The Truth About Herb Books & Which Materia Medicas You Need
Building a trustworthy herbal library is essential for serious herbal study, yet many modern herb books lack clinical depth or are even AI-generated. In this post, youโll learn how to discern high-quality materia medica and explore five of the most reliable, clinically useful references โ from historical Eclectic texts to modern, pattern-based systems that continue […]
Do You Need to Know Botany to Be a Great Herbalist?
Do you need to know botany to be a great herbalist? Since learning botany is like learning a new language, itโs a fair question. After all, if you wonโt use it, is it worth becoming fluent in it? Being an herbalist means a lot of things: Working with people, plants, and being the bridge between […]
Regenerative Wildcrafting: An Interview with Scott Kloos
Scott Kloos is an herbalist, wildcrafter, and medicine maker. He founded and acts as the managing director of the School of Forest Medicine and owns Cascadia Folk Medicine, which supplies high-quality, small-batch herbal extracts from the native plants of the Pacific Northwest region. He also co-founded the Elderberry School of Botanical Medicine in Portland, Oregon, […]
Truly Ethical Wildcrafting: Creating Reciprocity & Relationship with Wild Plants & Places
On this weekโs episode of The Plant Path, Whitney is joined by herbalist Rosalee de la Forรชt. They have a discussion around wildcrafting practices; how to build relationships with the plants that grow around you by learning how to honorably harvest, tend, and care for land in your bioregion; how to work with the wild plants around you for food, medicine, and healing; and much more.