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• Planting Medicine Now and Then, with Renée Camila & Sam Roberts | Tea Talks with Jiling

  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. 🌿

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• Mirrors in the Earth, with Asia Suler | Tea Talks with Jiling

  This week on Tea Talks with Jiling, we are joined by Asia Suler. Asia is an herbalist and earth intuitive, the author of Mirrors in the Earth, and host of Remember Why You Are Here. She began her journey after years of chronic pain and illness and has guided over 100,000 students through her online programs, where she helps people embrace their own unique medicine through joyful engagement with the natural world. Join Asia and Jiling as they discuss:  Intuitive plant medicine How high sensitivity overlaps with herbalism "Integrating the charge" from Hurricane Helene Rebuilding our inner ecology Listen until the end to hear Asia read an excerpt from her book Mirrors in the Earth about the Reishi Tree! 🪻Visit Asia Suler at: 💻 Website: Asia Suler 📱 Facebook: Asia Suler 📸 Instagram @asiasuler 🎥 Youtube @AsiaSuler 🎙️ Podcast: Remember Why You Are Here  📍Substack: Asia Suler 📓 Book: Mirrors in the Earth 🌿 Intuitive Plant Medicine Course 🌎 Earth Healing Archetype Quiz ~~~ 🪷 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. 🌿

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• The Mycelial Healer | Featuring Christopher Parker

  This week on Everything You Didn't Know About Herbalism, we are joined by Christopher Parker, the self-taught mycologist with 30 years of experience in mushroom cultivation, wildharvesting, and herbal medicine making. Join us to explore: Christopher & Katherine Parker's new book, The Mycelial Healer: A Comprehensive Guide to the Cultivation and Traditional Uses of Medicinal Mushrooms Growing up through the changing seasons and breathtaking landscapes of Southern Appalachia The domino effect that transforming floodplains into food forests could have  Unique and creative ways to get medicinal mushrooms into your diet Making fungi cultivation accessible for all 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.   Learn more about Christopher below! ⬇️ 🍄 Christopher Parker is a farmer, educator, and myco-culture keeper from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. For more than 30 years, he has cultivated gourmet and medicinal mushrooms in the Southern Appalachians, blending Indigenous forest-tending traditions with modern mycology science. As co-founder of The Forest Farmacy, a working farm and applied eco-mycology school, Christopher trains farmers, growers, and land stewards to regenerate soil, restore forests, and build livelihoods based on food sovereignty. His approach combines ancestral wisdom with hands-on cultivation, teaching people to grow mushrooms not just as a crop but as a practice of reciprocity and ecological repair. Christopher maintains one of the most diverse fungal culture libraries suited to the Appalachian bioregion and is dedicated to passing on these living genetic materials, along with the stories and skills that give them meaning. His work champions fungi as both food and medicine, and as partners in creating resilient communities. At the core of his teaching is a simple truth: humans are not separate from the forest—we are keystone species. Through careful tending, mushrooms serve as a bridge connecting people and place, culture and ecology, past and future.   📚 Get your hands on Christopher's new book! 📚 The Mycelial Healer: A Comprehensive Guide to the Cultivation and Traditional Uses of Medicinal Mushrooms ~ 📓 Find herbal education opportunities at Christopher and Katherine's Eco-Mycology School! 📓 The Forest Farmacy ~ 🍄 Want to learn how to grow your own medicinal mushrooms? 🍄 Check out the Beginner Mushroom Growing Course, by The Forest Farmacy! ~ 🌾 Join Chris for a LIVE webinar on turning farm waste into food, medicine, and profit 🌾 Start your Regenerative Mushroom Farm | Wednesday December 3rd 6pm EST ~ ⬇️ Check out Christopher's video interview below! ⬇️ https://youtu.be/uJjIfNiEcDY  ~~~ 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. 🌿      

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• The Girl Whose Garden Comes Alive | Featuring Juliet Howard

  This week on Everything You Didn't Know About Herbalism, we are joined by Juliet Howard, the herbalist and author who focuses her practice on connecting budding mini herbalists-to-be through creating accessible, reciprocal backyard herbal education for children. Join us to explore: Juliet's newly launch book, The Girl Whose Garden Comes Alive How the Pacific Northwest sparked her journey as a writer Children's natural connection to nature How children can remind us to slow down Why forming relationships with the green world help guide children into adulthood 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. 🌿 More of a visual learner? Click here to watch Juliet's video interview! Learn more about Juliet below! ⬇️ 🪻Juliet Howard is an herbalist, mother, author of The Girl Whose Garden Comes Alive, musician, medicine-maker, and a lover of all things wild. Her relationship to plant magic began at a very early age living on the wild cliffs of the Oregon coast. Her approach to herbalism comes from a deep reverence for plants and she believes wholeheartedly that plants are a powerful portal into the magic and wonder of being alive and embodied. Check out Juliet's blog! 🌸 Recipes + Creations 🖍️ Coloring Pages 🌿 Plant Magic (coming soon…) ~ Find Juliet on social media! 📸 Instagram @daymoonbotanicals 🎥 YouTube @JulietHoward-j3n ~ 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. 🌿  

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• The Art of Growing Medicinal Herbs | Featuring Jeff & Melanie Carpenter

  This week on Everything You Didn't Know About Herbalism, we are joined by the owners of Zack Woods Herbs Farm and authors of The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer, Jeff and Melanie Carpenter. Drawing on over 25 years of hands-on organic farming experience, Join this passionate dynamic duo to explore: Balancing multiple jobs while running a medicinal herb farm Importance of the marketing and business side of farming How Jeff and Melanie weaved both their writings into their book The careful and thoughtful process of drying medicinal herbs Letting go of the ever-expanding business growth = success mindset 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. Learn more about the faces behind Zack Woods Herb Farm below! ⬇️ 🚜 Jeff Carpenter developed his love and understanding of herbs through an apprenticeship with Rosemary Gladstar and as the former co-owner of Sage Mountain Herb Products and the International Herb Symposium. Since those early days, Jeff's work as a farmer, agricultural consultant, author, educator and researcher has focused on the cultivation, conservation, and marketing of medicinal herbs. 🌿 Melanie Carpenter grew up at Sage Mountain with her Step-Mother and herbal visionary, Rosemary Gladstar. It was from Rosemary that Melanie first cultivated her love for medicinal plants. For the last twenty-six years Melanie has worked in the field of medicinal herbs as a farmer, mother, grandmother, community herbalist, and educator. 📖 Get your hands on a copy of Jeff and Melanie's book! 📖  The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer: How to Produce High-Quality Herbs on a Market Scale  ~ 🌾 Want to get organic herbs straight from the source? 🌾 Peruse in stock herbs at Zack Woods Herb Farm ~ Looking to learn the ropes of the medicinal herb industry? 🌱 Check out Jeff's Consulting Services for Medicinal Herb Production & Marketing 🌱   Find Zack Woods Herbs Farm on social media! 📸 Instagram - @zackwoodsherbfarm 📱Facebook -  @Zack Woods Herb Farm   ⬇️ Check out Jeff and Melanie's video interview below! ⬇️ https://youtu.be/Zdventp7DLg   ~~~ 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. 🌿  

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