Classes & Apprenticeships

Use the Indexes below to find the classes of interest to you. You can click on the name of the class or event offered or to view by date, click on the specific month. To contact us or if you wish to be on our email list & have monthly class notices sent to you, please send your email address to class@herbaltransitions.com. Only the classes offered this year are availble for viewing. Each year we will remove last years classes and put the new classes for the year on the site. To download a PDF of the entire ten pages of class information Click Here. You can also download individual class information as a PDF by going to the class data below.

Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. July Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec.

• Herbs A - Z or Herbal ABC's Part II:(Not necessary to take part I first -February - April 2010))
• The Living Garden - Learn to garden/harvest and preserve food and herbs (January - October 2010)
• Apprenticeships
• For Intermediate and Advanced Students
• How To Register
• Summer Rental Cabin

January Classes

The Living Garden  •   For A PDF Registration: For a registration form, click here: The Living Garden Registration Form

What you will learn in a nutshell: How to order, organize, harvest, process and store seeds. How to grow, harvest and preserve healthy, nutritious food as well as  culinary and medicinal herbs. This will include where, when and how to prepare a garden bed. How to make compost and care for it. Creating and using compost tea inexpensively. How to start plants from cuttings.How to plant seeds in trays and pots as well as direct planting in ground. How to transplant seedlings from pots to the garden. How to care for the plants once they are in the ground. General care of the garden throughout the spring, summer and winter months. How to harvest and preserve food and medicinal plants for later uses. Since we also teach people how to use medicinal herbs we will discuss uses of some of these herbs while involved in activities in the herb garden. Expect to study hard, work hard and learn more than you can imagine! (Details are listed by month below.)

Where you will learn: Wise Acres Farm – A farm in Pleasant Hill Oregon, devoted to teaching planetary citizens to be more self sufficient in a sustainable manner. It is 18 minutes from South Eugene and 25 minutes from North Eugene. Classes are largely taught by Sharol Tilgner.

Investment to learn: $425 - $525 (See discount schedule immediately below.) sliding scale fee includes a whole spring to fall of class time, hands-on time in food and medicinal herb garden,  preserving of vegetables and herbs as well as tasting and getting to take extra herb, fruit and veg home. You will also get to take home any extra veggie and herb starts. When we weed we dig up lots of valuable plants that you can take home with you. This includes vegetable babies, herb babies and berry canes.

Discounts: Receive a 15% discount if you register two months in advance. Receive a 10% discount if you register one month in advance. Refunds available up until two weeks prior to the class starting. There is a 20% surcharge on all refunds up until one month prior to the class when it changes to a 25% surcharge on all refunds.

Registration: To print out a registration form, click here: The Living Garden Registration Form

When you will learn: Specific scheduled Sundays as listed below. Additional dates will be decided on a weekly basis for hands-on activities in the food and herb gardens. Each week dates and a schedule of activities will be emailed or called in to you. (If you don't have email.) The dates will depend largely on mother nature and the weather as well as a variety of other farm factors. No matter the weather we will meet on the specified Sundays. Only the additional dates will change each week. Although we suggest ou start this class in January, it is possible to join the class at any time. By coming to many of the unscheduled weekly dates you can make up some of the information lost to you.

The scheduled Sunday dates (One Sat date was necessary but can be changed by the class on the first meeting date.) are below.

January 10th, 17th
February 28th
March 7th, 21st
April 4th, 18th
May 9th, 23rd
June 6th, 13th
July 3rd (Can change to earlier date if you wish)
August (Harvest time and will need to decide as harvest happens. A very busy time for us all!)
September (Harvest time and will need to decide as harvest happens. A very busy time for us all!)
October – Grape harvesting and wine making – Again dates depend on when harvest needs to be done so will need to be decided later.

We will have a harvest potluck in August or September, the date and time to be decided by the class. Families welcome. Harvest time will include making jam, drying of fruit and freezing of veggies as well as veggie fermentation and grape fermentation.
On regularly scheduled days we will meet at 9:00 AM each day and the class will break around 12:30 for lunch. Bring a sack lunch. Tea or other beverages will be provided. The class will end at 4:00 PM. Some days we may end earlier or go a bit late, but we will try to stick to the schedule. We will try to maintain the schedule dates and with the use of the greenhouse and being able to do things in the greenhouse environment, it will help us stay on schedule.
Regarding the weekly schedule that will be sent to you by email, you decide when you want to join us at the farm for our scheduled activities. We will offer many of them. If you can't make one you can come to another.

