Podcasts about chestnut school

Heather Houskeeper: the Botanical Hiker, herbalist, forest therapy guide, author, and yoga teacher! Tune-in to this episode to learn more about how we can become more connected to the trails! Heather's Background and Achievements Founder of The School of Plant and Place Connection Graduated in Herbal Medicine, Plant Identification, Taxonomy, and Medicine Making from the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine. Certified Forest Therapy guide from the Forest Therapy School. Hiking Accomplishments Thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, Mountains to Sea Trail (twice), Finger Lakes Trail System, Long Path, Florida Trail, Mid State Trail, and Tuscarora Trail. Publications Authored three books on edible and medicinal plants and hiking experiences: A Guide to the Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Mountains to Sea Trail (2014) and A Guide to the Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Finger Lakes Trail (2016) and Love and the Long Path (2021) Currently working on a book about the 1,100-mile Florida Trail. Writing Contributions Wild Food columnist for Dirt Magazine (2017-present). Author of The Botanical Hiker blog (2011-present).

This week's Plant Stories episode features the botanical obsessed best-selling author and founder of Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine, Juliet Blankespoor. Thomas sits down with Juliet and they share a fun-loving conversation about some of the most beloved botanicals, including Japanese honeysuckle, passionflower, calendula, and more! We'll also explore how her accumulative knowledge of all things plants brought her to doorsteps of founding the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine and writing her best-selling book, The Healing Garden: Cultivating and Handcrafting Herbal Remedies. You can find Juliet's book, The Healing Garden: Cultivating and Handcrafting Herbal Remedies here! Juliet Blankespoor is the founder of the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine (an online school serving thousands of students from around the globe) and the author of the bestselling book, The Healing Garden: Cultivating and Handcrafting Herbal Remedies. She's a bonafide plant geek, with a degree in botany and over 30 years of experience teaching and writing about herbalism, medicine making, and organic herb gardening. Juliet and her family reside in a home overrun with houseplants and books in Asheville, NC. Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine Blog Castanea Chestnut School's Healing Garden Facebook Page Chestnut School's Facebook Page Chestnut School's Instagram Page Chestnut School's Pinterest Page  HealingGardenGateway Chestnut School's Tiktok   Join our community! Subscribe to the Mountain Rose Herbs newsletter Subscribe to Mountain Rose Herbs on YouTube Follow on Instagram Like on Facebook Follow on Pinterest Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. Mountain Rose Herbs www.mountainroseherbs.com

Do you ever look around your home and wonder if your houseplants are getting enough light to thrive? Without the right amount and type of light, even the most pampered plant will struggle to survive. Yet many of us wing it when it comes to taking care of our houseplants. We stick that new fiddle leaf fig in a corner and wonder why its leaves droop. Or we assume a windowsill equals “bright indirect light” without really knowing what that means.I know it's time to bring attention to this overlooked aspect of being a plant parent! That's why I invited my OG plant friend, Darryl Cheng of House Plant Journal, to explore an engineer's approach to understanding light for houseplants.In this episode, we learn:[05:50] Check out Darryl's previous and upcoming books![08:51] Why is light so important for houseplants?[12:18] What does it mean to have an “engineering mindset on a plant”?[14:00] What are the different types of lights?[16:41] Why it's hard to measure light with your eyes[18:43] Discover the best seeds for your 2024 garden at Territorial Seed Company[20:05] Find easy-care and quality plants perfect for any room from Proven Winners Leaf Joy[23:15] How can beginners assess their light situation without using a meter?[25:00] How to differentiate between direct light and indirect light?[27:12] How does understanding and measuring light exposure affect the care of houseplants?[30:38] Difference between foot candles, lux, and lumens[34:26] How do houseplants adjust to indoor light from natural light, and what are the challenges?[36:56] What is the first step that you should take in measuring light?[43:16] What was Darryl's motivation for creating his LTH meter?[44:22] How has Darryl's light meter been inspired by more complex light meters?[50:26] How to gather the best data using your light meter[55:27] Darryl's light meter development process[01:02:46] Where can you find Darryl on social media?Mentioned in our conversation:How to Make a Living Succulent Wreath - Succulents and SunshineMichaels Greenery Terrarium17" Living Wreath Sphagnum Moss FormGreening PinsGrowing Joy Ep 168 Grow Your Own Tea: Intro to Herbalism With Juliet of Chestnut School of Herbal MedicineGrowing Joy Ep 178 The Mushroom Miniseries: Mushrooms 101Growing Joy Ep 183 The Mushroom Miniseries: How To Grow Functional Mushrooms In Your GardenGrowing Joy Ep 191 The Mushroom Miniseries: How To Grow Mushrooms IndoorsWant an easy and comprehensive guide on all things light?Check out the full show notes and blog here!Thank you to our episode sponsors:Territorial Seed CompanyIt's never too early to start thinking about your 2024 garden! Skip the lines at the garden center and let Territorial Seed Company deliver top-of-the-line, healthy and hardy plants right to your door. They have a great line of pre-grown plants, an expansive seed catalog, and over 40 years of experience delivering the best seeds and plants for everyone's garden. Whether you are looking for leafy veggies, flowers or edible plants in either seed or seedling form, Territorial Seed Company has your back.Get 10% off by visiting territorialseed.com/growingjoy - discount applied at checkout.Proven WinnersIf you want to have success with houseplants, you've got to have two things: the knowledge to care for them successfully and healthy plants. Meet my new favorite houseplant grower: Proven Winner's leafjoy™. With only the best plant genetics grown in a state-of-the-art, European greenhouse, you will not be disappointed in the variety and quality of your favorite plants from Proven Winner's leafjoy™. This company has taken the guesswork out of plant shopping with plant tags that include scientific names and care guides, as well as color-coded collections for the different areas of your home that you want plants in!Find plant joy in leafjoy™. Head to provenwinners.com to find your local leafjoy™ dealer and let me know which plant you take home on socials!Follow DarrylWebsiteInstagramFacebookYouTubePinterestFollow Maria and Growing Joy:Order my book: Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness (and Plants) by Maria Failla, Illustrated by Samantha LeungJoin the Bloom and Grow Garden Party Community Platform & App AKA the plantiest and kindest corner of the internet! Get your FREE 2-week trial here!Take the Plant Parent Personality Quiz (Get the perfect plants, projects and educational resources for YOUR Lifestyle)Support Bloom and Grow Radio by becoming a Plant Friend on Patreon!Instagram: @growingjoywithmariaTiktok: @growingjoywithmariaSubscribe to the Growing Joy Youtube channel! /growingjoywithmariaWebsite: www.growingjoywithmaria.comPinterest: @growingjoywithmariaOur Sponsors:* Check out Quince: https://www.quince.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

The holiday season is officially here! As much as I love this festive time of year, gift-giving can be stressful for me. I always struggle to find meaningful, budget-friendly presents that make my loved ones happy. But this year, I'm spreading holiday cheer by gifting my friends and family homemade plant-inspired presents. Not only is this a budget-friendly idea—it also allows me to share my plant passion with the special people in my life. Plus, don't you agree that plants make wonderful gifts, plant friends?In this episode, I'm sharing 5 DIY planty holiday gift ideas from simple to more advanced. Of course, I'm going to make sure there's something for every skill level and budget. Let's get crafting!In this episode, we learn:[00:00] What are some affordable DIY plant-themed holiday gift ideas?[04:58] #1 Thrifted propagation station[08:10] #2 Windowsill herb garden[10:30] #3 Stylish Kokedama[15:07] Looking for unique and soothing chimes as a holiday gift?[16:35] Looking for the best plant genetics and tailored care for your garden?[18:52] #4 Succulent Wreath[25:06] #5 Personalized Terrarium[31:20] Accompany your DIY crafts with my book!Mentioned in our conversation:How to Make a Living Succulent Wreath - Succulents and SunshineMichaels Greenery Terrarium17" Living Wreath Sphagnum Moss FormGreening PinsGrowing Joy Ep 168 Grow Your Own Tea: Intro to Herbalism With Juliet of Chestnut School of Herbal MedicineGrowing Joy Ep 178 The Mushroom Miniseries: Mushrooms 101Growing Joy Ep 183 The Mushroom Miniseries: How To Grow Functional Mushrooms In Your GardenGrowing Joy Ep 191 The Mushroom Miniseries: How To Grow Mushrooms IndoorsFor a more detailed description of each DIY gift,check out the full show notes and blog here!Thank you to our episode sponsors:Wind River ChimesBring more peace, serenity, and magic into your home with chimes. Wind River is a Virginia-based company creating premium handcrafted and hand-tuned wind chimes for over 35 years. If you are looking for a new way to grow joy in your life and find a moment of peace, a Wind River chime is the perfect addition to your home or garden. Plus, it's a perfect personalized gift for your loved ones this holiday season!Visit windriverchimes.com and use code GROWINGJOY to receive free engraving on all Corinthian Bells wind chimes.Proven WinnersIf you want to have success with houseplants, you've got to have two things: the knowledge to care for them successfully and healthy plants. Meet my new favorite houseplant grower: Proven Winner's leafjoy™. With only the best plant genetics grown in a state-of-the-art, European greenhouse, you will not be disappointed in the variety and quality of your favorite plants from Proven Winner's leafjoy™. This company has taken the guesswork out of plant shopping with plant tags that include scientific names and care guides, as well as color-coded collections for the different areas of your home that you want plants in!Find plant joy in leafjoy™. Head to provenwinners.com to find your local leafjoy™ dealer and let me know which plant you take home on socials!Follow Maria and Growing Joy:Order my book: Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness (and Plants) by Maria Failla, Illustrated by Samantha LeungJoin the Bloom and Grow Garden Party Community Platform & App AKA the plantiest and kindest corner of the internet! Get your FREE 2-week trial here!Take the Plant Parent Personality Quiz (Get the perfect plants, projects and educational resources for YOUR Lifestyle)Support Bloom and Grow Radio by becoming a Plant Friend on Patreon!Instagram: @growingjoywithmariaTiktok: @growingjoywithmariaSubscribe to the Growing Joy Youtube channel! /growingjoywithmariaWebsite: www.growingjoywithmaria.comPinterest: @growingjoywithmariaOur Sponsors:* Check out Quince: https://www.quince.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

In this episode of Girl, You So Random, I had the pleasure of talking to Sabrina Keeton-Hill. Sabrina is an interventional technologist in Philly. In 2006, she received her associate degree in Radiology from Drexel University. Her compassion to educate her community & herself with holistic practices lead her to furthering her education at Queen Afua Wellness University where she received her certificate for Sacred Woman Practitioner in 2017. In 2019, she also received certifications as a Yoni Steam Practitioner, Reiki, Herbalist and as a health coach with Integrative Institution of Nutrition, one of the largest online nutrition schools in the world. Currently she is studying at Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine and the proud owner of Queens United Wholistic Center LLC.  Follow her: IG @queensunitedwholistic FB @Queens United Wholistic This episode is sponsored by Mommy Marayam, hair and body products that cater to mommy and child. You can buy products for you and your baby at www.mommymarayam.com Vocals by: Dian Sentino on IG @belifuna Follow me on IG @drhollysfunny Email me: girlyousorandom@gmail.com

ECHO is back! Tune in for another wisdom filled interview with a fantastic pop alchemist, esoteric herbalist, astrologer, and dear friend. We talk tech's impact on contemporary magic, cybersecurity, herbal ethics, tree resins, as well as ECHO's herbal symphonies crafted with the 2023 occultist in mind. A note from the show: We meant to mention CommonWealth Holistic Herbalism School but misnamed it Chestnut School of Herbalism during recording. Enjoy this podcast and want to support it? www.ko-fi.com/ManaAelin Find ECHO: www.fancymonstervision.com Instagram @fancymonstervision Find Mana: www.mothmana.com Instagram: @mothmanatarot @realwitchespod Intro Song is "1985 Night Rider" by Tiny Music Outro Song is "Starfighter" by Eldorado

