The Eden Institute Biblical Herbalism Education

Eden's Table

Herbalism for the
Whole Family Table.

A K-12 Biblical herbalism curriculum for homeschool families. Open-and-go lesson plans, memory songs, kitchen labs, garden activities, and a recurring family story, all rooted in Scripture and creation stewardship.

Sprouts (K-2) · The complete 36-week year, in print or 9 weeks at a time

The printed year is the whole 36 weeks in three books, printed to order and at your door in about two to three weeks. The Starter Unit is the first nine weeks of it, as a download, if you would rather try before you commit.

Flat $12 shipping per printed order. Extra Student Notebooks for siblings, $39.99 each.

See every option for every grade band, K through 12

Why this. Why now.

School will teach her the parts of a flower.
It will not teach her what the flower is for.

I spent years as a credentialed classroom teacher with a Master's in education. I know what is in the standards, and I know what is not. Somewhere in there a child learns to label a stem, a root, and a petal. Nowhere in there does a child learn what to reach for when her throat hurts, what is happening inside her body while it heals, or why any of it was put here in the first place.

That is not a small gap. That is the entire practical use of the subject, left out.

Week 5 of the Sprouts Teacher's Guide, showing the calendula week laid out Monday through Friday with the scripture, the kitchen lab supply list, and the subjects woven through the week.

One real week, exactly as it arrives · Week 5 · Calendula

Health stewardship is not a hobby subject.

Your child is going to live in one body for the whole of her life. She will make decisions about it every single day, starting long before she is grown. Teaching her to understand it, care for it, and pay attention to what it is telling her is not enrichment. It is one of the more practical things you will ever hand her, and we treat it that way, as a subject with a scope, a sequence, and a full year of work.

One plant a week. Ten subjects come with it.

This is not herbalism bolted onto your existing school day. A single week on a single plant carries Bible, science, language arts, math, art, history, geography, Latin, health, and character, and the Week at a Glance page tells you which day carries which. You are not stacking ten subjects into a morning. You are teaching one plant well, and the disciplines arrive with it.

The year your children are in is the one you have.

Sprouts is K-2, and it is the first band we are printing. Seedlings, Cultivators, and Practitioners follow it. A child who starts this year grows through the whole sequence with us. A child who waits starts it a year older, in a year we cannot give back.

Order the printed year · $249

All 36 weeks in three books. Flat $12 shipping.

Four grade bands

Find your children's band. Then pick how you want to start.

The same curriculum at every band, taught at four depths. A child who starts in Sprouts grows through all four with us.

Grades K-2

Sprouts

Wonder, stories, and learning 36 plants by sight. Kitchen labs, memory songs, and a family at the center of every week. This is where every child starts, even the older ones.

Step 1 · Try it

Week 1, free

$0

  • Five full lessons on Lavender
  • Teacher's Guide, Notebook and story, as PDFs
  • In your inbox in a minute

Print it and teach it today.

Step 2 · Start now

Starter Unit, weeks 1 to 9

$39

  • The 9-week starter: weeks 1 to 9 of 36
  • Teacher's Guide, Notebook and storybook
  • Instant download

Tonight. It downloads to your inbox in about a minute.

Get the Starter Unit

Step 3 · The whole year, in print

Printed Curriculum Set

$249

  • All 36 weeks, three printed books
  • Teacher's Guide, Notebook, storybook
  • Extra Notebooks for siblings, $39.99 each
  • Printed to order, mailed to you

At your door in about 2 to 3 weeks.

Order the printed set

Every step above is the same curriculum, in a different amount. The free week is one week of it, the Starter Unit is the first nine, and the printed set is all thirty-six on paper. Start wherever you like; nothing has to be bought in order.

Grades 3-5

Seedlings

Body systems, herb profiles, a hypothesis tracked across a week, and dinner-table questions with real reasoning in them. A different 36 plants from Sprouts, so a family who does both finishes with 72.

Step 1 · Try it

Week 1, free

$0

  • Five full lessons on Elderberry
  • Teacher's Guide and Notebook, as PDFs
  • In your inbox in a minute

Print it and teach it today.

