Who we are, What we do!

We’ve noticed a ton of new students & followers recently and wanted to do a ‘welcome’ message with a bit about our school and what we’re about for those of you finding out about us for the first time! Herbal Medics was founded by Sam Coffman in 2007 as The Human Path, and over the […]

Everything in its right place.

March 2024, around 430 am, Taos NM. The car heater hadn’t caught up with the pre-dawn chill of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains as I headed out for one of my clinical rotations in nursing school. Exhausted, I ran through my daily list of what papers needed to be written, what clinical reports had to […]

The Most Important Thing To Know is What To Do.

Sam founded the school in 2007 in San Antonio. Then we expanded to New Mexico, and now include Texas, S. California, Colorado, and Utah as states we offer on-site trainings in. From the first herb walk for students eager to learn about plants up through online courses we do for everyone from curious herbalists, first-timers […]

Ready or not, here we go!

Happy New Start everyone! Our founder Sam Coffman brought the vision of this school and everything we teach to life in 2007, first in our backyard, next at a reclaimed Texas hill country rock quarry that we nurtured into a thriving campus, and now, nestled among high-altitude pines in the Sangre de Cristo mountain range […]

Self-Improvement through Disaster – 2021

Texas Blizzard/Freeze 2021 – Revisiting Preparedness Upcoming Online Classes Related to this Topic: Introduction to Herbal Medicine for Professionals Online Wilderness First Aid Certification Woman in the Woods series – Situational Awareness Related Podcast on this subject  Almost two weeks ago I heard alarm calls from a few robins while I was walking under our […]