It's your birthright.
Our great great grandmothers and beyond had basic yet powerful knowledge passed down from her mother and so it went. The knowledge to use plants to heal and nourish.
There's no better time to get in touch with your inner Medicine Woman and gain back your health freedom.
It's time to remember the simple power of using plants in our homes. And to detach from relying on corporations and "experts" to tell us how to be well. True vitality and wellbeing isn't found in a pill. It's not found in convenience at the cost of well-being.
True wellbeing is found by connecting, just like our great grandmothers did, to the garden, the earth and to our inner wisdom.
The Medicine Woman course is about that shift. This offering of wisdom exists precisely to guide you in connecting to your inner Medicine Woman and regain your health freedom.
Through opening your awareness of the rich medicine offered to us by the earth Herself, you can become less dependent on the grocery store and large corporations for your food and wellbeing. The true meaning of HEALTH FREEDOM.
The Medicine Woman Course will help you connect to ancient plant wisdom in a way that empowers your life.
You will learn to build a foundation for ongoing wellness and vitality through waking up your internal compass and connecting to the plants.
Applying the information you learn in Medicine Woman can help you gain:
✨ Tools to heal and balance sickness and ailments in your home
✨ Tools to lesson anxiety and depression
✨ Less reliance on conventional
healthcare systems and drugstore medicine
✨ Tools to help you deepen your connection to the natural world and the earth's rhythms
✨ More confidence and empowerment in your everyday life as you gain knowledge on how to truly nourish yourself and your family
✨ Resources to create nourishing food layered with plant medicine your family will love
✨ Skills to prepare both plant-based and gluten-free dishes with ease
✨ Guidance on how to infuse your dishes with medicine for more deep nourishment
✨ The ability to build your own home apothecary with ease and confidence
✨ Knowledge on how to start your own medicine garden, growing your own food and herbs while also respecting the Earth
✨ Simple and profound self care techniques so you can care for your body mind and soul as a Medicine Woman
✨ A deeper connection with your intuition and inner power
✨ A deeper connection with the natural world and thus your own spirit
"“We use the thyme and oregano sirup a lot my kids and I and we haven't been sick this winter. I live in the very cold in Quebec, Canada, with regular -20 and -30 Celcius and 8 feet of snow, every body is always sicks (especially kiddos) but not us ! "
Elisabeth S.
Medicine Woman Member
"So far, I've loved this course and the video library. I'm learning so much and I just FEEL good while learning from you! I learned about horsetail, nettle and oatstraw to support healthy hair and am currently making tea from all of those. I also loved the video on how to make your own butter! I am using body oiling regularly now to help beat the dry air of winter and my skin feels so much better. I am making more healing teas, learning a ton by watching your video library."
Adrianne H.
Medicine Woman Member
"There are so many techniques I’ve learned from Medicine Woman! Outside of herbal teas and tinctures... I have really enjoyed the dry brushing and body oil... it has really stepped up my self care practices and my appreciation for my body. I definitely feel more connected with my body and feeling what comes up with it. Whether it's illness, exhaustion, or gas... sitting with myself and a cup of tea helps me go inward and find myself for the day. I love this group!"
Shelby B.
Medicine Woman Member
"I am still learning from all the information that was presented each month and all that is in the library. WOW. Lots to learn in the Medicine Woman program… I do feel more engaged with my gardening skills and then using the plants in different medicine ways either through cooking or tinctures/vinegars/lotions.s, ie (remedies). I've made the elderberry syrup and also the elderberry gummy bears and take it all winter. Also I am making more ginger and turmeric teas. Using calendula, clover and artemisia as well. Sitting quietly and asking the body what it needs and really listening, I have made some good decisions for my health. I like your thought provoking questions and your inspirational "notes" in your emails. "
Bert M.
Medicine Woman Member
"Medicine Woman has reminded me to go outside and see what medicine I’m being offered. Ask the herbs first. Go outside first. That’s been the most valuable…just going outside and paying attention to what is around me. I see plants I just didn’t before. I feel like if I recognize them; they’re offering me some sort of help or knowledge. I think my friends see me incorporating this lifestyle and more and more come to me instead of their pharmacy. They ask more questions and try more things. It’s encouraging and makes me want to learn more."
Angelique R.