For most of us, the plants growing in our backyards and neighborhoods go overlooked. We mow them down or walk right over them without a second glance. But did you know many of these plants have been used medicinally for centuries? In this episode, we'll share fundamental tips from an expert forager, herbalist, and hiker, Heather Houskeeper. You'll learn basic plant identification skills, foraging best practices, and uses for several common medicinal "weeds."In this episode, we learn:[07:14] How Heather became a botanical hiker[09:30] Juliet's Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine[13:14] What does sheep's sorrel taste like?[18:54] What should you know when trying to make foraging your new hobby?[16:11] How does Heather's approach to foraging align with the concept of homesteading?[20:04] Where can you find the best chimes for your lawn and garden?[22:15] Why is plant identification key, especially specific to region, important?[25:35] Why is a magnifying loop helpful in the process of identifying plants?[26:36] Tips for your first foraging adventure[28:35] How to approach and communicate with a plant while foraging[30:51] How does sensory experience enhance plant-human connection?[31:35] What are good harvesting practices, especially if you're on public land?[36:21] General guideline for harvesting plants without causing harm to the overall population[37:38] What is the best way to identify plants while foraging?[38:34] Why is it important to use scientific names when searching for plant information?[39:47] Botanical terms and concepts that beginner foragers should understand[40:09] Radial and bilateral symmetry in flowers[42:33] Parts of a flower[44:22] Leaf arrangement and leaf shape[48:18] Herbalist terms you should know for medicinal purposes[50:44] Medicinal properties and uses of common plants[54:04] Healing properties of sorrel plant family[55:15] Healing properties of plantains[59:14] Healing properties of yarrow[01:02:37] Where can you find Heather online?Mentioned in our conversation:The Lodge at WoodlochChestnut School of Herbal MedicineGrowing Joy Episode 168 Grow Your Own Tea: Intro To Herbalism With Juliet Of Chestnut School Of Herbal MedicineLove and the Long PathA Guide to the Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Mountains to Sea TrailA Guide to the Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Finger Lakes TrailAlone - TV showFor five of the most common backyard healing plants and their uses,check out the full show notes and blog here!Thank you to our episode sponsor:Wind River ChimesBring more peace, serenity, and magic into your home with chimes. Wind River is a Virginia-based company creating premium handcrafted and hand-tuned wind chimes for over 35 years. If you are looking for a new way to grow joy in your life and find a moment of peace, a Wind River chime is the perfect addition for your home or garden. Plus, it's a perfect personalized gift for your loved ones!Visit windriverchimes.com and use code GROWINGJOY to receive free engraving on all Corinthian Bells wind chimes.Follow Heather:The Botanical HikerSchool of Plant and Place ConnectionInstagramFacebookYouTubeFollow Maria and Growing Joy:Order my book: Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness (and Plants) by Maria Failla, Illustrated by Samantha LeungJoin the Bloom and Grow Garden Party Community Platform & App AKA the plantiest and kindest corner of the internet! Get your FREE 2-week trial here!Take the Plant Parent Personality Quiz (Get the perfect plants, projects and educational resources for YOUR Lifestyle)Support Bloom and Grow Radio by becoming a Plant Friend on Patreon!Instagram: @growingjoywithmariaTiktok: @growingjoywithmariaSubscribe to the Growing Joy Youtube channel! /growingjoywithmariaWebsite: www.growingjoywithmaria.comPinterest: @growingjoywithmariaOur Sponsors:* Check out Quince: https://www.quince.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Happy Monday, Beauty! We hear a lot about divination, but there are also a lot of misconceptions around this art form. Today you will learn more from an amazing diviner and artist, Rissa Miller, who works with divination in ways you may have never heard of or seen before. Rissa holds a deep reverence for plants and the answers they offer, whether as tasseographs in a teacup, smoke in the air, a healing salve for the skin, a plant on the windowsill, or nourishment for the body. She's also a published author and poetess and has had several plays produced in the mid-Atlantic area. Find Rissa leading ghost tours or giving history talks at her job with Maryland History Tours, or learn about her work as a food editor at Vegan Journal. In her career, she's worked for five publications and studied writing at New York University/Tisch School of the Arts and photojournalism at Western Kentucky University. Rissa currently studies clinical herbalism (online) at Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine and Herbal Academy, concurrently. Learn more about her work at http://teaandsmoke.com If you enjoy the episode, subscribe to this channel, and share with your community. Then download The Energetic Alchemist app! Learn more at http://theenergeticalchemist.com and get your limited-edition of The Energetic Alchemist Oracle while you're there! xo

What does it mean to become ecological? This is the burning question behind today's podcast episode with Kelly Moody. These days especially, the word "ecology" has been cycling around internet, sparking many, many conversations about what it means to establish new relationships with each other and the land. In this episode, Kelly and I discuss why becoming ecological is not so much about what we "know" about nature, but about recognizing our inherent relationship with the Earth, each other, and all things else. About Kelly Kelly Moody is the main curator behind the Ground Shots Project and Podcast as well as is one of the CO-collaborators of the Colorado Trail Plant-a-go project. She grew up in rural southern Virginia near the border of North Carolina in tobacco and muscadine country. Growing up here, she went to her grandma's house daily as a child, where fresh biscuits and iced tea were a regular necessity. Her other grandma was a determined plant lady who started a nursery business on the outskirts of their small rural town, which remained open for almost 50 years. Kelly grew up hiding with her sister in the tropical greenhouses, taking craft classes in the small nursery workshop, shelling green beans and canning tomatoes. These experiences of being on the family farm, working with plants and creating followed Kelly into her adulthood. The past decade she has spent living simply in different landscapes studying plants, ecology and craft, writing about the land, growing food and herbs, or honoring her wanderlust by living on the road. She received a B. A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies in 2009 from Christopher Newport University in Virginia. She has studied herbal medicine, land tending, ecology and botany with Rebecca Golden in southern Vermont, Paul Strauss and Chip Carrol at the Goldenseal Sanctuary in southeast Ohio, Luke Learningdeer and Marc Williams in western North Carolina. She apprenticed with Juliet Blankespoor and attended the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine in Asheville, NC in 2013. She helped manage the gardens at Dancing Springs Farm in Asheville, NC from 2014-2016. She studied book arts and paper-making at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. She taught hide tanning techniques for classes held by the medieval bookbinder Jim Croft at his rural Idaho homestead from 2017-2019. She has completed a handful of art + activism focused artist residencies and workshops including Signal Fire's month-long Wide Open Studios program during the summer of 2017 in the Pacific Northwest and in the fall of 2019 in the Southwest. These programs greatly influenced the trajectory of her work connecting creativity and human relationship with ecology. In Summer 2020, she hiked the Colorado Trail documenting plants on foot and made notes on wild food and medicine gardens found along the old Ute pathways. Her educational work over the years has included holding classes on hide tanning, plant ID, wild foods, medicine making, natural dyes, nutrition and gardening. Kelly's interest in storytelling and cross-cultural dialogue comes from both an upbringing in the small-town rural south and the inspiration of meeting people while living on the road. Learn more about her work at the links below: Her Blog + Shop: Of Sedge and Salt Follow her on Instagram here and here Other links: Our new workshop, Greeting the Polypoetic Self Follow the Regenerative Mystic Podcast on Instagram Follow the Kinspirit on Instagram

How can we use plants medicinally in our lives? Plants heal us in more ways than one, and one of the less-known practices is herbalism. Most of the plants and herbs we use today were used for medicinal purposes in ancient times and are, in fact, still used in many cultures around the world as natural remedies. In this episode, Juliet Blankespoor, the founder of the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine, will teach us many different and easy ways that we can use plants as medicine so we can expand our knowledge on this whole field of plant benefits.In this episode, we learn:[04:58] What led Juliet Blankenspoor to become interested in herbalism[08:52] What makes plants medicinal, and have they been proven by doctors?[11:51] Energetics of plants and how to complement their energies with people's[15:49] How do you determine your own energy constitution?[16:45] Who is Wim Hoff and what are the possible benefits of cold showers?[19:16] What's the best way to get started with this completely new field of medicinal benefits?[22:22] Where to get the best seeds for your spring garden[23:38] The right choice for safe indoor and outdoor gardening products[27:03] What are the properties of Mint?[28:30] Some of the commonly used herbs that we might not be aware of[30:01] What tonic means in the context of herbal medicine[32:36] What are the medicinal properties of chives?[33:58] How we can prepare tea from fresh and dried herbs[38:16] Is there any medicinal value to the mint stem?[39:43] What other herbs can you grow to make your own tea?[44:13] Your next favorite kitchen appliance![47:19] What are some of the most versatile medicinal plants Juliet recommends exploring that aren't found in a traditional culinary garden?[48:19] What plants should you add to your culinary garden for medical benefits?[52:38] Juliet Blankespoor's favorite herbs that you can add to your cooking recipes[57:39] What can you learn from the book 'The Healing Garden: Cultivating and Handcrafting Herbal Remedies'?Mentioned in our conversation:The Healing Garden: Cultivating and Handcrafting Herbal Remedies, book by Juliet BlankespoorTea strainersWim Hof MethodSPECIAL OFFER: Juliet is offering the Bloom & Grow Audience 10% off all her courses. Email maria@bloomandgrowradio.com to get the special coupon code to redeem your discount.For a list of recipes and remedies of Juliet's recommended herbs,check out the full show notes and blog here!Thank you to our episode sponsors:Territorial Seed CompanyIt's time to start planning for growing season 2023! If you're looking for plants for your garden, skip the lines at the garden center and let Territorial Seed Company deliver top-of-the-line, healthy and hardy vegetable plants right to your door! They have a great line of pre-grown plants, an expansive seed catalog, and over 40 years of experience delivering the best seeds and plants for everyone's garden.Get an exclusive discount just for listeners of Bloom & Grow Radio, use code GROW10 to get 10% off your first order at territorialseed.com.Espoma OrganicEspoma Organic is dedicated to making safe indoor and outdoor gardening products for people, pets, and the planet. They have an amazing variety of high-quality, organic potting mixes, garden soil, fertilizers, and pest control products that are organic and eco-friendly.Visit espoma.com to find your local Espoma dealer or check my Amazon storefront.LomiLomi is a small countertop composter that is the perfect solution to reducing your garbage footprint and food waste. This sleek composter enables you to compost hassle-free: just take your food scraps and put it in the Lomi, press a button, and you're set! Lomi is giving a rare discount $50 off with code BLOOM at checkout!Go to pela.com and redeem your special gift and use code BLOOM at checkout!Follow Juliet:Chestnut School of Herbal MedicineHealing Garden Gateway, personal website of Juliet BlankespoorSPECIAL OFFER: Juliet is offering the Bloom & Grow Audience 10% off all her courses. Email maria@bloomandgrowradio.com to get the special coupon code to redeem your discount.Follow Maria and Bloom and Grow Radio:Order my book: Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness (and Plants) by Maria Failla, Illustrated by Samantha LeungJoin the Bloom and Grow Garden Party Community Platform & App AKA the plantiest and kindest corner of the internet! Get your FREE 2-week trial here!Take the Bloom and Grow Plant Parent Personality Quiz (Get the perfect plants, projects and educational resources for YOUR Lifestyle)Support Bloom and Grow Radio by becoming a Plant Friend on Patreon!Instagram and Facebook: @BloomandGrowRadioTiktok: @bloomandgrowradioSubscribe to the Bloom and Grow Youtube Show! /BloomandgrowradioWebsite: www.bloomandgrowradio.comJoin the (free) Garden Club: www.bloomandgrowradio.com/garden-clubAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

How Herbal Medicine Can Create Healing Foods | Juliet Blankespoor Juliet Blankespoor is the founder of the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine (an online school serving thousands of students from around the globe) and the author of The Healing Garden: Cultivating and Handcrafting Herbal Remedies. She's a bonafide plant geek, with a degree in botany and over 30 years of experience teaching and writing about herbalism, medicine making, and organic herb gardening. Juliet and her family reside in a home overrun with houseplants and books in Asheville, NC. Topics covered in this episode: Herbalism Herbal Medicine Atypical Plants to Grow Dehydrating Plants & Herbs Plants Throughout The Home Personal Care Herbs Harvesting & Preparing Meals Duxelle Gardening Experiencing Nature Referenced in the episode: The Lindsey Elmore Show Ep 202 | Drunk: Why We Drink and How It Civilized Us | Edward Slingerland To learn more about Juliet Blankespoor and her work, head over to https://www.chestnutherbs.com/ IG @chestnutschoolherbs __________________________________________________________ I want to share with you a show that has made such a difference in so many women who are breast-feeding's lives. It's called The Milk Making Minutes and it looks at the struggles and triumphs of breast feeding as well as the systemic barriers that women face when they are breast-feeding. One of the things we talk about on our show is how important it is to be your own advocate. It's not just about the systemic struggles that people face, it's really down to earth and practical advice about: Are you using the right size flange on your breast pump? How do you deal with a tongue tie? They also talk about the long-term benefits and the hope that breast-feeding can give new moms. I encourage you to go and check out the show. It's called The Milk Making Minutes. __________________________________________________________ If you're looking for fast acting in long lasting pain relief that helps with sports recovery, joint discomfort and stiffness, as well as being able to enjoy all of your favorite activities, my favorite supplement that I use to support the bodies natural pain responses help us to balance amatory function and use a special technology that helps to ensure efficient absorption and faster Relief Plus. Relief Plus from Amari have been scientifically shown to help improve sports recovery and joint health specifically, reduce joint stiffness within three days, reduced joint discomfort within five days and an increase range of motion within seven days simply take one to three capsules ounces of water and if you are having a particularly bad day you can use up to four doses of three capsules each. Head to www.lindseyelmore.com/amari grab some Happy Juice and then bundle with Relief Plus to get all of the cortisol lowering benefits, the serotonin raising benefits and the dopamine modulating benefits of Happy Juice along side the fast acting and long long lasting pain relief of Relief Plus. Head to www.lindseyelmore.com/amari and get $10 dollars off of your first order. __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ We hope you enjoyed this episode. Come check us out at www.lindseyelmore.com/podcast.

