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, and books 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 new Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants plus Nature’s Garden, The Forager’s Harvest, and Incredible Wild Edibles
  • Dave Cook’s The New Piedmont Almanac
  • Sign up for videos and/or newsletters from: Rosalee de la Foret, Dina Falconi, GreenDeane, Forager Chef
  • Southeast Medicinal Plants by Coreypine Shane
  • 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
  • Michelle E. Lee’s Working the Roots; Over 400 Years of Traditional African-American Healing
  • African American Herbalism blog series by Marc Williams
  • Arvis Locklear Boughman and Loretta O. Oxendine’s Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians
  • Black and Indigenous herbalists @folkhealers
  • Black Forager, Alexis Nicole’s brilliant and funny instagram account
  • Mallory O’Donnell with inspiring foraging education on Instagram
  • Mary Geniusz’s Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
  • Amazing list of herbal medicine books compiled by Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine
  • Pascal Baudar empowering foraging posts (and def buy his books)
  • John Kallas’ Edible Wild Plants; Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate
  • Euell Gibbons’ Stalking the Healthful Herbs AND Stalking the Wild Asparagus
  • Rosemary Gladstar’s Family Herbal; A Guide to Living Life with Energy, Health, and Vitality
  • “Wildman” Steve Brill’s Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places
  • Patricia Howell’s Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians 
  • 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 & many North Carolina based)

Sustainability, Justice & Community

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