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Welcome!

 Half Moon Herbals is a small artisan herb business located in Waterloo Region, Southern Ontario, Canada.  Our mission is to support accessible and ecologically responsible health care by uplifting the science and tradition of folk/community-scale herbal medicine.

 

Our education programs focus on supporting your relationship to the plants and the land.  We love sharing ways to grow, gather, process and work with medicinal herbs, and we believe that wholistic health includes supporting the health of our community.

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Intro to Herbalism Program
Registration now open!

This is an opportunity to connect with healing plants that inspire, nurture and support us.  This once a month in-person program provides an introduction to the practical skills of everyday herbalism, with a focus on harvesting & remedy-making.  Fill your medicine cabinet with remedies we make in class.  Learn about preventative wellness, herbal first-aid and how to address common ailments.  Enjoy time in the garden, directly experiencing the plants. 

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Herbal Learning Circles

These evening drop-in Learning Circle are fun and interactive community spaces.  Come join us in the garden with the medicinal plants to learn from them by exploring with your senses.  See, taste, touch, smell and hear from the plants themselves! 

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Medicine Herb Gardening Mentorships

Are you interested in growing your own medicinal herb garden?  Medicinal Herb Gardening Mentorships offer an opportunity to design your garden (no matter what scale) with a permaculture perspective. Gain insight about how to grow plants that can help take care of you in a way that also helps takes care of the land.  

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Herbal Remedy Boxes

Herbal remedies prepared from locally hand-picked herbs, selected to support you each season.  Spring, Summer, Fall & Winter Herbal Remedy Boxes are available for purchase at the start of each season.   

Herbal Remedy Box ordering is currently closed.

Please check back again!

Bottles of Essential Oil

Fresh Plant Tinctures

Some medicinal herbs are superior medicine when tinctured fresh! We are pleased to offer herbalists this option. Regeneratively grown, hand harvested, GACP certified -  from our farm to you!

COMMUNITY-BASED HERBALISM

Community-based herbalism is about embracing the use of herbs in daily life to stay well!  It is about growing community connections of support to exchange knowledge and/or supplies, knowing who to call on as needs arise.  This simple yet powerful work is akin to cooking a healthy meal, and sharing with your neighbour. 

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NIKOLA BARSOUM

Certified Community Herbalist 

Clinical Herbalist Student, registered with the BCHA

Certified Permaculture Designer

Ecological Farmer

Founder of Half Moon Herbals in 2017.

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