Step 2 · Start now

Starter Unit, weeks 1 to 9

  • The 9-week starter: weeks 1 to 9 of 36
  • Instant download

Being finished now.

Coming very soon

Step 3 · The whole year, in print

Printed Curriculum Set

  • All 36 weeks, printed books
  • Printed to order, mailed to you

Being finished now.

Coming very soon

Grades 6-8

Cultivators

The second pass at the 72 plants your child already knows, this time through body patterns and terrain: why the same plant helps one person and not another, and how a garden becomes a remedy.

Planned for late 2027
  • · Revisits all 72 Sprouts and Seedlings plants at a deeper level, so nothing learned is wasted
  • · Body pattern thinking and the basics of terrain
  • · Garden to remedy: growing, harvesting, drying and preparing, start to finish
  • · Same shape as the earlier bands, written for a middle schooler who wants the why

Grades 9-12

Practitioners

The third pass at the 72 plants, at clinical depth. A high schooler who has grown up with these plants learns to reason about them the way a practitioner does.

Planned for 2028
  • · The 72 plants a third time, now as materia medica
  • · Clinical literacy: reading a body, matching a plant to a pattern, knowing when to refer
  • · Real-world application, the kind that outlasts the diploma
  • · Same shape as the earlier bands, written for a teenager ready for real responsibility

Children a bit older, and not sure Sprouts is the right place to start?

It usually still is, and the reason is not what most parents expect. Sprouts and Seedlings teach different plants, so skipping ahead quietly costs your child 36 of the 72 they would otherwise finish with.

Why we say start at Sprouts anyway

Open-and-Go. Family-Style. Faith-Rooted.

No Prep Required

Every lesson is written out in the Teacher's Guide, with the Student Notebook page and the week's kitchen lab ready to go. Open and teach.

Multi-Age by Design

Lessons are written for the whole family to learn together. Older students go deeper; younger ones grow into it.

Scripture Throughout

Every unit anchored in Scripture. Herbalism presented as stewardship of Yahweh's creation, not alternative medicine.

Component 1 · Read-Aloud Storybook

Every week begins with a story.

Eden's Table Read-Aloud Storybook, front cover, with the botanical leaf border
Read-Aloud Storybook open to a story spread

Inside the storybook

Sprouts K-2 and Seedlings 3-5

The same family, carried across both bands. A simple parable at K-2 becomes a story of real choices at 3-5.

Before there is a lesson about a plant, there is a family. Vovó in the garden. PopPop with his hands in the dirt. A scraped knee, a jar on a windowsill, a grandmother who knows which flower to reach for. The botany, the scripture, and the kitchen lab all hang on that narrative hook, which is why a child who cannot yet define a term can still tell you exactly why Vovó chose the plant she chose. This is the piece that makes the curriculum stick, and it is the piece most curricula skip. Facts taught cold are facts forgotten by Friday.

“It is the least academic-looking thing in the set, and it is doing the most important work in it.”

Component 2 · Teacher's Guide

You do not need to know herbalism to teach this.

Eden's Table Teacher's Guide, coil-bound front cover
Teacher's Guide open to a week spread, with the Week at a Glance and the daily lesson pages

Inside the guide

Sprouts K-2 and Seedlings 3-5

Every lesson is written at two depths, so a younger and an older child work the same week at one table.

Open the guide on Monday morning and the week is already built. The read-aloud is scripted, the discussion questions are written, the memory verse is chosen, and the kitchen lab tells you exactly which supplies to set on the counter. Nothing is left for you to research the night before. What makes this guide unusual is how much it carries at once: a single week on a single plant quietly weaves Bible, science, language arts, math, art, history, geography, Latin, health, and character, and the Week at a Glance page tells you which day carries which. You are not stacking ten subjects into a day. You are teaching one plant well, and the disciplines come with it.

“It lies flat on the counter while your hands are busy, open to Wednesday, while the herb steeps.”

Component 3 · Student Notebook

The book your child fills in herself.