Juliet and Jiling chat about growing medicinal herbs in containers, making your own herbal fertilizer, and preventative garden practices to minimize diseases and pest problems. Juliet shares about her journey founding the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine, some of her “best plant friends,” and three homegrown teas to nourish winter wellness. We conclude with a reflection on kinship from the introduction to The Healing Garden, “When we grow and harvest our own medicine, the remedy is full spectrum— it contains the intangible and unquantifiable medicine of kinship.”  Find Juliet's new book The Healing Garden at mountainroseherbs.com or at the Healing Garden Gateway. Juliet Blankespoor is the founder of the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine (an online school serving thousands of students from around the globe) and the author of the bestselling book, The Healing Garden: Cultivating and Handcrafting Herbal Remedies. She's a bonafide plant geek, with a degree in botany and over 30 years of experience teaching and writing about herbalism, medicine making, and organic herb gardening. Juliet and her family reside in a home overrun with houseplants and books in Asheville, NC. Visit Juliet Blankespoor online: Blog Castanea Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine Chestnut School's Healing Garden Facebook Page Chestnut School's Facebook Page Chestnut School's Instagram Page Chestnut School's Pinterest Page Healing Garden Gateway Chestnut School's Tiktok Jiling Lin is a Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac) and herbalist in Ventura, CA. Visit Jiling at JilingLin.com, Instagram @LinJiling, and Facebook @JilingLAc. Get her free Nourishing Life (養生) template, Five Elements (五行) outline, or sign up for her newsletter here.  Join our community! Subscribe to the Mountain Rose Herbs newsletter Subscribe to Mountain Rose Herbs on YouTube Follow on Instagram Like on Facebook Follow on Pinterest Follow on Twitter Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. Mountain Rose Herbs www.mountainroseherbs.com

Today's episode is audio from Juliet Blankespoor's "Healing Garden Gateway". This is basically a bunch of bonuses when you buy her book! Her book is called "The Healing Garden: Cultivating and Handcrafting Herbal Remedies".  It's a beautiful book, with lots of great info, recipes, and more.  BUY THE BOOK GET THE BONUSES I also recommend checking out Juliet's blog "Castanea".  READ THE BLOG In the intro I mentioned her hawthorn elixir. CLICK HERE to read that. CLICK HERE to read my take on the recipe.  She also runs a school!  The Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine LEARN MORE  Thanks for listening! And a huge thanks to Juliet and her team for sharing this audio with all of us. Peace, Mason www.herbrally.com SUBSCRIBE to us on YouTube We come out with new herbalism videos every week. 

