Episodes

  • How to Dream with Herbs | Featuring Lauren Morgan

    How to Dream with Herbs | Featuring Lauren Morgan
    Jan 23 2026

    This week on Herbal Radio we are joined by Lauren Morgan, an herbalist, author, and fellow podcaster who uses a unique approach to learn from plants: dreaming. Join Tommy and Lauren as they explore:

    • Our primal connection to plants
    • Lauren's "wild gardening" approach
    • Combining a spiritual and scientific approach to herbalism
    • Dreaming as a doorway to connection, expansion, and inspiration
    • Learning from plants through intentional dreaming
    • Creating a long term, sustainable relationship with your dreams

    As always, we thank you for joining us on another botanical adventure and are so honored to have you tag along with us on this ride. Remember, we want to hear from you! Your questions, ideas, and who you want to hear from are an invaluable piece to our podcast. Email us at podcast@mountainroseherbs.com to let us know what solutions we should uncover next within the vast world of herbalism.

    Learn more about Maria below! ⬇️

    🍃 Lauren Morgan is a community herbalist, author, teacher, healer and dreamer of the Olympic Mountains in Washington state. She teaches folk and plant spirit herbalism courses and hosts dream circles and ceremonies from The Dream Barn on the land where she lives, loves and tends. She offers online courses through her website Herbs and Dreams, is a graduate and adjunct faculty of Bastyr University, author of the book Seasonal Herbalism: A Beginner's Guide to Medicine Making and Dreaming with Mother Earth and host of the Herbs and Dreams Podcast. She is devoted to exploring and teaching how to weave our lives with the wisdom of dreams, in alliance with the healing plants of Mother Earth, on behalf of All Life.

    🌿🌛 Check out Lauren's website 🌜🌿

    Herbs and Dreams – Homepage

    🎙️💤 Tune in to Lauren's podcast! 🎙️💤

    Herbs and Dreams – Podcast

    🪻📖 Get your hands on a copy of Lauren's book! 📖🪻

    Seasonal Herbalism

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    🎥 Check out Lauren's video interview! - https://youtu.be/wuPyYrYxqOA

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    59 mins
  • Herbal Gut Health | Featuring Maria Noël Groves

    Herbal Gut Health | Featuring Maria Noël Groves
    Jan 16 2026
    This week on Herbal Radio, we are joined again by the herbalist, educator, and best-selling author, Maria Noël Groves. Join Tommy and Maria as they explore: Key foundations of health: nutrition, nervous system, and gut healthImportance of listening to your body: gut health is not "one size fits all"Digestion through the body's sensesCreative ways to add digestive herbs to your dietWhy stress and digestion go hand-in-handFermented foods/drinks for a healthy immune system As always, we thank you for joining us on another botanical adventure and are so honored to have you tag along with us on this ride. Remember, we want to hear from you! Your questions, ideas, and who you want to hear from are an invaluable piece to our podcast. Email us at podcast@mountainroseherbs.com to let us know what solutions we should uncover next within the vast world of herbalism. Learn more about Maria below! ⬇️ 🪻 Maria Noël Groves, RH(AHG), is a clinical herbalist who runs Wintergreen Botanicals, nestled in New Hampshire's pine forests. Her business focuses on education and empowerment through classes, health consultations, and writing, grounded in the belief that good health grows in nature. She is the author of the award-winning, best-selling Body into Balance: An Herbal Guide to Holistic Self Care, Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies, Herbal Remedies for Sleep, Herbal Gut Health, and a forthcoming book. Learn more about Maria and herbs at WintergreenBotanicals.com. 🌿📖 Get your hands on a copy of Maria's latest book! 📖🌿 Herbal Gut Health 🎒🌱 Check out Maria's class offerings! 🌱🎒 Wintergreen Botanicals: All Classes 🩺🍃 Looking for a guide into a healthier lifestyle? Maria can help! 🍃🩺 Wintergreen Botanicals: Schedule a Consult 📓🌲 Expand your herbal experience with Maria's FREE online learning offerings! 📓🌲 Wintergreen Botanicals: Blog & Learn More ⬇️ Check out Maria's video interview below! ⬇️ Herbal Gut Health | Featuring Maria Noël Groves - Video Version ~~~ Mountain Rose Herbs is a purveyor of the highest quality organically grown herbs and spices, teas, essential oils, & botanical goods. You can find our organic botanical offerings on MountainRoseHerbs.com. 📖 Request a FREE copy of our 2026 Printed Journal to be shipped straight to your door! 📖 Join our community! Subscribe to the Mountain Rose Herbs newsletter Subscribe to Mountain Rose Herbs on YouTube Follow on Instagram Like on Facebook Follow on Pinterest Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok 🌿 Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. 🌿
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    53 mins
  • Lāʻau: Hawaiian Flora with Keya Kai Guimarães | Tea Talks with Jiling

