Herbal Radio
196 episodes - English - Latest episode: 19 days ago - ★★★★★ - 204 ratingsReady to devour some inspiring herbal education? We're thrilled to share our very own podcast: Herbal Radio! This community resource is a collection of curated lectures from some of our generation's most esteemed herbalists. These informational talks are from our event, the Free Herbalism Project, audio extracted from our YouTube channel, and more.
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Plants as Teachers, with Dr. Jillian Stansbury | Tea Talks with Jiling
April 05, 2024 16:58 - 47 minutes - 65.8 MBDr. Jillian Stansbury has operated a general family practice in Battle Ground, WA for 35 years, and served as the Chair of the Botanical Medicine department at the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) in Portland, OR for many decades and remains on the faculty. She is the author of 7 books including the award winning Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals, a 5-volume series which won an Excellence in Botanical Literature award from the American Botanical Council. Dr. Stansbu...
Plant Stories | Featuring Juliet Blankespoor
March 29, 2024 18:02 - 36 minutes - 49.5 MBThis 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 writi...
Seedkeepers, with Rowen White | Tea Talks with Jiling
March 08, 2024 21:54 - 44 minutes - 61.6 MBRowen White is a Seed Keeper, farmer, and author from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and a passionate activist for indigenous seed and food sovereignty. She is the Educational Director and lead mentor of Sierra Seeds, an innovative Indigenous seed bank and land-based educational organization located in Nevada City, CA. Rowen is the Founder of the Indigenous Seedkeepers Network, which is committed to restoring the Indigenous Seed Commons, and currently serves as a Cooperative Seed Hub Coo...
Interviews on Herbal Radio with Thomas Dick | Featuring Ruby Daniels
March 01, 2024 18:07 - 48 minutes - 66.3 MBThis week’s episode of Herbal Radio features the botanical spiritualist, conservation-focused farmer, and owner of Creasy Jane’s herbal remedy store, Ruby Daniels. As a young girl, Ruby spent many of her summers in West Virginia roaming around the outdoors and crafting herbal concoctions with plants she’d find along her adventures. Inspired by her grandmother, a wise herbal healer in her community, Ruby was intrigued to unlock the spiritual connection between humans and the botanicals surrou...
BIPOC Community Herbalist Group Discussion | With Lucretia Van Dyke
February 23, 2024 18:24 - 1 hour - 121 MBWelcome back to Herbal Radio plant people! We’re thrilled to share this special episode with you this week to highlight the BIPOC herbalist community in acknowledgment of Black History Month. We’ve opened our platform up to amplify the voices of 5 BIPOC community herbalists and activists for an impactful and thought-provoking group discussion. Our featured guest host and long-time good friend, Lucretia Van Dyke, is joined with Christina Lynch, Khetnu Nefer, Tyrone Ledford, and Ruby Daniels...
Plant Stories | Featuring Kristy Bredin
February 16, 2024 18:43 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MBThis week’s Plant Stories episode features the marine herbalist, purveyor of seaweeds, and founder of Mermaid Botanicals, Kristy Bredin. With a passion for exploration, wildcrafting, and utilizing the medicinal plants of the Pacific Northwest, Kristy found herself drawn to the eldest marine ancestors of all botanicals we know today, seaweeds! We sit down with Kristy and learn about her journey that began through apprenticeships with wise herbalists who embarked her on her journey into the va...
Herbal Aphrodisiacs | Tea Talks Roundtable
February 09, 2024 21:06 - 1 hour - 120 MB*Disclaimer - This episode explores themes of sexual nature and may not be suitable for all audiences.* Herbal Aphrodisiacs | Tea Talks Roundtable In this “Tea Talks Roundtable,” Jiling discusses Herbal Aphrodisiacs with herbalists Kimberly Gallagher, Lucretia Vandyke, Marie White, and jim mcdonald. We explore: Defining “aphrodisiac” “Aphrodisiac” herbal actions and examples How we can make space for pleasure as a culture Delicious aphrodisiac recipes Botanical lubricants T...
