5-session live course with sarah vezzani

Protect and heal your family by growing and preparing your own herbal apothecary!*

What if something like this happened in your community?

It was a few days before Christmas, 2024 and new friends up the street were having a get together for their kids and other children. We had recently moved into this tight-knit community of ranching homesteads two hours from the closest city of any size.

Suddenly our neighborhood emergency chat alarmed.

"We're having a medical situation and need adults fast to take care of the kids!"

Immediately, we and other neighbors rushed to their home from all directions.

Our friends' daughter Gracie had had her first ever seizure.

Beside themselves with worry, our friends tried not to panic. Round trip for an ambulance to get Gracie to the hospital would be five hours across the rough, dirt roads.

Would it be too late? Gracie already had medical challenges.

Taking a deep breath, our friends requested a life flight helicopter instead. The cost would be $35,000 with no guarantee of insurance coverage - but it would get Gracie to medical care as quickly as possible.

As Gracie was loaded into the helicopter, pale and dazed but now awake, I stood with my arm around her younger sister, Hazel. And as the helicopter lifted off with a rush of propellers, Hazel looked up at me and said with a tiny voice: "Gracie is my best friend. Will she be home for Christmas?"

I did my best to comfort her. But I was silently afraid, wondering what the modern medical system would throw at Gracie on the other side of the life flight journey, until her parents could arrive in their car.

A moment of truth
In moments like that, what's important can become crystal clear.

And what became crystal clear to me was that I needed a way to treat problems like this with home-grown medicine: an herbal apothecary. Not a pharmacy.

I knew there were herbal remedies for seizures. But I didn't know what they were. And, even if I did, I wouldn't have had them on hand.

Living way out in what essentially is the middle of nowhere, I needed a way to keep myself and my family healthy most of the time, without medical care. And to be able to help out with friends and neighbors when they had medical issues or emergencies.

But how would I learn to grow and prepare my own herbal apothecary remedies?
Getting back to our story
It turned out that Gracie had probably had an allergic reaction to a cold medicine she'd never taken before.

Fortunately, by the next day she was home, decorating for Christmas. We all breathed a giant sigh of relief. And her parents were able to secure insurance coverage for the life flight. So, all was well with Gracie and my friends in the end.

However, I was deeply imprinted with the need for an herbal apothecary. After decades of simply being curious to learn how to cultivate and prepare medicinal herbs, I now had a driving need to know.

I still wasn't sure how I could learn.

Perhaps you're like me you and frequently don't agree with the medical care you see in your world. Perhaps you too have become increasingly skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry as you've watched loved ones become sicker or even die as a result of treatment. Like me, maybe you'd rather avoid mainstream medical treatment and pharmaceuticals whenever possible - being grateful for that type of medical help in the situations where it's truly needed and available - and in most circumstances embrace the radical act of keeping yourself and your loved ones healthy and protected by using gifts from the earth.

But learning herbalism from experts can take years and be extremely costly.

How was I going to learn in a reasonable amount of time, without spending my life savings?
Enter Sarah Vezzani

Ultimately I met Sarah Vezzani and my prayers were answered.

Sarah is a Master Herbalist trained at Dr. Christopher's School of Natural Healing in Springville, Utah. She grows, harvests, and prepares herbal formulas from her own garden. And she happens to live in the same community I live in. Amazing and wonderful!

This summer of 2025 she's going to train me how to grow and prepare cultivated herbs, as well as wildcraft and harvest wild herbs, for an herbal Apothecary.

And you can join us, live, in this once-in-a-lifetime class, where you'll learn to grow and prepare essential herbal formulas that can, literally, save your life*
Patrick Jones - Course author
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

HERBAL TESTIMONIALS

     
HAPPY HORMONES

“I asked Sarah what I could do to manage breakouts and painful periods. She gave me nutrition advice and recommended a facial cleansing method for my skin and an herbal tea blend that would balance my hormones. They worked!”
Susan
     
GOODBYE TUMMY FLU

“My family was going through some sort of stomach bug. My husband was in so much stomach pain I was considering taking him to the ER, so I reached out to Sarah for suggestions. She suggested one simple herb and which stores to look for it at. She told me how to make it. I gave it to my whole family, and we all felt much better. My husband could not believe how quickly he felt so much better!”
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STRAIGHTER TOES

“My foot got crushed by some heavy equipment. Sarah recommended some teas to drink to heal the bones, as well as a fomentation to wrap my foot in. When I went to bed my toes were crooked. In the morning they were straight. I’m going to keep drinking these teas!”
EMILY

Don't miss out on this limited
EXIT and BUILD offer!

Buy by Sunday, May 25 at Midnight EST to attend the bonus Fire Cider class!

Want to learn how to make the delicious and powerful "Fire cider" to keep you and your family healthy and well, no matter what the season?

During the Exit and Build, 2025 seminar ONLY, purchase this course and secure your attendance at a special, one-time-only live, online class with Sarah Vezzani, Toast to your health with Fire Cider! where you will learn how to make and keep fire cider to use throughout the year. Ingredients and supplies list will be provided to you in advance so you can follow along.

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*Note that each learner takes responsibility for managing their own health. Parallel Times does not prescribe or treat.

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