We're going to start out here with links that take you to useful resources. If there is a commercial link it is because we feel it would be of good service to our members or they have helped mentor us in some way on this site. Please do not contact us for link exchanges. This is useful & meaningful list, and not a bunch of web sites who traded for higher Google rankings.
Contact me if you find a site that should be here. We will certainly be researching and adding to this.
Web Resources
Herbs & Stuff
Herbal Resources
Plant databases
Heath Resources
Nutrition Resources
HerbMentor Radio Guests & Close Friends
Symposiums & Conferences
Schools & Correspondence Courses
Bulk herbs and herbal products from our community
Herbs, remedies, books, supplies, seeds, etc..
Mountain Rose Herbs
Medicinal herb starts
Crimson Sage (I met Tina last summer and she grows amazing herbs.)
Horizon Herbs
Seeds, plants, and much more for medicinal herb gardens from Horizon Herbs
The Essential Herbal
Tina Sams' awesome magazine. Please supprt Tina, for she does a lot to support us.
Nature Spirit Herbs
James & Kara Jungwirth's high quality sea vegetables, herbs, and remedies.
Australians!
Many of you Aussies get your Kit herbs confiscated by customs, so you can get them here.
Pacific Botanicals, bulk herbs
Extremely high quality bulk herbs at Pacific Botanicals
Herbal Com
Another quality bulk herb site recommended by members
Fresh herbs on the East Coast
Zack Woods Herb Farm
Fresh herbs on the West Coast
Ancestree Herbals
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Herbal Resources
Christopher Hobb's...
Herbal Presciber Database. This is cool.
Dr. James Duke
Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
Dr. Sharol Tilgner
Dr. Tilgner has been a huge supporter of this site. She is generous with her research, and these lists are directly from her book, Herbal Medicine From the Heart of the Earth.
Herbs Listed by Common Name
Herbs Listed by Botanical Name
A Modern Herbal, a classic by Mrs. M. Grieve online
at Botanical.com
Poisons & Antidotes
at Botanical.com
Wildcrafting guidelines
By Howie Brounstein, wildcrafter at large...
I like Howie's Links page
All sorts of photos, illustrations, classic texts and more...
Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
Videos of medicinal plants
Go here for a huge list of videos at Michael Moore's site
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Center
An excellent botanical resource.
Herb Information Green Papers
at herbs.org
Herbal News
at herbs.org
Articles & recipes using Chinese Herbs
at Chinese Herbal Recipes
Paul Bergner has some great links and resource at...
MedHerb
Celebrating Wildflowers Coloring Books
Learn by coloring! :)
For you techie herbalists...
The Tincture Calculator
Dr. Christopher's Articles
HerbalLegacy.com
Henriette's Amazing Site...loads of info
HenriettesHerbal.com
Access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health
HerbMed.org
Our friends are working on this remedies site, and they have a Rainforest remedy company they started
OnePlanetHerbsInfo | OnePlanetHerbs
Live in the UK?
Then check out the Herb Society
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Plant databases and the like
Plant Idetification Helper
World Wide Flowering Plant Family Identification
United Plant Savers
Their AT RISK and TO WATCH lists of endangered plants. Other info as well.
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (images, etc...)
The PLANTS database
An encyclopedia of plants and gardening
Botany.com
TROPICOS
This is cool
U.W. Madison Department of Botanty
More for your research needs
NatureServe
Rare plant info, etc for your area
Native American Ethnobotany
Database from the University of Michigan
Tree Identification
Virginia Tech's Twig Key
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Health Resources
The coolest dang site for simply teaching you about the Body
GetBodySmart.com
University of Maryland Medical Center (includes some natural medicine)
Good for emergency info
Medline
A great "catch all" site. I use it in my acupuncture practice.
Natural Health advice
Mercola.com
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Nutrition Resources
Lots of great articles, including myths and truths of nutrition...
Weston Price Foundation
Learn how to feed our children...
Nourishing Our Children
What's in your food?
Find local organic and healthful food resources
Eat Well Guide
LocalHarvest.org
RawMilk.org
Kefirlady.com
Another Kefir Source
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HerbMentor Radio Guests & Other Close Friends
Celtic Herbs and Heather Nic an Fhleisdeir
Heather from the Village Herbalist
Susun Weed
Visit Susun on the web. Articles, a forum and loads more...
Rosemary Gladstar
Visit Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center & Botanical Sanctuary
Stephen Buhner
Visit Stephen at the Foundation for Gaian Studies
Wildman Steve Brill
Steve has loads of great recipes on his site
Linda Runyon
You MUST visit Linda's site and get her free wild foods PDF newsletter. It's really great.
Earthwalk Northwest
Karen Sherwood's amazing plants and survival skills school. 9 month apprenticeship, wild foods dinners, and their amazing Coastal Foraging class!
Ravencroft Garden
Kimberly and John's most influencial mentors. This is where we learned out stuff. Link to blog.
Wilderness Awareness School
THE place to learn the wilderness arts and BEST non-profit to donate your money to. John worked there for 17 years and still teaches herbal programs. Our son attends their youth programs. THey have a wonderful home study program.