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Asia Suler is a writer, teacher, medicine maker, and earth intuitive bringing forth, healing into the world and helping people connect to their intuition and the earth's guidance. She is also the creatress behind One Willow Apothecaries; An online heart-centered space for learning, healing, connection, and a virtual apothecary where you can order Asia's celestial flower essences and Elixirs. Both a seeker and sage, Asia keeps herself connected to the wisdom of the earth, living and working from the lush green Blue Ridge mountains of Western North Carolina, also the ancestral lands of the Cherokee. Her courses in herbalism, vaginal healing, medicine making, and business are available online, both through One Willow Apothecaries and as a core online teacher at the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine. Asia's gifts of healing come wrapped in compassion and goodness with an overarching understanding that we are all our own healers; We sometimes need just a little guidance tapping into our inner navigational system, and this is where she works. In this powerful conversation, Tahnee and Asia talk about the alchemy of healing through heartache/pain, learning to trust intuition, the healing power of Daoist stone medicine and the mineral world, healing through holistic herbalism, Asia's Pussy Portal online journey, and so much more spiritual, esoteric goodness.   "I think this is a natural part of being a human being that we are in this relationship, really, with the parent of the earth, this parent that actually never forsakes us and has always been there for us and is helping us to really step into that power because that power is what will change the tide of our culture and our world". - Asia Suler     Tahnee and Asia discuss:   Daoist stone medicine. Daoist poetry and animism. Communing with nature. Dealing with chronic pain. Asia's Pussy Portal course. Vulvodynia and chronic pain. How Asia works with stone energy. Remembering The Truth Of Feminine Energy. Opening your intuitive connection with plants. Our relationship with stones and the mineral world.     Who is Asia Suler? Asia Suler is a writer, teacher, and ecological philosopher who lives in the folds of the Blue Ridge mountains. She is the creator and concoctress of One Willow Apothecaries— an Appalachian-grown company that offers handcrafted herbal medicines and online education. Asia's work— which is a unique combination of herbalism, animism, Daoist stone medicine, ancestral healing, and earth-centered mysticism— is rooted in the belief that self-compassion is a force of ecological healing. Her forthcoming book of nature writing will be available through North Atlantic Books in 2022. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON APPLE PODCAST    Resources: The Pussy Portal Asia's Instagrtam Asia Suler YouTube One Willow Apothecaries What Is Your Earth Healing Archetype?   Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast? A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We'd also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher :)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Tahnee: (00:00) Hi, everybody. I'm Tawny from SuperFeast and I'm really, really honoured to interview Asia Suler today. She is located in North Carolina. That's right? On some beautiful Cherokee land. And she's a stunning writer, a beautiful herbalist. She teaches about earth medicine and mineral medicine, and she crafts these beautiful medicines, which I'm really excited to talk to her about. And she's the founder of One Willow Apothecaries. Some of you might follow her online. I know a lot of our team are really into Asia's work. So it's such a privilege to have you here today, Asia. Thank you for joining me.   Asia Suler: (00:36) Thank you so much for having me.   Tahnee: (00:38) Yeah. So exciting. And did I get that right? Are you in North Carolina?   Asia Suler: (00:43) Yes. You got that exactly right, yep. I'm in the mountains of Western North Carolina.   Tahnee: (00:48) One of the most stunning parts of the States from my understanding, yeah?   Asia Suler: (00:53) Yeah. Well, I think so. It's very, very beautiful old mountains here, some of the oldest mountains in the world.   Tahnee: (01:02) And could you give us a sense of the landscape? Is it big forests or kind of more planes? What are we thinking when we think of Carolina?   Asia Suler: (01:10) Yeah. So Western North Carolina, where I live, is the Appalachian mountains. So it's a Southern Appalachian. So you can think about basically this is a temperate rainforest here. So it's just lush green, lots of life, lots of trees, coves mountain tops, but it's very undulating landscape. It's like being in a grandmother's lap being here. So, yeah. That's kind of how the land feels here. And for a bit of a pop culture reference, if anybody watches Outlander, they end up here at some point, so that ...   Tahnee: (01:47) My best friend is obsessed with that show. She's going to be like, "Yes."   Asia Suler: (01:51) Yeah. I don't think they actually filmed it here, but they do end up here. And so just the soft mountainous, old growth kind of feel is a good description, I think.   Tahnee: (02:04) Are you born and raised in that part of the world or did you have a journey there?   Asia Suler: (02:10) Yeah, no. I moved here about 10 years ago. I grew up in Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia. So I grew up in the suburbs between Philadelphia and New York city. And my family is all, both sides, from New York City and that city area. So, yeah. It was a pretty big change to move down here, but I felt very guided and at the time I was living in New York City and I just woke up one day and in my head, I thought I'm going to study herbalism. Now, at the time I think I thought I knew what that meant, but I actually had no idea. The bliss of the ignorant.   Tahnee: (02:57) The rest of your life.   Asia Suler: (02:57) Yeah. But I just knew it was the right path for me. I was passionate about plants and earth connection already. And so, yeah. I applied to a school here, which ended up being the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine and just fell in love with the school and the place and just never really looked back. This became home.   Tahnee: (03:17) And full circle, you teach for that school now don't you?   Asia Suler: (03:22) I do. Yeah.   Tahnee: (03:23) Yeah. It's so beautiful. Must be nice to maintain that connection to the community.   Asia Suler: (03:28) Yeah, definitely. It's a great school and they have amazing programmes. Yeah. I just feel so lucky that they're here and that I got to get my education with them because they're stellar.   Tahnee: (03:41) And so tell me, you were in New York. What were you doing there? Obviously you weren't into herbalism at that point. So did you have another career or another path before?   Asia Suler: (03:51) Yeah. So I had a couple jobs while I was living there. It was after I graduated from college. So I was kind of just figuring things out. My first job out of college there was as a plant technician, which means I took care of people's office plants. So all day long, I ranged around Manhattan with a watering can and a duffel bag full of plant supplies and would take care of hundreds of plants a day, like Rockefeller Centre and down in the Financial District. So, yeah. I went all over the place taking care of plants and I just was looking for any job I could find that would be interacting with plants or nature in the city. And that's what I found. And so I did that for a while until just basically the grind of commuting into Manhattan and having probably upwards of 300 30 second conversations a day with every ... I love talking to the plants, but the socialising with the people part got hard, especially for an introvert like me. So I ended up leaving that job and becoming a dog Walker.   Tahnee: (05:04) How cute.   Asia Suler: (05:04) It was actually one of my favourite jobs I've ever had. I loved it so much. I did freelance writing on the side but my main job was as a dog Walker and it was just such a beautiful time to daydream and just walk around my neighbourhood, where I lived in Brooklyn, so it was a lot quieter there. And, yeah. That was really a time where I seeded a lot of the dreams that I ended up following. So I like to share that because I think a lot of times everyone has big dreams for their life and I truly believe that those dreams are possible. And sometimes those jobs that we would never expect are the things that actually ended up really giving our spirit something that they need, whether it's time or space or financial support that we then can really use as a springboard into taking that next step in our life.   Tahnee: (05:57) I mean, that dreaming for you was that this life that you've built now, or were there stepping stones along the way for you? How did that manifest in your visioning?   Asia Suler: (06:07) Yeah. Every time I would dream into it I saw myself spinning in a meadow on a mountain top, that was my vision-   Tahnee: (06:16) Like Julie Christie.   Asia Suler: (06:16) ... of my life. Yeah. I didn't totally know what that meant, but at the time I had gotten my Reiki masters and so I was wanting to work with clients and I thought, "Well, I'm going to go to school for Western herbalism." So I will learn the things that I probably would have a hard time teaching myself, things like physiology and disease process and chemical constituents of plants. And then I'll open a practise and I'll start combining these things, Reiki and energy healing with herbalism in an informed way and work with people. I had really no idea that I would graduate from school and there would be a very strong directive from my intuition to start a products business.   Asia Suler: (07:05) And I was very resistant to it at first. I was like, "I don't want to have a products business." I had worked for a lot of brick and mortars growing up. So I saw just the challenge of selling physical items-   Tahnee: (07:20) Yeah. Retail business.   Asia Suler: (07:20) ... and replenishing stock. Yeah. It's hard. And so I was really reluctant to do it, but the message just would not go away. So, yeah. Finally I did it. I launched One Willow Apothecaries and that, again, it was like that next step that helped reveal what had been waiting for me. So I don't think I could have conceived of the life that I'm living now. I didn't really have a template for it then, but I think that I started that business, that products business, and then people started asking me to teach. And I thought, "Okay, well, why not?" I'll give this a try and found that actually I loved it and that it flowed really naturally from me. And it was a passion I didn't even know that I had. And so while my intention was this open a healing practise, I did do that, but eventually where it took me was really more into this realm of being a teacher and a speaker and a guide.   Asia Suler: (08:17) And I just would never have been able to conceive of that before. At one point I thought, "Oh, maybe I'll become a professor." Maybe one day I'll go back to school and get my PhD or whatever and I'll become a professor. I just didn't have a template for what that would look like to teach and not be teaching in, for example, the school system in elementary school or middle school or even college or university, but what would it be like to teach outside of that? I just didn't know. And so I really now have come to learn to trust those intuitive hits that, say, "Go there, do this thing, try this." Because even if it seems like it's not fully in alignment with where you think you were wanting to go or what you thought your next step was, it opens you up, taking that last little walk on a vista to see this new part of the path open up for you. So I'm excited to keep walking and see what is around the bend.   Tahnee: (09:24) [crosstalk 00:09:24].   Asia Suler: (09:24) Yeah. Because I think our journeys are always unfolding.   Tahnee: (09:28) And even on that point of, I guess, you seem to have such a master of the internet as a platform for sharing and teaching. And I think that wasn't even a reality 15 years ago. None of us could imagine being an internet [inaudible 00:09:44], to be here talking to you via Zoom. I couldn't have conceived of that, that long ago. So I think it's this sense of trusting that it's so much bigger than even what our tiny little consciousness can conceive in the moment. But I also noticed one of your favourite books is Buhner's Secret Teaching of Plants. And we've had him on the podcast before. My husband and I are very big fans of his and I guess I'm feeling into that connection to the sort of awakening he speaks about around the heart space and learning to interact with everything is kind of sentient. And then how that cultivates a sense of trust and, I guess, purposing and guidance coming from this awareness of how interconnected everything is. Is that something would you say that's helped influence this trust and faith you have an intuition or is it just through living or is there anything in particular you can point to?   Asia Suler: (10:39) Yeah, absolutely. When I was in college, I developed a chronic pain condition called vulvodynia, which is basically chronic valvular pain. There's not really a medical explanation for it in the Western model. So I was diagnosed with this chronic pain condition and really I didn't have much of a recourse of what to do. And at some point I was told the only thing I could do was to get surgery to remove nerve endings from my vulva. And it was just one of those moments where you have a breakthrough voice come through and that voice said there's another way and you can find it. And so really what I started doing and how I took solace during that time was I started going outside, talking to the trees and communing with nature and sitting with the plants. And I was really lucky where I went to college, that there was a farm nearby with Woodlands and places to wander.   Asia Suler: (11:42) And that was where I felt seen. It was where I felt heard, it was where I experienced comfort. I think anytime people experience chronic pain, it's often invisible. A lot of times people don't see it. And especially chronic pain in that area of your body, it's sort of like a double whammy because you're really not supposed to talk about it. You're not supposed to talk about your vagina. You're not supposed to talk about anything having to do with your vulva. So, yeah. So to me, my primary caregiver and guide became the natural world mostly out of anguish and strife. But the amazing thing is I started bringing the heartache and the pain that I was experiencing to the earth. And I started hearing the plants speak back to me. And this was before I had started on my herbalism journey or if he had even gardened or anything like that before, but I could hear them and I could feel them.   Asia Suler: (12:44) It was like this dimension of the world that I always knew was there, but that I had closed down my perception of at a young age, just because of the culture that many of us grew up in where that was considered unintellectual, silly at times, and just in some ways antithetical to the culture that I was brought up in, which was very much this Northeastern, a bit sarcastic, highly intellectual way of viewing the world. And so, yeah. I started having these amazing experiences and then nature started guiding me. I started receiving dreams and messages about next steps to take. And so it was a very windy path that included things like realising I had undiagnosed food allergies and going to physical therapy and working with trauma and really releasing trauma that I had in my body from previous in my life. I realised that it was this multifaceted thing, ancestral healing, and it was through these different avenues that I did eventually heal something that I was told was unhealable. It took about five years.   Asia Suler: (14:02) And on the other side, it was like this trial by fire to really learn how to trust those intuitions that come in and how to trust the earth and that the earth has me and holds me and wants to help me. And so I think for a lot of people, there is something that happens, some sort of initiation. Sometimes it has to do with health, physical health, mental health, where it feels like everything is falling apart and what's really happening is you're being taken apart so you can be put back together again into a wholeness that you always knew was there, but perhaps hadn't fully accessed before. And I think for a lot of us who experience that, we end up here on a podcast like this and on journeys of healing like this. And we end up on that other side learning to trust more of what we received because we have found that there is guidance in the unseen and there is guidance within us. And oftentimes that guidance is more accurate than perhaps some of the well-meaning but misguided guidance that we've gotten from other systems that we're a part of.   Tahnee: (15:11) I mean, I want to bookmark about five things there because I want to go into more detail about your relationship with the living world, but I'm also really interested in when you work with others. And I mean, I've seen it in your teaching that there is this real, I guess, sense of deep connection to nature. And is that, for you, the key? If you were guiding someone or supporting someone on their healing journey, how much of it is your reading of them and how much of it is you encouraging them to go and find their own path to healing? I hope this is making sense, but trying to tease this out because I do healing and energy work sometimes, not so much in the last few years due to business demands, but it's something I often find is there's this, co-creation in that space with myself and the person, but really they're leading the unveiling, I suppose, of what they need and I'm just this vessel for, I guess, what they can't see for themselves. I hope this makes sense. So how would you encourage a client or a customer or someone you're dealing with to go and get into this space themselves, especially if you're not dealing with them face to face?   Asia Suler: (16:24) Yeah. I think my role, how I see my role, is that of the guide. That I come in for a period of time, whether it's through my teaching or my practise, which is also currently on pause for me, but I come in and I see them where they're at, but I also see what their spirit is asking them to step into. I think that's my favourite part about working with people is you can really see their divinity. You really feel just their deep beauty and talent and wisdom. And so my job is really just to reflect that back to them. And it's a great job. It's really wonderfully fulfilling to do that and to just like fall in love, basically, with every person that you work with, because you're just seeing like, "Oh my gosh, this person's amazingly special." And so I get to reflect that back to them and really that's oftentimes all people really need, is to keep having it reflected back to them and shown to them.   Asia Suler: (17:27) And that is the guidance that they need to tap into that inner navigational system, because everybody is their own healer. Everybody knows on a deeper level what they need. And so I'm really passionate about helping people connect to their intuition and to speak to the earth, to speak to their guides here on this planet and beyond, because I think what they receive for themselves is going to be dead on and what I receive might help them understand that message, but ultimately it's like we are all receivers and we are all channels for this wisdom that wants to flow through us for our wider selves. That's the term that I like to use. So, yeah. I very much see myself as this benevolent earth mirror and guide in my work. And it's a wonderful place to be.   Tahnee: (18:26) I really love that. Yeah. I teach yoga sometimes and having a child now it's like having all these little babies, especially at the end when everyone is vulnerable. I teach yin yoga too. So it's like slug yoga. Nobody moves for hours. But I watch them all the veils ... They're all the faces are clear and they come out and it's like this huge overwhelming sense of love. And I've seen a lot of transformation through people just being loved in that way. And it does remind me a lot of parenting. You have to just, no matter what, hold this open heart for your child and your partner and your family and your business. Yeah. I think it's a really nice place to give from, I suppose.   Tahnee: (19:09) I mean, I want to go back to what you were saying about this relationship with the natural world, because one thing that I guess I haven't had a lot of people speak about this. There's a guy called Elliot Cohen. I don't know if you know his work. I really love ... His book was one of those ones that I cried through. I was just like, "Yes." And he talks a bit about stone medicine and the relationship with the mineral kingdom. And I know that's something you're teaching and working with. And my first experience with ... I've always had a real connection to rocks and stones, but I actually on plant medicine one time had a proper three hour conversation with this grandfather rock. And I just remember it's one of the most visceral memories of my life that I can draw from and the wisdom and the like, "I've seen all this before," kind of vibe. The same is very comforting from that kingdom, I think, in terms of this like, "Don't take any of this too seriously. It's all just part of the unfolding." Is that how you've ended up? What sort of lessons or teachings have you drawn from that kingdom? How do you encompass that relationship?   Asia Suler: (20:27) I love that you said grandfather rock because all stones feel like grandmothers and grandfathers to me. We have a lot of really big, beautiful boulders where I live, including some big quartz boulders and just the wisdom and the peace that emanates from them, I mean, it's almost addictive. You're like, "I just love stones. I just want to be with them." They are some of the oldest beings on earth. They are really our great grandparents in a way in that stones and the minerals they're made up of are what feeds the green world, the world of the plant kingdom. And then we eat the plants. And so really indirectly, but our lives are dependent on stones and on the mineral world. And our relationship with stones as humans is very ancient.   Asia Suler: (21:23) The time that we've been out of the quote-unquote stone age is very short. For most of our experience as human beings, we have really been reliant upon stones. As tools, yes, in a very physical craftsmanship kind of way, but I think also as spiritual conduit. So there's a reason why in the neolithic era, as it's described, we built these amazing temples of stones, stone circles, and dolmans and standing stones, because we had carried with us through, at that point, over 100,000 years of working with stones, this knowledge that stones are these gatekeepers to deep earth wisdom, to other dimensions of experience and being. I mean, thinking about what stones have lived through, just the literal metamorphic journey of some stones, I mean, they have seen so many aeons and years of this earth flourish and die back, flourish and die back. So I think just being with stones, it gives you this long view and it reminds you of the eternal part of yourself.   Asia Suler: (22:36) And so part of my training is in Daoist stone medicine, which was brought to this country by Jeffrey Yuen, who's an 88th generation Daoist priest.   Tahnee: (22:46) I love him.   Asia Suler: (22:47) Yeah. He's amazing. And one of his teachings around the stones is that stones help us go to basically the deepest level of our being and the Daoist understanding, which is this Yuan level of our being. So this is the level of our being that is where our unconscious lives, it's where archetypes live. It's where our quote-unquote junk DNA lives, the realm of dreams. So literally stones have this ability from this Daoist perspective to take us into the absolute deepest layer of our being, to commune with this deep layer of ourselves, basically the part of ourselves that is still in touch with our soul and our soul's plan. And I have found that to be true with stones that they're interesting to work with as medicine in that I think sometimes their signature is very similar to how they are. It can be slow and it can be incremental, but once a change is made, it's set in stone. It is as permanent as stone itself. And so I've seen really amazing changes happen for myself and people I work with through working with the energy and the medicine that stones can bring.   Tahnee: (24:04) And how are you doing that in a practical sense? Is it through physically holding them or through infusing fluid with their energy or what's the kind of process with that?   Asia Suler: (24:17) I think the easiest way is to interact with them on the body. So holding them in meditation, having jewellery where the stone is actually touching your skin or doing meditations, or even acupressure work with having stones on particular parts of the body. It's the most accessible way to work with stones and I find it to be quite effective. I was trained in using elixirs. If you're new to using stone elixirs, then it's a really good idea to be super safe because a lot of stones have components to them that are just not safe for us to ingest. So a good place to start if you're interested in this is with any of the quartz crystals. So if it's an untreated quartz crystal like clear quartz, rose quartz, untreated citrine and smoky quartz, those are all really safe stones to start with.   Asia Suler: (25:12) Another way to do it is to make an elixir where you basically put the stone inside a glass cup and you put that glass cup inside of a water bowl, so that the stones basically energy and electromagnetic energy can affect the water, which we know it does, without the stone actually touching it. So that's another safe way to make an elixir. I think elixirs are nice because it gives us that grounding ritual of interacting with the stone. And of course, in Daoist medicine elixirs and internal preparations are a really big part of how they like to interact with stones. It also got them into trouble in the past, just getting mercury poisoning or whatever. So they had to learn the hard way about using stones in certain ways. So, yeah. For I would say anyone who's listening, working with stones on your body or making the safe elixirs that I mentioned are a really good place to start.   Tahnee: (26:15) Yeah. I think I really like that idea of separating it out, but the frequency is still affecting it. That's how I was taught. So my teacher taught us a little bit about this, but you don't put it directly into your water. You have it around or nearby and let it spend time together. And I hope this is okay to ask, but I noticed when you said the energy, you were sort of like, "Oh." Is that something you find hard to talk about, the energy of something like a stone or is it just something that makes you kind of giggle? I guess I ask because for me, I find sometimes I have this quite academic brain and then I've also had these quite insane experiences that are completely beyond the realm of current science, I suppose. There's some fringe stuff that is articulating what I experienced, but it's not really mainstream. And, yeah. Sometimes I find myself just going, "How do I even explain this to people? How to even make this known?" Could you relate to that or was I completely misreading that?   Asia Suler: (27:25) Yeah. I definitely also have an academic brain and have had wild unexplainable experiences and I'm a lover of language, so I'm always wanting to find the description that captures an experience the best. And I think maybe the pause with energy was twofold. One, I sometimes think that that word is used so much that people start skimming over what that really means and start tuning it out when they hear someone talk about energy, like, "What does that even mean? What are you trying to describe with energy?" And then the other side of that is that I do see myself as a bridge builder, helping people who might come from that more like academic, rational background to feel safe enough to start bridging this world. I know for a long time I was really resistant to starting to do this type of work because I saw it as very ungrounded, so in some ways, unthought through and unintellectual, et cetera, as I mentioned before.   Asia Suler: (28:41) And so I'm always trying to be as specific as I can with my language to describe things, because I want people to have that bridge to walk over and to know that this is something I've thought about, that I really thought about how to articulate this and have researched what is the terminology that we can use to describe what we understand with our limited tools. And then beyond that, what is the poetry we can use to describe this rather than defaulting sometimes to these words that tend to lose their meaning over time. I still think energy's a really beautiful word. And frankly, for a lot of things, it's still the most accurate.   Tahnee: (29:23) Totally.   Asia Suler: (29:24) But I am always searching for just the right lexicon for things.   Tahnee: (29:30) Well, because one of the things about you is you're a stunning writer. You have this incredible gift with language and it was actually one of the first things I noticed about you is your way with prose. And there is a poetry to it and you do manage to capture. I guess that's something I admire, especially about your Instagram, is how you turn that platform into this conduit for wisdom and beauty, which isn't always. So I'd like to compliment you on that. And I wonder about your journey with writing. You said you were a freelance writer, so did you study something to do with that in college or was it just something you've always been passionate about? Or how did your journey with writing happen?   Asia Suler: (30:11) Yeah. Writing was really the heart of my journey for a long time. So I grew up writing poetry and in high school really dedicated myself to that. Started a poetry slam club and entered poetry contests. And it was really the centre of my life. And then when I went to college, I was an English major and specialised in poetry. And I always wanted to be a writer, but I had no idea how that would be possible. And again, I think as we mentioned before, and as you brought up, we didn't even know what would happen with the internet in the next 15 years of our life. So at that time, it was, and it still is very hard to get a publishing deal, et cetera, but it was just hard to get your writing out there to get people to read.   Asia Suler: (31:08) There were no alternative routes, it felt like. It seemed like the blog world was actually still quite small and this other world of going traditional publishing was really hard if you didn't have a name and you didn't have an expertise in a certain field or had a position at a university. And so I just didn't know how that would be possible. So when I moved to New York, I started doing freelance writing for different journals having to do with natural living and green beauty. And, yeah. So I kept my writing chops up in that way. And then I decided to start a blog. I was like, "I'm going to do this blog thing." And then I really realised through starting One Willow Apothecaries that so much of what spoke to people in my work was my writing, that the writing that accompanied different products and different offerings wasn't secondary to the healing that people were experiencing, it was a part of it. And so it's been really cool to just watch the world evolve and see how there's so many more avenues now for writers to express themselves and to have their writing reach who it's meant to reach. So, yeah. I am very excited actually to announce that my first book will be coming out next year.   Tahnee: (32:33) Yay. I was going to ask, because I saw you say in another interview, "I want to write a book." So I was like, "It has to be happening."   Asia Suler: (32:37) Yeah.   Tahnee: (32:37) Do you have a publish date?   Asia Suler: (32:38) I do. It'll be next June, June 2022. So it'll be a little ways away. The publishing world for you, it's amazing how just much time and energy goes into it. But, yeah. It's something I started working on, at this point, eight or nine years ago, started collecting pieces for not totally sure how they were going to fit together. And the book really took me on a journey to understand it and therefore understand myself and what it was I was bringing through in my writing, which the book centres on and what I think a lot of my writing has centred on in the past 10 years of my life, this concept of learning self-compassion through interacting with a sentient world and that the living world really wants us to see and recognise our goodness because it is through seeing ourselves and seeing our goodness and accepting our worthiness and our beauty that we access our gifts, the gifts that we're meant to bring to this planet.   Asia Suler: (33:42) So I really have experienced myself interacting with the living world through these affirmations of love and support and these reflections that I'm natural and what I'm going through is normal and natural as an earthling on this planet, that I've received so much from that. And I think this is a natural part of being a human being that we are in this relationship, really, with the parent of the earth, this parent that actually never forsakes us and has always been there for us and is helping us to really step into that power because that power is what will change the tide of our culture and our world. So anyways, that is what the book is about and that is what I've realised I've been writing towards in these past 10 years and been just so passionate about.   Asia Suler: (34:39) And I just feel so grateful that this childhood dream that I had of being a writer has now become a reality through just all the different avenues and tools that we have in this day and age.   Tahnee: (34:52) I love that sense that I just heard from that, that the earth is providing that mirror of your divinity that you were talking about providing. So there's this beautiful kind of ... Yeah. I guess your journey is now something you're able to offer others. I worked in publishing, so I know the suffering of authors and I also know the industry and I think it's such a, again, one of those things you can't see, but to do what you're doing and to then publish into the world that you've created for yourself, it's the best case scenario because, like you said, it's this culmination of your journey and then there's this tangible thing at the end that you're able to share and then you'll build on that. Yeah. It's really exciting. Can't wait to get a copy.   Tahnee: (35:41) So I wanted to talk a little bit about your writing still. There's an amazing post you did called Nice Girl, Kind Woman. I hope I got that right. Obviously you remember that piece I hope. And I, like probably many women, reading that was like, "Ooh, that's some powerful writing right there." And I guess I'm wondering if that theme is what your healing around your vulva and all of this kind of stuff? Is that the essence or the distillation of what that journey was for you, or is that a bit too simplistic? And could you tell us a little bit about what you were pointing to in that piece? Because I think it's a really important topic.   Asia Suler: (36:26) Yeah, sure. So the piece is called Nice Girls Versus Kind Women, and the piece is exploring the difference between the two and the reality that we're socialised in Western culture to be nice girls. So nice being something that someone decides for you. So you don't decide whether or not you're nice, that's dependent on how someone perceives you. Nice being someone who's agreeable and easy and accommodating. So that is in comparison and contrast to kind women. So a kind woman is kind because she's deciding to be kind. There's a sovereignty to it. You're deciding to be compassionate and loving. And sometimes that doesn't look so cosy. So goddesses can be kind. Goddesses aren't nice.   Tahnee: (37:24) They are not.   Asia Suler: (37:25) And I think this is important that we remember that the truth of what you might call feminine energy is, that it's not about being smoothed over and acquiescent and agreeable to all those you meet and flattering to all those you meet and putting people at ease, but it is in part about being kind. So it's a kindness, sometimes, to call people out on their BS. It's a kindness to stand up for yourself and for other people. And I think as an empath and a highly sensitive person, I've always been very aware of how other people felt. And because I was socialised as a woman, a lot of times that defaulted to me being a nice girl, really putting aside my own needs, my own thoughts and feelings, and literally experiences in order to make someone else comfortable. I think a lot of us have been trained to do that.   Asia Suler: (38:38) So the flip side of that would be, you can still be sensitive and empathic and deeply compassionate and caring and just be kind, starting with being kind to yourself. What would be the kindest thing to do right now at this moment? I have some stories in that blog. There was one story that happened after that blog that was just a really amazing distillation of this, which is that I was out hiking and came across this man. And I've never had a negative experience hiking here ever. But unfortunately this guy was really projecting a lot of violating creepy energy and started to make comments about myself and my body. And we were alone on this trail far away from other people. And I think in the past, I might've defaulted to being the nice girl. And I think it has been the case in the past that to be nice was to be safe. Our foremothers and in our matrilineal line, that's a code that's been embedded is I just need to keep myself safe right now and the best way to do that is to be nice.   Asia Suler: (39:56) But I really asked myself what would I do if I was being kind, not only to myself, but to this person. It's a kindness to alert him to what's actually happening when he's expressing this to me. So I turned around and faced him. He was following me. And I turned around and faced him. And I just told him straight up what I was experiencing. I said, "The way that you're speaking and what you're saying to me, it's making me really uncomfortable. And here's why." It was almost as if this angelic force took over my body, because I said it with so much love. I just felt myself beaming love out of my eyes to this person. And just saying like, "Can you understand and see in this moment that this is actually really scary for me and you understand why that would be."   Asia Suler: (40:49) Yeah. So I didn't say it with daggers. I said it with love. And it was like night and day. It was like I saw the blood drop out of his head or something. And he just mumbled some apology and turned tail and left. And it was just such a powerful moment for me to realise like, "Oh my goodness. It is powerful to be kind and it is protective to be kind and kindness means standing in your power and seeing another person's power in its truth." Not in the ways that they're abusing it, but their power to be good and their power to be kind to themselves. And, yeah. I think this was definitely a part of my journey with vulvodynia and chronic pain, I don't think it was all of it, but I think that just the cultural conditioning that is inside of us is absolutely acting on us all the time and the stress that those stories cause, the stress alone of those stories can really cause actual physical malfunction in our bodies. So to start rewriting that story, I think it is essential.   Tahnee: (42:04) Well, because I guess I think about ... There's another story you share in that article and I'll link to it in the show notes for this, but around being in a hot tub and someone grabbing you. And I relate to that, where you're just like, "I'm just going to get out of here," instead of confronting the situation. I think a lot of women I've spoken to and worked with have had those experiences, where it's not "proper rape" or anything like that, but it's inappropriate touch or inappropriate behaviour and we're not taught how to handle it. And a lot of us do default to don't rock the boat, just get out of the situation and stay safe. And I think, I know for myself in my own work around ... Yeah. I mean, just in your Pussy Portal, I'm heading there, but I've done a lot of work with my vagina over the years and had a beautiful home birth with my first daughter.   Tahnee: (42:58) And I think a lot of the reason I was able to do that was because of the healing I'd done over the years. I had chronic pain when I first went on the pill when I was 17 or 16. And I didn't realise ... Now I'm completely aware of what was going on, but it was not being able to communicate about sex, having inappropriate sex. It wasn't like I was ... It was with one partner, but I wasn't able to communicate my needs. So it was tensing up and then the pill hormonally was causing dryness and there was all this stuff going on. And I just thought I was broken. And I was this little girl just thinking everything was wrong with me. And over the decades of healing around that, it's been through internal work and through Dyadic work and Daoist practises and things that I've really come to value and almost worship that energy of how much power we hold as women. It's quite insane. And for me, my first pregnancy and birth was probably the culmination of recognising that, just really seeing and honouring, I guess, myself in that capacity to hold the power of that experience. And, yeah. I'm interested in your Pussy Portal, how you teach that and what practises and things you're encouraging people to explore through that work. Can you tell us please?   Asia Suler: (44:21) Sure. Yeah. So the Pussy Portal is an online library of resources having to do with root healing. It's created for anybody who feels they have a pussy or whatever word you want to insert there. That is the word that I use often in the work and felt very guided to use that word as a reclamation. But everyone has different words that they like, and it's all beautiful. And, yeah. So there's a lot of different practises that are featured in the portal. We do have Jade Egg and uni massage and different tantric practises. We also have herbal support and herbal protocols for various things, including hormone balancing, yeast infections, BV.   Asia Suler: (45:09) Yeah. There's so much. It's divided into four sections. So the idea of the portal is that when we're manifesting issues in the root of our body, it's because there's one of four relationships that's asking to be healed: your relationship to yourself, your relationship to others, your relationship to your ancestors, and your relationship to the earth. So within each gateway, there's a lot of resources focusing on those different areas of relationship. So everything from learning how to dance in a way that releases your pelvic floor and how to use your pussy as an oracle to actually understand what your truth is and make decisions. And there's science to back this up, that our pelvic floor and the nerves that innervate this part of our body are very connected into our nervous system.   Asia Suler: (46:03) And then tantric practises and relationships to others and how to have sex that heals your vagina because what you shared about having these early sexual experiences that were not in alignment with you and that were not appropriate and that ended up causing harm is I think a lot of people's experience of having sex, which it doesn't have to be. Yeah. And so the ancestral portion goes into the ancestral, sometimes the transgenerational and ancestral trauma that can manifest in this area of our body. And that is just very real. If you're someone who has ovaries, then literally you at one point were an egg in your grandmother's body.   Tahnee: (46:52) You've been through what she's been through.   Asia Suler: (46:54) You've been through what she's been through. We pass these things down the lineage and they live in our roots. So there's a lot to explore there. And then the connection to the earth, I think is this frontier that I'm very excited about. The reality that this is the root of our body, this is how we root here on this planet. And so when we are ... I also think that there's been times, especially in Western history, because that's what I'm most familiar with, where this connection to this part of our body has been severed specifically to sever us from the connective power of being in alignment with the earth. And so when we have this part of our body flourishing, we're able to receive earth energy and earth power and be embodied and emboldened by [inaudible 00:47:47] as birthers, as you mentioned, people who literally bring forth new life, literal new terrain and land onto this planet. And so there's so much there that I'm really excited about exploring, and it's really my growth edge. But, yeah. Those are the four different categories we explore in the portal.   Tahnee: (48:10) It sounds amazing. And I feel like those pieces are all loosely what I've experienced, especially the ancestral ones. It's really interesting because even though I had ... My midwife was like, "That was like a textbook home birth. It was perfect." And then I went to this shamanic pregnancy workshop four years later, my daughter was four and I was about to get married. And I sat through this experience with the 60 other women. And all I felt was shame and I couldn't work out where it was coming from. I was so ashamed of my birth and my experience. And then we did a journey and I came back that it was like my grandmother, not my mother, but her mother. My mum was adopted so I don't have a lot of stories about her. I don't really know her story, but I know she was a single mother and it was very embarrassing for their family. They were a [inaudible 00:49:05] family. It was really interesting to feel how I was carrying that shame. And I had to go on quite a deep process to move it through my buddy. And I was like, "Wow, this is an incredible experience." So, yeah. I can really relate to that ancestral piece as well. It's a big one. And you do a lot of shamanic work.   Asia Suler: (49:28) Yeah. What a powerful story.   Tahnee: (49:29) Yeah. I mean, it was a big day. I'm not going to say it's a pleasant experience, but it was a big day. But, yeah. You do a lot of shamanic work and I notice your relationship with herbs seems quite shamanic. I've read, and I don't know if this is true, that you said this or someone else, but that you see reishi almost like a psychedelic and that's been my experience working with her. I find, especially with meditation, it's like ... I can't even explain it. It's like a whole nother dimension of reality opens up when I work with reishi. And I know angelica is another one of your favourite herbs. So would you speak a little bit to that, I guess, other dimensional experience that you feel when you work with certain herbs or is it every herb that you have that with? Because I don't have it with every herb, just a couple.   Asia Suler: (50:15) Yeah. I think all plants are these multidimensional beings and working with them helps us to recognise our own multidimensionality. I think certain plants speak more to certain people. I also think certain plants have sole missions and life paths of helping to open up certain gateways in that way. So there's certain plants that I'll use for shamanic type work for communicating with the other world and receiving divine guidance and other plants that function in a different way for me. But everyone's different in what they experience and receive, but I've always felt really connected to plants on that spiritual level. And it's part of why I wanted to go to herbal school because I was like, "If it was up to me, I would just make flower essences and have the plants talk to me all day and I wouldn't learn."   Tahnee: (51:10) The practical stuff.   Asia Suler: (51:10) The more physical aspects, the practical stuff. Which is not saying everybody needs to learn that, but it felt important for me if I was going to work with people and their health and suggest taking whole herbs that I learn that stuff. So, yeah. But always to me, it always pointed back to that multidimensional experience, that sort of spirit to spirit encounter with a plant and how transformative that can really be. And while I do think there are certain plants, for example, like you mentioned, reishi and angelica that I really use to open the portals of my perception and download information from the other world that I've been ... Over the years of teaching thousands of people how to open their own intuitive connections with plants, it's been amazing to see the plants that come in and change everything for them.   Asia Suler: (51:59) It might be really different than a plant that came in for me, but it's absolutely perfect for them. And perhaps what it was that was blocking their intuition might be very different than what was blocking mine. And that plant was just the perfect ally for helping to dissolve that block and really step into this two way street of communication. So I think it is different for everybody, but just to know that if there's a plant that you're really excited about or you just can't get enough of, or you just want to be around that there's a reason for that. That plant is really reaching out to you, to interact with you and wants to help you in your healing. And so just listening to that impulse, getting yourself into a presence with that plant, working with that plant in whatever way you can, can really just ... It helps open that gateway of healing that the plant is already there nudging you towards.   Tahnee: (52:59) One of the last things I want to touch on with you is your ... Because you do have this flavour of Daoism in your work and I'm interested in that. You've spoken of Jeffrey Yuen, so perhaps it's through him that I'll get back to that in a sec. One of my teachers, he teaches that the reason we need herbs is because plants and humans being perpendicular to the earth's horizon, we're in this journey between heaven and earth, so one of these Daoist concepts, and he's like, "Plants are really one of the few things that can help us with this process of reuniting ourselves between this root and the heavens." And I don't know if you have any thoughts on that, but I've always really related to that. He speaks of how animals' spines are aligned to the calmer of the earth based on their horizontal spine and this upright spine is the big distinction. And, yeah. I wonder if you have any thoughts on that and if you could speak a little bit to how the Daoist worldview, I guess, influences your work with herbs?   Asia Suler: (54:04) Well, that's beautiful. I haven't heard that reference before, but I love it. I think it's so poetic and gorgeous. And this is I think a big part of why I've been so drawn to Daoism is the deep poetry that is inherent in their understanding. And I grew up, my father was really into Eastern philosophy. He was a psychologist, but one of his specialties was where psychology and Eastern philosophy meet. And so from a young age, I was exposed to things like Daoism and we threw the Yijing coins as a family and things like that. So it was always a part of my ethos. And I think the way that they describe what feels sometimes indescribable and to go into the idea of the Dao through this lens of poetry, which a lot of times these Daoist texts are poetry because that's kind of the only thing that can really capture this concept of the way the Dao, the unceasing flow of energy in life that you align yourself with.   Asia Suler: (55:16) And so I love that aspect of Daoism and I love this the way in which Daoism has its roots in deeply mystical and animistic traditions, which I didn't know that term animism until later in life, but I realised that that's so much of how I experienced the world, animism being this idea that everything on this world is alive and animate and animated by spirit, energy, chi, as you would say in the Daoist tradition. So that languaging made a lot of sense to me. And also the way in Daoism where the opposites and polarisation is actually a conduit to wholeness. Whereas especially in Christian doctrine in the Western world, and then outside of Christian doctrine, which is one big foundation of Western thought is that, and then another is this rational materialism. It's like things are divided from one another.   Asia Suler: (56:23) It's like the good and the bad and high and low and rational and irrational, whereas in Daoist thought forms and belief systems, actually the polarisation, the yin and the yang, it's part of this greater process of wholeness and within the yin is the yang and within the yang is the yin and that actually this process of dividing is a divine process of alchemy, of dividing and then coming back together. And when you come back together, you are creating more wholeness than there was before. And so to me, that just feels so much closer to the truth of what I experienced, even in my own journey that these disparate sides of me or parts of my life don't exist in these separate categories, but that they exist in separation because there [inaudible 00:57:15] to bring me back into wholeness the more I integrate them back into my own being. So, yeah. I'm perpetually fascinated by Daoist philosophy and it ended up just being a coincidence in some ways that it just ended up being a part of my work because it just spoke to me. And, yeah. Then I did end up studying with Jeffrey and his student, Sarah Thomas, who specifically specialises in the stone medicine aspects that he passes on. So it did end up becoming a part of my work, but I'm a perpetual student and always learning more just ever enchanted in that field.   Tahnee: (57:54) Yeah. I can feel that generative aspect in your work of that academic part of you and I guess revive you, for want of a better word, and then how that generates this strength, this force that's carrying you through life. Yeah. It's a really beautiful metaphor. And I guess it's a good spot to leave it, I think. I wanted to thank you so much for your time. I know it's late where you are. I'm really grateful for you for spending the time with us. And I wanted to invite everyone to come and ... I mean, you've got amazing products. You've got your courses. They're on your website, but also through the Chestnut School, right? You're able to offer different pathways.   Asia Suler: (58:43) Yeah. So my main work is on my website, Onewillowapothecaries.com. I am a guest teacher in some of the Chestnut School's programmes. So if someone was interested in Western herbalism, that would be a good place to go study. What I offer on my website is not traditional Western herbalism. It's what we've been discussing, more of these aspects of spiritual esoteric, holistic herbalism in earth medicine. But, yeah. I would love to connect with anybody there on the site and I'm also on social media on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram underneath my name, which is Asia Suler. So any of those places are great places to connect.   Tahnee: (59:26) Yeah. I'll link to everything because, like I said, I love your Instagram and you're very generous. Your videos are great. Everything you do is very generous and very warm. So it's really nice to connect with you in that way. Yeah. Like I said, thank you so much. I'm really, really grateful and I can't wait to get my hands on your book next year. So congratulations again. It's very exciting.   Asia Suler: (59:50) Thank you so much. This has been such a delight to be with you. Thank you for having me on the show. So welcome.   Tahnee: (59:56) All right. Chat again soon.

