This week on Tea Talks with Jiling, we are joined by Kat Maier RH, (AHG). Kat is the founder and director of Sacred Plant Traditions, a center for herbal studies in Charlottesville, Virginia.

One of her greatest accomplishments has been to train many clinical herbalists who have gone onto to begin other schools, apothecaries or open practices. In clinical practice for over 30 years, Kat teaches internationally at universities, conferences, and herbal schools. She is a founding member of Botanica Mobile Clinic, a nonprofit dedicated to providing accessible herbal medicine to local communities. This grew out of her school’s free clinic which was one of the first on the east coast and went on to be a template for other schools. She began her study of plants as a Peace Corps volunteer, and her training as a Physician’s Assistant allows her to weave the language of biomedicine into her practice of traditional energetic herbalism. 

Kat is coauthor of Bush Medicine of San Salvador Island, Bahamas, as well as the author of the Nautilus Award winning book—Energetic Herbalism: A Guide to Sacred Plant Traditions Integrating Elements of Vitalism Ayurveda, and Chinese Medicine.

As a passionate steward of the plants, Kat also served as president of United Plant Savers and was the recipient of the organization’s first Medicinal Plant Conservation Award.

🪻Visit Kat Meier at Sacred Plant Traditions

🪷 In today’s conversation, Jiling and Kat discuss:

• Building plant and human relationships through Medicine of Place
• Watching what’s in bloom
• What is Energetic Herbalism
• Plants as teachers
• Dreamtime and dream seeds, winter rituals for resting into fresh potential

 🌿 Jiling Lin is a Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac) and herbalist in Ventura, CA. 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. Visit Jiling at JilingLin.com and join her newsletter for seasonal beauty.

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This week on Everything You Didn’t Know About Herbalism, we are joined by a true seasoned expertise of the natural product and dietary supplement world, Holly E. Johnson. With a Ph.D. in pharmacognosy and an accumulated 25+ years of experience in botanicals research, Holly holds the esteemed role of Chief Science Officer for an organization that is very near and dear to Mountain Rose’s heart—American Herbal Products Association (AHPA). Join Thomas and our special guest host / Vice President of Quality & Regulatory Affairs, Steven Yeager, as they sit down with Holly for a fun-loving and educational interview on the importance of scientific perspectives within herbalism and the natural products industry. Be sure to check out the links included below and get registered for the upcoming FREE virtual event: AHPA Talks: ERB Foundation on 1/16/2025!

As always, we thank you for joining us on another botanical adventure and are 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 invaluable to our podcast. Please send us an email at [email protected] to let us know what solutions we should uncover within the vast world of herbalism next. 

Learn more about Holly E. Johnson! 

🌱 Holly E. Johnson serves as Chief Science Officer for the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA)and has a Ph.D. in pharmacognosy with over 25 years of experience in botanicals research. In her role as Chief Science Officer, Holly provides individualized scientific guidance to AHPA members and contributes to the advancement of science, technology, and research in the dietary supplement and natural products industries. Dr. Johnson is an active expert volunteer in standards setting for AOAC International in foods, dietary supplements, and botanicals; and also serves on expert panels for US Pharmacopeia (USP), as well as other industry advisory boards and working groups.

Learn more about the upcoming AHPA Talks: ERB Foundation!

AHPA’s Foundation for Education and Research on Botanicals (AHPA ERB Foundation) was established as a 501(c)3 foundation to advance education, research, and best practices for the herbal products industry. 

Join them for the AHPA Talks: ERB Foundation on Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 11am PT | 2pm ET to learn more about this unique aspect of AHPA’s operations and the projects currently supported by ERB Foundation funding!

🎟️ Click here to register for the FREE event: AHPA Talks: ERB Foundation

Want to engage with the AHPA and herbal community? Check out some of the available AHPA resource links below!

🗂️ AHPA Resource Page

⛑️ Botanical Safety Handbook

🌿 AHPA Botanical Congress

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Happy New Year to all you plant-enthusiast listeners! For the first episode of Herbal Radio in 2025, we’ll be shaking things up a bit from the usual herbal adventure we find ourselves embarking on each week. After a busy year filled with interviews and the exciting launch our new series, Everything You Didn’t Know About Herbalism, we’re bringing the whole Herbal Radio team to the table to recap another successful year of podcasting! For the very first time, our esteemed hosts, Thomas and Jiling, are joined by Hailey (me) and Gracie, who are the Producer and the Editor/Graphic Designer of Herbal Radio! Join us as we share laughs, insightful moments, and highlight some of the most impactful conversations we’ve had the honor of sharing with you all in 2024.

