Herbal Radio

It’s late Spring and many of our beloved flowers are in full bloom! To celebrate the season and our upcoming in-person Free Herbalism Project, we’re rereleasing a lecture from our Spring virtual FHP hosted on April 8, 2021. In this presentation, esteemed herbalist Rosalee de la Forêt will help us to look at the many gifts of some favorite spring flowers and learn precious wisdom from these ephemeral beings. Rosalee will also be sharing invitations and recipes to bring more spring growth and beauty into your life. Watch Rosalee’s presentation on our YouTube channel here. Rosalee is passionate about inspiring people to turn to the healing gifts of medicinal plants and nature connection. She is the author of the bestselling book Alchemy of Herbs: Transforming Everyday Ingredients into Foods and Remedies that Heal and co-author of Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine.  Rosalee is a registered herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and was an herbal clinician for 6 years before dedicating her offerings to herbal education. In addition to writing books, she teaches many online herbal courses about herbalism and medicine making.  Rosalee and her husband live in a log cabin in the northeastern cascades of Washington state. She’s an avid gardener and excels at cuddling up with her cat and a good book. ~VISIT ROSALEE ONLINE~ Link to Rosalee’s Free Spring Flowers Recipe Ebook! 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 Follow on Twitter Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. Mountain Rose Herbs www.mountainroseherbs.com

Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist and food sovereignty activist who specializes in teaching about culturally important plants and their uses as food, medicine, and materials. Linda currently serves as the Food Sovereignty Coordinator at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North Dakota. She spends her free time with her husband and three sons, who are all citizens of the Oceti Sakowin. Linda and Jiling discuss the magic of native prairies, the little that remains, and what we can do about it. Learn about Linda’s inspiring food sovereignty work with indigenous youth, and how to cultivate rich long-term reciprocal relationships with our plant and human relatives. Understand how pipelines and other extractive industries negatively impact plant nations. Walk the land with a greater appreciation for the food and medicine underfoot and all around.  Visit Linda Black Elk at:  Instagram @Linda.Black.Elk Facebook @LindaBlackElk (Direct message Linda on Facebook to support her family’s “Food Kits for Elders” project, their work to fight food and medicine shortages in their communities with indigenous foods.) Jiling Lin is a Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac), herbalist, and yoga teacher in Ventura, CA. She helps athletes, artists and visionaries thrive with transformative acupuncture & herb treatments and innovative classes & retreats. Visit Jiling at:  JilingLin.com Instagram @LinJiling Facebook @JilingLAc Resources mentioned:  American Indian Higher Education Consortium Wahpepah’s Kitchen (Crystal Wahpepah) Owamni (Sean Sherman, The Sioux Chef) Yawekon (Tawnya Brant)  Stephanie Morningstar 7song Indigenous Environmental Network  Honor the Earth Indigenous Food Lab 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 Follow on Twitter Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. Mountain Rose Herbs www.mountainroseherbs.com

This week’s episode is a rerelease of a recording from our first ever virtual Free Herbalism Project held online in June 2020. This audio episode originally aired on Herbal Radio on December 18, 2020. Join us as Mountain Rose Herbs’ own, Christine Rice, discusses aromatherapy and essential oil basics. Topics range from: what are essential oils and how are they crafted to basic blending suggestions and easy ways to incorporate aromatherapy into your daily life. Watch the virtual Free Herbalism Project on our YouTube channel by clicking here. Christine Rice is a Certified Aromatherapist and Director of Product Development & Management at Mountain Rose Herbs. A longtime employee with over a decade under her belt, Christine collaborates with almost every department at Mountain Rose Herbs on a daily basis and knows the intimate details of every product we offer. Christine researches and selects new and exciting herbal products to offer in addition to managing all of our current products. With more than 3,000 product offerings, this is no small task! She also oversees the quality and approval of the essential oils and hydrosols that we carry. 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 Follow on Twitter Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. Mountain Rose Herbs www.mountainroseherbs.com  

We are excited to announce the release of our Spring 2022 issue of the Mountain Rose Herbs Journal. In this week’s podcast episode, contributing journal author, Jiling Lin, reads us her newly published article titled Traveling Teas. Become enchanted as Jiling recounts her various travels with tea. Click here to view a digital copy of the Spring 2022 journal/catalog or sign up to receive a free print copy and read Jiling’s story in full. Jiling Lin is a Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac), herbalist, and yoga teacher in Ventura, CA. Visit Jiling at JilingLin.com, Instagram @LinJiling, and Facebook @JilingLAc. Get her free Nourishing Life (養生) template, Five Elements (五行) outline, or sign up for her newsletter here. 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 Follow on Twitter Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. Mountain Rose Herbs www.mountainroseherbs.com