Hanny and Liz discuss things that they are currently experimenting with. Liz has obtained herself a singing bowl. Hanny talks about The Power Wish by Keiko and The Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine online [not sponsored]. References: Singing BowlWikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_bell)Brown, Candy Gunther. “Tibetan Singing Bowls - Los Cuencos Cantores Tibetanos.” American Religion, vol. 1, no. 2, 2020, pp. 52–73. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/amerreli.1.2.03. Jessica Stanhope, Philip Weinstein (2020) The human health effects of singing bowls: A systematic review, Complementary Therapies in Medicine, Volume 51, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctim.2020.102412.Singing bowls are not Tibetan. Sincerely a Tibetan Person: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/02/18/tibetan-singing-bowls-are-not-tibetan-sincerely-a-tibetan-person.htmlhttps://www.theomshoppe.com/7-easy-ways-to-use-your-singing-bowl-at-home/How to Choose, Use & Care for Singing Bowls | Using Your Bowl for Healing3 things you need to know to play a Tibetan Singing BowlHOW TO PLAY A SINGING BOWL (FOR BEGINNERS) | TheAnayal8ter✨ MANIFEST AND CLEANSE WITH A SINGING BOWL │ VERY POWERFUL ENERGY TO CLEAR BLOCKS & ATTRACT WISHES ✨References: The Power WishKeiko's website: https://www.keikopowerwish.comBook: The Power Wish : Japanese moon astrology and the secrets to finding success, happiness and the favour of the universe by KeikoReferences:  Chestnut School of Herbal MedicineWebsite: https://chestnutherbs.com/ Link to Resources: https://chestnutherbs.com/about/links/