We’ve had such a wonderful year sharing voices and stories from many folks throughout the herbal community and beyond, and we’re so excited to share more with you in the upcoming year. From the entire Herbal Radio family, we hope you have a wonderful start to the New Year!

Learn more about the Herbal Radio Team below! 

🎙️Thomas Dick is the Vice President of Brand Marketing here at Mountain Rose Herbs, where he controls and creates the look and feel of the company. Thomas has been in the field of graphic design and marketing for more than 20 years and has spent the last 10 years building the Mountain Rose Herbs brand. Born and raised in the Appalachia mountains, Thomas's appreciation for the natural world was cultivated during his childhood spent roaming the creeks and hills of Kentucky and Ohio outdoors. While pursuing a degree in Environmental Studies, Thomas discovered his passion for design and marketing, eventually earning dual degrees from Ohio State University. When Thomas is not conducting interviews for the Herbal Radio podcast, designing beautiful packaging, or mapping out our next marketing campaign, you will most likely find him in his machine shop pursuing his other passion—restoring vintage racing motorcycles.

🏵️Jiling Lin is a Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac) and herbalist in Ventura, CA. Along with being an esteemed clinician and teacher, Jiling is also a passionate traveler, artist, and adventurer. Visit Jiling at JilingLin.com, Instagram @LinJiling, and Facebook @JilingLAc. Get her free Nourishing Life (養生) template or Five Phases (五行) outline.

Join her Substack here for experimental eco-somatic writings, and sign up for her monthly newsletter here!

🪲Hailey Larson grew up on a small rural farm in Oregon surrounded by trees and more animals than you could count on your fingers and toes. Hailey's collective passions for exploration, art, biology, and animals have led her through various career paths including veterinary medicine, neurodiverse healthcare, and teaching glazing at a local pottery studio. These accumulated skills brought her to the front steps of Mountain Rose Herbs, where she holds the position of Partnership & Event Coordinator. When she isn’t planning community events or acting as Producer of the Herbal Radio podcast, you can find her cooking up nourishing plant-based food, snuggling with her beloved kitty, Indigo, or wandering around mossy creek beds looking for agates and animal bones to breathe new life into her jewelry creations.

🤠Gracie Umana is a photojournalist, botanical artist, hiker, and avid gardener. Before moving to Eugene in 2019, Gracie grew up in Ohio and Florida. She has a B.S. in Visual Communication with a focus on Photojournalism. Her artistic work has included documentary photography grants with the Center for Disease Control (CDC), environmental stories about small scale Appalachian farmers, and social justice movements in the Midwest. Gracie is passionate about sustainable living, environmental justice, and making sure our food systems are equitable for everyone. Outside of editing podcast interviews and designing artwork for Herbal Radio, you can find Gracie—accompanied by her pup Violet—lost in the woods with flowers in her hair and moss between her toes.

🏵️ Anjali Deva is an Ayurvedic practitioner currently residing in the mountains of Southern California. Her private practice, Rooted Rasa, specializes in an integrative and trauma-informed approach to Ayurveda. Anjali founded Mādhya Way, a school for Ayurveda in 2020 to provide education in trauma-informed care. She is the co-author of “From Stressed Out to Stress Wise” published in July 2023. She is dedicated to sharing the Wisdom of Ayurveda for the benefit of all living beings.

Visit Anjali Deva at:

• RootedRasa.com
• MadhyaAyurveda.com
• Instagram @anjalidevaayurveda

🌸 Jiling Lin is a Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac) and herbalist in Ventura, CA. A clinician and teacher, Jiling is also a passionate traveler, artist, and adventurer. Visit Jiling at JilingLin.com, Instagram @LinJiling, and Facebook @JilingLAc. Get her free Nourishing Life (養生) template or Five Phases (五行) outline. Join her Substack here for experimental eco-somatic writings, and sign up for her monthly newsletter here!  

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This week on Everything You Didn’t Know About Herbalism, we are joined by the Plant Priestess, herbal explorer, environmental steward, and founder of Full Circle Herbals, Erin LaFaive. Listen in as Erin and Thomas discuss looking beyond analytic perspectives to strength our understanding of plants, the benefit of blending scientific and intuitive ideas together, and how using our five senses can be indicators for what a plant species offers to our health and well-being.  

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. 

🪷 Erin LaFaive is an herbalist and Plant Priestess, known for her deep connection with the Plant Beings. As the owner and founder of Full Circle Herbals, she brings a wealth of experience and wisdom to the world of herbalism.