Eden's Table Student Notebook, coil-bound front cover
Student Notebook open to a week's pages, with observation fields and a drawing box

Inside the notebook

Sprouts K-2 and Seedlings 3-5

Color, smell, taste and texture at K-2 become measurements, ratios, and a hypothesis at 3-5.

It is a consumable workbook, but calling it that undersells what happens on the page. She draws the plant she just held. She records what it smelled like. She answers, in her own handwriting, a question that has no answer key, because some of the best questions in this curriculum genuinely do not have one. The enrichment work is deliberately marked optional, complete it if you have time, because a curriculum that punishes a hard week is a curriculum abandoned in February. This is also the practical answer to the record-keeping question: dated, sequential, in your child's own hand, showing observation, narration, scripture copywork, and real measurement across thirty-six weeks.

“It satisfies a reviewer. Far more importantly, it is the thing she carries to her grandfather and says look what I made.”

The Printed Curriculum Set

Three books. Thirty-six weeks. Your whole year.

The three printed Sprouts books, the Teacher's Guide, Student Notebook and Read-Aloud Storybook, on a linen cloth

Printed to order · at your door in about 2 to 3 weeks

One year, thirty-six plants, three books built to work as a single instrument. The Teacher's Guide that means you never prepare the night before. The Student Notebook your child fills in and keeps. The Read-Aloud that gives every week its story.

Nothing here is filler and nothing is sold to you twice. Each piece does a job the others cannot. The story makes it memorable, the guide makes it teachable, and the notebook makes it your child's own. Bought separately, this would be three decisions and three gambles on whether the pieces fit together. They fit because they were designed together, week by week, as one year.

“You are not buying a stack of books. You are buying the shape of your family's next school year.”

The set includes one Student Notebook. Teaching more than one child? Add up to five extra Notebooks at checkout, $39.99 each, and they ship in the same parcel.

The herbs themselves are not included. Each week uses a small amount of a common dried herb from your pantry, your garden, or the herb list we keep for you.

Order the printed year · $249

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Already teaching?

Order the herbs for every lesson.

Every herb your family studies, with a trusted source for each one. We have gathered the full Sprouts herb list in one place so you can stock your shelf for the year.

Purchase Herbs Here

From families already teaching it

They taught it at their own tables before a single book was printed.

Everything below is from a family who took the free sample and taught it at their own table. Nobody here is reviewing a product photo. They are telling you what happened in their kitchen.

Everything in one week

“I am a mother who has been homeschooling kids for over 18 years. I had the opportunity to review some of the lessons in the elementary grades and these lessons are amazing for someone who wants to add herbs/gardening plus faith based lessons to their curriculum. As a homesteading family, I would have loved to have something like this when my kids were little. The balance of faith and herb/gardening is perfect, it is a complete lesson and well thought out. The lessons for younger kids are easy to understand and get a little more in depth when moving up a level. Each week you study a new herb/plant and everything is included for the week. With the stories, table cards, questions, scriptures, recipes, and everything together it covers core subjects like math, reading, faith, and herbs/plants; this is a great addition to a homeschooling curriculum.”

– Amanda, homeschooling 18 years · Dream Chasers Homestead

Two children holding up their own botanical drawings beside printed lavender, fennel and elderberry plant pages at an outdoor table.

No complaining

“I just wanted you to see how into it they are! No complaining and actually asking to do their ‘learning’!!”

– Kati, former nurse and paramedic

Depth without overwhelm

“This curriculum is truly amazing! I have numerous herbal books from all sorts of authors, and this curriculum truly puts it into bite-size chunks of information while still incorporating incredible vocabulary, concepts, and quality stories. The fact that you are incorporating all these other topics beyond just herbal information is truly incredible as well. I truly love everything about it so far and can't wait until it launches! It is exactly what I was looking for and I am so excited for what will unfold in the years to come as we dive deep as a family.”

– Kendria Scriver, curriculum writer

Spent hours in the sample

“Ahhhhhh I just spent the last few hours poring over the free sample you sent us. This curriculum is absolutely fantastic. I cannot wait to buy this in the fall. This will be our kids favourite curriculum to explore.”

