In this episode of Remedy & Rhyme, we sit with the wise and aromatic presence of Garden Sage (Salvia officinalis) — a plant known across cultures not only for its culinary charm, but for its deep-rooted connection to memory, protection, and transformation. We explore how Sage’s gifts of clarity and discernment can support us in times of transition, especially as we age, offering the invitation to ripen rather than wither. 

We also dip into how this plant can bless and cleanse through the ancient practice of smoke medicine, honoring the many cultures that have tended this sacred fire in different forms. You'll hear some practical ways to bring Sage into your own rhythms of care and ceremony. This episode is an invitation to remember: wisdom isn’t something you chase — it’s something that ripens in you, like Sage in the sun.

Your support is a gift that keeps this podcast running! If you’d like to support the ongoing creation of this podcast and get access to exclusive content like articles, herbal recipes, plant monographs, and behind-the-scenes musings, join the community over on Patreon: 🌱 www.patreon.com/joyfulroots

You can also support the podcast by trying my favorite matcha: Posana Matcha. 🌿 Certified Organic 🌿 Third-party tested for heavy metals 🌿 Single origin from Shizuoka, Japan 🌿 Smooth, pure, and powerful—perfect for daily rituals. 🛒 Use code JOYFULROOTS for 10% off at posanamatcha.com Using this code helps keep the podcast thriving through a small affiliate commission—thank you for your support!

I’d love to include voices from the community! If you have a nature-inspired or herbal poem you’d like to share in a future episode, send it my way at: [email protected]

🌀 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and inspirational purposes only. I am not a medical doctor or licensed health professional, and nothing shared here is intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease. The information provided has not been evaluated by the FDA. Always check with a qualified healthcare provider about any potential herb-drug interactions or health concerns. If you experience an allergic reaction to any herb, discontinue use and consult a professional. You are the steward of your own body—listen with curiosity, and honor your intuition.

💚 Let’s connect! Follow me on Instagram at @joyfulroots or sign up for my email Botanical Bulletin.

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In this episode of Remedy & Rhyme, we explore the wild and protective spirit of blackberry (Rubus fruticosus)—a plant known for its fierce thorns and abundant sweetness. Growing thick along roadsides and forest edges, blackberry guards its gifts with sharp resolve, asking us to approach with intention. Its leaves offer astringent, antioxidant-rich support, while its presence reminds us of the wisdom found in boundaries, resilience, and the untamed parts of ourselves.

We’ll dive into the potent and often misunderstood emotion of anger, and how, like blackberry, it can act as both a protector and a guide. Rather than suppress or fear our rage, we can learn to work with it—tending it like fire, letting it burn away what no longer serves, and transforming it into clarity, courage, and meaningful action. Anger, when honored and alchemized, can root us deeper into what is just, true, and worth protecting.

✨ Support the Podcast If you’d like to support the ongoing creation of this podcast and get access to exclusive content like articles, herbal recipes, plant monographs, and behind-the-scenes musings, join the community over on Patreon: 🌱 www.patreon.com/joyfulroots

You can also support the podcast by trying my favorite matcha: Posana Matcha. 🌿 Certified Organic 🌿 Third-party tested for heavy metals 🌿 Single origin from Shizuoka, Japan 🌿 Smooth, pure, and powerful—perfect for daily rituals.

🛒 Use code JOYFULROOTS for 10% off at posanamatcha.com Using this code helps keep the podcast thriving through a small affiliate commission—thank you for your support!

📩 Want to share a poem? I’d love to include voices from the community! If you have a nature-inspired or herbal poem you’d like to share in a future episode, send it my way at: [email protected]

🌀 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and inspirational purposes only. I am not a medical doctor or licensed health professional, and nothing shared here is intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease. The information provided has not been evaluated by the FDA. Always check with a qualified healthcare provider about any potential herb-drug interactions or health concerns. If you experience an allergic reaction to any herb, discontinue use and consult a professional. You are the steward of your own body—listen with curiosity, and honor your intuition.

💚 Let's connect! Follow me on Instagram at @joyfulroots or sign up for my email Botanical Bulletin.

In this episode of Remedy and Rhyme, we explore the radical abundance of Mesquite — a desert tree whose generosity stretches from myth to medicine. We reflect on what it means to live in relationship with abundance — the kind that’s rooted, reciprocal, and attuned to the rhythms of the earth. The kind of abundance that gives and gives and gives.

We'll hear a traditional story of Siwani and Coyote, which uncovers how mesquite came to scatter its sweet pods across the land. From its fiber-rich nourishment and blood sugar support to its deep cultural roots among Indigenous communities, mesquite reminds us that abundance isn’t always flashy — sometimes it’s slow, steady, and quietly sustaining.

This episode blends story, plant wisdom, poetry, and journal prompts to support your own journey toward radical abundance.

✨ Support the Podcast If you’d like to support the ongoing creation of this podcast and get access to exclusive content like articles, herbal recipes, plant monographs, and behind-the-scenes musings, join the community over on Patreon: 🌱 www.patreon.com/joyfulroots

You can also support the podcast by trying my favorite matcha: Posana Matcha. 🌿 Certified Organic 🌿 Third-party tested for heavy metals 🌿 Single origin from Shizuoka, Japan 🌿 Smooth, pure, and powerful—perfect for daily rituals.

🛒 Use code JOYFULROOTS for 10% off at posanamatcha.com Using this code helps keep the podcast thriving through a small affiliate commission—thank you for your support!