Medicine Woman Member
"There is so much I have learned in Medicine Woman! I have started making the Medicine Bars and having them as a sweet treat instead of a lot of the processed chocolate and sugars around. I LOVE the way my body feels after eating them and often crave them over refined treats :) I have also become more in-tune to nature, to the plants around me and search for herbal remedies first compared to messaging our pediatrician right away. I am still a little new to the group and LOVE it so much! I had asked (Audrey) about herbal remedies for hair loss and started taking a few of the recommendations and wow! I truly have already noticed a difference in the thickness of my hair AND the length after a few weeks, particularly around my temples. I am so grateful for this guidance and so impressed with the results! I now ALWAYS think about what herbal remedies would work FIRST, prior to consulting our pediatrician/physician. Even when we have to take western meds I always couple with with some herbal remedies and feel like we get over illness MUCH quicker now with the herbal remedies! I am so grateful to be a part of this community and VERY grateful for all of these teachings! I feel like this is quickly becoming a lost art and I want to learn as much as I can so I can pass this information along to my kids as well! Thank you for all that you do! "
Robyn T.
Medicine Woman Member
This isn't just about plants.
Medicine Woman is a practical and intuitive guide to a deep lifestyle shift.
I've created a simple yet highly effective system, I call the Medicine Woman Method, to help you:
Connect instantly to your intuitive power and learn to weave your natural intuitive ability into your daily decision making
Help you integrate your plant knowledge into deep, lasting wisdom
Weave your intuitive power and deep plant knowledge into a tapestry of true HEALTH FREEDOM
What's Included in the Medicine Woman Course
- A lesson library of 150 + lessons on plant-based cooking, creating herbal remedies, growing your own food and herbs and so much more...already waiting for you, accompanied by videos and printable PDF's
- Fun, light hearted videos with me in my kitchen and apothecary as a visual and audio learning guide
- Lessons taught in a seasonal rhythm to help you connect with the natural world outside your door and integrate the cyclical nature of the seasons into your life.
- Extensive PDF sheets for your lessons for those who enjoy having paper copies or creating a binder as many of our students do.
- No pressure guided self-study - Medicine Woman is a course that you can take at your own pace.
- Weekly email lesson highlight and check-in with Chef Audrey
- Your course is housed in an easy to use virtual space where you can comment and ask questions about any lesson and it will be answered by me
- Bonus lessons including self care techniques, womb care and kitchen organization.
- Lifetime access to the course, which means no stress to finish by a certain date and any new lessons added will be available to you.
- Private FB group to connect with your fellow Medicine Woman and Audrey on a regular basis
- Monthly Q&A Zoom gatherings where Audrey will answer your questions and dive deeper into the topics discussed in Medicine Woman. This is a beautiful opportunity to also connect with your fellow Medicine Women
Terri G.
"As a new Medicine Woman, I have already learned so many new techniques; From simple tweaks to what I was already doing to completely new recipes that I had never even heard of before. I have been so pleased by the level of instruction, especially when creating remedies that include preparation techniques that are new to me."
Corie D.
"Healing & nourishing myself & my family is a priority. Utilizing what I’ve learned through the lessons has helped me incorporate it without feeling lost. I absolutely love the ease of the portal! The ability to scroll & find what I’m looking for is great. I truly appreciate how it’s broken down per season. The videos are super helpful, especially since I’m a visual learner.”
Katie W.
"Medicine Woman is a trusted resource I can go to when I am looking to add health recipes and remedies to my life. I love all that Audrey and the Medicine Woman resources, community and group offer. They truly are helping me take care of my and my family’s health and wellness."
The three pillars of Medicine Woman
Deep Nourishment
You will learn how to prepare deeply nourishing gluten-free and dairy-free meals, layered with medicine. I teach you how to make medicine meals a lifestyle for you and your family.
Plant Medicine
You will learn how to make your own safe, simple herbal remedies, medicines and skin care products and when and how to use them. Knowing how to make your own remedies means you save money and connect deeper to the medicines and products you are using in your home.
Food Freedom
You will learn how to grow your own food and medicine using regenerative gardening practices. As well as how to identify medicinal plants and mushrooms in the wild and bring them into your home apothecary to make healing medicines and meals.
