Milk & Honey Herbs is a small herb school and clinical practice in the rolling hills of Western Massachusetts.
We believe that community health and ecological health are intrinsically connected and hope that Milk & Honey Herbs positively contributes to both.
Herbal Education
Education is at the heart of our herbal philosophy. Herbal medicine has been called the people’s medicine and huge part of our mission is to connect people and plants and rekindle folks’ connection with the green world.
From The Roots Up Bioregional Herbalism Apprenticeship:Year I & II
In these hands-on, in-person, experiential herbal apprenticeships we dig deep and build relationships with our locally abundant medicinal plants.
Registration for 2027 classes is now OPEN!
Spice Rack Medicine:
Winter Online Series
This course covers the rich subject of Kitchen Medicine, demystifying herbalism and bringing it back into the home.
Enrollment is currently closed. Registration will open for our 2027 cohort in November!
Viriditas:
Membership Community
Join us for online classes and herbal education in Viriditas, our membership program and online herb school on Patreon!
When you join you’ll receive access to our class library spanning 2+ years!
The Winter Herbal Medicine Cabinet
Weekend Workshop
Sat Nov 14th + Sun Nov 15th, 2026
9am-5pm
At Sawmill Herb Farm- Montague, MA
Class will be a combination of:
Plant walks focusing on ID, ecology, and sustainable wildcrafting methods for locally abundant immune herbs
Materia Medica (full medicinal profile) of numerous herbs
Medicine-making (white pine cough syrup, usnea throat spray, winter immune broth blend, echinacea tincture, first-sign-of flu tea, spiced elderberry cordial, sweet birch & willow fever tincture, candied elecampane root and more!)
Solo/integration time with the plants
New From the Blog…
Musings on bioregional herbalism, kitchen medicine, foraging, wildtending, and plant love
Witch Hazel (Hammamelis virginiana) is a gorgeous, native, midstory tree that lights up the fall forest with its bright yellow, spindly flowers which often persist on the trees well after the leaves have fallen. These unique flowers emit the faintest lemony-citrus scent and if you catch their bloom just right, their smell permeates the fall forest with their bright perfume.
Witch Hazel is officially listed in the US Pharmacopeia- the compendium of medicines considered "official" by the FDA- and is widely available at drug stores everywhere. It’s classified as an astringent and approved for "relief of minor skin irritations due to: insect bites, minor cuts, minor scrapes.” This is of course a vestige of a time when plants dominated the Pharmacopeia and I love that this plant is still so present in modern day healthcare. We can make our own folk preparation by using diluted tinctures, decoctions and double extracts.
Read on to learn more about this wonderful medicinal!