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This week on Herbal Radio, host Jiling Lin is joined by Crystal Moore-Stevens. Crystal is the co-owner of Flourish Farmstead & Folk School, a botanical sanctuary and regenerative farm, with her husband and two children. She is a folk herbalist, author, multidisciplinary artist, and organic herb farmer. Crystal runs herbalism programs and workshops through Flourish Folk School’s School of Botanicals. She teaches classes in herbalism, gardening, ethical wild foraging, wildcrafting, botanical dyeing, and earth skills at their farm in Godfrey, IL. Their family is passionate about earth stewardship and increasing biodiversity on their 10-acre farm. She is currently enrolled in Project Dragonfly, a master of Arts in Biology program through Miami University.

Join us as Crystal and Jiling explore:

• Growing medicinal herbs and running a small farm-based herb school
• How Crystal is increasing biodiversity on the 10 acres— while running a working farm
• How she knows what grows well in her region— and how she knows when to harvest
• Ethical and bioregional herbalism

Visit Crystal Moore-Stevens at:

💻 Website: FlourishFarmstead.com

📸 Instagram @flourishfarmfolkschool

📱Facebook @Flourish Farmstead

📚Crystal’s books:

📗 Your Edible Yard

📕 Grow Create Inspire

📘 Worms at Work

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🪷 Jiling Lin is an acupuncturist and herbalist in coastal southern California. A clinician and teacher, Jiling is also a passionate traveler, artist, and adventurer. Visit Jiling at JilingLin.com— and get her free Nourishing Life (養生) template and Five Phases (五行) outline. Join her newsletter for seasonal beauty— and updates on her coming book! (Publication 2028)

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Episode Resources

🎙️ Check out our other interview with Alex: Plant Stories | Alex Queathem Payne

🌾 Grow your herb farm with our collection of organic Strictly Medicinal Seeds

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Check out the video version of this interview on YouTube!

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