Classes With Lise

2026 In Person Classes

Botanical Medicines: Foundations and Practical Applications – University of Minnesota, September 13, 2026
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Living Earth Herbal Gathering – Asheville NC, October 1 – 4, 2026
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2027 Three Seasons

Three Seasons of Herbal Wisdom in-person begins January 16th, 2027
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Online Classes

Surprising Things About Using Herbal Medicine
Online class October 28th, 2026 – through the Minnesota Holistic Nurses Association
Info & Registration at MinnHNA

Join Lise on her online teaching platform for these classes and more!

Online Classes

Three Seasons Online: The heart of Lise’s work as a teacher. Lifetime access to a year of herbal instruction meant to bring you up to speed to effectively use plant medicine with family, friends, or even opening your own practice.

A Year of  Plant Walks $20/month to month Subscription.
The world is abundant! Beginning before the plants emerge, we discuss ethical harvest, botanical Latin, drying plants for tea and preparing for your herbal year. Learn to harvest medicinal barks and why. Then we move along as the plants grow to the appropriate stage to harvest them. We talk about parts to use, teaching their uses through case histories, since Lise has been practicing for 32 years with these very plants. View the curriculum and click on the free preview material for samples.

Foundations of Medicine Making
The basics of harvesting fresh plant material and crafting your own remedies, including tinctures, flower essences, infused oils and salves

Thinking Clearly
A class for clear thinking and getting stuff done!

Flower Essences
What if you could tap into your inner wisdom?

Common and Available Herbs for the Muscular Skeletal System
A head to toe guide

Online Classes

Three Seasons of Herbal Wisdom 2027

A fun, practical class designed to inspire confidence and creative thinking.

The Course

Herbal Wisdom is designed to teach students to view the plant world through the herbalist’s lens. Practical and very hands-on, this course gives students the opportunity to incorporate herbs into their everyday lives. Hands-on experiences include plant walks for identification; ethical wildcrafting; herbal preparations, including herbal oils, ointments and tinctures; wild food foraging and cooking; herbal first aid; flower essence preparation and uses; and herbal care for common conditions such as colds and allergies. Students will collect and prepare a nearly complete apothecary for home use. Those interested in herbal practice will find the instruction in diagnostics and case history taking invaluable.

To improve the students’ diagnostic skills and become more familiar with practice, students will have the opportunity during the year to sit in on a minimum of fifteen hours of appointments with clients as a one-on-one ‘apprentice’ in Lise’s private practice.

After the class is complete, students will have access to Three Seasons Online and all it’s benefits, for two years. A certificate will be awarded upon completion of the 175 hour program.

The Particulars

We will begin before the tree buds burst open, continue through the full flush of summer, and end in late fall, when those same trees have lost their leaves and frost crunches underfoot. This structure allows students to experience the plants in their many phases of growth and affords time between classes to practice and integrate what has been learned.

Dates

This course is a series of 23 classes over the course of the growing season. Classes will be held almost every other Saturday. The class is scheduled from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM, exact dates available on the details & registration form.

Price:

$4,450 for the series. $4,350 if paid in full by October 1st 2026. $4,400 if paid in full by November 7th 2026.

Payment:

A deposit of $2,500 (Non-refundable after January 14th) is due by December 16th, 2026. Refunds are not made after the class begins. For those who have not paid in full, three payments of $650 are due on March 27th, May 22nd, and August 14th. If finances are limited, a payment plan may be arranged before the class begins. All payments must be by check or cash. Credit cards are not accepted.

Details & Registration

Student Apothecaries

Tincture bottles set up in a kit by a student of # Seasons class.
Tincture bottles set up in a kit by a student of # Seasons class.
Tincture bottles set up in a kit by a student of # Seasons class.

Three Seasons Testimonials

“I also want to say a genuine thank you for the original Three Seasons class I took with you. I think that has influenced my ‘healing’ practice and the way I relate to the plant world more than any other modality I have studied over the years. I still use pulse testing with every client – sometimes it’s for tinctures, sometimes flower essences, and sometimes essential oils, but it’s a staple in my practice!”

“Lise was my first herb teacher. Meeting her changed the course of my life. She helped me heal my oldest son at age five from asthma and aided with my third pregnancy, giving me Jewelweed as a remedy. She opened me up to a whole new world of plants.

“When I took her Three Seasons of Herbal Wisdom class 19 years ago, I had no intention of being an herbalist or opening a store that sold herbs. I signed up to learn more and help myself and my family. Fast forward, herbs are integral to my life and have helped my family more times than I can list in both big and small ways. Jewelweed exists because of my experiences that started with Lise. If you are lucky, a mentor will come along and change everything. For me, that was her.

“Lise is an entertaining teacher and powerful healer. Her class materials are practical and can be used immediately. If you are at all interested in healing with plants, I recommend you check out her new online course. I think it is amazing!”

“Learning about Herbalism changed my life. Finding the right teacher was the key to gaining confidence in how to incorporate herbs into my life on a daily basis.

