Rosemary Gladstar :

Rosemary Gladstar has been practicing, living, learning, teaching and writing about herbs for over 50 years. She is the author of twelve books including Medicinal Herbs; a Beginners Guide, Herbal Healing for Women, Gladstar Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Well Being, Herbal Healing for Men, and her most recent, The Generosity of Plants. She is also the author and director of the popular home study course, The Science and Art of Herbalism. 

In 2018 Rosemary was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for her life work from the National University of Naturopathic Medicine. Rosemary is the co-founder and former director of both The International Herb Symposium and The New England Women’s Herbal Conference, the Founding President of United Plant Savers, and the co-founder and original formulator of Traditional Medicinal Tea Company. www.scienceandartofherbalism.com

Dr. Jacqui Wilkins, ND

Dr. Jacqui, ND is a mixed Indigenous Yakama, Irish & Eastern European Naturopathic Doctor, Plant Medicine person, birth worker, teacher, Land Protector, wisdom keeper and steward of the Earth. Originally from the Mountains of Montana (Apsáalooke territory), Sagebrush & Sandstone. Jacqui is a Mama & tends to the Xálish Medicine Garden in Snuneymuxw territory, Vancouver Island, where she grows & crafts Plant Medicines through ritual & ceremony for her botanical line Xálish Medicines. Honouring her lineages, of the Earth & Stars. She is passionate about sharing knowledge & wisdom of Earth based practices, Plant Medicines, Medicine making, Ancestral reverence, postpartum support, decolonizing wellness, and Earth tending (gardening) – to bring connection, deepened relationship & community into our daily lives. Helping us restore our connection to the Earth, well Ancestors, one another & ourselves.

https://www.xalishmedicines.com/

Katie Hess

Katie Hess is the founder of LOTUSWEI and the Self-Arising Nature (SAN) Center in Phoenix, Arizona, an international destination for flower essence education, experiences and practitioner training. She is the author of Flowerevolution, an entrepreneur and expert of bioenergetic remedies. Katie teaches about flower remedies & mindful awareness around the world.

She has hand-collected over 300 flower remedies across the world and studied their impact over the last 25 years. She established an intuitive system for doctors, natural practitioners and all individuals to determine their own needs, accelerate their transformation and realize their true potential. https://www.lotuswei.com/

Lucy Ní hAodhagáin

Lucy is the founder of Wild Awake Ireland, an organisation which seeks to rekindle cultural and ecological resilience through the restoration of ancestral lifeways in Ireland. Lucy works in the fecund liminal zones between the cultural, ecological and spiritual, weaving together ancient wisdom with the dream of decolonial futures. Born in Béal Feirste, Lucy now makes home beneath the watchful gaze of An Mhucais mountain in the Donegal Gaeltacht, all the while deepening their love of the Gaelic language by harvesting seaweed from the rocks, following the tracks of deer, and gathering ancestral foods and medicine through the seasons. Lucy is also the co-editor of Airmid's Journal, a bi-annual journal of foraging, folklore, myths, culture and remedies and a passionate committee member of Bród na Gaeltachta, Ireland's first Gaeltacht pride festival.

https://www.wildawake.ie/

Seraphina Capranos

Seraphina Capranos is a clinical herbalist, homeopath, and initiated priestess with a practice spanning over two decades. As well as being a deeply engaging teacher and speaker, she has a clinical practice on Salt Spring Island, Canada. Her unique blend of gifts straddle the vast worlds of plant medicine, homeopathy, and ritual and ceremonial magic. She is a sought-after international teacher who has taught thousands of students since 2008.

seraphinacapranos.com

Mara Jane King

Mara King is a fermentation educator, filmmaker, and hospitality systems builder working at the intersection of food, culture, ecology, and craft. As Director of Fermentation & Sustainability at Id Est Hospitality, she helps shape fermentation, preservation, and regenerative sourcing across a collection of acclaimed restaurants recognized for their thoughtful, ingredient-driven approach.

She co-founded Ozuke, a fermented foods company, and has spent nearly two decades studying, practicing, and teaching fermentation traditions around the world. Her film work explores foodways and fermentation across Southwest China and Taiwan, documenting the connections between microbial culture, regional cuisine, and living tradition.

Her current work brings together restaurants, farms, researchers, and traditional knowledge holders through a growing network of international collaborations exploring fermentation as both an ancient craft and an evolving cultural practice.

Roushanna Gray

Roushanna Gray is based at Cape Point, Cape Town, South Africa, where she merges her passions for wild food, creativity, earth and ocean. Over the past 18 years, she has taught wild foods, edible seaweeds and coastal plants through workshops, field courses and lectures up and down the coastlines of South Africa and abroad - equipping home cooks, nature lovers, students, chefs, hospitality teams and communities to identify, harvest and cook seaweeds ethically, responsibly and safely. As a consultant, she partners with lodges and restaurants to develop wild flavour and seaweed-led menus grounded in seasonality, intertidal ecology and regenerative practice. Her hands-on, multi-sensory methodology invites curiosity and reciprocity: participants learn to read the shore, understand tides and species, and translate science into flavour. By engaging with the seasons and cycles of nature, participants develop a deeper understanding of self, spirit and science - understanding these spaces as home and habitat to more than humans, with values that extend beyond food. She founded Veld and Sea in 2016, a nature-inspired education organization, and is the author of Wildly Delicious, a South African foraging and cookbook.

veldandsea.com

Carina Lyall

Carina Lyall is a storyteller, facilitator, and speaker exploring the stories that shape how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the living world. For over sixteen years, she has worked with organisations, businesses, and communities through workshops, talks, and immersive experiences that invite new ways of seeing, imagining, and connecting.

