We’re now accepting applications for the
2026 Racemes of Delight Intermediate Herbal Studies Program!
For plant pals who have completed Wild Cherries Year 1 or another introductory program)
Our 2026 Racemes of Delight is a three-season, 80-hour intermediate herbal intensive exploring health, resilience and the plant world. The program will offer you a chance to follow-up on the plant connections you’ve built with us and in other herb programs (and out in the forests and fields), continuing our hands-on exploration of plant relationships and energetics, making and formulating medicines, the inner workings of the body, and our own relationships with health as we move through the world. As always, our approach is based on a foundation of social justice and decolonization.
Our Y2: Racemes of Delight curriculum focuses on intermediate herbal skills involving case studies and plant sips, and dives more deeply into physiology and anatomy and new medicine making techniques while caring for yourself and loved ones. This program only runs ever other year.
2026 Schedule
Racemes of Delight is a hybrid program — every month, we’ll spend one Sunday together in person (either indoor or outdoors depending on the weather) from 11am-4pm) and one Monday evening together on zoom (from 6-9pm).
The dates for the 2026 program are:
April: 4/26 (in person) & 4/27 (zoom)
May: 5/11 (zoom) & 5/17 (in person)
June: 6/8 (zoom) & 6/14 (in person)
July: Sleepover Weekend! 7/11-12 (in person)
August: 8/17 (zoom) & 8/23 (in person)
September: 9/21 (zoom) & 9/27 (in person)
October: 10/12 (zoom) & 10/18 (in person)
November: 11/8 (Y1 presentations and Y2 medicine show – in person)
Teachers
The Wild Cherries Herbal Studies Program is led by Michelle Soto, Jocelyn Kirkwood, and Vilde Chaya Fenster-Ehrlich. We love creating sweet, honest, plant-oriented spaces to help us all grow our connections to the botanical world, and have been teaching and caring for our community with herbs since the aughts. Read more about us.
Cost
Tuition is $1000. Students should plan for some additional costs, including gas, books, and some medicine-making materials.
We offer some scholarship positions for people of color, indigenous people, and trans/non-binary folks. In our work as white herbalists, we want to address the patterns of colonization and white supremacy in our herbal practices, and to help bolster the many forms of resistance to the systems and structures of oppression we live under. This includes trying to make this course more accessible to people of color and trans folks.
We also offer a few work-trade positions, to allow folks to offset part of the cost of tuition. Payment plans are also available.
COVID Safety
As we make it through the pandemic, we take our class safety seriously and continue to revise our safety measures as appropriate. Through 2025, we’ve held most classes outdoors, with an option to connect via Zoom where possible. All participants rapid tested before class; and masked in indoor spaces. We don’t know what measures we’ll take in 2026, but we will always be following the guidance of experts and be responsive to the needs of our students.
Questions?
Contact us for additional information!
contact@wildcherries.org • (615) 804-0064