Due to mother nature dictating when we plant and transplant etc. we may not always be able to use scheduled days for hands-on experience with seeding, transplanting, thinning, weeding etc. However, since we will have additional days available for people to join us, you should be able to get hands-on experience at everything if you make it a priority.

We will meet at the first of the year to discuss general gardening techniques and go through seed catalogs and learn how to make decisions on the best seeds to order for your needs. You will go home with knowledge on how and where to order seeds and make plans for where those seeds will be planted and grow into your future vegetables and medicinal herbs. After this first class all other classes will be a mix of verbal instruction/lecture and hands-on experience. There will also be specific additional days available that students can come join in the daily activities and learn first hand with the Wise Acres folks in the food or medicinal herb garden or orchard/vineyard to learn more about recognizing the various weeds and plants and how to grow the desirable plants into nutritious and health promoting vegetables and herbs.

Each week in March - October you will be sent an email telling you what days special events are taking place at the farm. Please tell us days and times of the day you are available and we will try our best to include those days and times. Realize we have to work around mother nature which is largely the weather as well as the dates when plants are simply ready for us to complete a particular activity.

General activities:
The Soil: Soil, composting, compost tea, biodynamic preps.
Preparing the Garden areas: What you need to do to have your garden beds ready to go. Consideration of crop rotation, cover crops, or beds lying fallow.
Planting your seeds: When to plant the different seeds and how to plant them in trays for transplanting. Will discuss direct seed planting and plant seeds in the garden.Taking care of your planted seeds.
Potting up: Moving seedlings into larger pots.
Transplanting vegetables into the garden & Direct Seeding: We will transplant plants and direct seed outside. Discuss care of the newly transplanted and seeded garden.
Caring for your garden through the spring: Hands-on caring for the transplants and seedlings coming up. Thinning, transplanting seeds as needed, weeding. feeding. watering methods, pest control and beneficial insects.
Caring for your garden through the summer: Timing of replanting of direct seed crops, methods to keep weeds down, preventing sunburn and dehydration of plants. Thinking about cover crops for fall and winter time. An introduction to seed collection and collection of seeds throughtout summer/fall.
Caring for your garden through the fall and winter: Fall plantings, plants that do well in the fall or will winter over, extending the season with use of cloches, cover crops, seed collecting, greenhouse growing, planning for next year.

Specific topics and activites that will be covered are listed below:Not all topics are listed, and mother nature will dictate changes in the schedule, but it gives you a rough idea of what will take place.

January 10th: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Planning your garden: Considerations for the location of your garden. Size of garden and other specifics. How to get the soil ready to go. When to plant seeds and put transplants out. Bring questions about your specific site to class. Bring photos of possible sites. The photos should include surrounding bushes, trees and buildings as well as the actual area you will be planting in.
Plant & or Seed selection: Seed and plant company selection and consideration of collecting own seeds in future. Ordering of seeds. Organizing and preserving seeds you purchase or grow.
Sow indoors: Direct sow in greenhouse ground or trays for later transplantation.
broccoli raab and artichoke
lettuce, arugula, swiss chard, endive (frisee), pac choi

January 17th: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Continue discussion on creating beds and seed sowing. Discuss greenhouses and how they can be used and options for building them.
Sow Indoors/Greenhouse:
Beet family: beets
Carrot family: carrots
Mustard family: radish
Onion family: Leeks/onions, chives
Pea family: for greenhouse growing – shelling peas, snow peas, snap peas

February 28th: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Collection of herb roots
Sow Indoors/Greenhouse:
Aster family: lettuce, endive:frisee
Beet family: spinach, swiss chard
Carrot family: celery, celeric finnochio, parsley
Mustard family: arugula, radishes
Pea family: snow peas, shelling peas, snap peas
Pea family: shelling peas, snap peas, fenugreek
Solanacaea or Nightshade family: tomatoes, sweet peppers, hot peppers, eggplants.