Plant Stories with Thomas Dick | Featuring Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz
February 02, 2024 22:42 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBThis week’s guest on Herbal Radio is the wise-spirited author and curandera (ku·ran·de·ra), Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz. We recorded our interview with Felicia prior to her keynote presentation for the 2023 Fall Virtual Free Herbalism Project, so be sure to check out her recorded presentation after listening to this episode! In Felicia’s words, Curanderismo (ku·ran·de·ris·mo) is a 500-year-old traditional healing practice that is still in existence today. It is influenced by Spanish, Indigenous ...
Interviews on Herbal Radio with Thomas Dick | Featuring Sarah Greenman
January 26, 2024 22:21 - 40 minutes - 55 MBToday’s Herbal Radio episode features the enthralling storyteller and creative alchemist, Sarah Greenman. Sarah is a profoundly talented artist, cultural worker, community organizer, storyteller, and a true archeologist of the soul. Thomas and Sarah sit down and chat about her upbringing in a household full of thespians who’d break out in theatrical tunes at the drop of a hat, her detailed recollections of climbing the steep staircase leading to her grandmother’s art studio as a young child,...
Interviews on Herbal Radio with Thomas Dick | Featuring Corinna Wood
January 20, 2024 19:19 - 47 minutes - 65.3 MBThis week’s episode of Herbal Radio episode features the all-encompassing wise woman and holistic healer, Corinna Wood. As the founder and former director of the Southeast Wise Women Herbal Conference for 15 years, Corinna has a true passion for providing safe community spaces that allow women to connect through shared herbal passions. Today, Corinna sits down with us and reflects on her childhood growing up in La Spezia, Italy, and fondly shares her earliest memories of weaving through towe...
Stonefruit Community Herbalists | Tea Talks Roundtable
January 13, 2024 00:27 - 1 hour - 91.6 MBIn this “Tea Talks Roundtable,” Jiling discusses the work of the Stonefruit Community Herbalists with the Stonefruit Herbal Collective: Michelle Soto, Jocelyn Kirkwood, and Vilde Chaya Fenster-Ehrlich. Roundtable Topics Their individual journeys into herbalism How the Stonefruit Collective came to be How herbs may be shared freely Building a free and sliding scale clinic The relationship between the Wild Cherries Herbal Studies Program and Cutting Root Farm A simple tip for how ...
AromaGnosis, with Cathy Skipper | Tea Talks with Jiling
January 07, 2024 18:40 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBCathy Skipper is an international teacher, plant person and healer who brings 30 years of teaching, healing, and plant experience, her highly-attuned intuition, and her mastery at “seeing the person within” to all her work. Cathy says, "All my work is based on my own journey as a wounded healer. I coach and teach from a place of experience. I am totally familiar with navigating the unconscious realms, the ancestral realms, the plant and animal realms. I am a menopause midwife, helping women ...
Herbal Radio 2023 Recap | Featuring Thomas Dick & Jiling Lin
December 30, 2023 01:09 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBHappy almost-New Year plant-enthusiast listeners! For the last episode of Herbal Radio in 2023, we’ll be shaking things up a bit from the usual plant adventure we find ourselves embarking on each week. After a busy year filled with interviews, Thomas and Jiling sit down and share laughs, insightful moments, and highlight some of the most impactful conversations they’ve had in 2023. Throughout the year 2023, we had the pleasure of featuring an array of enthralling guests, including soulful ...
Interviews on Herbal Radio with Thomas Dick | Featuring Jon Steinman
December 22, 2023 21:07 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MBHappy holidays and belated Winter Solstice, Herbal Radio listeners! Thank you for tuning in with us for this week’s episode. Today, we chat with esteemed author and food-expert, Jon Steinman. Jon is the face and writer behind Grocery Story: The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants, which offers inspiring stories and a thorough analysis of American and Canadian food co-ops using real life examples. Through his wiring, Jon dissects the food retail sector and the shadows cast by ...
