Are you ready to reconnect, reawaken, and realign your body’s innate wisdom toward healing—both for yourself and your community? In today’s world, technological advancements bring countless conveniences, but they often come with hidden costs of a growing sense of disconnection. Mentally, physically, and emotionally, we’re paying the price through anxiety, depression, and physical ailments that strip us of grounding, centeredness, and a sense of belonging. We’ve lost touch with the deep, interconnected web of life that sustains us.
But what if the ancient yet ever-relevant practices of plant medicine and land stewardship held the key to restoring that connection? What if they could help us heal while cultivating compassion as a powerful form of “radicle” activism?
Join artist, plant medicine educator and clinical herbalist Alyssa Dennis for Herbal Compass CSA: Navigating Healing Throughout the Calendar Wheel, a program running one Saturday a month from March through October. This isn’t your typical CSA (community-supported agriculture), which usually offers local vegetable shares. Instead, the Herbal Compass CSA focuses on growing and harvesting medicinal plants, all while providing you with hands-on instruction in botanical therapeutics, plant ID and medicine making. You won’t just receive herbs to take home—you’ll learn how to use them, creating your own healing preparations along the way.
This immersive program fosters both community and a deeper awareness of seasonal cycles, plant allies, and holistic well-being. Each month, we focus on one or two medicinal plants, exploring their therapeutic benefits, crafting herbal preparations such as tinctures, salves, oxymels, vinegars, and infused oils, and learning seasonal wellness practices that align with nature’s unfolding rhythm.
Herbal medicine has always been a collective practice—growing, harvesting, and preparing together to maintain trust, transparency & sovereignty over our health and well-being. You’ll not only have the unique opportunity to immerse yourself in our lush urban garden right here in Baltimore City but also be able to taste, touch & smell each of these healing friends, learn how to integrate herbs into your daily life while expanding your own home apothecary. This year, we’ve expanded each of our in-person classes from 2.5 hours to 4 hours, with the addition of three pre-recorded 1.5-hour bonus classes (exclusive to students) in order to deepen your understanding of the material. Space is limited to 15 participants, and we’re filling up fast—don’t wait! Sign up today to secure your spot.
Alyssa Dennis is the creator of Eclipta Herbal & steward of a small herbal sanctuary in Baltimore City. She is a devoted ecologist utilizing her work as a holistic health practitioner, plant medicine educator & interdisciplinary artist to be a voice for the movements of peace, justice & environmental kinship. Her herbal sanctuary is an educational space that cultivates the ecological conservation of both the human body & the land body while being a gathering ground for learning from the plants themselves, earth skills workshops, plant tours, community building & collaboration. Alyssa has a BFA from MICA, an MFA from Tulane University & many years of experience in strawbale building. She completed her advanced plant medicine training at Arbor Vitae School of Traditional Herbalism where she continues to work with the school as a clinic mentor. She is also a part of the Chesapeake Mental Health Collaborative team, a member of the Ecological Design Collective & Co-Coordinator for the Herbalist Without Borders, Baltimore Chapter.