General March Activities you may be involved with at scheduled times or additional dates:
Food and herb garden, orchard activities
Care of trees and berries – organic sprays – compost tea
Transplanting of leeks, onions
Planting of new trees
Cleaning pond
Tools of the trade - what to use and how to use them
Poplar bud picking
Biodynamic sprays and compost sprays as needed
Last chance to dig up any roots needed for tea or other preps
Clean out bird boxes if not already cleaned
Fly catcher set up
Set up hops and trellis
Planting of many seeds in trays
Spread minerals/Kelp in field and in garden/orchard if not done earlier
Barn Cleaning and compost making
Add any new bed edgings, new beds, lay pathways
Set up new irrigation if not already up
Have codling traps ready to go
Make new mason bee blocks if needed
Care for bees
New vines planted
Slug control
Set up pea supports
Look for tent caterpillars

March 7th 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Sow Outdoors:
Beet Family: spinach, swiss chard
Carrot family chervil, fennel
Flax family:  flax
Mustard family: arugula, radishes
Pea family: snow peas, shelling peas, snap peas

Sow Indoors: 
Mint family: summer savory
Mustard family: radishes, bok choi or joi choi, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kohlrabi, kale
Pea family: shelling peas, snap peas, fenugreek
Flowers: Zinnias and Chinese asters

March 21st 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Sow Outdoors:
Nightshade:  potatoes in ground now or April
Hardy annual flowers can be sown outside now such as alyssum, calendula, California poppy, forget-me-nots, sweet peas.
Sow Indoors: Any items from early in month not sown

General April Activities you may be involved with at scheduled times or additional dates:
Greenhouse activities
Weeding in herb beds and garden as well as orchard, berries (You learn to identify plants and you get to take many extra plant babies home!)
Creek clean up (If you wish to be involved in this care of the creek area.)
Care of trees – organic/biodynamic sprays – compost tea
Planting of seeds in trays and garden
Transplanting
Barn cleaning and compost making
Garden bed activities
Collect nettles for beer, tea, food
Rototilling if needed anywhere
Slug control
Repot seedlings into 4 inch pots
Weeding party
Label herb Signs
Lay down fabric mulch
Check out timing of ashing of insects
Cleaning pond
Weed whacking
Ant control
Apple maggot traps out at petal fall if needed (Flies black and white striped with white spot on back.)

April 4th 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
This is Easter and we can reschedule for the following Sunday. (We will discuss it in class.)
Aster family: lettuce, put summer savory out
Beet family: beets, orach, spinach, swiss chard, quinoa
Carrot caraway, carrots, chervil, cilantro, dill, fennel, parsnip, parsley
Mint family: basil
Mustard family: radishes, bok choi or joi choi, broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi
Onion family: Set onion family plants out which were started in greenhouse
Squash family: Usually end of April but will try to get it sown in pots to be transplanted out this day as it is a good day astrologically and the only Sunday we could do it. Cucumbers, melons, summer and winter squash varieties

April 18th: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Mustard family: cabbage,
Pea family scarlet runner beans

General May Activities you may be involved with at scheduled times or additional dates:
Greenhouse activties
Bathing goats and clipping hoofs (If you wish to be involved with the animals.)
Weeding in herb beds and garden as well as orchard, berries
Creek clean up
Care of trees – organic sprays – compost tea
Planting of some seeds in garden
Transplanting
Barn cleaning and compost making
Pick valerian flowers for biodynamic prep
Apply biodynamic compost preps when appropriate
Biodynamic sprays and compost sprays as needed
Set up bean/pea supports
Cleaning pond
Ashing of insects if needed
Thin fruit on trees
All irrigation working to garden, orchard and herb beds
Collect calendula flowers, rose petals, plantain leaves, comfrey leaves
Make calendula succus
Beneficial nematodes in garden if needed
Coddling moth traps out
Put out yellow sticky paper for cuke beetles if necessary
Food collection

May 9th: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Sow Outdoors
Aster family: lettuce, burdock, Mexican sunflower, sunflower
Beet family: beets, orach, new Zealand spinach, swiss chard, quinoa
Carrot family: caraway, carrots, cilantro, dill, fennel, parsnip
Grass family: corn
Mint family: summer savory, perilla
Mustard family: radishes, bok choi or joi choi, broccoli, cabbage
Pea family: beans - fresh eating and shelling

May 23rd: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Any seeds still needing to be sown and see above May general activties.

