Author: Candace Hunter

Candace Hunter is a self-taught herbalist and artist who never, ever practices on guinea pigs in part because her family and friends are generally up to the job. She is co-author of The Practical Herbalist®'s Herbal Folio series and author of Herbalism for the Zombie Apocalypse. She edits The Practical Herbalist® website and Practical Herbalist Press publications. She has also recently entered into the field of podcasting with reckless abandon. Listen to her on Real Herbalism Radio today, see her work at CandaceHunter.com, or find her on Facebook at Candace Hunter Creations.

77.Herbal Reflections and Aspirations

Just about everybody kicks off the New Year with Resolutions, and Herbalists are no different. There’s great power and opportunity in taking time to look back at what worked well and set a few goals for what’s ahead. Today, we’re talking about how Real Herbalism Radio has helped us grow over the past year and the kinds of goals we Herbalists plan on setting for 2017.

72.Herbal Books for 2016

In the dark, cold of winter, many plants go dormant, taking time to rest and recover before next year’s growth. This is exactly the break we herbalists need to expand our knowledge.

71.Herb Lab with Kratom and Kratom Salve

However you pronounce it, you’ll be hearing more and more about Kratom. From local news to the New York Times, Facts are muddled and opinions are given. With so much misinformation out there, how do you know what is going on?

70.Kratom, An Age-old Herbal Remedy Resurfaces

Old Herbal Cures resurface in the herbal world all the time. Sometimes, they hit our main stream culture as super foods or super cures, and sometimes they’re vilified. Most often, those extreme takes on the plants our ancestors knew well are born from ignorance about the plant or the cultural context in which we humans first befriended it.

69.Herb Lab with Primitive Skills and Ancestral Living Skills

We discussed our early learning experiences with herbs and primitive living skills we have learned through our relatives and teachers along with wildcrafting ethics.

68.Tracking Down Herbalism with Anna Bradley

Although many of our ancestors used herbal medicine daily, often as an of course, most of us didn’t grow up in herbal households. Despite that, we can recover the wisdom and ways of our ancestors in our modern lives.

67.Herb Lab with Deeply Rooted

We talked about ruminations on our early herbal experiences and how we were inspired by Deeply Rooted by Bonnie Rose Weaver.

66.Deeply Rooted with Bonnie Rose Weaver and Mari Amend

Herbalists live in many environments: Country, farm, and cities. Urban Herbalists often envy their country cousins’ ability to grow many Medicinal Herbs–But that envy may well be misplaced.

The Tailor’s Grace by Susan Collis

Best audience for The Tailor’s Grace: Folks looking for a historical-fiction novel with a mild herbal bent-lovers of period works that include plants and herbal practices as minor characters to the story. Candace said: When Olympia Publishers asked us to review The Tailor’s Grace by Susan Collis, I hesitated. We don’t normally review fiction, and the publisher’s […]