Hanny is back! Back again! Hanny is back! Back! Back! Woohoo. This month Hannah discusses all things Herbalism. She covers foraging of herbs, metaphysically working with herbs, and the 30 day plant challenge by [insert name]. Liz is talking about Forest bathing. She covers what it is, the health benefits and how to do it! Herbalism References: 10 tips for beginning an herbalism practice from Moody Moons - https://www.moodymoons.com/2018/05/31/10-tips-to-get-started-in-herbalism/So you want to be an Herbalist? from Healing Harvest Homestead https://www.healingharvesthomestead.com/home/2017/8/31/my-best-advice-if-you-want-to-be-an-herbalist?rq=Beginning%20herbalHerbalism for beginners : Where to start from Spiral Nature https://www.spiralnature.com/magick/herbalism-for-beginners-where-to-start/Free ideas to learn about Herbalism from the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine - https://chestnutherbs.com/free-ways-to-learn-about-herbalism-17-resources-for-training-as-an-herbalist/The Plant Ally Project from Wort and Cunning - http://www.wortsandcunning.com/blog/plant-ally-projectForest Bathing References: Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature by M. Amos Clifford [book]Antonelli, M., Barbieri, G. & Donelli, D. Effects of forest bathing (shinrin-yoku) on levels of cortisol as a stress biomarker: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Biometeorol 63, 1117–1134 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-019-01717-xDogaru, G. (2020). Forest bathing in cardiovascular diseases – a narrative review. Balneo Research Journal, 11(3), 299–303. https://doi.org/10.12680/balneo.2020.356Kotera, Y., Richardson, M., & Sheffield, D. (2020). Effects of Shinrin-Yoku (Forest Bathing) and Nature Therapy on Mental Health: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 1. https://doi-org/10.1007/s11469-020-00363-4Antonelli, M., Donelli, D., Barbieri, G., Valussi, M., Maggini, V., & Firenzuoli, F. (2020). Forest Volatile Organic Compounds and Their Effects on Human Health: A State-of-the-Art Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(18). https://doi-org/10.3390/ijerph17186506