Interviews on Herbal Radio with Thomas Dick | Featuring jim mcdonald
December 15, 2023 20:26 - 1 hour - 84.6 MBWelcome back to Herbal Radio plant-enthusiasts, thank you for joining us for this week’s episode. We had the pleasure of sitting down with our long-time friend and proprietor of Herbcraft, jim mcdonald. Last time jim was our featured guest on Herbal Radio, we shared his enthralling presentation from the Summer 2022 Free Herbalism Project on the virtues of plantain – an infinitely sustainable and resilient plant that often carries the unfortunate reputation of being a pesky weed. Today, jim d...
Interviews on Herbal Radio with Thomas Dick | Featuring Taryn Forrelli
December 08, 2023 21:41 - 49 minutes - 68 MBThis week’s guest on Herbal Radio is the knowledgeable and passionate naturopath, Taryn Forrelli. As an expert in wellness and supplement formulation using science-backed plant medicine, Taryn holds the title of Chief Science Officer at Traditional Medicinals. Thomas and Taryn chat about her upbringing in Boston, MA, and how her passion for uncovering medicinal secrets hidden within the individual cells of plants blossomed throughout her young adulthood. We truly hope you leave today’s episo...
The Botanical Bus, with Jocelyn Boreta | Tea Talks with Jiling
December 01, 2023 16:52 - 54 minutes - 75.3 MBThe Botanical Bus, with Jocelyn Boreta | Tea Talks with Jiling Jocelyn Boreta is a community organizer, herbalist and the granddaughter of an Indigenous Farmworker. She is committed to cultivating health equity through culturally centered care. Before co-founding the Botanical Bus, Jocelyn organized weekly bilingual, bicultural wellness workshops with Cultivando para Salud at LandPaths Bayer Farm and worked as a clinical herbalist at Farmacopia for four years. Her activism has roots in 10-...
Herbal Radio with Thomas Dick | Buy Nothing Day Featuring Shawn Donnille
November 24, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBHappy holiday season to all our plant-enthusiast listeners! For this episode of Herbal Radio, we’ll be shaking things up a bit from the usual herbal adventure we find ourselves embarking on each week. Today, in acknowledgment of the Buy Nothing Day movement, we sit down with our President & Owner, Shawn Donnille. Shawn and Thomas will dissect the traditions behind Black Friday, and shed light on the consequences surrounding the mass-consumerism culture that we all find ourselves living in to...
Interviews on Herbal Radio | Featuring Edward Fletcher
November 17, 2023 20:58 - 53 minutes - 73.1 MBFor this week’s plant adventure on Herbal Radio, we sit down with the President of Native Botanical Inc., Edward Fletcher. We had the opportunity to learn about Ed’s many intriguing life journeys that led him to his wide-spread successes throughout the herbal community today. We’ll dive into Ed’s upbringing, where his family founded the first nature preserve in North Carolina in the early 1900s, a memorable moment shared with his grandmother when he encountered his first taste of medicinal p...
The National Geographic Herbal with Mimi Hernandez | Tea Talks with Jiling
November 10, 2023 17:58 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MBMimi Prunella Hernandez is an herbalist, and author of the National Geographic Herbal. For over a decade, Mimi has served as the executive director of the American Herbalists Guild, where she has worked tirelessly to ensure that herbalists have a strong professional community to support their work. In 2023, Mimireceived a Botanical Excellence Award from the American Botanical Council. Jiling and Mimi discuss: What inspired “The National Geographic Herbal” Mimi’s favorite writing spot(s)...
Interviews on Herbal Radio with Thomas Dick | Featuring Mason Hutchison
November 03, 2023 20:17 - 48 minutes - 66 MBToday’s Herbal Radio episode features Mason Hutchison, a true rising star in the herbalism community and the founder of HerbRally. Mason grew up in Eugene, OR and held the title of Event Coordinator on the Mountain Rose Herbs Marketing Team for over a decade. His contributions and dedication to the herbalism community has left an everlasting impact on Mountain Rose Herbs, and Mason is considered one of the best success stories in our company history. Listen in for a wholesome conversation be...