– Coralee, who read the free sample cover to cover

“This is a beautiful curriculum to start. I've just begun reading our teaching guide.” – Brooke, Clarksville, TN

“LOVE this!” – Ems Glenn

Before you decide

The Questions We'd Ask If We Were You.

Three things families hesitate over. All three are deliberate. Here is the reasoning behind each one, in full.

The three printed Sprouts books, the Teacher's Guide, Student Notebook and Read-Aloud Storybook, on a linen cloth.

$249 is one purchase instead of six.

Here is the comparison we would want, so here it is. A typical year assembled from separate curricula means a science program, a nature study, a Bible curriculum, a handwriting or copywork book, an art component, and a read-aloud list. Six purchases, six shipping charges, six teacher's guides written by six people who never spoke to each other, and a stack of evenings spent making them line up.

Eden's Table is one set. Thirty-six weeks, 180 daily lessons, and three books that were built together, week by week, as one year. Bible, science, language arts, math, art, history, geography, Latin, health, and character are already woven in, already scheduled, already telling you which day carries which.

That is $249 for the year. Divided across 36 weeks, it is under $7 a week for your entire core. And it is one decision, made once, instead of six decisions you are still second-guessing in October.

What you are not also buying: a separate science curriculum. A separate nature study. A separate Bible curriculum. A separate art plan. A separate read-aloud list. A second evening of your week spent making all of them agree with each other.

A Monday lesson page from the Sprouts Teacher's Guide, Week 2, chamomile.

We worship the Creator. We study what He made.

This is the question we most want asked, so let us answer it completely.

We believe the Creator God made everything. We believe we were placed, on purpose, in a garden, among plants and among people, and that both were made with complementary patterns. A plant that soothes and a body that can be soothed were designed to meet. That is not a coincidence and it is not magic. It is design.

So when your child learns those patterns, she is doing what a person does in a museum built by someone she loves. She notices the craftsmanship, and the noticing sends her back to the One who did the work. Appreciation moves toward the Creator. It never stops at the creation.

That line is not a marketing sentence for us. It is the line we edit against. There is no life force in these pages, no energy that belongs to the plant itself, no spiritual property attributed to any created thing. Every energetic and every observation in this curriculum is drawn from historical Western herbal sources and taught as what it is: observed pattern in a made world. Herbalism here is stewardship of Yahweh's creation. It is not alternative medicine and it is not pantheism, and if we ever blur that, write to us and we will fix it.

The test we run on every single line before it ships: Does this credit the plant, or does it credit the One who made the plant? If it credits the plant, it does not go in the book.

Camila, founder of The Eden Institute, smiling beneath the painted canopy of a carousel.

Camila. Master's in Education, credentialed classroom teacher, and the person who answers your email.

We only move at the speed of cash.

No debt, no investors, no line of credit. This company does what we teach families to do, which is live inside what it actually has. The cost of that conviction is time, and we are not going to pretend otherwise or hide it behind a cheerful shipping date.

That is why the shelf here is short. The three printed books are finished and they print to order, one set at a time, as families ask for them. There is no warehouse, no back order and no minimum we had to hit before your copy could exist.

A larger boxed edition needs a single big print run paid for up front, all at once. We do not have that money yet, so it is not for sale. When the books have earned it, we will build it.

So the honest version is this. You are buying a finished thing at a fair price, and that is what builds the next one.

Printed for your family, one set at a time, and built to last the whole year at your table.

Order the printed year · $249

All 36 weeks in three books, printed to order. At your door in about two to three weeks.

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The whole year, on paper, in about two to three weeks.

All thirty-six weeks of Sprouts in three printed books: the Teacher's Guide, the Student Notebook and the Read-Aloud Storybook. $249 plus flat $12 shipping. Printed to order, so nothing sits in a warehouse and nothing is back-ordered.

Not ready to spend anything? Week 1 is free.

Questions? Email hello@edeninstitute.health and a real person (Camila) answers.