Erin's journey with plants encompasses diverse roles, from working in greenhouses to serving as a horticulture educator, as well as hands-on experience in gardening and wildcrafting. Over the past 25 years, Erin has shared her knowledge with hundreds of people of all ages, imparting insights into herbalism, horticulture, and environmental stewardship.

Erin formalized her herbal studies with esteemed teachers such as Gigi Stafne (pronounced staff-knee) of Green Wisdom School of Natural and Botanical Medicine, and through Rosemary Gladstar’s Science & Art of Herbalismcourse. Her academic pursuits include a bachelor’s degree in Geography with a specialization in Natural Resources Management, complemented by a master’s degree in environmental studies. As a Certified Temple Guide with Priestess Presence Temple, Erin delves into realms of spiritual exploration and holistic well-being, enriching her understanding through ceremonies, rituals, and transformative practices. Her commitment to sharing the wisdom of the Plant Beings extends into all ways of knowing.

Find Erin on Instagram @erin_lafaive

Find Erin on Facebook @Erin LaFaive, Plant Priestess

Check out the Full Circle Herbals YouTube Channel!

🎙️ Check out Erin’s very own podcast, HERBS (Herbs with Erin – Remedies for Body & Spirit)!

📝 Check out the Full Circle Herbals Blog!

📚 Get your hands on a copy of Erin’s book, Learning Herbalism Workbook!

🌿 Sign-up for Erin’s transformative Grow Your Apothecary Plant Lessons!

🌸 Shop our website using Erin’s Herbal Affiliate link!

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This week on Everything You Didn’t Know About Herbalism, we are sharing the part two special episode in acknowledgment of the annual Buy Nothing Day movement with the award-winning author of The Zero-Waste Chef, Anne-Marie Bonneau. Join us as Anne-Marie and Thomas explore what motivated her plastic-free journey, the ever-growing planet’s plastic pollution problem, where most of our day-to-day trash comes from, practical tips for decreasing waste in the kitchen, and the importance of continuing the conversation surrounding the Buy Nothing Day movement.

As always, we thank you for joining us on another botanical adventure and are 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 invaluable to our podcast. Please send us an email at [email protected] to let us know what solutions we should uncover next within the vast world of herbalism. 

What is Buy Nothing Day you ask? Well, please allow us to explain! 

Buy Nothing Day is our annually celebrated tradition in protest of Black Friday. In making this stand, we are joining tens of thousands of people across 65 nations for an international day of protest against mass consumerism and the throw-away culture that accompanies it. The Buy Nothing Movement has been growing since 1992 as overconsumption continues to consume our precious natural resources faster than we can replace them, putting our planet in real jeopardy.

If you visited our website last week, you likely noticed that our website was blacked out in protest of Black Friday. Although this “sale holiday” has since passed, it is crucial to continue the conversation surrounding the impacts mass consumerism has on our planet 365 days a year. We encourage our listeners to keep the buy nothing ball rolling by spreading acts of kindness, discovering new zero-waste kitchen tips from the Zero-Waste Chef Blog listening to your favorite podcast (bonus points if it’s this one!), or better yet, all of the above! The Buy Nothing Day movement is all about reaching for the meaning in our lives instead of stuff, and we thank you all for being part of the solution to reestablish a symbiotic relationship with our earth.  

Learn more about Anne-Marie & Zero-Waste Chef below!       

Anne-Marie Bonneau is an award-winning cookbook author, speaker, fermenter and sourdough baker who has lived a plastic-free lifestyle since 2011. Through social media, her blog and her book, The Zero-Waste Chef: Plant-Forward Recipes and Tips for a Sustainable Kitchen and Planet, Anne-Marie shows others how reducing their trash not only benefits the planet but also satisfies their taste buds, improves their well-being and boosts their bank accounts. As a Canadian transplant, Anne-Marie has two grown daughters and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and sourdough starter.

📚 Get your hands on a copy of Anne-Marie’s book, The Zero-Waste Chef: Plant-Forward Recipes and Tips for a Sustainable Kitchen and Planet!

👩🏻‍🍳 Check out the Zero-Waste Chef Blog!

 📰 Sign-up for the Zero-Waste Chef Newsletter! 

🌎 Check out Anne-Marie’s 50 Ways to Kick Plastic Challenge!

Find Anne-Marie on Instagram @zerowastechef

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This week on Everything You Didn’t Know About Herbalism, we’re releasing a very special episode in acknowledgment of the annual Buy Nothing Day movement with the author, influencer, and Founder of Going Zero Waste, Kathryn Kellogg. Listen in as Kathryn and Thomas discuss what it truly means to be zero-waste, the problem with mass consumerism and its negative effects on environmental and mental health, and the importance and impact of the ever-growing Buy Nothing Day movement. Stay tuned next week for part two of this series where we are joined by another esteemed leader within the zero-waste lifestyle movement!