General June Activities you may be involved with at scheduled times or additional dates:
Greenhouse activities
Weeding in herb beds and garden as well as orchard, berries
Biodynamic sprays and compost sprays as needed
Planting of some seeds in garden
Barn cleaning and compost making
Cleaning pond
Make herbal oil for salve
Make hypericum oil, beer, tincture as needed
Make root beer & ginger ale for NW Herb Fest as needed
Seed collecting as needed
Food collection as needed
Garlic harvest/braiding if soft neck
Collect flowers and leaves etc as needed

June 6th 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Aster family: lettuce
Carrot family:  cilantro, dill
Onion family: green onion
Pea family: beans
Squash family: cucumber, summer squash

June 13th 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Beet family: beets, swiss chard
Carrot family: carrot, finnochio
Onion family: green onion
Mustard family: brussel sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, turnips, kale (sow now or first 1/2 of July for winter veggies)

General July Activities you may be involved with at scheduled times or additional dates:
July is a slower time for the garden care and the farm's focus in on the NW Herb Fest.  We will do little except preparing for the herb fest this month. We have only one scheduled date and there will be few added dates for hands-on activities until August. May make blueberry jam and if so, will invite you to join us. May also make it in August.

July 3rd (Saturday) to miss July 4th we can alter this day if you wish. 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
July is time for fall and winter veggie planting
Aster family: lettuce, frisee
Beet family: beets, spinach, swiss chard
Carrot family: carrots, finnochio, parsley
Mustard family: radishes, bok choi or joi choi, broccoli, brussel sprouts
Onion family: green onion
Pea family: snow peas, snap peas, some bush peas

General August Activities you may be involved with at scheduled times or additional dates:
Greenhouse activities
Weeding in herb beds and garden
Barn cleaning and compost making
Cleaning pond
Seed collecting as needed
Making jam, preserving foods (freezing, canning, drying)
Food collection
Wine making with berries as available
Fermentation of veggies
Apple cider, Pear cider some years
Collect flowers and leaves etc as needed
Harvest hops
Harvest blackberries and elderberries now-Sept for wine etc.
Huckleberry collection

August classes
August is time for harvesting as is the month of September. In these two months, you will receive a weekly email telling you of things that will be harvested, when and what type of preparations will be taking place. There will be many chances to learn. The class will also decide on a day to have a harvest potluck in August or September. We will share the bounty from our gardens with each other and our friends and families.

General September Activities you may be involved with at scheduled times or additional dates:
Greenhouse activities
Weeding in herb beds and garden
Barn cleaning and compost making
Seed collecting as needed
Making jam, preserving foods (freezing, canning, drying)
Food collection
Collecting hazelnuts
Plant garlic toward end of month or Oct
Fermentation of veggies
Gardeners Potluck at the farm: Bring your family!

September classes
September is time for harvesting. You will receive a weekly email telling you of things that will be harvested, when and what type of preparations will be taking place. There will be many chances to learn.

October
In October the last learning experience will be the grape harvest and processing. This date will be announced also.

Lodging:
Camping on the farm: $15/night per each person.
Private cabin with a single bed and loft bed available for $35 per night for three or more nights or $45 per night for one night. Includes use of outdoor kitchen and bathroom with hot shower.
Motel 15 minutes away
Many motels/hotels 20 minutes away - click here for details

Fee: The whole summer of learning $425 - $525 sliding scale fee.  Includes class time, hands-on time in food and medicinal herb garden,  preserving of vegetables and herbs as well as tasting and getting to take extra herb, fruit and veg home. You will also get to take home any extra veggie and herb starts. When we weed we dig up lots of valuable plants that you can take home with you. This includes vegetable babies, herb babies and berry canes.

Discounts: Receive a 15% discount if you register two months in advance. Receive a 10% discount if you register one month in advance. Refunds available up until two weeks prior to the class starting. There is a 20% surcharge on all refunds up until one month prior to the class when it changes to a 25% surcharge on all refunds.

Registration: To print out a registration form, click here: The Living Garden Registration Form

We encourage you to purchase herbs through Mountain Rose Herbs: They of course have unsurpassed quality. In addition for every time you access their website through the web banner links on this website, they will donate 15% of anything you purchase while at their website to Wise Acres Farm in support of our educational classes.

