Wild Herbs with April

Learn how to infuse COLOR into your food and life with Tara Lanich-LaBrie, founder of The Medicine Circle and Author! In this episode, you will learn: 1. Tara's preferred way to work with dandelion blossoms. 2. What is a oxymel and switchel and Tara's herb recommendations.   3. Tara's connection with nettles and how she used urtication for healing.  4. You will get to hear about Tar...

In this episode, Mason Hutchison, co-founder of HerbRally, shares with you his tips on how to become an herbalist. You don't want to miss this episode, Mason shares: 1. What he learned from working with Mountain Rose Herbs for 11 years.  2. Why he co-founded HerbRally and what HerbRally does for the herbal community.  3. Top tips for embarking on the herbalism path.  4. His viewpoin...

You don't want to miss this episode with Andrea Olsen,  Professor Emerita of Dance who held the John Elder Chair in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College in Vermont . In this episode, Andrea shares with you: 1. What is embodiment and why it is important to inhabit the body. 2. Why the Body and Earth connection important to our health and happiness. 3. Why she completed one of my favorit...

In today's episode, you will learn about the first vascular plants on this Earth, the Ferns . You will learn: 1. What makes ferns special and unique. 2. You will learn fern botany, distribution, and a little about the diversity of ferns across the globe.  3. The medicinal properties and uses of ferns. 4. How I work with the fern ally Equisetum, Horsetail. 5. Why you should learn and connect w...

In today's episode, you hear from Jalen Gordon, one of the last Gullah bush medicine man in America.  Jalen discusses in this interview: 1. The sacred indigenous and Gullah wild herb life everlasting (Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium). 2. How his love for plants and nature started at 7 years old.  3. The struggles he faces as an African American foraging in the wild.  4. How his family...

I am pumped that you want to learn more about the most beneficial and sustainable cup of tea-YAUPON.  Today, you get to hear from Bryon White, Yaupon expert, and one of the souls responsible for bringing America's only caffeinated tea, Yaupon, back to the surface after nearly being forgotten for thousands of years.  In today’s episode, you will learn: 1. What is Yaupon. 2. Why it should...

You are going to love this episode with Marysia Miernowska. In this episode, Marysia shares from her heart: 1. How to shift the holidays to the "holy-days". 2. The magic and medicine of Blue Lotus. 3. How to connect with the spirit of Blue Lotus. 4. Her path as a Green Witch. Thanks to Marysia, this episode is steeped in wisdom and can truly help us enter and embrace the magic, medicine, and myste...

Enter into a world where you connect with the sacred wild daily! Let go of the mundane tasks of Modern Society to immerse yourself in the magic, mystery, and medicine of life. In this episode, Darcey Blue, devotee of the Sacred Wild, shares with you: 1. How to invite ritual into your life to communicate with the Earth and all living beings, and live in sacred reciprocity. 2. How to connect with th...

In this wild herb episode, you will learn what to forage in the winter, how to make an Appalachian chai tea, and how to live in relation with the indigenous people where you live. Abby Artemisia, Botanist, Herbalist, and Founder of the Wander School, shares: 1. Why she transitioned her business to a non-profit so she could serve the BIPOC community. 2. Her experience working with the Cherokee Nati...

Have you ever heard of the wild herb, Blue Vervain? If not or haven't worked with it before, you definitely want to listen to this podcast episode with author and Materia Medica Encyclopedia CoreyPine Shane.  In this episode CoreyPine discusses: 1. How he Blue Vervain combined with skullcap helped relieve his migraine headaches combined with diet adjustments.  2. Why nourishing the nervo...

In this episode, expert forager and author Dr. Mark "Merriwether" Vorderbruggen shares with us: 1. Tips for beginner foragers 2. The importance of mucilaginous herbs 3. The anticancer prickly pear 4. Why antioxidants are important and how they decrease cancer risk 5. Edible Canna Lilies and much more. You don't want to miss this episode. Merriwether has decades of foraging experience and has a tho...

In this episode, you will hear the true story of how Nishanth Gurav discovered that every plant has a story to tell. You will travel through the cities of India to the most remote Gond Region and Village of India. You will learn how Nishanth's curiosity for the connection between plants and people led him to get his Ph. D. in Ethnobotany. You'll learn: How his grandmother uses breadfruit (Blanites...