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Kalapa
Kendall, WA

Tess and Alan work from home with clients and subscribers on every continent except Antarctica. They live in a small intentional community practicing Nature Awareness and Permaculture Design. They are building Kalapa, a school focusing on Best Practices for Positive Change Agents. They both hold certificates in Permaculture and are Certified Trainers in Nonviolent Communication.

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Nettles and Petals
Bellingham, WA

Anna grew up in the Pacific Northwest, free ranging in the woods and playing in the waters of the Salish Sea. She studied at the Evergreen State College and the California School of Herbal Studies and apprenticed at the Herbal Apothecary in Sebastopol, CA for four years. She is a medicine-maker, gardener, forager and postpartum doula in training. She loves to share the magic of plants through her herbal business, Nettles and Petals.

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Avant Gardenz
Port Angeles, WA

Atlanta Duncan is a community herbalist and medicine grower living on the Olympic Peninsula. They use sustainable practice to grow at-risk medicinal herbs. Their interests include LGBTQ health, Herbs for Lyme, Herbs for mental health and Harm Reduction. The have taught workshops at Rad Herb SW and NE and teach a DIY medicine making series on the Peninsula. They have decades of experience providing end of life care to elders and herbal support to uplift the queer community.

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Protectors of The Salish Sea
W̱SÁNEĆ tribal member

Paul Chiyokten Wagner is a W̱SÁNEĆ tribal member and founder of Protectors of The Salish Sea, Chiyokten is a longtime Water Protector and Climate Justice activist for the Circle of Life who works to protect and restore Coast Salish lands and waters for the well-being of salmon, orcas, ancient forest, meadows, healthy ecosystems and all natural animals which the First Peoples are intimately part of and all life depends upon.

An award winning Native American flutist and storyteller he loves to share ancient indigenous wisdom and knowledge through song, story and dance in order for all people who walk on the bones of the First People’s ancestors to reindigenize themselves so we can reindigenize and rematriate this world, so we can all return to a state of peace, balance and harmony with each other and our Mother.

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Bard & Harper
Portland, OR

Dave Hoover is a Bard, Harper, and collector of wisdom traditions of the Celts and Germanic people. He weaves the stories of the ancients into songs and tales so we may all benefit from the collected knowledge of the ages. Listen deep and become a link in the chain of transmission from the past, to the present, and into the future.

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Mountain Spirit Herbals
Port Townsend, WA

Herbalist & Teacher, Denise Joy is the only surviving descendant of an oral herbal tradition passed from woman to woman, Denise Joy celebrates her family's herbal lineage. She honors the path of life connected with place and community. She has served Port Townsend as well as the rest of the world as an herbalist and practitioner of herbal medicine for over 39 years with her home-based business, Mountain Spirit Herbal Co.

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Peninsula Ayurveda
Port Angeles, WA

I'm an active full time healing arts practitioner and I focus on community wellness, traditional healing arts and local nature-scapes for education and healing intentions. I teach Ayurveda, herbalism and yoga up and down the west coast and am currently working on a new medicinal garden-scape at my downtown Port Angeles home. I plan to write a book about alcohol-free herbalism and start a small school for healing arts on the peninsula!

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RavenCroft Garden
Monroe, WA

EagleSong brings herbs to life from the ground up. Herbalist/Gardener, Grandmother/EarthKeeper, Pilgrim/Adventurer, and Hawthorn Whisperer, EagleSong is excited by the dynamic nature of life in a garden. Today, she enjoys teaching health from the ground up wherever she is called. She cultivates life at a generative pace at RavenCroft, a cottage garden connecting people, plants and the earth for over 30 years.

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Embodied Ecology
Skagit Land

Raised in the mossy forests surrounding the Salish Sea, Elisa (Moon) Weiss (she/they) is a settler descendant of Chinese, Ashkenazi Jewish, German, French, Irish and British ancestry. They worked as a field ecologist and an outdoor educator in throughout the PNW & Hawaii, and currently study liberation acupuncture, make plant and fungi medicine, teach about forest kin, write poetry, and organize to protect our earth. Her work explores the intersections of ancestral diaspora, settler responsibility, the ecology of human anatomy, and our cultural disconnection from the more than human world.

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Oshala Farm
Applegate, Oregon

Elise is a folk herbalist, wife, mother, grandmother and farmer. With her background in Western Herbalism at California School of Herbal Studies. She and her husband, Jeff, own and operate Oshala Farm, a 145 acre family run farm with 80 plus medicinal herbs in cultivation. In her pastime, (10pm-5am) she helps organize herbal conferences and agricultural advocacy with Our Family Farms.