This episode of the podcast features the host, Kelly, solo, speaking about her upbringing in the south and her journey towards starting the Ground Shots Project and Podcast. Find the FULL transcript for this episode on our Patreon page, here. This episode of the Ground Shots Podcast is a first! It's me, Kelly, the podcast host, speaking solo about my upbringing in the South and how it plus other experiences I've had into adulthood, influenced the creation of the Ground Shots Project as an ecological art project, and the Ground Shots Podcast, a ecological storytelling project featuring guests from all over. I start off the episode speaking a bit about where I grew up, and some of my basic experiences in the enviroment where I was raised. I grew up in southern Virginia, and I even linked my hometown in the shownotes if you want to get a glimpse. I go into how my life evolved into adulthood, studying Philosophy formerly, working on organic farms, studying with herbalism teachers, and my general influences. I talk about how I originally started traveling, though there is so much more to the story than what I tell here. I speak about how my time farming, walking the Camino de Santiago, spending time with my grandmother as a child, and meeting people on the road, influenced the creation of my project. I answer some questions posed by folks who submitted them on Instagram about my project and relationship with plants, travel, connecting to place. A note: we now have a phone line where you can call the podcast and leave messages. PLEASE leave us one! If you do, you give us permission to potentially broadcast your messages on air. If you can, please give us verbal permission when you leave a message. I'm excited about this! I produced this episode entirely on my own this time, with a new program I'm trying out. It's not perfect, but I'm playing around and seeing how it goes. So, if it sounds different in any way, this is why! Also, I got a new microphone, so my voice is clearer than in the past recording from my computer. If you have a comment, question or inquiry based on what you hear in this episode, feel free to shoot me an email, comment on the blog post for this episode or call our podcast phone number and leave a message.   Links: Kip Redick on CNU talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcXeIgyMUoo Tao Orion (quoted at the end of the podcast): https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/beyond-the-war-on-invasive-species/ Frank Cook's work: http://www.plantsandhealers.org/ Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine: https://chestnutherbs.com/ Goldenseal Sanctuary in Ohio where I interned: https://unitedplantsavers.org/center-for-medicinal-plant-conservation/ My hometown on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Hill,_Virginia Call the podcast and leave us a message (you give us permission to potentially air it on the podcast, please be sure to also give us verbal permission): 1-434-233-0097 Support the podcast on Patreon to contribute to our grassroots self-funding of this project.  Support the Ground Shots Project with a one time donation via Paypal at: paypal.me/petitfawn Donate to the podcast on VENMO: @kelly-moody-6 Donate to the podcast on Cashapp: cash.app/$groundshotsproject   Our website with backlog of episodes, plant profiles, travelogue and more: http://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com  Our Instagram pages: @goldenberries / @groundshotspodcast Join the Ground Shots Podcast Facebook Group to discuss the episodes Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on the Ground Shots Project Theme music: 'Sweat and Splinters' by Mother Marrow Interstitial Music: “Rainbow Waltz” by Cody Fielder Hosted by: Kelly Moody Produced by: Kelly Moody  

Val Elkhorn shares about balancing the cosmic forces with the earth by gardening with the cycles of the moon. You’ll also hear about: Bringing spirit back into the sciences Growing up in a conservative family and doing her own thing The chronic digestive issues that led Val to herbalism How society is disconnected from the energetic forces of nature  ♥ PS - Make sure to get the secret episode with Val Elkhorn on the co-evolution of humans and bitters, at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret. Plus, when you sign up for secret episodes, you get the Plant Speak mini-course on how to grow relationships with Earth and nature spirits for support and guidance in your everyday life. ***** Val Elkhorn is a herbalist living in the enchanting northwoods of Michigan. Through her business Woodspell Apothecary she grows, harvests, and makes medicine to the rhythms of the moon, using the practice of Biodynamic farming. Woodspell Apothecary gracefully melds science and spiritually, through research and ritual. Val strives to create products that are as sustainable and Earth conscious as possible by sourcing from local businesses, using recycled bottles, and using organically grown plants.  In this conversation Val shares her journey to find her place in the Universe, and how chronic digestive issues led her to a path of herbalism with a focus on herbal bitters. Take the Find Your Bitters Quiz on her webpage! In this episode, we talk about: Reconnecting with our ancestors and their land based practices  Val’s existential crisis at the age of 10  Val’s psychedelic packaging and her training as a Graphic Designer Identifying as an Earth tender, activist, and herbalist  How Val found her place in the Universe, and her path to the plants Gardening with the cycles of the moon The chronic digestive issues that led Val to herbalism  How a Naturopathic approach to health and healing, allowed Val to feel truly heard for the first time The spectrum of healing, and the time and place for conventional medicine Creating sustainable, plastic free products Nature as a guide to being present and connected to your body Disconnecting from the busy minds, to be held by the Earth Finding a sense of belonging with the plants Earth altars and rituals - as therapy  Honouring beauty for the sake of beauty  Coming out of the broom closet to your family  Feeling out of place and being the “rockstar rainbow of the family”  The unique catalysts for transformation in our lives  Melding spirit and science in gardening Val shares her dreams of making her own biodynamic calendar and garden journal  Biodynamic farming as spellcasting  Balancing the cosmic forces of the garden Staying curious and being open  The mainstream misconceptions of what is means to be a Witch  Being disconnected as a society from the energetic forces of nature  Moon gardening as a link to our ancestors Matching herbal blends to bodies  Bonus Secret Episode! Get the secret episode with Val Elkhorn on the co-evolution of humans and bitters, at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret. Links: Learn more about Val’s offerings at https://www.woodspells.com/  Connect with Val on Instagram @woodspell.apothecary // https://www.instagram.com/woodspell.apothecary/ Connect with Val on Facebook @woodspellapothecary Explore Val’s YouTube channel  Take the Find Your Bitter’s Quiz https://www.woodspells.com/quiz   Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret References: Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth https://amz.run/3InV  Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism http://clinicalherbalism.com/ Herbalist, Jim McDonald https://www.herbcraft.org/  Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine https://chestnutherbs.com/  Juliet Blankespoor https://bit.ly/3hz6e76 Lemon Balm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_balm Trillium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium Ramp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_tricoccum St John’s Wort (St Joan’s Wort) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypericum_perforatum Herbal Bitters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitters The Wild Medicine Solution: Healing with Aromatic, Bitter, and Tonic Plants https://amz.run/3In4  Urban Moonshine https://www.urbanmoonshine.com/ Kate Clearlight https://www.instagram.com/kateclearlight/ Theodore Rosevelt quote - https://bit.ly/37LqCx6 The Loon (bird) call - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFpU22rTqPc  Biodynamic Gardening and founder  https://bit.ly/37OTWTB  Herbalist, Deb soule  https://www.debsoule.com/ Rosemary Gladstar https://bit.ly/310O2xb  Stella Natura Calendar http://www.stellanatura.com/ Leave us a written review on iTunes, and get shouted out on the show! Theme music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and “Meeting Again” by Emily Sprague  https://mlesprg.info/ Learn to trust your intuition and activate your Earth magic + sign up for our delightful newsletter at https://www.earthspeak.love Follow Earth Speak on Instagram and tag us when you share @earthspeak https://www.instagram.com/earthspeak

Val Elkhorn shares about balancing the cosmic forces with the earth by gardening with the cycles of the moon. You’ll also hear about: Bringing spirit back into the sciences Growing up in a conservative family and doing her own thing The chronic digestive issues that led Val to herbalism How society is disconnected from the energetic forces of nature  ♥ PS - Make sure to get the secret episode with Val Elkhorn on the co-evolution of humans and bitters, at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret. Plus, when you sign up for secret episodes, you get the Plant Speak mini-course on how to grow relationships with Earth and nature spirits for support and guidance in your everyday life. ***** Val Elkhorn is a herbalist living in the enchanting northwoods of Michigan. Through her business Woodspell Apothecary she grows, harvests, and makes medicine to the rhythms of the moon, using the practice of Biodynamic farming. Woodspell Apothecary gracefully melds science and spiritually, through research and ritual. Val strives to create products that are as sustainable and Earth conscious as possible by sourcing from local businesses, using recycled bottles, and using organically grown plants.  In this conversation Val shares her journey to find her place in the Universe, and how chronic digestive issues led her to a path of herbalism with a focus on herbal bitters. Take the Find Your Bitters Quiz on her webpage! In this episode, we talk about: Reconnecting with our ancestors and their land based practices  Val’s existential crisis at the age of 10  Val’s psychedelic packaging and her training as a Graphic Designer Identifying as an Earth tender, activist, and herbalist  How Val found her place in the Universe, and her path to the plants Gardening with the cycles of the moon The chronic digestive issues that led Val to herbalism  How a Naturopathic approach to health and healing, allowed Val to feel truly heard for the first time The spectrum of healing, and the time and place for conventional medicine Creating sustainable, plastic free products Nature as a guide to being present and connected to your body Disconnecting from the busy minds, to be held by the Earth Finding a sense of belonging with the plants Earth altars and rituals - as therapy  Honouring beauty for the sake of beauty  Coming out of the broom closet to your family  Feeling out of place and being the “rockstar rainbow of the family”  The unique catalysts for transformation in our lives  Melding spirit and science in gardening Val shares her dreams of making her own biodynamic calendar and garden journal  Biodynamic farming as spellcasting  Balancing the cosmic forces of the garden Staying curious and being open  The mainstream misconceptions of what is means to be a Witch  Being disconnected as a society from the energetic forces of nature  Moon gardening as a link to our ancestors Matching herbal blends to bodies  Bonus Secret Episode! Get the secret episode with Val Elkhorn on the co-evolution of humans and bitters, at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret. Links: Learn more about Val’s offerings at https://www.woodspells.com/  Connect with Val on Instagram @woodspell.apothecary // https://www.instagram.com/woodspell.apothecary/ Connect with Val on Facebook @woodspellapothecary Explore Val’s YouTube channel  Take the Find Your Bitter’s Quiz https://www.woodspells.com/quiz   Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret References: Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth https://amz.run/3InV  Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism http://clinicalherbalism.com/ Herbalist, Jim McDonald https://www.herbcraft.org/  Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine https://chestnutherbs.com/  Juliet Blankespoor https://bit.ly/3hz6e76 Lemon Balm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_balm Trillium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium Ramp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_tricoccum St John’s Wort (St Joan’s Wort) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypericum_perforatum Herbal Bitters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitters The Wild Medicine Solution: Healing with Aromatic, Bitter, and Tonic Plants https://amz.run/3In4  Urban Moonshine https://www.urbanmoonshine.com/ Kate Clearlight https://www.instagram.com/kateclearlight/ Theodore Rosevelt quote - https://bit.ly/37LqCx6 The Loon (bird) call - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFpU22rTqPc  Biodynamic Gardening and founder  https://bit.ly/37OTWTB  Herbalist, Deb soule  https://www.debsoule.com/ Rosemary Gladstar https://bit.ly/310O2xb  Stella Natura Calendar http://www.stellanatura.com/ Leave us a written review on iTunes, and get shouted out on the show! Theme music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and “Meeting Again” by Emily Sprague  https://mlesprg.info/ Learn to trust your intuition and activate your Earth magic + sign up for our delightful newsletter at https://www.earthspeak.love Follow Earth Speak on Instagram and tag us when you share @earthspeak https://www.instagram.com/earthspeak

Welcome to Episode 4 of the Milkweed Musings Podcast! Shout outs today go to @chicorynikki for the stellar music that bookends this podcast! Follow her on Instagram. Also to Shona @for_the_wild on Instagram for her reminder that everyone connects with nature differently. Check out her beautiful feed. Announcements: Coming soon - freebies galore! Newsletter launching in May as well - sign up now at www.rockyroseherbals.ca/connect Link to the blog version of this podcast: www.rockyroseherbals.ca/podcast Resources to research wild rose medicine from herbalists that I am a fan of: Sajah Popham of Evolutionary Herbalism talks about healing the heart with Rose: https://www.evolutionaryherbalism.com/2018/07/13/herbs-for-grief/ A beautiful blog piece from Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine: https://chestnutherbs.com/a-love-letter-to-rose/ Herb Rally's Monograph of Wild Rose: https://www.herbrally.com/monographs/rose Elise Krohn's Monograph of Wild Rose including recipes!: https://traditionalroots.org/files/Krohn-Wild-Rose-NOTES-1.pdf You could also just check out a million pages on Instagram for more information - or message me! Thanks so much for listening. Don't forget to subscribe to the show, tell your friends, and follow me on instagram @rockyroseherbals.