    Lāʻau: Hawaiian Flora with Keya Kai Guimarães | Tea Talks with Jiling
    Jan 9 2026

    This week on Tea Talks with Jiling, we are joined by Keya Kai Guimarães. Keya is a community herbalist, lei-maker, and crafter of aromatic plant medicines, born beneath the fragrant Ponderosa pines of Colorado and shaped by the rain-kissed beauty of Kauaʻi. Honoring her Irish, Chinese, and Polynesian ancestry, Keya walks a path of listening to the land— approaching the botanical realm as both pilgrim and apprentice. For the past ten years, her herbal focus has been on women's health and hormonal transitions— from menarche to menopause— using plant-based remedies, seasonal wellness coaching, and lei-making as a living healing art.

    Listen in as Keya and Jiling discuss:

    • Apprenticing with the plants
    • Hawaiian lei and hula traditions
    • How lei-making relates to herbal medicine
    • Botanomancy and how to play with Keya's newest project, the "Lāʻau: Hawaiian Flora" card game and book of monographs

    Visit Keya Kai Guimarães at:

    🌺 Website: EcoTone Kaua`i

    🃏 Lāʻau: Hawaiian Flora card game & book of monographs

    📱Instagram @ecotonekauai & @keyaflowerandfern

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    🪷Jiling Lin is an acupuncturist and herbalist in Coastal Southern California. A clinician and teacher, Jiling is also a passionate traveler, artist, and adventurer. Visit Jiling at JilingLin.com— and get her free Nourishing Life (養生) template and Five Phases (五行) outline. Join her newsletter for seasonal beauty— and fresh updates about her coming book! (Publication 2027/ 2028)

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    Mountain Rose Herbs is a purveyor of the highest quality organically grown herbs and spices, teas, essential oils, & botanical goods. You can find our organic botanical offerings on MountainRoseHerbs.com.

    📖 Request a FREE copy of our 2026 Printed Journal shipped straight to your door!

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    48 mins
  • Best of 2025 | Herbal Radio

    Best of 2025 | Herbal Radio
    Jan 3 2026

    2025 was a big year for Herbal Radio! To bring the year to a close, this special episode will take us on a trip down memory lane to revisit some of the most educational, inspiring, and thought-provoking conversations we've had the honor of sharing with you all this year.

    Thank you so much for tagging along with us each week to explore the vast and vibrant world of herbalism. From the entire Herbal Radio family, we hope you have a wonderful New Year!

