Forty Beloved Herbs

to Celebrate Avena’s Forty Years

A ten-month online course with herbalists Deb Soule and Lauren Valle

Begins January 6th, 2025

Listen to the Webinar audio

FREE WEBINAR

Tending our light during the dark:

A few favorite herbs for winter solstice season

With information about Forty Beloved Herbs and Q&A

Join Deb and Lauren as they share a few favorite herbs and strategies for tending our inner light as we move into the dark season and winter solstice. How do we keep our fires burning and well tended? They will also discuss how herbs, and moving with the rhythms of the season, can give us strength, courage and nourishment. At this time, the plants are powerfully supporting us to stand on solid ground and keep our lights shining in a turbulent world.

At the end of the webinar they will be sharing more information about their upcoming Forty Beloved Herbs course, as well as answering your questions! 

Avena Botanicals turns 40 years old in 2025!

Deb Soule is celebrating Avena Botanicals’ fortieth anniversary by offering this ten-month online program. Deb, accompanied by her dear friend Lauren Valle, will teach about their forty favorite herbs.

Deb is excited to bring to you the plant wisdom she has gathered from her four decades of tending Avena’s biodynamic medicinal herb sanctuary and apothecary. 

Deb brings her open heart, intuition, experience, and keen observation developed from many seasons in the garden with her hands in the soil, along with her devotion to sharing the healing gifts of plants with the world and protecting pollinators.

Lauren brings nearly twenty years of gardening and working with herbs and nine years as a practicing herbalist.

Classes will include…

—How these herbs grow in the garden, or where to responsibly find them

—Harvesting, drying and storage

—How to create preparations from these 40 herbs, or how to source them

—Materia Medica,energetics and the therapeutic qualities of the herbs

—How these herbs support us on the physical, emotional and spiritual levels

—Daily and seasonal wellness 

—Prayer, relationship and ritual

Our 40 beloved herbs

  • Avena (oats)

  • Angelica

  • Rosa Rugosa

  • Teasel

  • Eleuthero

  • Marshmallow

  • Plantain

  • Motherwort

  • Hawthorn

  • Gotu Kola

  • Blue Vervain

  • Dandelion

  • Burdock

  • Echinacea

  • Solomon’s Seal

  • Schizandra

  • Nettle

  • Lemonbalm

  • Rosemary

  • Holy basil

  • Chickweed

  • Lady’s Mantle

  • Skullcap

  • Baical Skullcap

  • Lavender

  • Elder

  • St. John’s Wort

  • Boneset

  • Calendula

  • Plantain

  • Astragalus

  • Thyme

  • Bacopa (Brahmi)

  • White Pine

  • Rhodiola

  • Black Cohosh

  • Comfrey

  • Mullien

  • Ashwagandha

  • Wood Betony

What this course offers

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    20 hour-and-a-half live Zoom classes with Deb Soule & Lauren Valle, covering 2 herbs each class.

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    Don’t worry if you can’t attend live! Audio and video recordings will be available on the course website the day following the class.

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    A handout with Materia Medica and information on the herbs for each class. Handouts will be emailed to you and available on the course website by 12 pm EST, the day of the class.

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    Three Zoom OFFICE HOURS throughout the course hosted by Deb and Lauren. Make a cup of tea, chat with us and ask questions.

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    Access to the course content online for three years. You can download the content to your own devices to keep forever.

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    Additional resources, recommended reading and regular email updates from us.

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