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Movement Enthusiast & Healer
Chimacum, WA

As a movement enthusiast, Ive explored yoga, zy qi gong, bagua, earthgym, various dance forms, and barefoot running. At the age of 20, I set out on a personal quest to alleviate my foot and leg pain and toe deformities, in a natural way. My journey guided me to a pair of used moccasins from goodwill, Dr. Ray, creator of correct toes, and many teachers and movement forms to regain natural alignment and pain free movement. It's my Joy to share the knowledge and tools that I've gathered and worked with over the past 10 years with others to bring healing to one's feet, body, mind, and spirit!

Emergent Herbs
Quilcene, WA

Erin has been hanging outside with plants her whole life. She previously taught Garden Education at the Quilcene School District to Kindergarten through 5th grade students where she introduced kids to eating nutritious foods and led students to create forest mimicked Permaculture gardens on their school campus. Now, she is journeying through Clinic Herbalism and studying with the ACORN School of Herbal Medicine. Erin lives in Quilcene on her parents' family farm with her two kids, where she is beginning to grow medicinal herbs for the wholesale market.

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Seed of Mind Wellness
Philipsburg, MT

Eve is a certified herbalist, yoga instructor (vinyasa certified at Yogalinda Studio in Barcelona, Spain in 2018), and is currently enrolled in the Institute of Integrative Nutrition’s health coaching program. Eve feels passionate about guiding others into their own healing journeys through private wellness consultations, mindful movement, meditation, wildcrafting excursions and medicine-making classes all while staying in tune with the earth and our own mindful intuitions. Eve is the owner of Seed of Mind Wellness, a small business aimed at making yoga, herbalism and holistic health accessible to rural Montanans.

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A Wild Light Apothecary
Olympia, WA

Fern Tallos is a practicing clinical energetic herbalist, their work explores ethical orientation and ancestral connection to herbal medicine and healing. They specialize is queer, trans, trauma support and postpartum care in their clinical practice. It is their mission to support healing wherever possible in hopes of influencing a more balanced expression of the world as we know it. Their business A Wild Light Apothecary teaches beginners and intermediate herbal classes in Olympia and creates herbal medicines and postpartum remedies with an emphasis on energetics.

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Embody Wholeness
Orcas Island, WA

Hayley Shannon is an embodiment artist restoring the body as a wild + vital teacher through somatic embodiment + dance healing. She facilitates inclusive embodiment expressive art experiences for healing + liberation for all bodies. Hayley lives on Orcas Island, WA of the Coast Salish First Nations People and is grateful to serve people around the globe through her online offerings and participation in international retreats + festivals.

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ACORN School of Herbal Medicine
Nevada City, CA

Heather Luna is a clinical herbalist, nutritionist, and director of the ACORN School of Herbal Medicine. She teaches full time, oversees the Medicine Garden outdoor learning classroom, and is supervising faculty for the ACORN Free Clinic. She has held a private clinical practice in the Vitalist Tradition since 2003. Her teachings are rooted in practical experience and the art of self mastery, because healing does not come in a bottle, but rather in how we choose to live.

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Multidisciplinary Healer
Montana

Janet DeHart’s 17 year professional and personal practice originated in California, where her holistic health specialization was in Neuromuscular Therapies with continued trainings in ashtanga yoga, classical pilates, energy medicine, vipassana meditation, breathwork and peripartum doula. Janet envisions her clients and students connected to their innate healing potential and highest vitality. Her current most inspiring projects are writing a tarot deck called The Divination Deck for the Rainbow Warriors, and co-facilitating retreats in Guatamala this Autumn.

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Blue Mountain Yoga
Sequim, WA

Julia has an inclusive, heart based teaching style rooted in Vinyasa (flowing with the breath). She has practiced for 21 years and loves to share some of the countless benefits she has gained with others and be an ally on their journey. Julia owns and teaches at Blue Mountain Yoga + in Sequim, WA.

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National Center for Appropriate Technology
Prairie View, TX

Justin Is a Sustainable Agriculture Specialist with the National Center for Appropriate Technology's Southwest Regional Office. He has a BS in Agronomy from Prairie View A&M University and an MS in Plant Breeding. He’s spent years figuring out the nuts-and-bolts of successful organic farming in the humid South, concentrating mainly on sweet potatoes, strawberries, niche market ethnic specialty crops, cover crops and drought mitigation techniques. He is currently working on cover crop projects in the southern US to help farmers there build organic matter in their soil.

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Fiber Artist & Herbalist
Kitsap County, WA

Katey Rissi is a Pacific Northwest-based printmaking artist, teacher, and herbalist. Her work focuses on nurturing the creativity of others, rewilding, and ancestral connection. She is interested in the intersection of working with plants for art and working with plants for medicine.

