Timeless Herbal Teachings for Resilience, Care & Community
A self-paced herbal learning library with 20+ hours of video teachings, practical recipes, community care tools, and a 110+ page Action Kit to help you bring plant wisdom into everyday life.
Gather around the virtual kitchen table with Rosemary Gladstar and a circle of beloved herbalists, clinicians, community organizers, and plant people for a self-paced learning library devoted to practical herbal care, home resilience, community healing, and hope in changing times.
Originally offered as a live 3-day gathering, Plants for the People is now available as an evergreen video library with a 110+ page Action Kit to help you put the teachings into practice.
Inside Plants for the People, you’ll receive:
✨ The Complete Video Teaching Library
20+ hours of herbal teachings, conversations, and Q&As with Rosemary Gladstar and 20+ respected herbalists.
✨ The 110+ Page Plants for the People Action Kit
Hands-on herbal recipes, printable guides, frameworks, reflection prompts, and community care tools.
✨ Lifetime Access
Watch at your own pace and return whenever you need guidance, encouragement, or practical support.
✨ Downloadable Transcripts and Materials
Study, revisit, and reference the teachings in the way that works best for you.
Herbal wisdom for uncertain times
In times of change, many of us are asking how to care for ourselves, our families, our communities, and the living world around us.
Plants for the People was created as a gathering place for that question.
These teachings bring together practical herbal skills, elder wisdom, community care models, kitchen medicine, ceremony, and plant relationship as living practices you can bring into your home and community.
Whether you are building your first home apothecary, deepening your herbal path, tending grief and overwhelm, or dreaming of more resilient ways to care for one another, this collection offers guidance you can return to again and again.
What you'll learn and practice
Inside this learning library, you’ll explore how to:
- Build a practical home apothecary for everyday resilience
- Use herbs for immune support, respiratory care, stress, grief, and family wellness
- Prepare for everyday first aid and moments of crisis
- Bring more ceremony, beauty, and intention into your herbal practice
- Understand community herbalism, free clinics, and mutual aid models
- Deepen your relationship with common plants, kitchen herbs, and local medicine
- Care for yourself while caring for others
- Root your herbal practice in resilience, reciprocity, and hope
Bring the teachings to life with the Action Kit.
This is not just a collection of videos to watch and forget.
The Plants for the People Action Kit was created to help you bring the teachings into your kitchen, your home apothecary, your family care practices, and your wider community.
Packed with over 110 pages of hands-on herbal guidance, the Action Kit gives you the recipes, frameworks, and community care tools you need to put herbal wisdom into practice.
Inside the Action Kit, you’ll find:
- Herbal recipes and preparation guides
- Printable quick-reference sheets
- Reflection prompts and journal pages
- Community care frameworks
- Practical worksheets for bringing the teachings into daily life
- Tools for building resilience at home and in community
Together, the video library and Action Kit create a self-paced herbal learning experience you can use, revisit, and grow with over time.
Learn with Rosemary Gladstar
and a circle of beloved herbal teachers
Rosemary Gladstar
RocÃo Alarcón
Kat Maier
7song
Mary Blue
Jocelyn Boreta
Jane Bothwell
Seraphina Capranos
Sam Coffman
Rosalee de la Forêt
Rockie Gilford
Lorna Mauney-Brodek
Kami McBride
jim mcdonald
Emily Ruff
Dr. Crystal Dawn Silas
Guido Masé
Tammi Sweet
Nicole Telkes
Helen Ward
Lyani Powers
Plants for the People gathers Rosemary Gladstar with a beloved circle of herbalists, clinicians, community organizers, free clinic founders, kitchen medicine teachers, ceremonial guides, and plant people.Â
Each teacher brings their own lived wisdom and experience, offering practical tools and heartfelt guidance for tending ourselves, our families, our communities, and the Earth.
Together, their teachings remind us that herbalism is not only something we study. It is something we practice in our kitchens, gardens, clinics, neighborhoods, and daily acts of care.
Explore the Plants for the People Teaching Library
For this self-paced library, we invite you to move through the teachings by theme—following the path that feels most alive and useful to you.
Home Apothecary & Everyday Herbal Care
For those wanting practical tools for everyday home use.
Mary Blue
Immune Resilience at Home: Building Your Herbal Apothecary
Mary Blue
Q&A with Mary Blue
Jane Bothwell
Sidewalk Medicine: Identifying Common Herbs & Making Your Own Remedies
Kami McBride
Medicine from the Hearth: Herbs, Spices & the Sacred Work of Care
Kami McBride
Q&A with Kami McBride
First Aid, Immunity & Resilience
For those who want to feel more prepared in times of stress, illness, or uncertainty.