“I studied herbalism with several teachers before signing up for Lise’s Three Season’s of Herbal Wisdom Course. Lise helped me to take my learning to a deeper level and gave me a platform to confidently use herbs on myself, my family members, and eventually take on herbal clients. Lise has served this community for 30 years as an herbalist and teacher, I can’t think of a better person to learn from!”

“I have devoted my adult life to the study & practice of professional health care. I have studied with quite a few herbalists and doctors who use herbal medicine; Lise Wolff is the finest herb teacher I have had. Taking Lise Wolff’s Three Seasons Herb Class is something I wish I had done as a young man before acquiring any nursing, naturopathic medicine and oriental medicine degree for what Lise Wolff conveys in her herb course is accessible, foundational, practical. Knowing the local plants’ distinct qualities, habitat, properties, personalities as neighbors, medicines, legends, Lise Wolff presents information in three dimensions to students. She introduces the possibility to novice lay people and health care professional alike of reading a person’s condition and introducing the specific, appropriate local plant medicine to heal disease. Lise Wolff’s Three Seasons Herb Class will introduce and equip any student to be a real herbalist.

“‘There is no greater service a man can render to his country than to introduce a useful plant into its culture.’ Thomas Jefferson The same holds true for most any individual student who would take this introduction to herbal medicine.”

“I consider Lise’s 3 Seasons Class to be the catalyst that helped me to identify and nurture what has become my life’s passion: helping others through herbal medicine. I took several of Lise’s one-time classes, became intrigued with herbs, and decided to take the plunge and invest my time and money into her 3 Seasons Class. Best. Investment. Ever.

“The 3 Season classes include people with many levels of experience and knowledge – I was definitely one of the beginner level students and wondered what I had gotten myself into! However, Lise is a master teacher and so good at explaining details and making sure everyone understands and feels included in class discussion and activity.

“Along with Lise’s expertise and instruction in class, I learned so much from sitting in on ‘live’ consultations with Lise and her clients, getting hands on experience with how to conduct a consult and invaluable tips on determining which herbs and preparations might give support in each situation.

“The time commitment of the class lends itself to developing friendships which continue long after the class is over. I so enjoy seeing several herbalist friends from my 3 Seasons Class at events or meeting over a cup of tea – hopefully herbal! The greatest long term benefit, however, has been Lise’s ongoing support whenever I have questions or a new discovery to share. Priceless.”

“I took 3 Seasons of Herbal Wisdom over ten years ago and have such fond memories of it. Foraging for wild plants, tasting the medicines and having lectures outside in the elements was such a relief from conventional education. Lise Wolff so generously transmits her passion and practical knowledge for the local flora with a mix of historical and contemporary data, personal clinical experience and hands-on practice with students. The wealth of teachings from this class became the foundation for my dream of becoming a professional herbalist. I now run a busy practice and feel so grateful! More importantly, a very intimate relationship developed with the land and its common weeds, this little know rich world of curiosity growing in our own backyards. It is amazing how you become useful to friends, family and your community after one year hanging out with Lise, whose teachings have impacted thousands by now and likely saved millions in healthcare costs! Agrimony, solomon seal, blue vervain…what a precious time I spent that year…”

“Lise Wolff’s Three Seasons of Herbal Wisdom has been one of the best investments I have ever made and I would highly recommend it. I had very little knowledge of herbs and plants going into the program. After searching many options that included correspondence classes, I knew that Lise’s offering was for me. Lise’s style is alive and hands on. She brilliantly brings together her years of clinical experience, information from clinical studies, herbal history, contact with plants in the environment, and hands on medicine making. In addition, the clinical hours offered through the apprenticeship was invaluable. Lise is able to take complex information and present it in a manner that can be easily applied. She challenges her students to think deeply and make connections with the plants in their environment. By the end of the program, I had 60+ tinctures plus salves and had more than enough herbal inventory to get my practice going. It brings me joy to be able to share this knowledge and wisdom with confidence to family, friends, clients, and beyond. Life changing.”

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Audio Testimonials

Heidi Nemcek
Listen to what former Three Seasons Student Heidi Nemcek said about her experience taking Three Seasons.

Interviewed by Macey Flood, PHD and Emily Beck PHD (also former 3 Seasons Students!). You can listen to the full interview at their oral history site Plant/People Project.

Carolyn Smith

Listen to an excerpt of another former Three Seasons Student, Carolyn Smith, and her experience of Pulse Testing, Three Seasons and becoming an herbalist. The full interview is available, and many more, at the Plant/People Project.


Carolyn Smith is a practicing herbalist, currently living and working in Grantsburg, WI. Visit her website at carolynherbs.com.

LISE WOLFF: In Person Classes 2026

Botanical Medicines: Foundations and Practical Applications

Location: University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and Healing.
Date: September 13, 2026
Course Details

Please contact the University of Minnesota with questions about registration, price, or anything related to this course. Email the Academic Office

Living Earth Herbal Gathering

Location: Barnardsville, North Carolina
Date: October 1 – 4, 2026
Course Details & Registratioin

Lise will be teaching with Matthew Wood, in Asheville, NC.

Living Earth Gathering Flier