Helpful herbal resources you can keep forever!
This section includes remedy guides, herbal cheat sheets, recipe books, preparation charts, and safety notes, all chosen for their usefulness and simplicity.
These downloads are designed to help you learn, practice, and build your herbal skills without overwhelm.
Beginner-friendly and clear
Perfect for your home apothecary or herbal studies
🌱 HomeGrown Herbalist – Digital Courses & Downloadables
As a botanist, biochemist, and environmental biologist, I’m selective about the herbal resources I recommend, accuracy matters, evidence matters, and practical skill-building matters even more.
The HomeGrown Herbalist digital library stands out because Dr. Patrick Jones teaches from decades of clinical, botanical, and real-world hands-on experience. These materials are practical, accessible, and genuinely useful for anyone learning herbalism or self-reliance.
Below are my recommended digital resources, each chosen for clarity, plant accuracy, and real-life application.
1. Herbal First Aid – Digital Movie
This is one of my favorite introductions to everyday herbal care. I appreciate how clearly Dr. Jones explains why certain plants work for burns, cuts, bruises, and acute injuries, without overcomplicating it. If you’re new to herbal first aid or want practical skills you can actually use, this video is a strong place to start.
2. Kitchen Medicine – Digital Movie
I recommend this one because it shows how many powerful remedies are already in your spice drawer. As a biochemist, I enjoy how he highlights the natural compounds responsible for each plant’s effects, but in a way anyone can understand. It’s empowering, simple, and immediately useful at home.
3. Making Herbal Medicine – Digital Movie + PDF
This is one of the most complete beginner-friendly medicine-making walkthroughs available. What I appreciate most is the step-by-step clarity, tinctures, poultices, glycerites, infused oils, vinegars, even herbal pills and “herb jelly.”
The included PDF makes it easy to follow and re-create everything. If you want to actually make your own remedies, this is a resource I strongly recommend.
4. Principles & Strategies of Herbal Gardening – Digital Movie
As someone who works with plants in the field, I love how this course blends ecology + practical gardening. Dr. Jones explains how to grow medicinal trees, shrubs, flowers, and even helpful weeds, all while building a resilient medicinal garden.
Great for both beginners and gardeners who want to work more intentionally with healing plants.
5. The HomeGrown Herbalist Book (Digital or Physical)
This is arguably the best starting herbal book for everyday learners. I appreciate how readable it is while still being botanically accurate.
The plant profiles are concise, practical, and full of real clinical insights you don’t usually see in beginner books. If you want one foundational herbal resource that’s trustworthy, this is the book I recommend first.
6. Herbal Cleansing & Supportive Therapies – Digital Book
I value this book because it avoids the common myths and misinformation around “detoxing.” Instead, it focuses on how the body truly detoxifies, organ by organ, and which plants are scientifically known to support these pathways.
It’s a grounded, realistic look at cleansing, helpful for anyone interested in whole-body support.
7. Medicinal Weeds – Digital Book
I love this one. It teaches you how powerful common “weeds” really are, and how easily you can incorporate them into medicinal use. The plant profiles are practical, encouraging, and incredibly accessible for beginners. It’s one of the best guides for learning wild medicines right outside your door.
8. When There Is No Doctor – Full Digital Course
This is an advanced, comprehensive program, and the reason I recommend it is simple: It teaches skills you hope you never need but will be grateful to have.
From trauma assessment to wound care, infection management, wild plant ID, emergency herbal skills, and home medicine-making, this course is exceptionally thorough and grounded in real clinical experience. If you want serious self-reliance training, this is one of the strongest herbal emergency courses available.
