Walk With Us: Memoirs & Meanderings

United Plant Savers Article: "The Way You Make it Matters"

United Plant Savers Article: "The Way You Make it Matters"

I’m truly honored that my article, “The Way You Make It Matters: Intention, Craft, and the Heart of Herbalism,” was chosen for the Journal of Medicinal Plant Conservation by United Plant Savers for 2026. This piece means a great deal to me. At its heart, it’s about remembering that herbalism is...

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Herbal Wisdom For A Toxic Age

Herbal Wisdom For A Toxic Age

There are moments when a book does not feel invented so much as gathered. It arrives slowly, from years of conversations, questions, remedies, gardens, field notes, tired faces, late-night thoughts, and the quiet pressure of something that keeps asking to be said. Herbal Wisdom for a Toxic Age grew that way for me. It did not begin as a clever lead magnet or a quick...

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The Many Languages of Plant Medicine: A Guide to Herbal Preparations

The Many Languages of Plant Medicine: A Guide to Herbal Preparations

If you’ve ever stood in front of an herb shelf and thought, “Okay, why are there twelve ways to take a plant?” you’re not alone. I mean, really. There’s tea, tincture, salve, liniment, poultice, compress, spagyria, oxymel, glycerite, pastille, aromatherapy, flower essence, powder, capsule, oil, syrup, honey, vinegar, and then there’s...

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Understanding Inflammation: What the Body’s Fire Is Telling You

Understanding Inflammation: What the Body’s Fire Is Telling You

Inflammation is one of those words people hear constantly now, yet most are introduced to it only through discomfort. They know it by the swollen knuckle, the stiff back, the angry gut, the hot flare in a joint, the headache that makes everything feel too bright, the shoulder that never quite lets go, the puffiness in the hands...

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New to Herbal Remedies? Start Here.

New to Herbal Remedies? Start Here.

Consider us your friendly community herbalist. While we are not doctors, we have a deep love for our sacred plants, an earnest desire to help others, and a sincere hope to serve our community well.

Since the beginning, plants filled the place of our pharmacy, grocery store, beauty parlor, spa, and pain clinic. They nourished us, soothed us, strengthened us...

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Introducing the Lost Skills Gathering

Introducing the Lost Skills Gathering

It feels like the modern world has made everything “easier,” and yet somehow we’re more exhausted than ever. We have convenience everywhere, but confidence is rare. We can order dinner with our thumbs, watch a thousand tutorials on how to do something, and still feel strangely helpless when life asks us to actually do the thing. When a button pops off. When the power goes out. When the garden overproduces...

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Lucid Dreaming: Art of Waking Up Inside Your Dreams

Lucid Dreaming: Art of Waking Up Inside Your Dreams

There are nights when sleep feels like a dark river. Swift. Strange. Carrying you whether you consent or not. You close your eyes, and suddenly you’re back in a house that never existed, walking a hallway that keeps adding doors, holding a conversation with someone you haven’t thought about in years. The dream has its own weather. Its own gravity. Rules that make perfect sense...

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A Million Seeds of Hope: 1,081,000 Seeds Planted for 2025

A Million Seeds of Hope: 1,081,000 Seeds Planted for 2025

Because of you, our community funded the planting of 1,081,000 wildflower seeds this year. 🌼

That number still hits me in the chest when I say it out loud—because it isn’t just a statistic. It’s habitat. It’s color returning to a patch of earth that needed it. It’s food for bees and butterflies. It’s the quiet, stubborn kind...

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The Way You Make It Matters: Intention, Craft, and the Heart of Herbalism

The Way You Make It Matters: Intention, Craft, and the Heart of Herbalism

Intention is the invisible ingredient. You can’t list it on a label, you can’t measure it with a scale, and you can’t prove it with a lab test the same way you can test potency or purity. But anyone who has lived a little knows it’s real. You can feel it when you walk into a room. You can taste it in a meal...

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The Queen of Apple Pie

The Queen of Apple Pie

Nancy Parsons found a recipe for apple pie when reading her morning newspaper in 1973. She often cut recipes from the local paper and popped them in a shoebox to try later, but this recipe was different. In her kitchen Nancy carefully followed the recipe instructions, completely unaware of the family treasure she was creating for the first time. She served a slice of her pie after dinner with a hot cup of coffee and her devoted husband, Bob, loved it...

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United Plant Savers Article: "An Eclectic Inheritance" is about our family!

United Plant Savers Article: "An Eclectic Inheritance" is about our family!

My feet were placed on the green path before I was able to walk. I come from a long family line of healers, eclectics, homeopaths, apothecaries, snake oil makers, and herbalists. A single branch from this wide family tree shows a rich history of herbalism and medicine in America.

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Green Path Academy: 2025 Graduation

Green Path Academy: 2025 Graduation

Yesterday, something extraordinary happened at our school, the Green Path Academy: School of Herbalism, where 11 radiant souls who chose to walk the year-long path of herbalism with us just graduated! This moment is everything.

To our graduates: your warmth, curiosity, compassion, and dedication have woven into our lives in ways words can hardly capture.

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