Nourishing Medicine-rich meals
Are you looking for inspiration for beautiful dairy-free and gluten-free dishes? This has been the foundation of our recipe lessons and videos. Recently added are lessons on nourishing animal foods. The foundation of what is taught in the Medicine Woman kitchen lessons is layering food with medicine and starting with the most quality ingredients.
Maybe you haven't made the leap to eating this way because it seems overwhelming. Regardless of where you are on the journey of feeding your body deeply nourishing meals, I am here to help you create delicious dishes that the whole family will love.
As a certified Chef and now retired owner of the award winning NON-GMO eatery Ezra's Enlightened Cafe, I know what it takes to make crowd-pleasing dishes that even your kids will crave! I'll show you how to layer nutritious plant medicine into meals so that you and your family are eating foods that heal from the inside out.
Medicine-layered recipe lessons include:
- Farm fresh pesto
- Pressure cocoked medicine beans
- White bean fall soup
- Enchiladas
- Goldenrod butternut stew
- Mineral rich wild rice
- Shepard's pie
- Millet Veggie Nuggets with house-made honey mustard sauce
- Brussel sprout and potato hash
- Baked herbed almond cheeze
- Marinated garlic tempeh
- Flower spring rolls with wild green goddess dressing
- Summer medicine muffins with turmeric medicine butter
- Medicine harvest pickles
- Veggie skillet bake
- Wild rice and veggie stuffed peppers
- Medicine Sipping Broth
- Herbal Chocolate
- Solstice holiday stuffing
- Wild Medicine banana bread
- Wild Child Summer Flower cake
- Medicine rich rice noodle and veggie Pho
- How to make your own butter
- Dutch Oven Chicken
These are some of the over 45 recipes you will enjoy in the Medicine recipe module.
Plant Deep Dives
A large and important part of this course is diving deep with the plants. We cover 34 herbs and mushrooms in detail, including how to identify them, harvest, forage, the medicinal qualities of each herb and how to use them in your home.
Each summer, we add new plant deep dives to the list, expanding this area of the course. And once you sign up for the course, you have lifetime access to current and any new content!
Learning the plants is where you really gain that freedom as a Medicine Woman of your home. Once you know the plants, you realize how your ability to take care of yourself and your family has grown outside of the grocery store. You can walk outside and find food and medicine every day.
Plants that we dive into deeply include:
Stinging Nettle
Dandelion
Chickweed
Cleavers
Violet
Lamb's Quarters
Yarrow
Calendula
Mugwort
Purslane
St. John's Wort
Rosehips
Turkey Tail
Goldenrod
And there are so many more!
Safe, simple herbal remedies and medicines
If you've ever wanted to know how to promote healing for yourself and your family using plants, this course is for you! From salves that heal scraped-up skin to immune-boosting syrups that are delicious to boot, you will stock your home apothecary with good medicine made with your hands. Making your own herbal remedies connects you to the women who came before you and provides freedom from relying on large corporations to provide simple remedies and medicines....many that have side affects. Having studied with and learned from herbalists such as Susan Weed, Rosita Arvigo, Kami McBride and more, I have thousands of hours of study and hands on experience and the learning continues! The herbal remedies I teaches are folk remedies that your great great grandmother might have used. These are remedies my family and I use daily. Simple, reliable and powerful.
Herbal remedy lessons include how to make and use:
- Herbal syrups including Elderberry Syrup
- Herbal honeys using fresh or dried herbs
- Making your own potent herbal oils using fresh or dried plant material
- Various types of herbal salves
- Herbal vinegars for both internal and external use
- Herbal tinctures using fresh and dried plant material
- Fresh flower elixirs
- Fresh flower essences
- Herbal Oxymels
- Herbal poultices
- Herbal teas for various uses
- Medicines using herbal roots
- Fire cider
- Herbal mouth wash
- Herbal skin cream
- Elderberry gummies
This is not the full list but the highlights of what we cover in our herbal remedy module, which includes over 40 lessons.
Regenerative home gardening and foraging practices
Join me in our gardens as we grow food and herbal medicine through the spring and fall months. Our gardens, nestled on 6 wooded acres, are cultivated using permaculture and Earth-centered practices. Completely organic and non-GMO, I will teach you simple gardening practices that help promote a vibrant garden. In this course, you'll learn how to make a medicine garden plan, where to buy seeds, how to save them yourself, how to care for and transplant your starts and generally how to cultivate your own food and medicine throughout the growing season. True freedom is found here.
