experience in Medicine Farm School this year (2022) and recommend this learning opportunity for anyone who is interested in an experiential botany course that targets the growing of medicinal herbs. Master teacher Amy Kousch is a warm, inviting presence and she is truly interested in seeing her students exceed their own expectations for what they can learn, grow and harvest. — Lydia
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Whether speaking about soil health or encouraging biodiversity in one's plantings, Amy brings a wealth of knowledge and passion for regenerative farming that is both easily digestible and all together inspiring. — Erin
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Very informative! It was amazing. Amy’s knowledge was spot on. I learned how plants can help the soil. I never gave that a thought before the class. - Gardens on Spring Creek Student
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The plants we purchased from you...they come back to love us year after year. The nettles are just huge! - Julie
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Got my compost tea going before my comfrey and nettle leaves really got frosty. Loved your presentation, thanks for sharing your knowledge!
_ Jordan
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I wanted to thank you for such a great class. I can understand soil now in a way that I wasn't able to before. — Jessica
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Laura Cascardi, herbalist and owner of Equinox Center of Herbal Studies in Fort Collins, applauds Kousch’s skills, calling her one of the most amazing horticulturists she’s ever met. Kousch’s plants are incredibly vibrant, Cascardi says, almost glowing. “Her methods are beyond organic,” Cascardi says. “You can tell as soon as you see them.“If someone wants to learn to grow plants, she’s the person they should be learning from in this region,” Cascardi says. “I’ve seen her do things and create soil and garden beds that are just off the charts.”
Course Schedule:
March 22, Saturday: 4:30-7:00pm @ the Equinox Center of Herbal Studies
March 29, Saturday: 4:30-7:00pm @ Mineral Roots Research Greenhouse
April 5, Saturday: 4:30-7:00pm @ the Equinox Center of Herbal Studies
April 12, Saturday: 2:30-5:00pm @ Fort Collins Teaching Site TBD
Cultivate a Vibrant Herbal Medicine Garden from Roots to Seeds
Save your seat and register below!
Here’s how it works.
Fill out the registration form below by March 12th to recieve the discounted, $397 course rate.
Mineral Roots will send you an invoice upon reciept.
Invoices need to be paid by end of day on March 12th for the $397 early bird-rate.
Regular course tuition of $597 will be accepted 3/13 through 3/17.
Spaces are very limited for this course. Once the max is met - we will close the course.
QUESTIONS?
reach out to hello@mineralroots.com
FAQs
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We focus on soil health and challenging and hard-to-grow medicinal species - along with easier to germinate plants as well in a way that digs deep in the why, how, and natural history. This course asks alot of student by way of academic work. We want you to know and understand. Because we have decades of growing experience, we are able to provide ample supplemental garden growing advice, as well, for these and other more common crops.
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Yes - if you are building a 2025 garden from scratch. Our course provides you with supplies and sourcing information for learning purposes. However, growing a full, new garden or homestead will require additional investements
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Due to the extensive amount of time, energy, and resources we devote to this program - we ask that prospective students also take this commitment seriously, as we DO NOT offer refunds for folks who decide to end the course for any reason.
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Please reach out to hello@mineralroots.com and our friendly team will be happy to help!