Humans are unique creatures for many reasons. One of those is our long list of disorders, specifically Nature Deficit Disorder. Most of us are so far removed from our original habitat that we are actually suffering from the absence of plant influences in our lives, and it affects our body, mind, and spirit.   Today we discuss this and much more with Marc Williams, an ethnobiologist who studies the connections between people, plants, mushrooms, and microbes while learning to employ botanicals and other life forms for food, medicine, and beauty. He has spent over two decades working at a multitude of restaurants and various farms and has traveled throughout 30 countries and all 50 U.S. states. Marc is the Executive Director of Plants and Healers International and serves on the Board of Directors of United Plant Savers. Marc has taught hundreds of classes to thousands of students about the marvelous world of people and their interface with other organisms. Marc's greatest hope is that this effort may help improve our current challenging global ecological situation.   In this episode... What is ethnobotany?...Marc's path to this work Mentor Frank Cook, finding your way to the Green Path The impact of food miles and industrially-produced food Plants that transcend culture Nature Deficit Disorder What the natural world can teach us about ourselves Resource Marc's online botany classes: botanyeveryday.com Frank Cook's nonprofit organization: Plants and Healers International Emerging Planetary Medicines by Frank Cook Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv Fantastic Fungi movie Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification by Thomas Elpel Be Here Now by Ram Dass Peterson Field Guides The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America: Nature's Green Feast by Francois Couplan Mabberley's Plant-book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Uses by David Mabberley Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States by Alan Weakley Earth from Above: 365 Days by Yann Arthus-Bertrand Appalachian State University Appalachian Studies/Sustainability https://appstudies.appstate.edu/, https://sd.appstate.edu/ Chestnut School of Herbal medicine https://chestnutherbs.com/ Society for Economic Botany https://www.econbot.org/ Suzanne Simard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Simard Vipassana https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index Warren Wilson College https://www.warren-wilson.edu/ White Sage sustainability https://unitedplantsavers.org/what-is-going-on-with-white-sage/

Kari Stultz was my guest on April 14, 2019 and during our time together we talk about how returning to her roots through an intuitive nudge about foraging brings her joy. She also shares how she has to negotiate with her critical brain to follow her intuition recently when she took 2 years away from her role in the local school division. She also makes the connection how much the energy of others or her environment impact her intuition. Is energy intuition? I think in the context she is speaking about it, absolutely. I believe many people can learn about tools she has incorporates to support her as energy gives her her intuition. Kari “It’s always been that way. And for the longest time I had no idea that that was happening so I would be inundated with this information that I didn’t realize other people weren’t necessarily processing. Once you figure out that that is actually happening to you, it takes a little time to adjust but I think that everything has an energy signature so ya I’m getting an energy signature from people but I’m curious if I’m getting the same information from people as well. If that’s why I have noticed those pieces. I’m not sure. I think I need a little more time to let my critical brain wrap its mind around those things because well you know what I’m like. There’s my intuition piece and my critical brain and they often like fight it out. “Kari “It really comes in as just a knowing. I just have information that I’m not sure how it got there and a lot of the times I even question whether I’ve made it up or if it’s actual information. Now through trial and error I found out a lot of the times it is very accurate. When it just happens I find myself I can be really logical and I find myself fighting with it. That doesn’t make sense. Why do you think you know that? Why is that happening? Why are you responding to that because of something you feel? I’m doing it less now though.”Kari “I think I deal a lot with energy and sometimes it gives me an insight into something whether you want to call that intuition. Some people I guess would. But I think for me it’s pretty energy based. “Kari’s favourite book on her wall of books is A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryCopy and paste this link to find it on Amazon https://amzn.to/33oCwKb(As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases)Here is the link to her foraging and herbal medicine courses through The Chestnut School of Herbal Medicinehttps://chestnutherbs.com/Plant that helps with PTSD and trauma – Ghost pipe even sitting with helps. Kari's Bio:Kari Stultz is an Artist, Educator, Adventure-seeker and Nature-Lover but feels these are best summed up as a Learner. She is a Teacher by trade and has recently started a journey back to her roots. She also enjoys spending time creating, with her recent focus being on salves, tinctures and tonics. These medicines are created in her kitchen with plants from her garden and from her foraging adventures. Combining these loves with her intuition has been amazing. She lights up just talking about it.

Episode #22 of the Ground Shots Podcast This episode of the podcast features a conversation with Alyssa Sacora of the Patchwork Underground, who lives near Asheville, North Carolina. Alyssa came out to northern Idaho to take Jim Croft's 'Old Ways of Making Books' class held every year or every other year on the homestead of Jim Croft and Melody Eckroft, where I have been teaching the leather, parchment and brain-tan buckskin portion of the class. Alyssa makes books and paper, weaves baskets, and homesteads on her small property. We met back in 2013 when we both attended the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine's in-person summer immersion program which at the time was held out of Leicester, NC. It was sweet to catch up with Alyssa, an old friend. We decided to do something different for this episode, where we chat informally and candidly about life, my project, our motivations for things and generally processing our shared experiences being at the class together in northern Idaho. This episode gets extra vulnerable for me, and you hear a lot more about my process and experience doing my work on the road. We have some guest mosquitoes buzz by the mic!         In this conversation with Alyssa, we talk about:     some of my own personal stories around trauma, travel  what is love? Alyssa reflecting on her experience at the 'Old Ways of Making Books' class exploring what it means to make things for your life linear vs. non-linear ways of teaching and learning the nature of acceptance and letting go, leaning into vulnerability and discomfort how we can plant seeds of inspiration for one another trusting in the mystery of the process     Links: Alyssa Sacora's website: https://www.thepatchworkunderground.com/ Alyssa Sacora on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepatchworkunderground/ Interstitial music for this episode is Pretty Polly by Marisa Anderson  Marisa Anderson on Bandcamp:  https://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com Jim Croft's 'Old Ways of Making Books' class in Santa, Idaho where I taught hide tanning and visited during the month of July 2019. This is where I mention I edited and recorded the intro/outro for this and the next few episodes of the podcast:    https://cargocollective.com/oldway Support the podcast on Patreon to contribute to our grassroots self-funding of this project.  Our Instagram page @goldenberries Join the Ground Shots Podcast Facebook Group to discuss the episodes Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on the Ground Shots Project Theme music: 'Sweat and Splinters' by Mother Marrow Produced by: Opia Creative  

Can we refashion the reputation of weeds? With many negative connotations surrounding weeds it’s hard to switch their image to foods and herbal medicines to love. We may call them edible weeds or wild foods, but I would love to change the name. I’m working on my own relationship with weeds by getting to know lamb’s quarters. Mentions: Edible Weeds Online Foraging Course from the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine Lamb’s quarters photos Book mentions: Fasting and Feasting, The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray by Adam Federman Honey from a Weed, Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia by Patience Gray Plats du Jour by Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss.  Find her at thecreativeimposter.com. Original music by Dylan Rice --- CONNECT WITH DINA --- Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback.  Send me a message, voice or write an email, my email is dina@theherbalbakeshoppe.com. I look forward to hearing from you! To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com Join me on Patreon Connect with me on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review. --- ABOUT DINA --- Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.

THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY: AROMATICS INTERNATIONALWe provide 100% pure essential oils and natural aromatherapy products, sourced in-house, from small-scale producers located in over 60 different countries. Find out more: https://www.aromatics.com/Topics covered in this episodeHerbal tips for beginnersThe various types of herbal infusions and their intended usesStep by step process for making herbal fermented honeyStorage and shelf life recommendations for your herbal infusionsCalendula herb profile and usesGinger herb profile and usesElderberry herb profile and usesSuper Immunity Infusion Tea recipeAbout Colleen CodekasColleen Codekas is the author of the book, Healing Herbal Infusions, and runs the blog Grow Forage Cook Ferment, which offers simple recipes, tutorials and guides that are straightforward and easy to follow. You will find information on foraging and wild-crafting, fermenting and preserving, cooking whole foods from scratch, permaculture and regenerative gardening, and making herbal remedies and skin care products. And that’s just the beginning! Colleen and her husband and live in the beautiful Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon with their young son, where they have created a mini food forest and permaculture paradise. She began studying about plants, herbs, and flowers nearly 20 years ago. In recent years, she has completed several herbalism courses through the Herbal Academy and the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine. When she is not busy writing for GFCF, you can usually find her out foraging for wild edible and medicinal plants and mushrooms. She also loves hiking in the woods, cooking delicious whole food, drinking wine, making mead, growing a ridiculous amount of herbs and flowers, and making all kinds of herbal goodness in jars.Connect with Colleen CodekasWebsite: www.growforagecookferment.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/growforagecookferment/Buy her book “Healing Herbal Infusions” on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2DKh34dThis Podcast is brought to you by AromaCulture Magazine - AromaCulture Magazine is filled with educational articles, case studies and recipes written by practicing herbalists and qualified aromatherapists. Our February issue centers around the topic of mental health. You can find it at https://www.aromaculture.com/shop/february2019.Disclaimer: The information presented in this podcast is for educational purposes only, and is not meant to replace professional medical advice. Please consult your doctor if you are in need of medical care, and before making any changes to your health routine.

Bright orange calendula flowers resemble rays of sunshine. As a warming, soothing herbal remedy calendula supports skin health, wound healing and so much more. Sources for Calendula(Calendula officinalis): Fresh Calendula: Local Grower Resource from Mountain Rose Herbs Dried Calendula and Topical Calendula Oil & Salve: Mountain Rose Herbs Frontier Co-op Strictly Medicinal Herbs Herbalist & Alchemist Avena Botanicals Mentions: Juliet Blankespoor and the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine Rosemary Gladstar’s Books Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss.  Find her at thecreativeimposter.com. Original music by Dylan Rice --- CONNECT WITH DINA --- Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback.  Send me a message, voice or write an email, my email is dina@theherbalbakeshoppe.com. I look forward to hearing from you! To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review. ps… please be kind please excuse my amateur podcasting skills this is new for me and i promise to keep getting better --- ABOUT DINA --- Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.

When we add our individual thoughts and love to the medicine we make the result is powerful. Regardless of level of herbal experience, you are the ultimate medicine maker for those you love. Mentions: Sam Coffman Rosemary Gladstar: Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide Juliet Blankespoor and the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine Daniel Boorstin Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss.  Find her at thecreativeimposter.com. Original music by Dylan Rice --- CONNECT WITH DINA --- Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback.  Send me a message, voice or write an email, my email is dina@theherbalbakeshoppe.com. I look forward to hearing from you! To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review. ps… please be kind please excuse my amateur podcasting skills this is new for me and i promise to keep getting better --- ABOUT DINA --- Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.

Asia Suler is a writer, teacher, mystic and herbalist who lives in the blue folds of the southern Appalachian mountains. She is the creator and concoctress of—One Willow Apothecaries—an Appalachian-grown company that offers lovingly handcrafted medicines and alchemical gateways of education. Asia’s work is a unique combination of western and energetic herbalism, stone medicine, earth-centered shamanism and intuitive healing. She holds a B.A in English, Anthropology and Native American studies from Vassar College and a Reiki Master degree. Her training includes work with shamanic dream teacher Robert Moss, psychiatrist Brian Weiss, and Chinese stone medicine practitioner Sarah Thomas of the Jade Purity Lineage. She teaches locally for The Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine, The Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine and Ashevillage as well as at her apothecary studio on The Island in Marshall, NC. Asia offers divine ONLINE and in person learnings and retreats. (Both Christine and Emma have been past participants in her online offerings, and were impressed by the depth and beauty Asia brings to her work.)  In this episode Asia shares some of her journey into healing and plant-based medicine after living with chronic pain. She credits the experience with, leading "her to the altar of the green world." We talk about the creative energy behind her blog post, Nice Girls vs. Kind Women, and it's viral impact on so many women as she defines what true kindness is about. Oh yeah, and, we also talk about embracing silliness as a form of self care that turns everything on its head. Visit Asia's website https://onewillowapothecaries.com  For more information of the Solstice offering from Christine and Emma https://awakenedwomanselfcare.com/sacred-self-care-a-solstice-special-event/