Interviews on Herbal Radio | Featuring Margi Flint
October 20, 2023 15:42 - 53 minutes - 73.8 MBOn this week’s episode of Herbal Radio, we had the honor of interviewing one of the greatest living herbalists and world-blended practitioners, Margi Flint. With Margi’s 40+ years of experience in herbal medicine, she shares her wisdom on honoring the life force within plants, rather than taking advantage of what plants can offer us. Margi dives into her beginnings as a wild-spirited girl who frequented the forest in her hometown backyard of Weston, MA, and how lightning strikes seem to be a...
Green Witchery, with Robin Rose Bennett | Tea Talks with Jiling Lin
October 13, 2023 22:24 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBRobin Rose Bennett is a storyteller, writer, and herbalist, offering classes in Herbal Medicine and EarthSpirit Teachings since 1986 at herb conferences, festivals, medical schools, and most joyously, outside with the plants. She is the author of Healing Magic: A Green Witch Guidebook to Conscious Living, The Gift of Healing Herbs: Plant Medicines and Home Remedies for a Vibrantly Healthy Life, and A Green Witch's Pocket Book of Wisdom: Big Little Life Tips. Jiling and Robin Rose discuss: ...
Interviews on Herbal Radio | Featuring Patricia Cortez (Rerelease)
September 29, 2023 18:51 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBIn this week's Herbal Radio episode, we recount our enthralling and informative conversation with the bilingual-bicultural holistic practitioner, Patricia Cortez. Patricia sits down with Thomas in his studio and looks back on her childhood in El Salvador, her maternal grandmother’s role as a “Spiritist” in her community, and the history of Día de Muertos. We hope you enjoy this touching podcast full of storytelling, wisdom, and a deep heart. Patricia Cortez is a bilingual-bicultural holi...
Plant Stories | Featuring Doug Elliot (Rerelease)
September 15, 2023 16:03 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBThere may be no better person that embodies the vision of “Plant Stories” like herbal troubadour and Appalachian naturalist, Doug Elliot. A gifted storyteller, Doug recites both wisdom and whimsical through spoken word and song. We’ve compiled some of our favorite songs that Doug has recorded with us and are releasing them together, in this delightful and heart-warming episode. Our host, Thomas, gives a brief introduction in between Doug’s sets, offering context for each of the four botanica...
Interviews on Herbal Radio | Featuring Tree Knowlton
September 01, 2023 23:56 - 46 minutes - 64 MBAccessible herbal education, community outreach, and learning how can we better share herbal medicine are core values of ours at Mountain Rose Herbs. Discussing these topics led us to our guest this week, Tree Knowlton. Tree is one of the coordinators of Herbalists Without Borders Eugene chapter, graduate of Columbines School of Botanical Studies, master medicine maker, urban homesteader, and adored community member. Listen as we delve into the magic of one of Tree’s beloved elixirs, the pat...
Interviews on Herbal Radio With Thomas Dick | Featuring Tyrone Ledford (Rerelease)
August 25, 2023 17:14 - 53 minutes - 73.9 MBWe are deeply thankful for today’s interview with co-founder of Holistic Divine Innovations and founder of the Ridgecrest Community Garden and Herbal Zen Garden, Tyrone Ledford. This inspiring conversation centers around Tyrone’s life growing up in Compton, California, his experiences growing food, his development of the Ridgecrest Community Garden and Herbal Zen Garden, as well as his life’s other meaningful pursuits. Holistic Divine Innovations was one of five Grants4Plants winners in 20...
Plantain the Future | Featuring jim mcdonald (Rerelease)
August 18, 2023 17:23 - 59 minutes - 61.7 MBThis week’s episode was recorded at the in-person Summer 2022 Free Herbalism Project at Mt. Pisgah Arboretum in Eugene, Oregon. Emcee, Jiling Lin, introduces keynote speaker jim mcdonald – who presents on the many virtues of plantain. It's commonly said in herbalism that "It's far better to know a dozen uses for one herb than one use for a dozen herbs", yet, many people still think of herbs in a "take this for that" sense. To remedy this, jim mcdonald will offer in depth information on the f...
