May we access all the internal and external resources we need for radical self love and vibrant living.

We are co-creating a more loving, healthy, just, sustainable, and spirited world for all. Thankfully, there is an abundance of good folks and resources to guide us in this hopeful journey. Here are a few friends, mentors, organizations, books, and links that inspire me. Stay tuned for a much needed re-organization of this list and **also check out my Resilience & Solidarity page.**

Studies in Foraging & Herbal Healing (print & web)
ya’ll be careful not to buy AI generated books…stick with trusted authors

  • All four of Samuel Thayer’s books including his new Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants. Also: Nature’s Garden, The Forager’s Harvest, and Incredible Wild Edibles
  • All of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s books including: Braiding Sweetgrass; Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants and The Serviceberry; Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
  • Dave Cook’s The New Piedmont Almanac
  • Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians by Arvis Locklear Boughman and Loretta O. Oxendine
  • Cherokee Plants: Their Uses–A 400 Year History by Paul Hamel and Mary Chiltoskey
  • The Cherokee Herbal; Native Plant Medicine from the Four Directions by J. T. Garrett
  • Loads of foraging resources from Robin Greenfield
  • Inspiring list of herbal medicine books with BIPOC authors highlighted, compiled by Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine
  • Working the Roots; Over 400 Years of Traditional African-American Healing by Michelle E. Lee
  • African American Herbalism blog series by Marc Williams
  • Sign up for videos and/or newsletters from: ‘Forager Chef’ Alan Bergo, Rosalee de la Foret, Dina Falconi, Green Deane
  • Native American Ethnobotany Database
  • Black and Indigenous herbalists @folkhealers
  • Black Forager, Alexis Nicole’s brilliant and funny instagram account
  • Southeast Medicinal Plants by Coreypine Shane
  • Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians (2nd edition) by Patricia Howell
  • Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings by Mary Geniusz
  • Pascal Baudar empowering foraging posts (and his books are wonderful)
  • Mallory O’Donnell with inspiring foraging education on Instagram
  • Fungi resources online: Anna McHugh’s local youtube and NC Mushroom Group on Facebook and Adam Haritan’s Learn Your Land videos
  • Mushroom books: Elliot & Stephenson’s Mushrooms of the Southeast, Bessette & Bessette & Hopping’s A Field Guide to Mushrooms of the Carolinas, Christopher Hobb’s Medicinal Mushrooms, Frank Hyman’s How to Forage for Mushrooms without Dying, Michael Kuo’s 100 Edible Mushrooms
  • Triangle Mycological Society
  • John Kallas’ Edible Wild Plants, Volumes 1 & 2
  • Stalking the Healthful Herbs and Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons
  • “Wildman” Steve Brill’s Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places
  • Maria Noel Groves Body Into Balance; An Herbal Guide to Holistic Self-Care
  • Richo Cech’s Making Plant Medicine
  • James Green’s The Herbal Medicine Maker’s Handbook; A Home Manual
  • Peterson Field Guide’s Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants and Herbs by Duke & Foster
  • Tom Epel’s Botany in a Day

Healing Resources (mostly plant wisdom & North Carolina based)

Sustainability, Justice & Community

Local Goodness (arts, food, services, education…)