Below are lists of organizations and/or individuals with whom I have collaborated, have studied with or have partnered with on my or their events...and people and places who I have wild crushes on and hope to study with, meet or collaborate with someday. Check them out, read their resources, take their classes and do some business with them! Please note that not all resources or collaborators are herbalists but share similar values and are doing incredibly important work.

Past + Current partners and Collaborators:

The Pentacle Path
Serpentīnae
Eastern Market Wellness Center
Healing By Choice!
Medicina Urbana
Alexander Weyer, Astro Catalyst
Great Lakes Herb Faire
Girls Rock Detroit
Detroit Public Library
Neu Kombucha
Detroit is the New Black
Alternatives for Girls
Supernatural Lingerie
The Schvitz
Autumn Moon Aesthetics
Nest + Rest Doula

Resources:

Fresh + Dried Herbs, Seeds:
Black Locust Gardens - Organic herb farm in Dexter, MI - (Alex hosts online classes and makes beautiful apothecary products in addition to their farm offerings)
Bloodroot Herb Shop - Herb shop, classes and community space in Ypsilanti, MI
Foster Farms Botanicals - Organic herb farm in Vermont
Goddess Herbs - Bulk herb shop in Detroit
Golden Hour Farm - Herb farm in Grand Rapids, MI
Healing Spirits Herb Farm - Organic herb farm in Upstate, NY
Nature's Products - Bulk herb shop in Detroit (Note: This is a Google map to the shop, not a website.)
Oshala Farm - Organic herb farm in Oregon
Tame the Spirit - Kentucky-based herb farm and wildcrafter
Strictly Medicinal Seeds - Organic herb farm in Oregon


Detroit/metro Detroit Practitioners:
HAUS of Healthy Living (formerly Exhalation Integrative Wellness) - Karla Mitchell, N.D. - holistic natural health center in NW Detroit
Birth Detroit - Birthing Center
Birth Beautiful Detroit - Heather Robinson, CPM - midwife
Intersectional Insight - mental health and wellness services in metro Detroit
Medicina Urbana - Mark Beard, D.O. - primary care physician in Southwest Detroit


Herbalists, Classes, Resources + Other Plant Wisdom:
herbcraft.org - jim mcdonald (really really great classes and resources)
Earthseed Detroit - Lottie Spady (classes, blog, videos, products, with a conscious focus on accessibility for Detroiters and BIPOC)
wonderbotanica.com - Rebecca Altman (classes and resources)
La Loba Loca - (classes, Patreon, blog)
Sassafras Healing Arts - (resources, products, services in Minneapolis)
Generative Somatics - (classes and resources)
Harriet’s Apothecary - (classes and services in NYC and resources with a conscious focus on BIPOC)
The Science and Art of Herbalism - Rosemary Gladstar (classes)
Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine - Juliet Blankespoor (classes)
Eclectic School of Herbal Medicine - Thomas Easley (classes, resources and products)
The Herbal Academy - (classes, resources, The Herbarium membership for plant monographs)
HerbRally - (classes, resources, monographs)
Healing Justice Report - Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice (resources)
Sister Zeus - (resources)
Molly Dutton-Kenny - (resources)
Tips for Backyard and Urban Foraging in and Around Detroit - Hedgewitch Holistics


Podcasts:
How to Survive the End of the World - Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown
Healing Justice
The Herbal Highway


Books:
African American Herbalism - Lucretia VanDyke
Alchemy of Herbs - Rosalee de la Forêt
Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health - Rosemary Gladstar
Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals, Vols. 1-5 - Jill Stansbury
Incredible Wild Edibles, The Forager’s Harvest and Nature’s Garden - Samuel Thayer
Iwígara - Enrique Salmón
Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide - Rosemary Gladstar
Midwest Foraging - Lisa M. Rose
Midwest Medicinal Plants - Lisa M. Rose
All Regions Foraging & Medicinal Plants Guides
Plants Have So Much to Give Us , All We Have to do is Ask - Mary Siisip Geniusz, Wendy Makoons Geniusz
Plant Witchery - Juliet Diaz
Queering Herbalism - Toi Scott
The Devil’s Death - Shiva Honey, Betty Lee, Heather Mourer
The Herbal Apothecary: 100 Medicinal Herbs and How to Use Them - JJ Pursell
The Modern Herbal Dispensatory - Thomas Easley and Steven Horne
Wild Remedies - Rosalee de la Forêt

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds - adrienne maree brown
Gathering Moss - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good - adrienne maree brown
Women Who Run With the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.

Grief, Death and End-of-Life Support:
Death Cafe - regional meet-up groups for discussions on death and dying
Forced Joy Project - grief support and resources for reconnecting with joy after loss; special focus on widows and cancer survivors
Got Grief House - grief support for adults and children, including virtual and in-person grief groups
My Death Wishes - resources, including templates, for end-of-life planning from death doula Shiva Honey of Serpentīnae
Shelby Forsythia - grief guide, author and host of the podcast Grief Seeds