Sam Coffman
Everyday Herbal First Aid: Practical Tools for Emergencies and Resilience
jim mcdonald
Cough it Up: A Practical Guide to Herbal Respiratory Care
Rosalee de la Forêt
Herbal Immunity Q&A
Dr. Crystal Dawn Silas
Tending Your Inner Garden: Healing the Microbiome, Healing the Earth
Tammi Sweet
Wisdom from the Kitchen Table: Simple Practices for Resilience & Connection
Grief, Ceremony & Inner Healing
For tending the heart, spirit, and nervous system.Â
Rosemary Gladstar
Opening Ceremony: Lighting the Way with Joy, Hope, and Intention
Emily Ruff
When Our Heart Breaks Open: Plant Allies for Grief, Trauma, and Collective Healing
Dr. RocÃo Alarcón
The Importance of Ceremony: Connection, Ritual & Healing with Nature
Seraphina Capranos
Restoring the Inner Well: Herbs & Homeopathy for Mental and Spiritual Resilience
Seraphina Capranos
Q&A with Seraphina Capranos
Rosemary Gladstar
Closing Ceremony: Rooted in Gratitude, Rising in Action
Community Herbalism & Mutual Aid
For those interested in herbalism as service, access, and community care.
Sam Coffman, Lorna Mauney-Brodek, Kat Maier, 7song, and Jocelyn Boreta
Free Clinics in Action: Herbalists Building Community Care​
7song
Integrative Free Clinics: Herbalism, Community & Service
Lyani Powers
Botanical Support for Women & Children: Nourishing Herbs for Every Stage
Lyani Powers
Q&A with Lyani Powers
Rockie Gilford
Land, Memory, and Medicine: Restoring Community Through Plants
Jocelyn Boreta
Cuerpo Territorio: Mapping the Body as Territory of Belonging and Resilience
Plant Kinship, Ecology & Regenerative Practice
For deepening relationship with plants, land, and the living world.Â
Nicole Telkes
Green Kinship: Herbal Commons and Community Resilience
Rosemary Gladstar and Guido Masé
The Story Behind Rosy Mood: A Chat with Rosemary Gladstar and Guido Masé
Helen Ward
Cultivating Your Inner Light
Rosemary Gladstar
Weathering the Storms of Life: Simple Plant Practices for Resilience & Joy
You’ll receive access to the full Plants for the People teaching library, including classes, conversations, ceremonies, and Q&A sessions from the original gathering.
Join Plants for the People
For a limited time, receive the full Plants for the People learning library for $275 before the price increases to $350.
Included:
20+ hours of video teachings
28 classes, conversations, ceremonies, and Q&As
The 110+ page Plants for the People Action Kit
Downloadable transcripts and speaker materials
Lifetime access
Practical herbal recipes, frameworks, and community care tools
$350
$275
Price increases on August 7 at midnight ET.
Start with one free teaching
We’d love for you to experience the spirit of Plants for the People for yourself.
In this free class, Mary Blue offers practical guidance for building a home herbal apothecary and supporting immune resilience with the plants.
It’s one small doorway into the larger library—a collection of teachings created to help you bring herbal wisdom into your kitchen, your home, and your community.
Bonus video!
The Story Behind Rosy Mood: A Conversation with Rosemary Gladstar & Guido MaséA warm conversation celebrating 50 years of Traditional Medicinals, the friendships and values that shaped the company, and the story behind the creation of Rosy Mood.
Frequently Asked Questions
Was Plants for the People originally a live event?
Yes. Plants for the People was originally shared as a live 3-day online gathering. It is now available as an evergreen self-paced learning library, so you can watch the teachings at your own pace and return to them whenever you wish.
Is this a course?
Plants for the People is best understood as a self-paced herbal learning library. It includes 20+ hours of video teachings and a 110+ page Action Kit with recipes, frameworks, prompts, and community care tools. There are no assignments, live sessions, or teacher feedback.
How long will I have access?
You’ll receive lifetime access.
Is this beginner-friendly?
Yes. Many teachings are accessible to beginners, while also offering depth and inspiration for practicing herbalists, community organizers, caregivers, and plant lovers.
Are transcripts included?
Yes, transcripts are included where available.
What is the Action Kit?
The Action Kit is a 110+ page companion resource filled with hands-on herbal guidance, recipes, printable tools, reflection prompts, and community care frameworks to help you put the teachings into practice.