Savor this mouthwatering and plant-connected conversation with one of the leaders of our herbal community, Mimi Hernandez, Executive Director of the American Herbalists Guild, and homesteader near Asheville, NC. Mimi shares colorful tales of rolling up invasive honeysuckle and planting native seeds across three acres of land, power-washing five gallon bucketfuls of tunas (prickly pear fruit) to make hot-pink prickly pear cakes, writing an herbal for National Geographic, making herbal rum infusions like her Mexican grandmother, and balancing paperwork-ridden leadership with unadulterated time with her family, plants, and chickens.  Mimi has dedicated her life to advocating for both traditional and professional herbal pathways while building cultural bridges of understanding. Inspired by her Mexican-Colombian background and the Abuelas in her life, her roots spring from Latinx folk herbal traditions. Mimi has mentored many students of clinical and community herbalism over the years. Enjoy learning more about her adventures from grandma’s kitchen into academia, and eventually back into the kitchen again.  Some resources from our chat:  Mimi’s Traditional Hot Chocolate with Chocolate de Mesa recipe American Herbalists Guild Visit Mimi Hernandez at: HerbalNightSchool.com  Her personal Facebook page Facebook group: Advanced Herbal Science Email Mimi with any questions at Mimi@HerbalForager.com Jiling Lin is a Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac), herbalist, and yoga teacher in Ventura, CA. Visit Jiling at:  JilingLin.com Instagram @LinJiling Facebook @JilingLAc 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 Follow on Twitter Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. Mountain Rose Herbs www.mountainroseherbs.com

This week’s Herbal Radio podcast corresponds with a recently released blog post and video tutorial by our good friend, Jiling Lin. A licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, and yoga teacher, Jiling poetically walks us through the process of making our own botanical incense using a Traditional Chinese Medicine incense formulation, Xiao Yao San (逍遙散) or “Free and Easy Wanderer”. In Jiling’s words, “making our own incense provides a tactile connection with the land, medicine, and our bioregional terroir. Mixing and shaping incense by hand, we reconnect with our indigenous roots of shaping the earth, building rituals, and serenading our ancestors with songs carried on spiraling smoke”. Read Jiling’s article “Free & Easy Wanderer Incense Recipe” on our blog. Watch Jiling’s instructional video “How to Make Botanical Incense” on our YouTube channel. Jiling Lin is a Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac), herbalist, and yoga teacher in Ventura, CA. She helps athletes, artists, and visionaries thrive with transformative acupuncture & herb treatments and innovative classes & retreats. Visit Jiling at:  JilingLin.com Instagram @LinJiling Facebook @JilingLAc

Emily is the Director & Founder of the Artemisia Academy. She runs Artemisia Academy’s Santa Barbara based and online Herbal Apprentice Program and Community Herbalist Program. Emily has been studying holistic health for over 15 years. She is a Certified Clinical Herbalist and Clinical Nutritionist from the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, and Certified Massage Therapist from the Santa Barbara Body Therapy Institute. Emily hopes to pass on the knowledge of sustainable living with practical entrepreneurial skills so that herbalists can create thriving practices that fully support themselves, their land, and their community. We discuss Emily’s journey of creating Artemisia Academy, her favorite plant connection practices, and the importance of prioritizing self-care for effective and powerful community care. Go behind the scenes in learning about the challenges and gifts of starting and growing an herb school, dreaming big, and taking one step at a time.  Visit Emily Sanders at: ArtemisiaAcademy.com  Instagram @ArtemisiaAcademy Facebook @ArtemisiaAcademy Jiling Lin is a Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac), herbalist, and yoga teacher in Ventura, CA. Visit Jiling at:  JilingLin.com Instagram @LinJiling Facebook @JilingLAc Resources:  - Self-care quiz - Morning Rituals blog post  - Holistic Gardener Course - Herbal Apprentice Program - Community Herbalist Program - California Herbal Medics 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 Follow on Twitter Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. Mountain Rose Herbs www.mountainroseherbs.com