Plant Stories | Featuring Richo Cech & Co-Host Jiling Lin
August 11, 2023 18:31 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBOn this episode of Plant Stories on Herbal Radio, we had the opportunity to speak with the acclaimed and enthralling herbalist, Richo Cech. We dive deep into Richo’s life and passions, discussing everything from his seed-seeking adventures in Africa, to captivating stories of how he grew Strictly Medicinal Seeds from the ground up (pun-intended). Richo Cech started his professional work as an archaeologist and ethnobotanist in East Africa. Upon his return to the United States in 1978, he b...
The Nurtured Herbalist | Tea Talks Roundtable
August 04, 2023 16:40 - 1 hour - 109 MBJoin herbalists Jiling Lin, Erika Galentin, and Camille Freeman for a lively Tea Talks Roundtable discussion on Nurturing the Herbal Practitioner. We explore: • some of the challenges that come with running an herbal practice • how to create a work cadence that’s realistic in the long run • establishing clear boundaries between work and personal life • how to run an herbal practice that feels ethically aligned, aud sustains you • how we can feel supported and connected as h...
Plant Stories | Featuring Lucretia VanDyke
July 28, 2023 17:53 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MBWe are so pleased to feature another interview with our friend Lucretia VanDyke. On Herbal Radio, we have learned about Lucretia’s upbringing and what led her to work with plants, but we have never gotten to learn what plants she loves and why. In this Plant Stories episode, Lucretia talks about her favorite edible plants of New Orleans and the significance they played in her upbringing that began her herbalism journey. With a journey that began when she was a little girl mixing herbs, mu...
Interviews on Herbal Radio with Thomas Dick | Featuring David Winston
July 21, 2023 22:23 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBThis week’s guest on Interviews on Herbal Radio is esteemed herbalist, David Winston. David is well known in the herbal community for his decades of clinical experience, teaching, and medicine making. We hope you enjoy! David Winston is an internationally known lecturer, author, ethnobotanist and the founder of Herbalist & Alchemist. For over 45 years, David has been studying, practicing, teaching and researching Chinese, Western/Eclectic and Southeastern American herbal tradition...
Native California Herbs & 5 Elements, with Athene Eisenhardt | Tea Talks with Jiling
July 07, 2023 17:02 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBDr. Athene Eisenhardt, Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist, found her path in life by way of the plant world. Working professionally as a field botanist for Yosemite National Park led her to begin wildcrafting and using native California plants as medicine, and to study the Taoist 5 elements in nature. She maintains a private practice in Oakland, California, offering 5 Element Acupuncture and Integrative Herbalism. Athene is also on the Herbology faculty at the Acupuncture & Integrative Me...
Oregano & St. John’s Wort Plant Walk | Featuring Shana Lipner Grover
June 30, 2023 17:22 - 20 minutes - 19.4 MBThis podcast episode is a combination of two plant profiles from a pre-recorded garden plant walk with clinical herbalist, field botanist, and nutrition educator, Shana Lipner Grover. Shana introduces us to two common and abundant garden plants: oregano and St. John’s wort. Shana teaches us how we can make functional medicine from the culinary and medicinal herbs that grow so easily outside our front (or back) doors. Shana Lipner Grover was a student of award-winning author Michael Moore a...
Plant Stories | Featuring Alex Queathem Payne
June 23, 2023 17:00 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MBHerbalist and educator Alex Queathem Payne joins us for an in-person interview after she toured the Mountain Rose Herbs facilities this past spring. Thomas and Alex discuss her naturalist upbringing, the ‘green’ lineage in her family, and her educational path, including her studies at the Columbines School of Botanical Studies. Alex tells us about her childhood connection with mint and her adulthood connection with skullcap. Learn some of the virtues of skullcap and how Alex loves to connect...
