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Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine
In-depth online herbalism education from the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina
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About
Chestnut School teaches entirely online: the 1,200-hour Herbal Immersion Program (botany, gardening, wildcrafting, medicine making, safety, and North American herbal history), the Medicine Making Course, the Foraging Course, and the Herbal Safety Course, plus an extensively resourced blog on materia medica, foraging, and herb gardening. Enrollment, scholarships, and student support run through chestnutherbs.com.
Mission
To provide the most in-depth, trustworthy herbal education possible, grounded in hands-on plant experience and taught by working herbalists.
History
The Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine was founded in 2007 by Juliet Blankespoor in Asheville, North Carolina. Its courses, including the Herbal Immersion Program, have become recognized leaders in online herbal education, built entirely on original writing, photography, and video by the school's own instructors, with an explicit no-AI-content policy.