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This week on Tea Talks with Jiling, we are joined by Keya Kai Guimarães. Keya is a community herbalist, lei-maker, and crafter of aromatic plant medicines, born beneath the fragrant Ponderosa pines of Colorado and shaped by the rain-kissed beauty of Kauaʻi. Honoring her Irish, Chinese, and Polynesian ancestry, Keya walks a path of listening to the land— approaching the botanical realm as both pilgrim and apprentice. For the past ten years, her herbal focus has been on women's health and hormonal transitions— from menarche to menopause— using plant-based remedies, seasonal wellness coaching, and lei-making as a living healing art. Listen in as Keya and Jiling discuss: Apprenticing with the plants Hawaiian lei and hula traditions How lei-making relates to herbal medicine Botanomancy and how to play with Keya's newest project, the "Lāʻau: Hawaiian Flora" card game and book of monographs Visit Keya Kai Guimarães at: 🌺 Website: EcoTone Kaua`i 🃏 Lāʻau: Hawaiian Flora card game & book of monographs 📱Instagram @ecotonekauai & @keyaflowerandfern ~~~ 🪷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 fresh updates about her coming book! (Publication 2027/ 2028)   ~~~ Mountain Rose Herbs is a purveyor of the highest quality organically grown herbs and spices, teas, essential oils, & botanical goods. You can find our organic botanical offerings on MountainRoseHerbs.com. 📖 Request a FREE copy of our 2026 Printed Journal shipped straight to your door!  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 bond between people and plants for a healthier world. 🌿

2025 was a big year for Herbal Radio! To bring the year to a close, this special episode will take us on a trip down memory lane to revisit some of the most educational, inspiring, and thought-provoking conversations we've had the honor of sharing with you all this year. Thank you so much for tagging along with us each week to explore the vast and vibrant world of herbalism. From the entire Herbal Radio family, we hope you have a wonderful New Year! Check out the full interviews from the excerpts featured in this episode below! ⬇️ The Generosity of Plants, with Rosemary Gladstar | Tea Talks with Jiling Breathe in the Wild, Exhale the Worry | Featuring Jesse Wolf Hardin Co-Creating with Nature, with Pam Montgomery | Tea Talks with Jiling  Affrilachian Herbalism: Women of Color Herbalists of the South | Featuring Lucretia VanDyke Leading the Future of Farming by Example | Featuring Elise & Jeff Higley Mirrors in the Earth, with Asia Suler | Tea Talks with Jiling Don't forget to check out the honorably mentioned interviews too! ⬇️ Herbs in Every Season | Featuring Bevin Cohen  Art that Breathes, with Tony(a) Lemos | Tea Talks with Jiling Planting Medicine Now and Then, with Renée Camila & Sam Roberts | Tea Talks with Jiling Fermentation School, with Kirsten Shockey | Tea Talks with Jiling 🌿 More of a visual learner? Check out the video episode below! 🌿 Best of 2025 | Herbal Radio - YouTube *Due to relaunching video interviews mid-way through the year, not all interviews mentioned in the episode will have a video. Mountain Rose Herbs is a purveyor of the highest quality organically grown herbs and spices, teas, essential oils, & botanical goods. You can find our organic botanical offerings on MountainRoseHerbs.com. 📖 Pre-order a FREE copy of our 2026 Printed Journal releasing in January!  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. 🌿  

"If you want to have a relationship with the more than human world, you have to spend time in the more than human world." – Mo Judith This week on Everything You Didn't Know About Herbalism, we are once again joined by the Earth-centered herbalist who bottles the alchemical intelligence of plants through the spagyric process, Mo Judith. Join Tommy and Mo for this special PART TWO episode as they expand on: The Tri Prima (three essentials) of spagyrics: soul, spirit, body  Spagyrics being about curiosity and humility, not hierarchy The spagyric process expanding beyond tinctures Honoring plants by using all its parts Dosage differences in spagyrics tinctures As always, we thank you for joining us on another botanical adventure and are so honored to have you tag along with us on this ride. Remember, we want to hear from you! Your questions, ideas, and who you want to hear from are an invaluable piece to our podcast. Email us at [email protected] to let us know what solutions we should uncover next within the vast world of herbalism. 🎥 Check out Mo's video interview here! - https://youtu.be/4rzvUJmK1c4 Learn more about Mo below! ⬇️ 🌿 Maureen (Mo) Judith was raised closely to the natural world and was shaped by the quiet intelligence of plants, ecosystems, and wilderness from an early age. She became a life-long student of nature and an advocate for the rights of nature and the more-than-human world. Mo began to study herbalism in her teenage years, which led her to travel the world at 18 in pursuit of broadening her understanding of life and those who inhabited this earth. Drawn not only to local ecologies but also the ways life expresses itself across the globe, Mo spent around 5 years traveling and hitchhiking around the world, seeking to learn from the Earth and those who still spoke her language. Today, Mo runs Aura La Voura, a project, laboratory, and brand dedicated to alchemical herbalism, spagyrics and right-relationship with the earth. Their work scratches the surface of a new kind of research—one that bridges wisdom and soul with modern science and chemistry. Mo currently donates a portion of profits to foundations dedicated to reforestation and coral rejuvenation. "Aura La Voura aims to contribute to a greater shift—where healing is not just personal, but planetary." ⚗️ Learn more about the spagyric process! ⚗️ Aura La Voura | What is a Spagyric? 🌎 Learn more about animism! 🌎 Aura La Voura | What is Animism? 🧪 Shop Mo's line of hand-crafted spagyrics! 🧪 Aura La Voura | Shop All 📓 Check out Mo's hands-on learning opportunities! 📓 Aura La Voura | Class with Mo ~ Mountain Rose Herbs is a purveyor of the highest quality organically grown herbs and spices, teas, essential oils, & botanical goods. You can find our organic botanical offerings on MountainRoseHerbs.com. 📖 Pre-order a FREE copy of our 2026 Printed Journal releasing in January! 📖 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. 🌿                

