resources

YOGA

incomplete list of resources for diving more deeply with teachers I appreciate:

books

podcasts

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 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

  • 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

  • Native American Ethnobotany Database

  • Dave Cook’s The New Piedmont Almanac

  • Loads of foraging resources from Robin Greenfield

  • Pascal Baudar empowering foraging posts (and his books are wonderful)

  • Mallory O’Donnell with inspiring foraging education on Instagram

  • Sign up for videos and/or newsletters from: ‘Forager Chef’ Alan Bergo, Dina Falconi, Green Deane

  • Black and Indigenous herbalists @folkhealers

  • Black Forager, Alexis Nicole’s brilliant and funny instagram account

  • Southeast Medicinal Plants by Coreypine Shane

  • Working the Roots; Over 400 Years of Traditional African-American Healing by Michelle E. Lee

  • 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

  • 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

  • Inspiring list of herbal medicine books with BIPOC authors highlighted, compiled by Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine

  • African American Herbalism blog series by Marc Williams

  • Rosalee de la Foret,

  • Dina Falconi

  • Fungi resources online: 

  • 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’s100 Edible Mushrooms

  • Triangle Mycological Society

  • 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…)