Join us for Meet the Herbalist with Bevin Clare featuring clinical herbalist, celebrated author, and founder, director of Sacred Plant Traditions, Kat Maier. With over 30 years of clinical experience, there is a true wealth of wisdom to gain from Kat in this friendly, inspiring, and fun interview. Often in the herbal community, we are called to fulfill multiple roles. Tune in to hear about the many hats Kat has worn over the years as well as conversations on bio-regional herbalism, the beauty of singing, sustainability, and the realities of living in a world with a growing interest in plants. Listen as Kat introduces us to her new book titled Energetic Herbalism. Described as a “homeopathic introduction” into herbal energetics, Energetic Herbalism is a must have for anyone who is looking to engage deeply with plants. Kathleen Maier, AHG. PA has been a practicing herbalist for over thirty years. She is currently director of Sacred Plant Traditions in Charlottesville, VA where she offers a Three Year Clinical/Community Herbalist training program. SPT’s free clinic was one of the first on the east coast and is still growing strong. She is a founding member of Botanica Mobile Clinic, which offers their services to underserved populations, as well as first responders in crisis situations. She is president of the Board of United Plant Savers and was the recipient of their first Medicinal Plant Conservation Award. Kathleen’s studies of plants began as a Peace Corps volunteer in Chile and her training as a Physician’s Assistant allows her to weave the language of medicine we know today with traditional energetic systems. She is co-author of Bush Medicine of San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Bevin Clare, M.S., R.H., CNS, is an herbalist, nutritionist, mother and Professor and Program Director of the Master’s of Science in Clinical Herbal Medicine at the Maryland University of Integrative Health. She holds a MSc in Infectious Disease from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has studied herbal medicine around the world to blend her knowledge of traditional uses of plants with modern science and contemporary healthcare strategies as a consultant and educator. She serves as an adjunct Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Northeast College of Health Sciences. Learn More about Bevin Clare, Herbalist and Nutritionist. 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 Follow on Twitter Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. Mountain Rose Herbs www.mountainroseherbs.com

This podcast is a combination of two separate talks from a pre-recorded plant walk led by Shana Lipner Grover at Mount Pisgah in Eugene, Oregon. A talented clinical herbalist, field botanist, and nutrition educator, Shana introduces us to two plants abundant throughout the Pacific Northwest, stinging nettle and poison oak. Perhaps not outwardly considered allies as their touch can occasionally induce minor skin irritations, Shana explains how these plants can become our friends when properly identified and treated with respect. Engaging and informative, Shana reviews the botany, habitat, safety, and uses of nettle and poison oak and teaches us that by paying close attention to these plants we can be in relationship with them and learn from them. Shana was a student of award-winning author Michael Moore and also one of Mountain Rose Herbs' favorite herbalists, Howie Brounstein. Today, she is the director and primary educator of Sage Country Herbs School of Botanical Studies in San Diego, CA. You can learn more about Shana at Sage Country Herbs School and by visiting her on Instagram @sagecountryherbs. Watch the YouTube video of Shana’s plant walk on Stinging Nettles here as well as her plant walk on Poison Oak here! 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 Follow on Twitter Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. Mountain Rose Herbs www.mountainroseherbs.com

Here at Mountain Rose Herbs, sustainability is the only business we know. In addition to sustainability, organic agriculture and ethical harvesting practices have always been at the forefront of our decision-making. As many plants are increasingly under pressure from climate change, habitat loss, over harvesting, and more, we look to shed more light on the topic of Endangered Plants. Susan Leopold’s lecture on The Work of the United Plant Savers: Why Sustainable Herb Sourcing Matters comes from our Free Herbalism Project archive. It was recorded live in Eugene, Oregon on October 9, 2016. Although years have passed since this lecture, the topic remains vitally relevant. Susan Leopold, PhD, is an ethnobotanist and passionate defender of biodiversity. Over the past 20 years, Susan has worked extensively with indigenous peoples in Peru and Costa Rica. She is the Executive Director of United Plant Savers and Director of the Sacred Seeds Project. Prior to working at United Plant Savers, she was a librarian at the Oak Spring Garden Library, specializing in digitizing rare herbals and botanical travel manuscripts. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Botanical Dimensions and the Center for Sustainable Economy. She is an advisory board member of American Botanical Council. She is a proud member of the Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia and the author of the children’s book Isabella’s Peppermint Flower, teaching about Virginia’s botanical history. She lives on and manages a productive farm, the Indian Pipe Botanical Sanctuary, with her three children in Virginia. There she raises goats, peacocks, and herbs. She is an avid recreational tree climber, in love with the canopy just as much as the herbs of the forest floor. Click here to learn more about United Plant Savers! 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 Follow on Twitter Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. Mountain Rose Herbs www.mountainroseherbs.com