February Classes
Continuation of The Living Garden - You can still can enroll in this class without missed much.(If there is room.)

Herbs A-Z : Learn your Herbal ABC's   •   For A PDF For a registration form, click here "Herbs A-Z"

Details: You will receive verbal and written information on identification of specific herbs, harvesting techniques and forms to best use the herb. The class will emphasize how to use these healing plants as agents to keep yourself, your family and your pets healthy. You will also learn how each herb is used for specific health conditions. The action of the herb on the mind and body will be discussed as well as correct forms to use such as teas, tinctures, poultices, etc. You will learn correct dosages for each herb. Contraindications for some herbs will also be discussed. The classes will be taught by classifications of herbal properties and actions. The list of herbal properties and actions are listed in the class schedule below. In each classification the most important herbs of that classification will be studied. Every class will include sampling of many of the herbs we are discussing. This allows you to experience the herbs first hand and get better acquainted with them. A book of extensive notes will be given to each participant. All participants who finish the course will receive a certificate of attendance.

February 7th - April 25th: Six Sundays as listed below

Day one starts with an introduction to the course: What to expect from future classes, suggested texts, where to get reliable herbal information in books, periodicals, newsletters, internet, where to get reliable tools and supplies that a herbalist needs. Bring questions and be ready to tell Sharol what you hope to learn from this class. We will begin studying the digestive herbs first and proceed through the list below.

You will learn intimate details about more than 100 herbs based on the following categories. Many of the terms below will be new to you. After the class you will know what all of them mean and know many herbs that fit into each category and what makes each herb unique.

• Digestive Herbs: Nutritives, Bitters, Carminatives, Laxatives, & Stool-forming herbs, Vermifuges, Antihelmintics, Astringents, Vulneraries, Mucilaginous Herbs, Antiinflammatories

• Liver & Gall Bladder Herbs: Cholagogues, Choleretics, Liver Protectants & Stimulants

• Immune System Herbs: Immunomodulators, Antimicrobials, Antiseptics, Antifungals, Antivirals, Antiprotazoals, Antitumor, Lymphagogues

• Respiratory Tract Herbs: Diaphoretics, Expectorants, Bronchodilators, Anticatarrhals

• Reproductive Herbs: Emmenagogues, Abortifacients, Parturients, Galactagogues, Aphrodesiacs, Uterine Tonics, Prostate Tonics, Sexual Potency Effectors

• Cardiovascular Herbs: Heart Tonics, Vascular Tonics, Hypotensives, Vasoconstrictors, Vasodilators, Hemostatics/Styptics

• Nervines: Nerve Tonics, Relaxants, Stimulants, Hypnotics, Analgesics, Antidepressants

• Musculoskeletal System: Antiarthritics, Rubefacients, Antispasmodics, Antiinflammatories

• Endocrine System: Blood Sugar Effectors, Thyroid Effectors, Adrenomodulators, Reproductive Hormone Modulators.

• Urinary tract System: Diuretics, Antilithics, Urinary Tract Tonic

When is Herbs A-Z (Part II of Herbal ABC's): Six Sundays in late winter/early spring 2010 - February 7th, 21st, March 14th, 28th, April 11th, 25th. The class is from 9:30AM - 5:00 PM. We provide drinks. You provide a sack lunch. Usually we have cheese available with the drinks.

What is the Cost of Herbs A-Z: 6 Sunday classes $375-$425 sliding scale fee

Discounts: Receive a 15% discount if you register two months in advance. Receive a 10% discount if you register one month in advance. Refunds available up until two weeks prior to the class starting. There is a 20% surcharge on all refunds up until three weeks prior to the class when it changes to a 25% surcharge on all refunds.

Lodging:
Camping on the farm: $15/night per each person.
Private cabin with a single bed and loft bed avaialble for $35 per night for three or more nights or $45 per night for one night. Includes use of outdoor kitchen and bathroom with hot shower.
Motel 15 minutes away
Many motels/hotels 20 minutes away - click here for details

Registration: To print out a registration form, click here "Herbs A-Z ( Herbal ABC's Part II)"

March Classes
Continuation of The Living Garden - You can still can enroll in this class without missed much.(If there is room.)
Continuation of Herbs A-Z

April Classes
Continuation of The Living Garden - You can still can enroll in this class although you will have missed a bit of time. Call to discuss.(If there is room.)
Continuation of Herbs A-Z

May Classes

Continuation of The Living Garden - You can still can enroll in this class although you will have missed a bit of time. Call to discuss.(If there is room.)