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Learning Herbs
Port Townsend, WA

Kimberly Gallagher is an herbalist who has been working with healing plants for over 20 years. She is co-founder with her husband, John Gallagher, of LearningHerbs.com,

creator of the Wildcraft! board game, and author of the Herb Fairies children’s book series and Aphrodisiac: The Herbal Path to Healthy Sexual Fulfillment and Vital Living.

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Intuitive Guide
Trout Lake, WA

Laura works with individuals, couples and groups supporting them in developing and strengthening their intuitive guidance so they can serve they're community with the unique gifts they bring. This includes inner child work, ancestor work, intuitive mentoring, journeying & uncovering your unique giftedness. We do this through many techniques I’ve learned and cultivated throughout my journeys in collaboration with what arrises in the moment. It’s a beautiful mystery what comes in an intuitive session, come and find out!

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Awareni
Olympia, WA

Lennee Reid is a Creole eclectic healer, author, poet, activist, and multimedia artist based in Olympia, WA. She has a degree in massage therapy, is a reiki practitioner, was an organic farm docent, and is versed in ritual and indigenous ceremonies. She organizes Olympia Witches March, has published books and albums, and is a nationally toured performance poet. Lennee is a neurodivergent single mom of a teenager named Olivia, a white dog named Shannara, and a black cat named Narcissa Malfoy.

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Noti Botanica
Williams, OR

Logan Keister (he/him) is a clinical herbalist, wildcrafter, medicinal herb farmer, amateur mycologist, astrologer and herbal medicine maker born and raised in the coniferous forests of Western Oregon. Currently he grows medicinal herbs at Strictly Medicinal Seeds and runs his own business Noti Botanica that focuses on clinical herbalist consultations, education and custom herbal formulation. Logan received his clinical herbalist training at The Columbine School of Botanical Studies, The Matthew Wood Institute of Herbalism, The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, and has a B.S. in Horticulture from Oregon State University.

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Mark S. McNutt Astrowizardry
Central OR Coast Range

Mark has been a professional Astrologer for over 50 years, author of several books, and has hundreds of students and thousands of clients worldwide. He has been a life steward at LivingWell Nature Spirit Sanxuary in Deadwood, OR since 1984, where ecoliving and metaphysical educational opportunities abound. This presentation is Using Moon cycles for personal & planting/harvesting timing, and includes individual "soundbytes" for the participants.

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LivingWell Nature Spirit Sanctuary
Deadwood, OR

MaryGold McNutt, certified Yoga Instructor, has practiced Yoga since 1975. She has studied with Satynanda Yoga Ashram, Iyengar Yoga, Anusra Yoga and with Judith Hansen Lasater. She also attended classes in Tai Chi, Chi-gong, Aikido and Shin Ki as well two years of in depth Shiatsu studies. Pre pandemic, she taught she taught classes locally and at Lane Community College in Florence including Yoga for Pain Management sponsored by PeaceHarbor Hospital. Currently Classes are conducted thru Zoom online. She loves sharing Yoga with others to increase wholeness, wellness and grace.

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Friends of the Trees
Port Townsend, WA

Michael is a life-long student of plants and earth repair. His farming career started in 2nd grade, his organic farming career began in 1972 at age 25, and in 1978 Michael founded Friends of the Trees Society. In 1982 he took his first permaculture design course, and since 1988 has has taught 36 permaculture design courses in the US and abroad, with specialties in earth repair, agriculture, seed collecting, nursery sales, tree planting, fruit picking, permaculture, agroforestry, forestry, ethnobotany, medicinal herb growing, hoeing and wildcrafting. He has hands-on experience with over 1000 species of plants, is a prolific gathering organizer, and likes group singing.

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Circle of Healing Aromatherapy
Lynnwood, WA

Michelle brings the community Aromatherapy workshops, classes, talks and unique organic blends for topical use.

She creates all of her own blends for people and pets from highly vibrational, sensibly grown and processed oils and herbs. Custom personal blends and consultations are available in person and over the phone.

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Singing Alive LLC
Portland, OR

mt xen (Morgan Brent) ~ Mt received a PhD in anthropology (spiritual ecology) from U of HI, where he focused on plant-inspired cultural revitalization movements. He specializes in working with prescriptive teachings that are received in non-verbal ways, and then translated into story and/or song. These include inspirations from the elemental realms, the planetary innernet, medicinal plants, and interstellar sources. In service to this guidance, he makes medicines of all kinds, among them events both large (Singing Alive & Plants enChant gatherings), and small (Creation-song circles).