Regenerative Gardening and Foraging lessons include:
- Planing your medicine garden
- Keeping a garden journal
- Sheet mulching
- The importance of and techniques for saving seeds from your garden
- Seed organization tips and techniques
- Setting up a grow shelf
- Starting seeds indoors
- Transplanting and care for your seed starts
- The pros and cons of raised beds
- Techniques for gardening in rows
- Growing, harvesting and curing garlic
- Harvesting tips for kale and collards
- Succession planting
- Companion planting
- Feeding your soil
- Growing wild plants in your cultivated garden
- Vertical gardening - tips and tricks
- Container gardening - tips and tricks
- Propagating sweet potatoes
- Identifying and harvesting wild mushrooms
- Harvesting wild and medicinal greens
- Identifying herbs such as rose tips, elderberry, yellow dock, plantain, nettle and so many more - and how and when to harvest
These are the highlights of over 45 lessons in this module
Connect with Audrey and your fellow students
Monthly live Q&A Zoom sessions each month - to ask your questions and receive guidance as well as connect to Audrey and your fellow students.
The course is set up to easily ask questions in the portal regarding any lesson in the course. This is another way to have your specific questions answered.
You also have the option to be part of our private FB group, where Audrey connects each week and you can enjoy sharing on another level with your fellow Medicine Woman students.
"The value of the Medicine Woman Membership wisdom to me is more precious than gold. With the Membership, I've been enjoying learning from access to videos and worksheets and I've even started a Medicine Woman binder for reference. I trust Audrey's wisdom 100%. She has done the research and dedicated so much time, energy and is so passionate about sharing her wealth of knowledge. Thank you for this Medicine Woman Membership opportunity! "
Kenzie K
Medicine Woman Member
"Becoming a member of the Medicine Woman tribe has been life-changing. Audrey not only shares her wisdom as a plant-based chef and medicine woman, she cultivates a very real sense of community. One of the biggest ways this membership has changed my life is my ability to fight off illness without the use of drugstore medicines. I'm a teacher and therefore come in contact with a fair amount of germs. I have now gone a full three months without a single sick day. In years past I have suffered from pneumonia and pleurisy! Learning to care for both myself and my husband is empowering and healing - physically and psychologically. I would (and have) recommend this membership to anyone who is ready for a deeper dive into the world of plants and herbals medicines, alongside a tribe of fellow medicine women."
Tinora P
Medicine Woman Member
"Medicine Woman has been truly life changing for me. I have always gardened and eaten healthy but this membership has opened my eyes to truly using food as medicine. Audrey has such an easygoing style and explains things so anyone can understand. As a visual learner, I love the videos that show me how to make the recipes, tinctures, medicines. My gardens have transformed from mostly vegetables and flowers with a few herbs to being filled with many more medicinal herbs and flowers. I have made most of the recipes and medicines and use many daily. I find myself going back to reread a recipe or re-watch a video and love knowing the information is at my fingertips when I need it. This is the best money I spend every month!!"
Crystal C
Medicine Woman Member
"Medicine Woman has enriched my life by giving me an outlet to show love to myself and my family in a healing way. It has been a grounding experience, allowing me to connect with something bigger than myself. Medicine Woman has also given me a new tribe of women who share similar values. I’ve been a fan of Chef Audrey’s for years, and I’m so glad I have the opportunity to learn from her even though I live in a different state."
Annelise
Medicine Woman Member
"I’m more aware of nature and the medicines all around me. I have a better understanding of seasonal cycles of the planet and how to be more in tune with them in my actions"
Rita
Medicine Woman Member
DOORS OPEN NOW THROUGH MARCH 20TH
About your guide, Herbalist and Nourishment Chef, Audrey Barron
A business owner and working mother of two small children, Audrey gets the struggle of living in a culture that does not prioritize true health and well-being. Over the past 15 years she has paved her own way toward independence, freedom, and peace of mind by using plants to heal and thrive.
Audrey Barron is a trained plant-based Chef and Herbalist with thousands of hours of study, apprenticing, teaching, and practice under her belt.
For over seven years Audrey created and ran her plant-based eatery, Ezra's Enlightened Cafe. Now retired from restaurant ownership, Audrey has shifted to focusing full time on their family farm, Wild Moon Acres, and her online and in person workshops and courses.
