Yes, all of the classes and meet ups and office hours will be recorded for you to view on your own time.

We are listed in the American Herbalist Guild's School Directory. The American Herbalist Guild is the biggest herbal association and community of herbal professionals in the USA. Our Diploma Course program is consistent with the AHG standards of education for herbalists in the United States. 

Our experienced course instructors have decades of experience to share as practitioners and teachers of Herbal Medicine & Aromatherapy. AC and Gabriel share a long-held passion for Plant Medicine and natural healing as well as for sustainable, regenerative herbcraft, engaging and empowering learning, and community building.

Gabriel brings to the Institute four decades of experience as a practitioner and teacher of clinical herbalism, aromatherapy. His approach to medicinal plants has a strong aromatic and energetic emphasis based on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), combined with an appreciation of the scientific activities of herbs and essential oils. Gabriel’s internationally published book Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit reflects, too, his interest in plant symbolism.

AC brings to the Institute her experience as an herbalist, herb farmer, product-maker, educator and podcaster who has been growing herbs since 2012. From her herb farm in central New York, on traditional lands of the native Oneida, she grows hundreds of varieties of medicinal herbs, fruits, trees and fungi. Under the brand title Traveling Herb Farmer, AC creates small-batch, hand-made herbal remedies including salves, liniments, tinctures, teas and more, at TravelingHerbFarmer.com

The Actaea Sunday School webinar series is a series of 33 engaging 3-hour webinars held from Sunday, Oct 12th 2025 to June 28th, 2026. Classes are recorded if you miss one but we encourage everyone who can to join them live. 

Each of our 3-hour Sunday School webinars commencing October 12th 2025 starts at 8 AM Pacific Time/ 9 AM Mountain Time/ 10 AM Central Time/ 11 AM Eastern Time/ 12 PM São Paulo time/ 4 PM London time/ 12 AM (Mon) Tokyo time/ 1 AM Sydney (Mon) time.

There's a 15 minute break in the middle of the class. 

All sessions are recorded. 

We encourage you to come live and have your video on and be ready to interact. 

The course fee Diploma Course is $1200 payable thru $150 on booking followed by 7 monthly installments of $150 (or an early-bird fee of $1100 applies if paid in full by Oct 1st, 2025).

Diploma Course enrollment includes free Friday Forum Special Guest Webinar Series registration.

(Please note that all course fees are non-refundable. Monthly installments can be cancelled in cases of course withdrawal.)

Yes, we have filled our scholarship positions for the 2025 Cohort however if you're interested in joining the course and finances are an issue for you, please reach out to us via email or our contact form. 

We offer an early-bird rate to pay upfront for a discount and we offer a monthly payment plan of $150 a month from October 2025 to June 2026. 

You can withdraw from the course at any time. The Diploma Course fee installments are non-refundable for the months that you attend the school, however monthly installments can be cancelled in cases of course withdrawal, so no further fees incur. 

If you paid in full at the Early-Bird Rate and decide to withdraw at any point during the course, we will refund you 80% of the equivalent sum due if you had been paying in installments (which accounts for our discount and processing fees). 

Part of the program is helping you figure out where to source herbs locally to you. We also encourage use of common wild 'weeds' that can be found outside your door. We know many different bio-regions will be represented by our students from all over the world, so part of the fun will be finding herbs that work in the ways you're looking for in your own neighborhood as well as sourcing some plant medicines from online sources or in person herb shops. 

Yes, there are three books we require students purchase for the Diploma Program and quizzes that coincide with the main text book.

Students will have a course project. We ask students to choose a topic to either write a research paper or a plant monograph and present their work to the class in a 15 minute presentation or workshop. 

There are periodic tasks students are encouraged to make to incorporate herbs into their lives and build their own apothecaries. We will have herbal medicine show and tells and apothecary shares to encourage each other to keep making more herbal remedies. 

The required reading list: 

Clinical Herbalism: Plant Wisdom from the East and West by Rachel Lord (the main text book)

Aromatherapy for the Spirit by Gabriel Mojay

Land Healing: Physical, Metaphysical, and Ritual Practices for Healing the Earth by Dana O'Driscoll