5-session live online herbal apothecary course with sarah vezzani

Grow and prepare your own herbal apothecary

$497 
Did you know that the average household in the United States spends $4,571/year on prescriptions?*

Protect your and your family's precious health, potentially saving thousands of dollars in drug costs each year!**


Learn Sarah Vezzani's step-by-step system for growing and preparing herbs that support her family's health and wellness, while providing a cottage industry, selling herbal products. 
If you don't have time and money to waste on being sick, and love wellness straight from Mother Earth, this course is for you!

BONUS for EXIT AND BUILD: Purchase by Sunday, May 24, 2025 at midnight, EST and participate in a special, live, online class on June 7 at 10 AM EST with Sarah, A Toast to Your health with Fire Cider, how to make a tried-and-true, delicious formula for preventing illness, and boosting immunity and healing.

In five live, online sessions beginning June 21, 2025 Sarah Vezzani teaches you how to grow, harvest, and keep key herbal preparations essential to health and well-being. Each live session will include an herbal walk video with Q and A afterwards, live presentation of herbal uses and preparation methods, detailed notes and references + the PowerPoint slides. 

*See https://www.valuepenguin.com/pharmaceutical-spending-study
**Students agree they are responsible for their own health decisions. Parallel Times, LLC and its affiliates do not diagnose or treat medical conditions.

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Five 1.5-hour sessions + supplementary materials cover everything you need to know to grow and keep an herbal apothecary. Take this class from anywhere in the world! See details below.

You will have the materials to use for up to three years.

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Five online sessions with recordings

Join from anywhere, Saturdays, 10 AM EST starting June with recordings available ongoingly. Schedule below. $5,000 value

Recordings of herb walks for you to keep

Sarah will share five herb walks in her garden, sharing herb uses and harvesting techniques. Refer to these over and over! They are golden. $3,750 value

Expert answers to your questions + peer advice

For this live course only during the summer of 2025 Sarah will review your specific questions
to tailor answers and respond in the group chat. Limited time offer! $3000 value

PowerPoint of the slides

Get the presentation slides for each session to refer back to into the future.
$2000 value 

Detailed handouts

Detailed handouts are provided for every session. Refer back to them over and over! $1,250 value

50% discount on optional private session

Want a virtual, private garden consultation with Sarah? Course includes a 50% discount coupon if you want to purchase a one-hour consultation separately for $125 (regular cost is $250.)
$125 value
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Meet the instructor

Sarah Vezzani

Sarah Vezzani is the owner, with her husband Mike, of Herbal Embrace, a business arm of Vezzani Agricultural Ventures, LLC. They are both trained in permaculture design principles. Her herbal teas and products have a signature feeling when you use them - you can taste and feel an indescribable something that is very special.

In their adult lives, health issues popped up for Sarah and Mike that they couldn't find answers to in the conventional healthcare system. They did their own research and made a lot of changes to nutrition, products they were using, and what they were including in their environments. Sarah discovered she is sensitive to chemicals and fragrances, such that just walking through a store can give her a migraine. This was a problem when she was working as a chemical engineer for a consumer products company that had fragrances everywhere.

The Vezzanis had been feeling a growing call to live a more natural life, connected with the natural world, and to raise their family rooted in natural principles. Eventually they started making their own home and body care products. They secured a 2-acre homestead and began building a house and garden where they now live fulltime. They ultimately left their corporate jobs and started an herbal products company and Sarah completed training at Dr. Christopher's School of Natural Healing in Springville, Utah with a Masters in Herbology. 

Sarah and Mike named their farmstead A Place to Come in reference to Wendell Berry's writings on how the family farm has become a place to leave rather than a place to come. They seek to reverse this in their family's life and make their home a symbol of the "Hope that is within us." (1 Peter 3:15). They believe that nature connects each of us to God, and that by working the soil on the land, we do God's work (with a lot of spiritual refining along the way!)


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Everything you need to grow and keep your herbal apothecary!

Sarah Vezzani can help you save years of study and struggle learning how to grow and keep herbal preparations for your health and wellness.

Each session includes demonstration of two methods for harvesting and keeping herbs including: drying, teas, tinctures, salves, poultices, syrups, concentrates, and fomentations, plus additional methodologies.

All 1.5-hour sessions are Saturday mornings at 10 AM EST (9 AM CST/8 AM MST, 7 AM PST). This course includes the following sessions:
  • Session one, Late-spring herbs, June 21, 2025 - planting methods including starting seedlings and direct seeding, tour of spring herbs and their actions.
  • Session twoMid-summer herbs, July 12, 2025, herbs to harvest in mid summer including harvesting techniques and herbal uses.
  • Session three - Late-summer herbs, August 16, 2025, herbs to harvest in late summer including harvesting techniques and herbal uses.
  • Session four - Wild crafting, September 27, 2025, how to appropriately and respectfully harvest wild herbs, and how to learn what wild herbs are available in your area.

  • Session five - Final harvest and seed saving + your winter herb garden, October 11, 2025, Reaping your final summer herb harvest, preparing seeds to keep, and planning for a winter herb garden.

Let's grow herbs...

...and prepare them to keep
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