As always, we thank you for joining us on another botanical adventure and are 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 invaluable to our podcast. Please send us an email at [email protected] to let us know what solutions we should uncover next within the vast world of herbalism. 

Buy Nothing Day is our annually celebrated tradition in protest of Black Friday. In making this stand, we are joining tens of thousands of people across 65 nations for an international day of protest against mass consumerism and the throw-away culture that accompanies it. The Buy Nothing Movement has been growing since 1992 as overconsumption continues to consume our precious natural resources faster than we can replace them, putting our planet in real jeopardy.

If you visit our website today, you will see that our entire website is blacked out in protest of Black Friday. Instead, we hope you will spend the day with your family and friends, sharing acts of kindness, discovering new zero-waste lifestyle tips from the Going Zero Waste Blog, listening to your favorite podcast (bonus points if it’s this one!), or better yet, all of the above! This is a day to reach for meaning in our lives instead of stuff, and we thank you all for being part of the solution to reestablish a symbiotic relationship with the planet we call home. So please, do not shop with us today Friday, November 29th, 2024.

🌸 Kathryn Kellogg is a leading voice in the zero waste movement known for her approachability and prolific speaking career. Kathryn is the Founder of the sustainable lifestyle website, Going Zero Waste, as well as the author of three books, including her most recently released book, 101 Tips for a Zero Waste Kitchen. Kathryn has amassed over 1 million followers across her social media platforms and is the Co-Founder of the sustainable women’s wellness company, Kayaness.

📚 Get your hands on a copy of Kathryn’s new book, 101 Tips for a Zero Waste Kitchen!

🌿 Check out the Going Zero Waste Blog!

Find Kathryn on Instagram @going.zero.waste

Find Kathryn on YouTube @Going Zero Waste

Find Kathryn on TikTok @goingzerowaste_

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Austere Medicine (pronounced aw-steer) – the practice of remote field medicine in wilderness, post-disaster situations and emergency situations. 

This week on Everything You Didn’t Know About Herbalism, we are featuring the best-selling author, US Army and US Special Forces Medic Veteran, clinical herbalist, austere medicine specialist, wilderness survival expert, and all-around badass, Sam Coffman. Listen in as Thomas and Sam dive into an engaging conversation surrounding what austere medicine is, why this realm of study is invaluable to every survival-enthusiast and herbalist alike, and how a bit of herbal education, wilderness experience, and a survivalist mindset could very well save someone’s life someday–-even your own!

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 Sam below! ⬇

🌲 Sam Coffman (MSAOM, L.Ac., RH[AHG], W-EMT) began his medical education in the US Army as a Green Beret Medic (18D) in 1989. Over the years that followed, he dedicated himself to being able to work with botanical medicine as a successful method to provide sustainable health care in remote and post-disaster regions for chronic, acute, and physical trauma care. Since that time, Sam has taught herbalism for over 30 years and has worked as a clinical herbalist for over 15 years. His herbal and acupuncture clinic/apothecary are now located in Taos, NM along with his school.  

In 2007, Sam founded Herbal Medics Academy (AKA The Human Path), which offers five primary herbalism programs – Clinical Herbalism, Austere Medicine, Advanced Medicine Making, Community Herbalism, and Family Herbalism. Sam has developed over 1200 hours of curriculum, in addition to other curricula developed by the 20 instructors working for his school part-time. As a few of the curriculum highlights of his school, Sam teaches the integration of herbal medicine with both functional medicine and austere medicine together with two medical doctors who also specialize in those areas. At the new Taos campus, Sam teaches many on-site medicine courses including WFA and WFR certification, CERT certification, wilderness survival, TECC certification, and a 12-day Herbal and Off-Grid Medicine Experience (HOME) course together with Dr. Steve Pehrson MD. Sam and his wife Suchil also co-founded Herbal Medics in 2011, which is an outreach organization that gives their students and interns an opportunity to work in the field while providing free health care and education to underserved communities. They have worked in Nicaragua, Mexico, and all over the USA to provide post-disaster relief and free herbal clinics, education, and sustainable medicine/food projects for underserved communities. 

Sam currently serves on the board of Taos Search and Rescue (TSAR) and is also part of the canine search and rescue team together with his Belgian Tervuren dog, Lucy. His book, Herbal Medic, has been in the top 3 best-selling books for Storey Publishing for the past 2 years. His new book under Storey Publishing is titled, Survival Gardening, and is being released in January 2025.

⛑️ Find out how you can get your hands on a copy of Sam’s best-selling book below!