For the past 7 growing seasons, Audrey has lead volunteer groups at Wild Moon, school tours and held workshops around growing and using plants as medicine.
For over a decade, Audrey has taught nourishing cooking classes and worked with clients in building lasting well-being.
The full circle experience of growing and harvesting the plants, then preserving and creating nutrient-dense food and medicine - learning how to connect and use the plants to heal was her inspiration for Medicine Woman. Embodying this wisdom is a beautiful way to empower your life from the very foundation.
The freedom and independence of knowing how to use plants to heal is absolutely priceless. And to be part of a circle of women on the same path... this is a dream come true.
Learn more about Audrey at www.gaiachef.com and more about her farm at www.wildmoonacres.love.
From Chef Audrey:
"The more I experience the magic of my children, the more I want for them....things like clean food, clean water, clean air and a world with more peace and less suffering. So, I'm making my contribution by growing, cooking, and serving clean food on our land and in our community, and sharing what I learn along the way.
I want more than just the cultural norm for my family... because the cultural norm is toxic food, air, and water. We deserve better. And so does Mother Earth. Change happens with us right in our kitchens. What we feed our family and how we care for them is a ripple effect through our community and beyond. When we are well, the world becomes well.
Medicine Woman provides an opportunity for women who feel the call to bring the ancient wisdom of using plants to heal and thrive into their homes. Women who desire well-being and connection for themselves and their family that stems from a lifestyle shift. Life changing. Life sustaining.
Are you ready? I would love to be your humble guide."
Your Free Bonuses
This course is unique in that we offer not only many tools to help you get started on the plant path, but self care lessons as well. I fully believe care for ourselves is so important, especially when we desire to care for others. As a trained Maya Abdominal Therapist, I offer both vaginal steaming and castor oil pack lessons brought to you directly from Medicine Men and Women through the ages along with other potent self care techniques I've used for years in my home and with clients.
"I have a deeper understanding of my place in the world among all living things. I also feel empowered as I learn about the gifts all around us in the natural world"
Naomi M.
Medicine Woman Member
"Medicine Woman has been such an invaluable resource! I have loved learning things that help to nourish me and my family's mind, body, and soul!"
Liz F.
Medicine Woman Member
"The straightforward approach and wealth of knowledge shared in Medicine Woman has helped me expand my knowledge of herbs, gardening, self-care, medicine making, and preparing plant based meals. It helped me be more balanced and aware in the world and in my body and taught me ways to help keep healing traditions alive. Would highly recommend to anyone wanting to better themselves or the world we live in."
Lori C.
Medicine Woman Member
"Since joining Medicine Woman, I have learned to apply herbal medicines to everyday life. I feel more connected to the plants, I love going foraging and sharing what I’ve learned with my husband on hikes, I have found a passion for growing and drying my own tea blends...this course is overall wonderful information everyone could benefit from. I have always felt connected to plants, always enjoyed their benefits and even their company so finding this community has been a much needed addition to my life. Thank you for offering it."
Amanda H.
Medicine Woman Member
"I've been so grateful to have this wealth of information and resources that is easily accessed through the library. It has been helpful to have the gardening videos when prepping for the upcoming growing season. I've also enjoyed the herbal remedies to assist with the healing of any ailments and to support that with delicious, nutrient dense plant-based meals! I'm excited to grow with the fellow Medicine Woman Tribe and be a part of such a wonderful community"
Cheyanne S.
Medicine Woman Member
"Medicine Woman has provided me the knowledge and confidence to live a healthier lifestyle along with inspiring family & friends to do the same. It has opened up a passion in me centered on herbal gardening and healing that will forever be a part of my life"
Diana N.
Medicine Woman Member
Lifetime Access
When you sign up for The Medicine Woman Course, you are locked in with lifetime access to all information in the course as well as an additional/new lessons added in the future.
Invest in your future
Medicine Woman is an investment in your health freedom. You will have lifetime access to the current program and access to all new lessons and improvements made to the program in the future.
Scholarships available in Spring and Fall
Thank you to all who applied for the Spring 2023 session. We will be taking scholarship applications again this Fall.
Thank you! Application window is now closed.
Medicine Woman supports Hoosier Environmental Council
A portion of our proceeds each month go to support HEC and their work to improve air, water and soil quality in Indiana, where we are based.