Interviews on Herbal Radio with Thomas Dick | Featuring 7Song
June 16, 2023 19:40 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBWe had the pleasure of interviewing our good friend and esteemed herbalist, 7Song. This conversation was recorded in the Winter of 2022. Learn about 7Song’s upbringing, his path and approach to herbalism, as well as his general advice to up and coming herbalists including practicing in a clinic. Humorous and entertaining, we hope you enjoy this meandering and wonderful conversation. 7Song is an herbal practitioner and Director of Holistic Medicine at the Ithaca Free Clinic and Founder, Dire...
Intro to Chinese Medicine, with Toby Daly | Tea Talks with Jiling
June 09, 2023 14:33 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBToby began studying East Asian medicine in 1997 with Sunim Doam, a Korean monk trained in the Saam tradition. In 2016, he completed a PhD in Classical Chinese Medicine under the guidance of 88th generation Daoist priest Jeffrey Yuen. Toby just published his first book this April, "An Introduction to Chinese Medicine: A Patient's Guide to Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Nutrition, & More". It offers a concise overview of the landscape and therapeutic potential of traditional East Asian medicine...
Herbal Action Project, with Jesús Garcia | Tea Talks with Jiling
June 02, 2023 16:48 - 36 minutes - 24.2 MBJesús Garcia is a Mexican Shaman and Herbalist teaching the traditions of lineage work through botanica practices of curanderia and community spiritual herbalism. Jesús is an early childcare educator focusing on nature school fundamentals through holistic enrichment garden programs and is the founder of the Herbal Action Project, a nature play-school and community garden sanctuary. Jiling and Jesús discuss herbal traditions, family root work, children’s botanical practices, and nourishing...
The Importance of Herbal Events | Featuring Jesse Wolf Hardin
May 26, 2023 20:39 - 41 minutes - 57.5 MBJesse Wolf Hardin joins us for a very special podcast episode with Thomas Dick, to discuss the importance of in-person herbal events. The timing couldn’t be more perfect as many herbal events are taking place throughout the country. Wolf poetically describes the tradition and range of herbal events as well as how to choose which herbal event is best for you. Perhaps most touching, Wolf reminds us that herbal events are a space of holding community, sharing knowledge, forming support systems,...
Flowers Inspire Us Together | Featuring Bevin Clare (Rerelease)
May 19, 2023 12:00 - 11 minutes - 8.81 MBToday's episode is a rerelease of an excerpt from our spring online Free Herbalism Project hosted on April 8, 2021. This presentation was the inspiring and informative intro with our guest emcee Bevin Clare. Bevin covers a few of her favorite spring flowers and notes their traits as well as some lesser known facts. It's a fun, short presentation, but we think you'll have a lot of takeaways from it. Bevin will also be joining us as our guest emcee for the next Free Herbalism Project, a virt...
Interviews on Herbal Radio with Thomas Dick | Featuring Ryland Engelhart of Kiss the Ground
May 12, 2023 17:40 - 1 hour - 92.4 MBWe first met Ryland Engelhart and Finian Makepeace, co-founders of Kiss the Ground – a nonprofit raising awareness for regeneration through storytelling, education, and advocacy – at Natural Products Expo West in 2022. Since our initial meeting, we knew that we shared foundational values with these inspirational leaders, such as the importance of soil health and sustainable agriculture, sparking our interest to want to get to know them and the organization better. We’re thrilled to release...
Food as Medicine | Tea Talks Roundtable
May 05, 2023 17:29 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBIn this “Tea Talks Roundtable,” Jiling discusses the topic of “Food as Medicine” with herbalists Christa Sinadinos, Rona Leah, Jana Kilgore, and Mary Colvin. With our collective herbal experience as two professional cooks, three book authors, two herb school founders, and five herbalists working with different populations, teaching styles, and botanical expertise-- you can expect a fun and delicious conversation! We explore: • everyday strategies to integrate Food as Medicine into...
