Putting the medicine in the hands of the people
Who are we?
The Elder Tree is a national grassroots not-for profit organisation. Our goal is to empower people through grassroots herbal education, and accessible holistic health care. We create environments where healing and learning go hand -in hand.
We are building and networking the Australian herbal medicine community. We bring together practitioners, teachers, students, medicine growers, medicine makers, community herbalists, folk herbalists and home herbalists to work together and support one another. We play our part in building a more coherent grassroots symbiotic community of people around Australia making a real difference with herbal medicine.
The Elder Tree is currently offering face-to-face herbal education through fundraising workshops and gatherings. The Elder Tree is also currently offering online herbal education opportunities through our podcast and low-cost Patreon subscription platform.
What are we doing?
The Elder Tree is in the planning phase of creating Australia’s only herbal medicine school. This will be a place where learning and healing come together. We will be creating supportive learning environments where students can learn about herbal medicine in a tactile and embodied way. The educational spaces we create will be in classrooms and on the Earth. We will bring educators from around Australia and internationally to teach many pathways of herbalism- herbal medicine growing, making, clinical herbalism, community herbalism and much more.
As we work toward this goal we have national herbal projects like The Elder Tree Podcast, which has been created to share the wisdom of various inspirational herbal lore keepers from around Australia. We run regular events showcasing members of the Far North community who are creating positive change. We also welcome in various teachers into our community who have beneficial skills to teach, supporting resiliency and community-sufficiency.
The Elder Tree school will include…
Education
The Elder Tree will have a vast array of workshops, classes, courses and retreats in herbal medicine and other holistic health care modalities. There will be internships and live-in apprenticeships offered periodically.
Medicinal Botanical Gardens
Being in a subtropical climate, we are able to grow thousands of different species of medicinal plants. There will be a well signed botanical gardens set up as well as education provided about the uses of each of the plants.
Affordable Healthcare
We will run programs to assist children and low-income earners to have access to free/affordable natural herbal medicine-based holistic healthcare options.