Herbal Medic: A Green Beret's Guide to Emergency Medical Preparedness & Natural First Aid

🌾 Preorder a copy of Sam’s upcoming book releasing in January 2025 below!

Survival Gardening: Grow Your Own Emergency Food Supply, from Seed to Root Cellar

🏕️ Looking for gift ideas for the herbal survival-enthusiast loved one in your life?

Shop Sam’s Herbal First Aid Gear store!

Find Sam on his YouTube channel! @TheHumanPath

Find Sam on Instagram! @herbalmedicsam

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This week on Everything You Didn’t Know About Herbalism, we are featuring the passionate writer, fellow podcaster, seed-saver extraordinaire, and owner of Small House Farm, Bevin Cohen. Listen in as Bevin and Thomas explore the art of growing plants from harvested seeds, and how this timeless practice can deeply enhance our relationship with the plant allies that surround us. If you want to dig deeper into Bevin’s work with us, check out his featured article on seed-saving in our latest Fall Journal release below!

As always, we thank you for joining us on another botanical adventure and are 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 invaluable to our podcast. Email us at [email protected] to let us know what solutions we should uncover next within the vast world of herbalism.

📖 Request to have a free copy of our 2024/2025 Fall Journal mailed right to your door HERE!

🌱 Bevin Cohen is an award winning author, owner of Small House Farm and host of the popular Seeds & Weeds podcast. Bevin offers workshops and lectures across the country on the benefits of living closer to the land through seeds, herbs, and locally grown food. He's a food and garden writer whose work has appeared in many national publications and he's the author of more than ten books, including The Artisan Herbalist and Herbs in Every Season. Learn more about Bevin’s work at www.smallhousefarm.com.

🌾 Learn more about the mission of Small House Farm HERE!

🎙️ Tune in to Bevin’s very own popular podcast, Seeds & Weeds, HERE! 

📲 Join the Small House Farm family on Patreon HERE! 

Find Bevin and Small House Farm on social media!

Instagram @small_house_farm

Facebook @Small House

YouTube @Small House Farm

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This week on Everything You Didn’t Know About Herbalism, we are joined by our long-time dear friend that will likely be no stranger to many of our listeners—Shana Lipner Grover! As a highly acclaimed clinical herbalist and educator, Shana joins us for a conversation on the upsides and downsides of plant identification apps, and the advantages of leaning on regional herbalists to gain knowledge on the flora, fauna, and funga surrounding us. Listen in as Shana shares an entertaining yet cautionary tale on the potential dangers of using plant identification apps, and why these apps should always be the beginning of your botanical research, not the end.

If you are interested in plant identification apps or actively use them, here are a few of Shana’s tips:

🌱 Shana’s plant identification app recommendation: iNaturalist

🔎 Be aware and follow all wildharvesting regulations and laws in your local area.

🗺️ Seek out plant apps specific to your bioregional area for better identification accuracy.

🌿 Regional herbalists are the only tried and true reliable plant identification apps out there!

As always, we thank you for joining us on another botanical adventure and are 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 invaluable to our podcast. Please send us an email at [email protected] to let us know what solutions we should uncover next within the vast world of herbalism.  

Learn more about Shana below! 

🐛Shana Lipner Grover is a clinical herbalist, health and nutrition educator, field botanist, ethical wildcrafter, medicine maker, and forever student of life and wonder is the director and primary educator of Sage Country Herbs School of Botanical Studies in North County San Diego. This 2-year program is a hybrid online and field-based ecology, botany, nutrition, and plant medicine school that guides students through weaving the study of plants and ecology of diverse environments into the practice of making and using herbal medicine. Through mountain hikes, plant walks, farm activities, and a bit of adventure we learn our roles within our local ecosystems. Shana and her husband, Brandon Grover, organize numerous events and herbal gatherings that bring the herbal and farming communities together. Shana writes for Plant Healer Magazine and Herbaria. She runs a clinical practice in North County San Diego that provides inspiration for the Clinical Herbal Formulations course. Beyond her field school, she has taught at a variety of outdoor education, including Art & Wilderness Institute and Solidarity Farm School, as well as writing and teaching 350 hours of herbal medicine and nutrition programs at Healing Hands School of Holistic Health.

 Find Shana on social media!

Instagram @sagecountryherbs

Facebook @Sage Country Herbs

Check out what else Shana’s been up to with us on YouTube!

🌲How to Identify Douglas Fir + Uses and Benefits with Herbalist Shana Lipner Grover

🌱Benefits & Uses of Plantain with Shana Lipner Grover

🌹The Energetics of Rose with Shana Lipner Grover

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