Golden Goat Herbals' Herbalism and Fermented Sodas Video Course

Introduction to Herbalism and How to Ferment Herbal Sodas
By Katie Williamson


What does this course include?

🌱Over SIX HOURS of recorded class time about the fundamental of herbalism; you will always have access to those videos to watch them as much as you need to

🌱An complete course digital book with theory, recipes, herbalism concepts and fermentation explained in detail

Course Curriculum

🌱1 - Introduction: You can do it!  You are an herbalist too!

🌱2 - What is fermentation?  What is herbalism?

🌱3 - Using scientific names of plants vs. common names

🌱4 - Different plant medicine vehicles - how does the plant share its medicine and magic with you?

🌱5 - Water as a plant medicine vehicle (and why we use it)

🌱6 - What´s an herbal tea?  Let´s make them.

🌱7 - What´s an infusion?  Let´s make them.

🌱8 - What´s a decoction?  Let´s make them.

🌱9 - Why make herbal sodas?  Are they probiotic and what does that even mean?

🌱10 - The basic formula you need to know to ferment any soda (or beverage)

🌱11 - How to get chlorine out of your water to make sodas that are alive

🌱12 - Where do the microbes come from?  Cultivating a source of culture for your sodas (yeast, whey, ginger bug, kraut juice, honey, fruit, flowers, etc)

🌱13 - Sweet talk; all about the source of sugars we use to ferment our sodas

🌱14 - Flavor / medicine; what flavors and medicinal qualities do we want to achieve with our herbal soda?

🌱15 - Fermentation vessels; what should I make my sodas in?

🌱16 - The easiest soda to make; pitching yeast in juice for an overnight soda (grape, chamomile or infinite other versions)

🌱17 - Another easiest soda to make; adding raw honey to tea (Tulsi tea soda or infinite other versions)

🌱18 - A wintertime wonder (apple juice, cloves, cinnamon soda)

🌱19 - A wintertime wonder version two

🌱20 - Making soda with whey and frozen fruit (blueberry soda)

🌱21 - Elderberry lemonade with astragalus root  

🌱22 - Hibiscus lemonade with kraut juice or backslopped soda or water kefir or kombucha or sauerkraut juice (so many options!)

🌱23 - Immune tonic soda with reishi, astragalus and kombucha

🌱24 - Green apple, lime and powdered herb soda

🌱25 - Herbal lemonade with raw honey

🌱26 - Herbal lemonade with whey

🌱27 - Ginger / turmeric beer made with an active ginger bug

🌱28 - So long…for now…¡Let´s get to fermenting!

🌱BONUS video:  Making wild yeast starters from fresh flowers and fruits

🌱BONUS video two: How to ferment and preserve fresh plants in raw honey


About the Creator:

I did an herbal apprenticeship with Susun Weed up in the woods of New York in 2020. I studied to be a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner back in 2015. I have worked for the Weston A. Price Foundation and am incredibly grateful to Dr. Price´s book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" for changing my life and entire existence; ancestral food ways and medicine making is part of my path in large part thanks for Dr. Price´s inspiration. I am also a certified Sivananda yoga teacher. I have a YouTube channel in Spanish called Yo Soy Fermentista that teaches people all over the world about fermentation and herbalism.