What You Can & Can’t Affect: A Vital Realization for Healers & Others
Release Date: 12/01/2025
10 Questions for Herbalist Asia Dorsey
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This episode is brought to you by FOOD GENIUS A year-long mentorship from Asia Dorsey + Justin Robinson for folks craving a deeper relationship with food, ancestry, and embodied wellbeing. In this episode of the HerbRally Podcast we're joined by herbalist Asia Dorsey. She answers 10 questions, as the title suggests. You'll learn: How she balances traditional herbal knowledge with modern science Her thoughts on the regulation of herbalists When she felt qualified to call herself an herbalist How to know how potent your herbal concoctions are How to keep joints healthy as we age And a...
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Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians | Patricia Kyritsi Howell
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This episode is brought to you by FOOD GENIUS A year-long mentorship from Asia Dorsey + Justin Robinson for folks craving a deeper relationship with food, ancestry, and embodied wellbeing. Herbalist and author Patricia Kyritsi Howell joins Mason and co-host Rosalee de la Forêt to talk about the brand-new second edition of Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians. Patricia shares how decades of walking the mountains have deepened her relationships with plants like bloodroot, sarsaparilla, and sassafras, weaving folk history with practical clinical insight. We also touch on her...
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FREE CLASS | The Herbalism of Hot Sauce
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If you love hot sauce as much as I do, and you love learning about herbalism through food... this class is a good’n 🔥 Food geniuses Asia Dorsey and Justin Robinson break down the ethnobotany of hot sauce, why so many cultures use heat as medicine, how fermentation boosts flavor, and the many health benefits woven into this fiery tradition. It’s fun, practical, and super informative — all about one of my most beloved condiments. This 90-minute pre-recorded class also includes: a “Living Habanero Hot Sauce” fermented recipe card a lengthy Q&A where Asia...
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The Complete Folk Herbal with Rebecca Beyer | Cohost Rosalee de la Forêt
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Today on the Herbalist Hour I’m joined by author, illustrator, and Appalachian folk magic practitioner Rebecca Beyer, along with my special co-host Rosalee de la Forêt. We dive deep into Rebecca’s newest book, The Complete Folk Herbal, exploring everything from ethical wildcrafting to plant history, folk medicine-making, and the lived stories that shape her work. Rebecca shares her thoughts on learning from many teachers, cultivating authentic plant relationships, avoiding “guru-ism,” and keeping humility at the center of herbal practice. We talk about sustainable foraging, the...
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The Virtue Every Herbalist Needs | jim mcdonald
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In this clip from Herbalists After Hours, jim mcdonald shares one virtue he believes is essential for herbalists: kindness. Drawing on Octavia Butler’s line, “Kindness eases change,” jim reflects on how change — whether personal, cultural, or relational — is rarely easy. But kindness can soften the process. We talk about kindness toward others, kindness toward ourselves, and the deeper roots of the word “kind” — connected to kin and nature — reminding us that we are not separate from each other or the living world. In a culture where unkindness is often normalized, this is a...
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Pine Medicine: Learning the Plant Before the Books | April Punsalan
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🌿 Enroll in Medical Botany: Foundations in Ancient Plant Medicine Enrollment is now open for April Punsalan’s 13-week apprenticeship focused on wild plant medicine, plant evolution, botany, Ayurveda, and the 6 tastes. Enroll by Monday night and receive the Wild Apothecary medicine-making course FREE (tinctures, oils, salves, extractions with primarily wild plants). 👉 🌲 Episode Description In this episode of the Wild Herbs Podcast, April dives deeply into the medicine, botany, and spirit of Pine — an ancient evergreen ally that shows up when we need resilience the most. Pine has...
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April Punsalan | Wax Myrtle, Conservation & Plant Stories
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Medical Botany | A 13-Week Journey Into the Living Language of Plants If the free preview lit a spark… the full Medical Botany program is where that spark becomes a lifelong relationship with the plant world. This course isn’t about memorizing what an herb “does.” It’s about learning to see like a botanist, feel like an herbalist, and move through the landscape with a deeper sense of belonging. Created by botanist and herbalist April Punsalan, with guest teachings from ethnobotanist Nishanth Gurav, Medical Botany is a complete 13-week training that blends ancestral wisdom, plant...
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REPLAY | Herbs, Home & Family Rhythms with KhadiYah Preciado
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🌿 $7.77 eBook Sale (Feb 1–7) — Don’t Miss It KhadiYah Preciado is hosting her annual eBook sale in honor of Black History Month! Grab her featured books — including The Biblical Herbalist, Everyday Herbs, Recipes From the Earth, Good Smells, and Kiddie Kitchen Apothecary — all for $7.77 through February 7. This episode is a replay of my wonderful conversation with herbalist and author KhadiYah Preciado, host of the beloved YouTube channel Her Healthy Home. We talk about: • Herbal gardening • African herbalism • Her evolving writing + books • The importance of rest •...
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Free Medical Botany Preview from Wild Herb Academy
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Medical Botany Preview with Wild Herb Academy In this short solo segment, I share an exciting opportunity from our friends at Wild Herb Academy — free access to six lessons from Medical Botany: Foundations in Ancient Plant Medicine. This free preview goes far deeper than basic plant ID. April Punsalan and ethnobotanist Nishanth Gurav teach you how to see plants the way botanists and traditional healers do: through patterns, form, environment, and structure. Inside the free lessons, you’ll explore: • How to recognize plant patterns in the field • How leaf shapes and growth habits...
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A Wholistic Approach to Herbal Education with Lindsey Feldpausch
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FREE Virtual Herbalism Conference presented Herbal Academy February 15 - 20, 2026 In this episode of The Herbalist Hour, I sit down with herbalist and educator Lindsey Feldpausch for a rich conversation about what a wholistic approach to herbal education truly means. Early in the episode, Rosalee de la Forêt pops in unexpectedly and joins the discussion, adding even more insight and warmth to the conversation. Lindsey shares her early plant story from Detroit and explores why wholeness in herbalism includes everything from botany and phytochemistry to formulation, energetics, clinical...
info_outlineWelcome back to The Plant Healer’s Path — Episode 20.
In this episode, Jesse Wolf Hardin explores one of the deepest inner tensions faced by healers, activists, caregivers, and culture-shapers alike: the longing to create real, visible change — and the emotional weight of what we cannot control.
Through poetic reflection and grounded wisdom, Wolf speaks to the outcome-oriented heart that lives inside so many of us — especially herbalists, healthcare providers, parents, justice workers, and environmental advocates. He explores our shared desire to relieve suffering, to fix what is broken, to bring about lasting cures and total solutions — and the quiet harm that can arise when we measure our worth solely by what we can “successfully” change.
You’ll hear why it’s both beautiful and perilous to carry the world’s pain on our shoulders, how unrealistic expectations can quietly drain our vitality, and why a truly sustainable healing practice depends on learning the difference between what we can influence and what we must release. Wolf offers a compassionate framework for shifting from impossible cures toward meaningful, tangible, day-to-day impact — without abandoning our deeper ideals.
If you’ve ever felt discouraged by outcomes you couldn’t control, burned out by constant striving, or torn between big visions and personal limits, this episode offers a powerful reminder: your small, steady, real-world efforts matter more than you may realize.
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The information in this episode is for educational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for advice provided by your physician or other medical professionals. Always consult a health care practitioner before using any herbal remedy or food, especially if you are nursing, pregnant, or have any medical condition.