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Welcome!

VCIH is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing our community with healthcare resources grounded in Nature. We offer free and sliding-scale herbal consultations through our community clinic, as well as affordable classes that empower individuals to take care of themselves and their families, whenever appropriate. We also provide comprehensive herbalist training programs, which include clinical experience gained through collaborative practice in the community clinic.

Our ability to provide free and low-cost services is supported by the tuition from our training programs and by contributions of time and resources from local practitioners, herb growers and product makers. To foster a self-sustaining model of community service, we also invite those we serve to help us continue our work—and gain new skills—by participating in the ongoing maintenance of the clinic, through such activities as making remedies and growing herbs for donation.

Our mission is to:

• educate and empower individuals to use traditional remedies as viable options in caring for themselves and their families;
• emphasize partnership with a clinical herbalist or other practitioner as an important adjunct to self-care;
• provide high-quality education for aspiring family and clinical herbalists;
• offer financially accessible health consultations to the community, creating an opportunity for collaborative practice among experienced herbalists, as well as a forum for education of clinical students;
• integrate and collaborate with other modalities and advance the role of the herbalist as an integral part of an effective healthcare model;
• renew deep connection with nature, encouraging a culture of ecological awareness, respect and interrelationship.

We do not discriminate in accepting students to our school, or clients to our clinic. Please click here to read our non-discrimination policy.

We are members of United Plant Savers (Partner in Education), and a school officially registered with the American Herbalists Guild.

News:

Healing Gardens: Medicinal Herb Garden Tours and High Tea
The Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism (VCIH) is hosting a fundraiser to support its herbal clinic, herbalist training program, and community classes. Please join us on July 12th and August 16th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to tour three of Central Vermont’s premiere medicinal herb gardens. For $30 ($25 for VCIH members), visitors will delve into these unique gardens, learn from the gardeners who created them, and enjoy high tea. To purchase tickets, call 802-224-7100 or email info@vtherbcenter.org.
Spend the day exploring the gardens of: Guido Masé, owner of Grian Herbs and co-director of VCIH; Amy Goodman-Kiefer, Master Gardener and plant spirit medicine healer; Joann Darling, owner of the Gardens of the Seven Gables.
- Tour three of Central Vermont's premiere herb gardens
- Connect with plants, from common perennials to rare species
- Learn by attending in-depth workshops with resident herbalists
- Enjoy high tea in an idyllic flowering setting

Community Class Calendar is coming for Summer 2009

Spots available for summer / fall classes!
Two positions are available to join some of our first year classes, such as Medicinal Landscapes; Observation, Intuition and Intention; the garden Apprenticeship; Holistic Physiology; and more! Prices are $12 per contact hour for non-members, and $10 per contact hour for members. Click here for a full class listing. Sign up soon if interested! (802) 224-7100

Welcome 2009 Students!
First-year herbalists begin January 21 at 9am, 3-hour orientation from 9am to 12pm.
Second-year herbalists begin January 22nd at 10am for a 3-hour orientation and classes to follow.
Third-year clinical interns begin January 20 at 9am, 3 hour orientation from 9am to 12pm.

Entire student body meets Wednesday evening, January 21st from 6pm to 8pm for desserts and socializing.

Reading and Materials list for next year's classes available. Click here.

3-Year Clinical Herbalist training program 
Our curriculum begins with basic, grounded work with key medicinal plants, and progresses into advanced herbal studies and supervised clinical work. Click here for more information. Click here to apply.