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Herbalism :: Growing Top Medicinal Plants Certificate (Udemy.com)

Growing your own herbal medicine is easy and allows you to have quick access to medicinal plants when you need them

Created by: Elizabeth Heck

Last updated April 2025

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What you will learn

  • Build confidence in working with highly beneficial plants
  • Grow the most common and useful medicinal plants
  • Harvest plants for the greatest effectiveness
  • Use plants for ultimate health and wellbeing
  • Enjoy the beauty of a medicinal garden

How it compares

Against the other 662 rated Udemy courses in Health & Fitness on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 84% of them
  • Reviews793#167 of 663 by number of reviews
  • Length2.6 hoursshorter than 50% of them
  • Last updatedApril 2025earlier than 49% of them

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Course Description

Get quick and easy access to medicinal plants when you need them!

Growing your own herbal medicine deepens that connection to your own health as well as to the healing plants. It allows you to truly get to know the plants. It also gives you the finest quality herbs. Whether using fresh or making your very own herbal medicine preparations, you will never find better. 

Medicinal herbs are quite easy to grow, so no worries if this is your first try at growing plants. Your garden can be as large or small as you like. You can even grow medicinal plants in containers on a deck, patio or even a sunny windowsill.   

Many of the medicinal herbs covered in this Herbalism :: Growing Medicinal Plants Course will be familiar to you. Some are the very culinary herbs you use in cooking such as basil, thyme, oregano and garlic. Some of them have been used as ornamentals in flower beds like calendula and purple cone flower.   

These herbs in this course were selected primarily for their ease of growth and for their safety. Each of the herbs also have a multitude of medicinal uses so you will be well supplied for a wide variety of ailments. Grow a few or try them all!   

While much of the course focuses on each of the plants preferred growing conditions and medicinal uses, a good portion of the course covers herbal gardening basics. This includes site selection, types of gardens, caring for the soil, purchasing seeds, growing tips, when to harvest and how to save seeds for the following year’s garden.   

Here is what students are already saying about this brand new course:

★★★★★ "I never thought I would get this much information from a course like this. Elizabeth is very thorough to the point and very well detailed information. I can't wait to get started. Thank you so much."

★★★★★ "This course is exactly what I have been looking for. Very clearly explained and great to have photos; these really help to picture my herb garden. Loving it so far."

★★★★★ "Lots of fantastic info. Enjoyed the section with great Info on so many plants."

★★★★★ "Excellent! I'll be referring back to this course in the coming months many times."

★★★★★ "This is a great, inspiring course. It introduces a range of herbs and provides key information about them, and how to create and care for a herb garden. I really enjoyed it."

Your instructor, Elizabeth Heck has 25 years of experience in working with plant medicines. She is by far, Udemy’s most qualified herbal instructor. Rest assured, you’re in good hands. With an extensive teaching background, she knows how to guide you through your herbal learning journey with ease. Even better, she is there for you throughout the course to answer any of your questions. That is incredible value!

Why is this course not Accredited?

Nearly every online course (unless it is a large university) that claims to be accredited, actually is not. These are simply fake accreditations from real-looking websites used as a marketing scam in order to sell more courses. Elizabeth, as with any experienced herbalist, teaches with ethics and integrity and absolutely will not be deceitful for marketing sake. Rather, her students are sincerely respected and honored. Therefore none of her courses claim to be accredited.

You have lifetime access to the course so you can take as long or short as you wish to go through the material. You can replay the videos at anytime using the course as an ongoing reference. You also have a 30 day money back guarantee.

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Instructor Details

Elizabeth Heck

As Udemy’s most qualified herbalism instructor, Elizabeth has a solid 25 year background in working with herbal medicines. She was the founder of a successful herbal products company and is also the founder of the Home Herb School. The school offers a complete suite of courses empowering students on their herbal journey.

Elizabeth makes speaking appearances at health-centered conferences, teaching centers and events globally. Most notably, Elizabeth has presented at the International Herb Symposium which invites the most highly respected teachers from around the world, the New England Women's Conference, one of the oldest, largest and most honored wellness gatherings and the legendary Sage Mountain Retreat Center.

Beyond her degree from the University of Minnesota, Elizabeth studied with world-renowned teachers including:

▪ Dr. Robert Mohlenbrock

▪ Rosemary Gladstar

▪ Lise Wolff

▪ Matthew Wood

She now passes on that wisdom and experience to empower her students in the art and science of herbalism. Elizabeth’s passion for health shines through as she guides students step-by-step in her best selling online courses.

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Reviews

4.8

793 ratings on Udemy

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By Gloria Farrow on 8/30/2024

This course is an absolute gem! Whether you're a beginner or have some experience, offers a wealth of knowledge that is easy to understand and apply. The instructor's passion for herbalism shines through every lesson, making the learning process enjoyable and engaging. The hands-on tips for growing and using medicinal plants are invaluable.

By A O on 10/28/2023

Short and simple. Not overshadowed by a personality projection, nor excessive complexity, these videos provide a great "literature review" overall introduction to the nebulous topic of herbalism. These videos make it accessible. They are not perfect but the teacher is 80% on point and that's good enough. Elsewhere you may get perfect coverage, but if you get lost in a maze of details, where does that really lead?

By Kimberly Hart on 7/30/2023

This course is full of useful information and is beautifully presented. I like that Elizabeth gets to the point and can say a lot in a little time. I am excited about applying some of the things I've learned and have herbs not only for medicinal purposes, but for beauty as well. The extra with Sharon Ramel was a nice surprise!

By Kimberly Bouldin on 3/28/2023

The material was very well presented and easy to follow. One of the best features was the ability to see the text as she lectured, although the text has a number of grammatical and spelling errors (it appeared to have been typed via microphone-to-text software). I also appreciated the resource section at the end of the lessons.

By Adam Sharman on 11/22/2020

Very interesting. Apart from everything being in imperial measurements and having to convert to metric, this course has fired up my interest even more. I can not wait to get started on the next of your courses.

By Jeffrey Decelis on 11/22/2020

good information

By Carolyn Hurlbut on 11/8/2020

I am organizing an herb growing business, and this course is invaluable. Thank you.

By Ramesh P on 10/9/2020

Awesome course!!! for beginners and people those who want to make a future in Herbalism. Elizabeth Heck's knowledge and teaching are super and love to learn few more things (already purchased 2nd course :-) ). I am already into growing Medicinal Plants and my goal is to share and implement similar benefits to interested people for maintaining good health. And to be honest, the course is great with lots of information. Thank you again....

By Della Lee on 10/2/2020

The content of the course was wonderful. The information helped me to understand how to grow my plants

By Susan Spiegel on 9/8/2020

Very informative.

By Sarina K Sojot on 8/22/2020

i love it, compost, soil

By Tonja Johnson-Dunlap on 8/21/2020

Very information so far; however, I would like to see a recording of the plants rather than just a picture. I hope that is to come.

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Overall Score : 96 / 100