Medicine Crafts Collective — Level 2: The Apothecary Intensive

You've learned the foundations. Now you build the apothecary.

Medicine Crafts Collective Level 2 is a 3-session intensive for students ready to move beyond teas and tinctures into the full home medicine cabinet. This is where plants become a working apothecary, and where we step outside the classroom to meet the medicine where it grows.

What You Will Learn and Make

• Salves and balms — Use a master batch of infused oil to craft a wound-care salve and a warming muscle rub
• Syrups and herbal honeys — Elderberry syrup, herbal honey, oxymels, with a deep look at shelf life, preservation, and safe dosing for families
• Oil infusions — Solar and low-heat method, taught hands-on during our field day with plants you harvest yourself

The Field Day is Required

On Saturday May 23, we gather outside the city for a live wildcrafting walk on private land. A skilled guide leads us through plant identification and ethical harvest. We bring the plants back to the table and start our own oil infusions using what we harvested together. We eat together. We graduate together.

The field day is a required part of Level 2. It is where the series culminates and where you earn your certificate. Meeting location is approximately 1.5 hours from central Houston. Students provide their own transportation. Closed-toe shoes, a hat, water, and a basket are required.

Schedule

• Tuesday May 12, 6-8 PM — Class 1: Salves and Balms ($80)
• Tuesday May 19, 6-8 PM — Class 2: Syrups and Honeys ($80)
• Saturday May 23, 10 AM-1 PM — Class 3: Field Day, Oil Infusion, and Graduation ($120)

What You Take Home

• 3 finished medicines, labeled and ready to use
• Plant material you harvested yourself
• A Level 2 workbook with every recipe, ratio, and safety note
• Student portal access for recorded walkthroughs and resources
• A Level 2 Certificate upon completion of the Level 2 assessment

Who This Is For

Students who have completed one of the following:

• The MCC Virtual Home Herbalist Course — available anytime at: Link: https://www.elijahbrokethegate.com/store/p19/Medicine_Crafts_Collective_-_Virtual_Beginner%3A_Home_Herbalist_%28Pre-Registration%29.html#/
• MCC Level 1 In-Person Cohort — graduates of the Houston in-person foundations series

If you haven't done either, start with the virtual class. You can finish at your own pace and enroll in Level 2 as soon as you're done.

Investment

$280 full tuition paid in three installments:

• $80 at enrollment (secures your seat through Eventbrite)
• $80 on or before May 19 (paid directly on the MCC website before Class 2)
• $120 on or before May 23 (paid directly on the MCC website before the field day)

All materials, land access, guide fees, and certificate are included.

Cohort 1 Graduates: $40 loyalty discount. Use code COHORT1-40 at checkout. Your total is $240.

Refer a Friend: When a friend enrolls and pays, you earn $20 credit toward Level 3, and they get $10 off Level 2. Ask Elijah for your personal referral code.

MCC Website Link: https://www.elijahbrokethegate.com/store/p20/Medicine_Crafts_Collective_%E2%80%94_Level_2.html

What We Provide vs. What You Bring

We provide: All herbs, oils, beeswax, bottles, tins, labels, salve base, workbook materials, land access, and wildcraft guide.

You bring: Closed-toe shoes, sun protection, water, a basket or paper bag for harvest day, transportation to the May 23 meeting point, and a dish to share at our graduation potluck. On regular Class days bring socks and something that covers your hair.

Instructor

JC Jackson, M.S. candidate in Clinical Herbal Medicine at Notre Dame of Maryland University School of Integrative Health (graduating December 2026). Founder of Elijah Broke The Gate Apothecary and Medicine Crafts Collective, Houston, TX.

Scope of Practice

This class is educational. It is not medical advice. Students do not diagnose, prescribe, or treat disease.

Enrollment closes May 10, 2026.

Check out our school page: https://medicinecraftscollectivescohort.netlify.app/#hero

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