"Alchemy is the biodynamic system that recognizes the soul and intelligence within the chemical reaction." – Mo Judith This week on Everything You Didn't Know About Herbalism, we are joined by the Earth-centered herbalist who bottles the alchemical intelligence of plants through the spagyric process, Mo Judith. Join Tommy and Mo as they explore: Consciousness expanding beyond human consciousness Spagyric tinctures vs. botanical tinctures Separation and recombination to build wholeness Perceiving life through animism: nothing is inanimate Alchemy bridging the gap between science and spirituality As always, we thank you for joining us on another botanical adventure and are so honored to have you tag along with us on this ride. Remember, we want to hear from you! Your questions, ideas, and who you want to hear from are an invaluable piece to our podcast. Email us at [email protected] to let us know what solutions we should uncover next within the vast world of herbalism. 🎥 Check out Mo's video interview here! - https://youtu.be/gyUQo7whs2A Learn more about Mo below! ⬇️ 🌿 Maureen (Mo) Judith was raised closely to the natural world and was shaped by the quiet intelligence of plants, ecosystems, and wilderness from an early age. She became a life-long student of nature and an advocate for the rights of nature and the more-than-human world. Mo began to study herbalism in her teenage years, which led her to travel the world at 18 in pursuit of broadening her understanding of life and those who inhabited this earth. Drawn not only to local ecologies but also the ways life expresses itself across the globe, Mo spent around 5 years traveling and hitchhiking around the world, seeking to learn from the Earth and those who still spoke her language. Today, Mo runs Aura La Voura, a project, laboratory, and brand dedicated to alchemical herbalism, spagyrics and right-relationship with the earth. Their work scratches the surface of a new kind of research—one that bridges wisdom and soul with modern science and chemistry. Mo currently donates a portion of profits to foundations dedicated to reforestation and coral rejuvenation. "Aura La Voura aims to contribute to a greater shift—where healing is not just personal, but planetary." ⚗️ Learn more about the spagyric process! ⚗️ Aura La Voura | What is a Spagyric? 🌎 Learn more about animism! 🌎 Aura La Voura | What is Animism? 🧪 Shop Mo's line of hand-crafted spagyrics! 🧪 Aura La Voura | Shop All 📓 Check out Mo's hands-on learning opportunities! 📓 Aura La Voura | Class with Mo ~ Mountain Rose Herbs is a purveyor of the highest quality organically grown herbs and spices, teas, essential oils, & botanical goods. You can find our organic botanical offerings on MountainRoseHerbs.com. 📖 Pre-order a FREE copy of our 2026 Printed Journal releasing in January! 📖 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. 🌿                    

Please enjoy today's Tea Talk with Renée Camila and Sam Roberts, co-founders of Now and Then Herb School and co-producers of the Planting Medicine podcast and radio show on 94.1 KPFA! The Now and Then Herb School focuses on guiding modern herbalism to old magic within a social justice framework. 🌻 Renée Camila is the daughter of Nicaraguan immigrants, and she is dedicated to the empowerment and healing offered by ancestral medicines through a decolonial lens. Her practice draws from her Mediterranean and Indigenous (Chorotega) ancestry and includes nearly a decade of clinical energetic herbalism, traditional birthwork, and folk education. 🪻Sam Roberts is a gay, white, non-binary triple virgo living on unceded S'Klallam land on the northern Olympic Peninsula. Sam is a practicing energetic herbalist, medicine maker, educator and plant tender with over two decades of experience working with herbal medicine to tend to the health and healing of clients and community. Using herbs, plant spirit medicine, nutrition, and ritual Sam works to steward their clients back to health, vitality, center and a sense of belonging within the world. Renée, Sam, and Jiling discuss: How herbalism is ancestral medicine Decolonizing herbalism Courting plants as people Intentionally building relationships with more-than-human beings— or, magic. Hear stories about rose, oats, rosemary, and more in our inspiring conversation! Learn more about Renée and Sam's work together at: ✏️ School: https://www.nowandthenherbschool.com 📻 Radio: https://kpfa.org/program/planting-medicine 📸 IG @nowandthenherbschool Visit Renée Camila at: 💻 Website: https://www.reneecamila.com 🌿 BIPOC Collective: https://www.seedsofancestralrenewal.com/siskiyou 📰 Newsletter: https://www.reneecamila.com/newsletter 📸 IG: https://www.instagram.com/layerbabuenaherbs 🦋 Bluesky: @reneecamila.bsky.social Visit Sam Roberts at: 💻 Website: www.homeandhearthherbs.com 🪷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 fresh updates about her coming book! (Publication 2027/ 2028) ~~~ Mountain Rose Herbs is a purveyor of the highest quality organically grown herbs and spices, teas, essential oils, & botanical goods. You can find our organic botanical offerings on MountainRoseHerbs.com. 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. 🌿