Herb Garden Work Party & Herb Exchange (This will be a part of the Living Garden class this year. If you are an advanced gardener you may still be able to join for the day, email us.)

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Come meet other herbal enthusiasts. Weed out herbs that are too thick and take herbs home to grow. There are always a wide variety of herbs to weed out. A few examples of what may be weeded are Valerian, Fennel, Motherwort, Skullcap, Peppermint, Strawberry, Lilac, Vervain, Datura, Red clover, Yarrow, Calendula, Saint John's wort, Elecampane, Arnica. You will need gloves. If you have a favorite digging tool, please bring it. We can provide tools for some people also. If you are planning to take herbs home with you, please bring soil and pots. The soil in the garden needs to stay there. Bring a sack lunch if you want to join the rest of the group for a leisurely lunch. This event will be cancelled if the weather is bad. A few rain drops won't stop us but continual rain and/or a windy day will. (Due to some problems with well meaning amateur gardeners in the past, we can not accept novice gardeners unless they bring a well seasoned gardener with them. Additionally, we had to turn individuals away last year as we had too many people show up. Please email class@herbaltransitions.com or call to reserve a space. It is OK to show up last minute if you are OK with the possibility of being turned away if we reach capacity.)

June Classes

Continuation of The Living Garden

July Classes

Continuation of The Living Garden

In July we have a two day herb conference/festival. Please join us at this fun and educational event. Click below for more details.

NW Herb Fest 2010      July 24th, 25th, 2010 - not on web yet - coming soon - you still see last years data

August Classes

Continuation of The Living Garden

September Classes

Continuation of The Living Garden

October Classes

Continuation of The Living Garden

November Classes

No classes scheduled this month, at this time.

December Classes

No classes scheduled this month, at this time.

We encourage you to purchase herbs through Mountain Rose Herbs: They of course have unsurpassed quality. In addition for every time you access their website through the web banner links on this website, they will donate 15% of anything you purchase while at their website to Wise Acres Farm in support of our educational classes.

Classes For Intermediate and Advanced Students

Intensive On Sunday Night July 25th, 2010 after the symposium: Not listed yet - soon - can still see lasts years

Click here to go to the NW Herb Fest where you will find many intermediaate and advanced classes: NW Herb Fest 2010

Herbs A-Z - Learn Your Herbs From A - Z   • For A PDF For a registration form, click here "Herbs A-Z"

For Details: Click Here

Herbs By Body Systems - Module I - Not available this year. Send an email that you are interested in this class in the future and you will be notified when it becomes availble. class@herbaltransitions.com



Apprenticeships

2010 Apprenticeships Available as the Living Garden series. Click here to get details: The Living Garden

We are taking day aprentices in 2010 under the program called The Living Garden. We do not have the usual live in "Get Down & Dirty Apprenticeship" we have offered in the past. (If you want to be here for the summer, see our rental cabin option below. Click here) We are taking local people this year that wish to spend time on the farm learning to grow food and herbs. If people have an interest in small animals we may also incorporate animal care into our day. Expect to learn a lot and work hard. If you want to learn how to garden, preserve food and herbs, connect wtih the earth, are thinking of farming as a way of life, and have a specific interest in growing and using herbs, this is a great experience. You will learn more than you can imagine. We are small scale with a wide variety of food and herbs. See details at The Living Garden.

Apprentices making soap during the "Get Down & Dirty Apprenticeship"

Miscellaneous:
We are open to both conventional and alternative beliefs and lifestyles, however we do expect apprentices to abide by the rules of the farm.

Rules: There are not many but the ones that exist must be adhered to.
No cigarettes or smoking tobacco anywhere on the farm(I can’t stand them, sorry). I get ill around them and can not even stand to be near people who have smoke on their clothing. No drugs (due to legality). Please be respectful of others.