📩 Want to share a poem? I’d love to include voices from the community! If you have a nature-inspired or herbal poem you’d like to share in a future episode, send it my way at: [email protected]

🌀 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and inspirational purposes only. I am not a medical doctor or licensed health professional, and nothing shared here is intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease. The information provided has not been evaluated by the FDA. Always check with a qualified healthcare provider about any potential herb-drug interactions or health concerns. If you experience an allergic reaction to any herb, discontinue use and consult a professional. You are the steward of your own body—listen with curiosity, and honor your intuition.

💚 Let's connect! Follow me on Instagram at @joyfulroots or sign up for my email Botanical Bulletin.

In this episode of Remedy and Rhyme, we sit with the sacred plant known as Tulsi—Holy Basil—not just as an herb, but as a being that bridges the physical and the spiritual. Long honored in Ayurvedic tradition and daily rituals across India, Tulsi invites us into devotion, resilience, and deep remembering of our sacredness. We explore Tulsi’s stories, nourishing gifts, and the many ways she continues to support the body, mind, and spirit—especially in times of stress or disconnection. ✨

You’ll hear about Tulsi’s mythology, reflections on Tulsi’s adaptogenic nature, and practical insights into how she supports emotional clarity, immune health, and nervous system balance. Whether you’re already in relationship with Tulsi or just meeting her for the first time, may this episode offer a moment of pause, reverence, and reconnection. 🌱

✨ Support the Podcast If you’d like to support the ongoing creation of this podcast and get access to exclusive content like articles, herbal recipes, plant monographs, and behind-the-scenes musings, join the community over on Patreon: 🌱 www.patreon.com/joyfulroots

You can also support the podcast by trying my favorite matcha: Posana Matcha. 🌿 Certified Organic 🌿 Third-party tested for heavy metals 🌿 Single origin from Shizuoka, Japan 🌿 Smooth, pure, and powerful—perfect for daily rituals.

🛒 Use code JOYFULROOTS for 10% off at posanamatcha.com Using this code helps keep the podcast thriving through a small affiliate commission—thank you for your support!

📩 Want to share a poem? I’d love to include voices from the community! If you have a nature-inspired or herbal poem you'd like to share in a future episode, send it my way at: [email protected]

🌀 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and inspirational purposes only. I am not a medical doctor or licensed health professional, and nothing shared here is intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease. The information provided has not been evaluated by the FDA. Always check with a qualified healthcare provider about any potential herb-drug interactions or health concerns. If you experience an allergic reaction to any herb, discontinue use and consult a professional. You are the steward of your own body—listen with curiosity, and honor your intuition.

In this episode, we explore the timeless and tender paradox of Rose — a flower that embodies both softness and strength.

From mythology to herbalism to personal reflection, Rose invites us to dwell in the space where opposing truths coexist: beauty and protection, openness and boundaries, love and discernment. We’ll dive into folklore, plant wisdom, and lived experience to ask—what can Rose teach us about tending to ourselves and the world with grace? 🌹

Each episode will begin with a poem and flow into a deeper dive into the featured herb—its stories, energetics, remedies, and reflections. This is a journey of reconnection.

✨ Support the Podcast If you’d like to support the ongoing creation of this podcast and get access to exclusive content like articles, herbal recipes, plant monographs, and behind-the-scenes musings, join the community over on Patreon: 🌱 www.patreon.com/joyfulroots

You can also support the podcast by trying my favorite matcha: Posana Matcha. 🌿 Certified Organic 🌿 Third-party tested for heavy metals 🌿 Single origin from Shizuoka, Japan 🌿 Smooth, pure, and powerful—perfect for daily rituals.

🛒 Use code JOYFULROOTS for 10% off at posanamatcha.com Using this code helps keep the podcast thriving through a small affiliate commission—thank you for your support!

📩 Want to share a poem? I’d love to include voices from the community! If you have a nature-inspired or herbal poem you'd like to share in a future episode, send it my way at: [email protected]

🌀 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and inspirational purposes only. I am not a medical doctor or licensed health professional, and nothing shared here is intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease. The information provided has not been evaluated by the FDA. Always check with a qualified healthcare provider about any potential herb-drug interactions or health concerns. If you experience an allergic reaction to any herb, discontinue use and consult a professional. You are the steward of your own body—listen with curiosity, and honor your intuition.

In this episode, we explore the rich and rooted medicine of rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus)—an herb of clarity, protection, and deep remembrance. From its physical gifts like supporting the nervous system and easing headaches, to its sacred use in rituals of honoring the dead, rosemary invites us to reconnect with our ancestors and the wisdom they left behind. We'll look at traditional uses across cultures, its connection to memory and the feminine archetype, and how rosemary can support us in reclaiming our wholeness—body, mind, and soul.

Each episode will begin with a poem and flow into a deeper dive into a featured herb—its stories, energetics, remedies, and reflections. This is a journey of reconnection.

✨ Support the Podcast

You can also support the podcast by trying my favorite matcha: Posana Matcha.

🛒 Use code JOYFULROOTS for 10% off at posanamatcha.com

📩 Want to share a poem?

🌀 Disclaimer:

Welcome to the very first episode of the Joyful Roots podcast! In this opening episode, I’m sharing the heart behind this project—a weaving of plants and poetry as portals to reconnection with ourselves, each other, and the Earth.

We’ll explore how the living world invites us back into resonance when things feel chaotic, and how both herbs and poems can help us remember who we really are. I’ll share how this podcast was inspired by an interview with Rosemary Gladstar, why now feels like the right time, and how you’re invited into this space as both listener and co-creator.

Each episode will begin with a poem and flow into a deeper dive into a featured herb—its stories, energetics, remedies, and reflections. This is a journey of reconnection.

✨ Support the Podcast

You can also support the podcast by trying my favorite matcha: Posana Matcha.

🛒 Use code JOYFULROOTS for 10% off at posanamatcha.com

📩 Want to share a poem?

🌀 Disclaimer: