Elise
Elise completed a two-year apprenticeship with the Columbines School of Botanical Studies and completed Rosemary Gladstar's The Science and Art of Herbalism online course. She enjoys continuing her herbal education through inspiring books, talks, and homemade herbal preparations. In addition to her plant-based studies, she has a BA in Business and a minor in Cultural Anthropology. Also an artist, Elise loves to draw and fill her time with her family and sweet Aussie, cooking up good food, working on their property, and exploring the Oregon wilderness.
In this new “Tea Talks Roundtable” series, Jiling gathers four local Ventura and Santa Barbara county herbal teachers to discuss sustainable foraging in southern California (aka. So-Cal).
WRITTEN BY Elise
April 7, 2023
This podcast episode comes from Dr. Christopher Hobbs’ presentation for the Fall 2022 Free Herbalism Project.
WRITTEN BY Elise
March 31, 2023
We talk to artist Julia Bianco about how an online foraging class, the artist in residency program at the UpS Sanctuary, and the plants Julia encountered in the Appalachian foothills, all helped to shape the course of her life and her creative inspiration.
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March 24, 2023
Jiling and Maria discuss favorite easy-to-grow herbs for a medicinal herb garden, “remedy gardens,” favorite herbs for delicious teas, increasing access for herbal classes within a for-profit business model, and more.
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March 17, 2023
Thomas interviews legendary herbalist, Rosemary Gladstar.
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March 10, 2023
Marc and Jiling discuss one of Marc’s previous keynote conference topics, “Weaving and Mending: Herbalism from the past, in the present, for the future.” Learn about empowerment through weeds, heart-songs, ancestral honoring practices, global healing traditions, and more.
WRITTEN BY Elise
March 3, 2023
This week we are rereleasing Bevin Clare’s “Meet the Herbalist” interview with Lucretia VanDyke.
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February 17, 2023
Khetnu Nefer is the founder of the Gullah Geechee Herbal Gathering, an herbal conference for Black and Indigenous herbalists and community that takes place in Charleston, SC. Learn about the origins of the Gullah Geechee Herbal Gathering, Khetnu’s “country grandma,” and practical tips for centering and preserving Black and Indigenous herbal wisdom and traditions.
WRITTEN BY Elise
February 3, 2023
lara pacheco (they/them, /she/her) is a Taíno, Latinx mamita that believes part of our collective liberation is accessed through decolonizing ourselves and weaving into the web of ancestral medicine.
WRITTEN BY Elise
January 20, 2023
Thomas and Doug discuss his childhood, learning folk methods from 'old timers', as well as the path of learning about and connecting with medicinal plants.
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January 13, 2023
Adriana Ayales is the herbalist, medicine maker, educator and founder of Anima Mundi Apothecary.
WRITTEN BY Elise
January 6, 2023