Born in Northern Canada and now based in Denmark, Carina is currently studying Greenlandic and Arctic Studies, bringing together lived experience, storytelling, and academic inquiry into her work. Her approach weaves myth, oral storytelling, nature, and reflection to help people cultivate deeper relationships and imagine life-affirming futures.

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Heather Porter

A lifetime of translating scientific, spiritual, and ecological concepts led her to this work. Inspired by her Celtic ancestors who lived closely to the land, waters, and seasons, she lives as a contemplative animist. Spirit, grace and a deep, unyielding love of the Earth is at the heart of all she does and her work tends to contemplate the myriad aspects of a sovereign life, seeking to reveal the wonders of the etheric in service of connection, reverence, and deep, honorable communion.

For decades, she has moved between spirit work and the worlds of private and public philanthropy, stewarding programs in climate and conservation, disaster relief, global health, medical education, the arts, and contemplative practice, following earlier years as an award-winning director in sustainability and resiliency. Alongside this work, she has explored the stage and voice, tended the wild with unyielding devotion, and deepened her contemplative spiritual practice through Celtic mysticism, animistic traditions, and the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids.

Mythmakers and storytellers have nurtured her creative spirit, while her grounding in environmental law, environmental science, women’s leadership, and healing practices informs her service to others through ritual, grief, and poetry offerings. Though once trained in neo-shamanic forms, she now roots her practice in ancestral Celtic traditions, holding integrity as her compass and offering her voice always in service to the unseen, silenced, and unheard.

animisma.com

April Punsalan

April Punsalan is the founder of Wild Herb Academy, and she is a botanist, ethnobotanist, and herbalist, dedicated to teaching the healing world of plants. April has a podcast called Wild Herbs with April and recently published a book called, "Foraging Wild Herbs". She teaches medical botany, foraging and herbalism in the Wild Herb Academy.

wildherbacademy.com

Michelle Polizzi

Michelle Polizzi is the co-founder of The Sacred Science, an online community that explores ancestral healing wisdom, and Top Hat Supply for Journeys, an experimental arts nonprofit in Boulder, Colorado dedicated to helping people connect with their creative spirit multidisciplinary artist and designer drawing inspiration from our connection to the earth, the unseen and the sacred. The spirit of plants guide her creative process as she transforms wild and homegrown plants and flowers into dyes and inks, allowing the colors they offer and the mystery of what they want to express to shape the work. She has illustrated several children’s books, including My Magic Breath. @_michellepolizzi

Liz Philbrick

Liz Philbrick is a clinical herbalist and nutritionist based in Longmont, Colorado. She is a graduate of the clinical herbalism and nutrition programs at the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism and spent seven years working as an herbalist and production manager at Rebecca’s Herbal Apothecary in Boulder, Colorado. Deeply inspired by the natural world and its ability to nourish and support well-being, Liz is passionate about connecting people with medicinal herbs and empowering them to take an active role in their health. She has shared this passion for more than 15 years through teaching herbal classes and cultivating community around plant medicine. In 2021, Liz pursued her longstanding interest in reproductive health and founded Wild Rose Women’s Health, her herbal and nutritional consulting practice. Through personalized herbal, nutritional, and lifestyle support, she works with women to cultivate greater health and resilience through all stages of life. www.wildrosehealth.com

Lindsey Feldpausch

Lindsey is leading an international school of herbal arts and sciences that has educated more than 175,000 students worldwide. An experienced clinical herbalist, educator, speaker, and author, Lindsey also serves as co-chair of the American Herbalists Guild’s Education Advisory Committee. Lindsey is passionate about making complex herbal concepts accessible, bridging traditional herbal wisdom with practical application and modern herbal education. She is co-author of Grow Your Own Spices and a sought-after speaker who has presented at national conferences and educational events for herbalists, wellness professionals, and the public. She is also the host of the Virtual Herbalism Conference, an annual weeklong gathering that brings the herbal community together through accessible, high-quality herbal education and has reached more than 100,000 attendees worldwide. Her work is grounded in over a decade of clinical practice and more than 2,000 hours of study under experienced herbal mentors. Lindsey Feldpausch of Herbal Academy September Guest Expert: Guidance for Envisioning your Future in Herbalism. theherbalacademy.com

Damiana Calvario

Damiana was born and raised in Mexico City, within a large Mexican family and the traditions, foods, remedies, and stories carried through both her mother’s and father’s lineages. She is a mixed woman of color and first-generation immigrant, currently living as a guest on Kumeyaay land. Her work grows from the meeting place of plants, food, garden, culture, and community care. Shaped by ancestral foodways and kitchen remedies, Curanderismo studies, Indigenous Full Spectrum Doula training, Western herbalism, Reiki, training, mutual aid, and years of care work, she approaches medicine as relationship: with the land, with plants, with one another, with those who came before us, and with the living world around us.