Call if you have questions. 541-736-0164 email class@herbaltransitions.com

Address: Wise Acres LLC, 84537 Proden Lane, Pleasant Hill, Oregon, 97455.

Cabin Rental or Trade - We have a cabin with a bed and a loft sleeping area, dresser and table. In addition there is a covered outdoor kitchen and bathroom with hot shower available. The rental fee is $150 per week, $275 for two weeks and $450 for the month. For people who wish to live on the farm for the summer we are open to making a trade of helping us in return for staying at the farm. You must have extensive gardening skills but do not need to have any experience with herbs to make this trade.

The cabin is available from April 1st to October 1st. It is situated in the middle of beautiful gardens on Wise Acres Farm.

Call if you have questions. 541-736-0164 email class@herbaltransitions.com

Address: Wise Acres LLC, 84537 Proden Lane, Pleasant Hill, Oregon, 97455.

There are no Intensives scheduled for 2010 as we are focusing on our Living Garden series.

Herbal Intensives: These intensives are very full of learning. You can contact us to be on a special email list if interested. class@herbaltransitions.com You will be notified of the dates. Generally subjects in the intensives will involve lecture time as well as hands-on learning experiences such as making soap, cheese, tinctures, salves, suppositories, hand cream and lotions, elixirs, beer, wine, capsules, lozenges and other self sufficiency/self health care items. If you have an interest in gardening techniques, that may become a part of the scheule. Outdoor activity is set up around the lecture theme. Call if you have questions. 541-736-0164 or email class@herbaltransitions.com

During intensives you will learn about cultivation of herbs, which parts of a herb is used medicinally, harvesting techniques, drying techniques, preparing the herb as a vehicle for consumption and how to use herbs medicinally. Herb walks will equate the information in the lectures with the actual plants. Please email requests for specific class information you wish to be included in future intensives. During the intensives you will be involved in making herbal preparations. The preparations we make will be decided by which plants are available, student requests and time available. If making a preparation such as a tincture or an oil we will not be able to finish it as these things take many weeks to process. However, we may start a new tincture or oil and may be able to finish a tincture or oil being made from a prior class. There will be herb walks in the garden, wild areas of the property or an outing to another location. Fees for intensives cover the class, all handouts and samples you will take home or consume during the class. It also covers the use of the kitchen, and availability of hot showers. Meals are provided at extra cost.

Special Intensives

Intensive On Sunday Night July 25th,after the NW Herb Fest: go to NW Herb Fest

How To Register

Special reigistration details for the The Living Garden, Herbal ABC's, NW Herb Fest and other special classes can be found in the area of this web site where those classes have been explained in deatil. Please go to the top of this page and click on the appropriate class name. You will find a link to a printable registration form for each class.

Where to send registration: Send the registration form with a check or money order (in U.S. funds) out to “Wise Acres LLC.” Mail it to Wise Acres, 84537 Proden Lane, Pleasant Hill, Oregon 97455. We do not accept credit cards. Refunds minus a processing fee are available as stated on the registration form. If we have reached our class limit, your check will be returned. Wise Acres is 18 minutes south of downtown Eugene at 84537 Proden Lane in Pleasant Hill.

Directions:
From Eugene take I-5 to highway 58 (188 A) towards Oakridge and Pleasant Hill - go past the Pleasant Hill School
Immediately after milepost 7 turn left on Hilltop Drive (there is a green sign on the highway for Hilltop)
Go to the end of Hilltop Drive and turn right on Wheeler Road
Go .4 mile and turn left on Proden Lane.
Turn into the first driveway on your right. (You will see a mailbox with the address on the left side of the road.) There are two lavender houses. Classes are at the larger one.

From Southern Oregon, take the Creswell exit (182). Go right towards highway 58 on Cloverdale Road. Go all the way to the end of Cloverdale and turn right onto 58. Go through Pleasant Hill. Immediately after milepost 7 turn left on Hilltop Drive (there is a green sign on the highway for Hilltop)
Go to the end of Hilltop Drive and turn right on Wheeler Road
Go .4 mile and turn left on Proden Lane
Turn into the first driveway on your right. (You will see a mailbox with the address on the left side of the road.) There are two lavender houses. Classes are at the larger one.

If you have questions, email  class@herbaltransitions.com