Plant Stories | Featuring Michelle Guerrero Denison
April 28, 2023 18:29 - 45 minutes - 62.9 MBThis week on Plant Stories, we’re releasing our interview with Michelle Guerrero Denison. Michelle is an herbalist, formulator, educator, and the founder of The Twig & Feather. Michelle resides in Southern California and talks about how through her family’s own health challenges, she found herbalism and holistic wellness. Refreshing, engaging, and open-minded, Michelle’s plant stories are human centric. It’s clear her passion resides in listening to and assisting others on their personal w...
The Enchanter’s Green: Vervain, Wood Betony, and St. John’s Wort | Featuring Kiva Rose Hardin
April 21, 2023 12:00 - 48 minutes - 39.1 MBThis podcast episode is the presentation that Kiva Rose Hardin gave for the Fall 2022 Free Herbalism Project. This was a virtual event that took place over Zoom on October 14, 2022. Kiva states, Vervain, Wood Betony, and St. John’s Wort were some of my earliest herbal allies when I took my first steps on the plant healer’s path. These three herbs are nervines, but so much more! They have a long history as sacred and magical plants across many cultures. Medicinally, all three are often cate...
Interviews on Herbal Radio with Thomas Dick | Featuring Leah Song and Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia
April 14, 2023 16:53 - 55 minutes - 75.6 MBWelcome to a very special episode featuring Leah Song and Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia. We love the soulful tunes from this sister duo and get the feeling that their music resonates with a lot of other folks in the herbal community as well. It was certainly wonderful welcoming Leah and Chloe as our live musical guests for our first virtual Free Herbalism Project (FHP) back in May 2020. After the FHP collaboration, we knew that we wanted to get to know them a little better. Herbal Rad...
Sustainably Foraging So-Cal | Tea Talks Roundtable
April 07, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBIn 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). Learn more about the Ventura area’s Mediterranean climate, ethical harvesting considerations, and some of the plants that make this area special. We discuss building relationships with plants, spring nibbles, gardening, white sage, horehound, tasty naturalized plants, warrior plants, and conclude with some ...
Herbs Are Not Pharmaceuticals | Featuring Dr. Christopher Hobbs
March 31, 2023 16:46 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBThis podcast episode comes from Dr. Christopher Hobbs’ presentation for the Fall 2022 Free Herbalism Project. This was a virtual event that took place over Zoom on October 14, 2022. Dr. Hobbs discusses why herbs and herbal medicine is fundamentally different than drugs. Since the pandemic, the popularity of herbal medicine in households has continued to grow rapidly. Dr. Hobbs help us to look closely and practically at how herbal medicine can transform your health and wellness while helpin...
Plant Stories | Featuring Julia O. Bianco
March 24, 2023 18:40 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MBFor this week’s Plant Stories podcast, we interview multi-disciplinary artist Julia O. Bianco. Julia was a Deep Ecology Artist Fellow at the United Plant Savers (UpS) Sanctuary, one of our favorite non-profit organizations focused on protecting native medicinal plants, fungi, and their ecosystems. Hear 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 an...
Body into Balance, with Maria Noël Groves | Tea Talks with Jiling
March 17, 2023 16:37 - 49 minutes - 34.8 MBMaria Noël Groves, clinical herbalist, runs Wintergreen Botanicals, nestled in the pine forests of New Hampshire. Mariais devoted to education and empowerment via online and in person classes, health consultations, and writing with the foundational belief that good health grows in nature. She is the author of “Body into Balance: An Herbal Guide to Holistic Self Care” and “Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies.” Her introductory and advanced herbalist training programs will begin this spring and summ...
Interviews on Herbal Radio with Thomas Dick | Featuring Rosemary Gladstar
March 10, 2023 13:00 - 56 minutes - 77.9 MBThis week, we had the absolute honor of speaking with our friend, culture shaper, voice of the plants, and esteemed herbalist and author, Rosemary Gladstar. Rosemary is an inspiring figure in the herbal community and is a catalyst of plant powered action. Rosemary had founded schools, businesses (including Mountain Rose Herbs), herbal conferences (one of which is the upcoming International Herb Symposium), and organizations focused on the preservation of at-risk and endangered plants – suc...