Meet The Green
Upcoming Programs and Classes
This year’s program is full!
Next cohort will begin in late 2025:)
Become a medicine making, wild food cooking, herb gardening herbalist with a vibrant home apothecary or step into the business owning shoes of running your own herbal company.
Our 6-month course includes:
-Expanded Course Material on Herbal Materia Medica, Recipes, and ways of incorporating them into Community Herbalism Skills.
-Two 1:1 private coaching sessions .
-More than 30+ Videos and Archived LIVE sessions from the past two years of student enrollment.
-Learn at your own pace
-Lifetime access to the course
-And so much more!
In-Person Classes
I’m teaching east to west this year, with classes in Colorado, New Mexico, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
Botany, plant ID, Ancestral skills, and more plants learning!
Forest to Field Festival
NEW 2025 DATES!
August 8, 9, and 10, in Lake George, CO
Forest to Field is an immersive weekend festival reviving the innate lessons of Earth and creating a link between the deep slow wisdom of the wild forest, to the nourishing relationship between humans and the land they cultivate.
Hands-on workshops, live music, and camping in the ponderosa pine forest of Colorado.
Lovely things people have said
Hi, I’m Kat Mackinnon
HERBALIST + FOUNDER
I created Meet the Green because I wanted to create rich, meaningful, reciprocal relationships - between people, the earth, and their community.
Most of my work is as a teacher and a clinician, and I approach both of those things from a Vitalist perspective. I believe that we all have a fundamentally intelligent life force that drives us and that this is what I’m constantly in communication with and in service of.
I am a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild. I’m also a certified clinical herbalist and nutritionist through the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, where I studied with Paul Bergner in the Vitalist tradition.
YouTube Videos
I make videos on everything from botany to herbal medicine - give it a look:)
Identifying Wilds Plants e-Course with Kat Mackinnon and Briana Wiles
Winter Botany - Juniper Cones
Herbal Musings
Discover the Green
Along with basic introductions to things like herbal terminology and botany, I love writing about herbal medicine and especially connecting to my bioregion.
FREE GUIDE
Herbal Terms and Medicinal Preparations
Get to know the basic terms used for herbal treatments and applications