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Bud and Bloom Botanicals
Bellingham, WA

I am a budding beekeeper & herbalist. I have been beekeeping for about three years using natural beekeeping practices and have grown to fifteen hives.

I started on my plant journey studying herbs for women's health along with birth doula practices. Beekeeping quickly stole my heart so I've combined local foraging practices with honey to grow my botanical apiary.

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The Adiantum School of Plant Medicine
Bellevue, WA

Natalie teaches about foraging and medicinal plants in the Seattle area. She is endearingly enthusiastic and loves to create engaging, sensory learning experiences for people outdoors in nature.

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Mavenworks | Wild Crafter
Camano Island, WA

Natasha Clarke is an herbalist, storyteller and artist living in the woods and by the beach on Camano Island, north of Seattle, Washington. Natasha has been a practicing herbalist for 10 years as well as educating others about how to integrate herbs into their lives with plant walks, wildcrafting skills and medicine making classes locally and at various herbal conferences in the Pacific Northwest. Deeply concerned about how humans stand in relationship with this earth, each other and themselves she strives to help herself and others know the beauty, abundance and love when in connection with our mother Earth.

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Wayside Botanicals
Ferndale, WA

Owner and operator of Wayside Botanicals, Reisha, has a background in organic farming, permaculture design, Pacific Northwest ethnobotany, and bioregional herbalism. She started Wayside Botanicals as a single mom, living on a shoestring budget with a desire to contribute to her community in a healthy and positive way. After years of hard work and dedication, she now supplies fresh and dried medicinal herbs to tincture making companies and apothecaries across the USA. Reisha is also a core instructor of the Ethnobotany and Growing Herbalist Immersion courses and the lead herbalist instructor at Ravens Roots Naturalist School.

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Earth & Spirit Botanicals
Orcas Island, WA / Eugene, OR

Reishi Strauss is an herbalist, mycologist, and medicine maker born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia, originally descended from Jewish Ashkenazi immigrants from Lithuania and Poland. She owns and operates her own medicinal mushroom medicine business called Earth & Spirit Botanicals. In 2019 she graduated from the Naturopathic school Bastyr University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Herbal Science, and is currently enrolled in the Columbine’s School of Botanical Studies in Eugene, OR where she studies clinical herbalism and wildcrafting as stewardship with Howie Brownstein.

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Wise Self Wellness
San Juan Island, WA

Rose is a holistic psychotherapist, clinical hypnotherapist, Biodynamic Breathwork facilitator, meditation teacher, herbalist, and healing journey guide. The ecosystem and plants are her dearest friends and teachers, and deeply inform the work she does in the human world. Rose practices in person on San Juan Island, WA as well as remotely. Specializing in anxiety, chronic stress, pain and illness, food and body issues, complex trauma, grief, Highly Sensitive People, neurodivergence, psychedelic integration

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The School of Forest Medicine
Corbett, OR

Scott Kloos — ceremonialist, wildcrafter, plant medicine maker and practitioner, animist, singer of plant songs, and aspiring integral ecologist — guides The School of Forest Medicine and Cascadia Folk Medicine and is author of Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 120 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness.

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Wilderling; Rising Oak Farm
Orcas Island, WA

Sea Thorpe has spent the last 12 years growing closer to the holy Earth as student, farmer, poet, activist, hedge witch and Wilderling, tending the edges of the wild and known. Weaving threads of wisdom from the land itself with practical knowledge gleaned from permaculture design, homesteading, living and loving at the edge of the Wild, Sea invites us to explore the liminal spaces of our identities and consciousness in relationship to the Earth, our herbal allies, past and future generations, and one another.

The Hawthorne School of Plant Medicine, Understory Apothecary
Olympia, WA

I am a teacher, practitioner, wild-crafter, farmer, medicine maker, and a distiller, all focused on the plant medicines that grow around me in the greater Cascadian bioregion. I live on an old farmstead in Chehalis Territory, right next to the Black River and at the feet of the Black Hills. Plants are people too.

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Susan Marie Herbals
Arcata, CA / Homer, AK

Susan Marie is a Community Herbalist and Green Witch. Like many, she sought herbalism in a desperate need during a time of ill health. Healing with nourishing food, plant medicine, and energy therapy altered her course into a deep relationship with Herbal Medicine. She has been studying Herbal Medicine for a decade, and is now offering her knowledge on Plant Medicine & Magick to all fellow Plant Lovers.

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Feathered Seed
Orcas Island, WA

Taylor Eaton is a wildcrafter, builder, and musician residing on Orcas Island in the Salish Sea. He is a student of the plants and the greater ecosystem that reflect our own wholeness. His main fields are in Men’s Health, Herbal Medicine and Vitality.