resources for foraging, yoga

and community resilience

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 and encourage us in this journey. Here are some friends, mentors, organizations, books, and newsletters that inspire me.

Stay tuned for a much needed update & re-organization of this list (hopefully september 2026)!

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

  • Herbs with Rosalee podcast and youtube (and her books)

  • 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…)

YOGA

books

teachers

  • Michelle C. Johnson, yoga teacher, anti-racism trainer, prolific author, amazing human—I highly recommend subscribing to her newsletter

  • Accessible Yoga School offering classes, trainings, books, and podcast with Jivana Heyman and guests

  • Tejal Yoga classes and community with social justice lens led by teachers of South Asian lineage

  • Trauma-informed yoga resources and trainings with Zabie Yamasaki

  • Liberation Healing Arts Patty Adams guides yoga classes, somatics, therapy, and climate justice

  • Yoga with Avery, Iyengar lineage through an anti oppression framework that uplifts inner healing towards collective liberation

  • Virtual and In person classes with Jacoby Ballard including Queer and Trans Yoga

  • Octavia Raheem, yoga teacher, author, mother, mentor

  • Tracee Stanley trainings, courses, retreats, and books on yoga nidra and more

  • Francesca Cervera offers virtual classes, yoga teacher mentoring and The Mentor Sessions Podcast

podcasts

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