Join Steven Yeager for this 3-hour (with breaks) online intensive and Earth Day celebration exploring the poetic beauty of botanical language. During this botany intensive, participants will learn the botanical terminology needed to identify medicinal, edible, and poisonous plants growing in your garden and local wild spaces! We’ll also investigate plant anatomy as it relates to plant family characteristics. This class is designed to give participants the skills to understand botanical descriptions in herbal texts, botanical keys, and gardening books, and become familiar with important vocabulary for the identification and appreciation of plants.

Steven Yeager is Vice President  of Quality and Regulatory at Mountain Rose Herbs where he oversees laboratory operations including their identity program as well as assuring GMP compliance. He is also trained as a field botanist and wild harvester. He serves on the following board of directors including the American Herbal Products Association, AHPA’s Foundation for Education and Research on Botanicals, United Plant Savers, and the Native Plant Society of Oregon. Steven is the former co-owner of the Columbines School of Botanical Studies in Eugene, Oregon where he was a co-instructor for over 20 years.