The Essential Herbal
Tina Sams' awesome magazine. Please supprt Tina, for she does a lot to support us.
All Goode Gifts
Karen Mallinger, another huge helper in the Forums, sells these wonderful products
Nature Spirit Herbs
James & Kara Jungwirth's high quality sea vegetables, herbs, and remedies.
Horizon Herbs
Richo Cech and Horizon Herbs: Seeds, plants, and much more.
The Medicine Woman's Roots
Kiva Rose's Blog
East West School of Planetary Herbology
Lesley and Michael Tierra
TraditionalCook.com
Maria Atwood and her Cooking Your Way to Wellness DVD
Northeast School of Botanical Medicine
7Song's school and site with LOTS of great handouts.
Hollowtop Press, Outdoor Primitive School, and more.
Tom Elpel's books, videos, courses and other projects.
Aviva Romm
Integrative Medicine for Womena and Children
William Wittmann
You Get to Live a Life You Love
Amanda McQuade Crawford
Click above for books by Amanda
Jim McDonald's HerbCraft
Jim McDonald's programs and articles
Gail Faith Edwards
Visit Blessed Maine Herb Farm
Sandor Katz
Loads of info on fermented foods
Brigitte Mars
Her classes, books, remedies, recipes and more.
Christopher Hobbs
Herbal Presciber Database, The Virtual Herbal
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Symposiums & conferences
Traditions in Western Herbalism
Kiva Rose is the organizer, LearningHerbs is a major sponsor, and loads of amazing speakers and transformative herbal experiences await...
Northwest HerbFest
Herbal Transitions and Sharol Tilgner put this on every summer. It's AWESOME!
American Herbalist Guild
They have a yearly symposium
9th International Herbal Symposium
Celebrating the Healing Power of Plants, June 19th - 21st, 2009. Also at Sage Mountain.... The 21rst Annual Women's Herbal Conference, Aug. 22-24, 2008.
Bastyr Herb & Food Fair
Happens late May, early June every year in the Seattle area. Check this site out around then.
Southwest Conference on Botanical Medicine
Also the Medicines from the Earth Herb Symposium
Southeast Women's Herbal Conference
Happens in the Fall.
Northern California Women’s Herbal Symposium
Happens in multiple sessions. Registration required.
Inaugural Midamerica Herbal Symposium
At St. Mary's University in Winona, MN
Please contact us if you know of more...
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Schools & correspondence courses
David Winston
Offers a two year herbal studies course in New Jersey and via the web. He also offers extensive reference materials in his Herbal Therapeutics Research Library
Michael Moore (Correspondence Courses Available)
Offers a 12 lesson course via correspondence. 95% of the materials are DVDs. His website also offers a wide variety of material medica.
Anima Center (Correspondence Courses Available)
Kiva Rose and Jesse Wolf Hardin offer several correspondence courses with optional apprenticeships at their sanctuary in New Mexico. The Medicine Woman Herbal course is designed to provide the student with not only the practical how-to of getting acquainted with traditional botanical medicine, human wellness and the herbs themselves, but also with the knowledge, impetus and support to cultivate intimacy with the plants, self, others and the whole.
Aviva Romm (Correspondence Courses Available)
Aviva is the president of the American Herbalist Guild, a midwife, med school student of Yale, and author of many fabulous books. She offers an in-depth correspondence course entitled: Herbal Medicine for Women: Certified Women's Herbal Educator Distance Learning Program
Bastyr
Bastyr University, located in Seattle Washington, offers an undergraduate degree in herbal sciences. On site only.
East West School of Herbology (Correspondence Courses Available)
Michael and Leslie Tierra offer several different correspondence courses from Family Herbalist to a certification track, which once completed, will allow for acceptance into the American Herbalist Guild as a professional member.
Foundations of Herbalism (Correspondence Courses Available)
Christopher Hobbs offers a one year correspondence course which covers many western herbs.
Herbal Transitions
Sharol Tilgner is a naturopathic physician and herbalist who hosts the annual Herb Fest on her farm outside of Eugene, Oregon. She offers a variety of weekend classes, apprenticeships, and longer courses.
North American Institute of Medical Herbalism (Correspondence Courses Available)
Paul Bergner offers a fabulous on site course as well as an 36 hour correspondence course with emphasis on the Vitalist Tradition.
Northeast School of Botanical Medicine
7Song offers herbal courses in Ithaca New York with a focus on Clinical Herbalism, First Aid and Plant Identification.
Sage Mountain (Correspondence Courses Available)
Rosemary Gladstar
Tai Sophia Institute for the Healing Arts
Tai Sophia offers several graduate programs in the healing arts with a graduate program for Herbal Studies as well. Located in Maryland it hosts a fabulous collection of many herbalists teaching the course. On site only.
Wise Woman Center (Correspondence Courses Available)
Susun Weed
School of Natural Healing (Correspondence Courses Available)
Run by David Christopher, son of the famous herbalist Dr. John R. Christopher, this school offers several correspondence courses.
Blessed Maine Herb Farm School of Herbal Medicine
Study with Gail Faith Edwards!
Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine
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