    Check out the full interviews from the excerpts featured in this episode below! ⬇️

    1. The Generosity of Plants, with Rosemary Gladstar | Tea Talks with Jiling
    2. Breathe in the Wild, Exhale the Worry | Featuring Jesse Wolf Hardin
    3. Co-Creating with Nature, with Pam Montgomery | Tea Talks with Jiling
    4. Affrilachian Herbalism: Women of Color Herbalists of the South | Featuring Lucretia VanDyke
    5. Leading the Future of Farming by Example | Featuring Elise & Jeff Higley
    6. Mirrors in the Earth, with Asia Suler | Tea Talks with Jiling

    Don't forget to check out the honorably mentioned interviews too! ⬇️

    1. Herbs in Every Season | Featuring Bevin Cohen
    2. Art that Breathes, with Tony(a) Lemos | Tea Talks with Jiling
    3. Planting Medicine Now and Then, with Renée Camila & Sam Roberts | Tea Talks with Jiling
    4. Fermentation School, with Kirsten Shockey | Tea Talks with Jiling

    🌿 More of a visual learner? Check out the video episode below! 🌿

    Best of 2025 | Herbal Radio - YouTube

    *Due to relaunching video interviews mid-way through the year, not all interviews mentioned in the episode will have a video.

    Mountain Rose Herbs is a purveyor of the highest quality organically grown herbs and spices, teas, essential oils, & botanical goods. You can find our organic botanical offerings on MountainRoseHerbs.com.

    📖 Pre-order a FREE copy of our 2026 Printed Journal releasing in January!

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    50 mins
  • Animism & Alchemy Pt. 2 | Featuring Maureen (Mo) Judith

    Animism & Alchemy Pt. 2 | Featuring Maureen (Mo) Judith
    Dec 23 2025
    "If you want to have a relationship with the more than human world, you have to spend time in the more than human world." – Mo Judith This week on Everything You Didn't Know About Herbalism, we are once again joined by the Earth-centered herbalist who bottles the alchemical intelligence of plants through the spagyric process, Mo Judith. Join Tommy and Mo for this special PART TWO episode as they expand on: The Tri Prima (three essentials) of spagyrics: soul, spirit, body Spagyrics being about curiosity and humility, not hierarchyThe spagyric process expanding beyond tincturesHonoring plants by using all its partsDosage differences in spagyrics tinctures As always, we thank you for joining us on another botanical adventure and are so honored to have you tag along with us on this ride. Remember, we want to hear from you! Your questions, ideas, and who you want to hear from are an invaluable piece to our podcast. Email us at podcast@mountainroseherbs.com to let us know what solutions we should uncover next within the vast world of herbalism. 🎥 Check out Mo's video interview here! - https://youtu.be/4rzvUJmK1c4 Learn more about Mo below! ⬇️ 🌿 Maureen (Mo) Judith was raised closely to the natural world and was shaped by the quiet intelligence of plants, ecosystems, and wilderness from an early age. She became a life-long student of nature and an advocate for the rights of nature and the more-than-human world. Mo began to study herbalism in her teenage years, which led her to travel the world at 18 in pursuit of broadening her understanding of life and those who inhabited this earth. Drawn not only to local ecologies but also the ways life expresses itself across the globe, Mo spent around 5 years traveling and hitchhiking around the world, seeking to learn from the Earth and those who still spoke her language. Today, Mo runs Aura La Voura, a project, laboratory, and brand dedicated to alchemical herbalism, spagyrics and right-relationship with the earth. Their work scratches the surface of a new kind of research—one that bridges wisdom and soul with modern science and chemistry. Mo currently donates a portion of profits to foundations dedicated to reforestation and coral rejuvenation. "Aura La Voura aims to contribute to a greater shift—where healing is not just personal, but planetary." ⚗️ Learn more about the spagyric process! ⚗️ Aura La Voura | What is a Spagyric? 🌎 Learn more about animism! 🌎 Aura La Voura | What is Animism? 🧪 Shop Mo's line of hand-crafted spagyrics! 🧪 Aura La Voura | Shop All 📓 Check out Mo's hands-on learning opportunities! 📓 Aura La Voura | Class with Mo ~ Mountain Rose Herbs is a purveyor of the highest quality organically grown herbs and spices, teas, essential oils, & botanical goods. You can find our organic botanical offerings on MountainRoseHerbs.com. 📖 Pre-order a FREE copy of our 2026 Printed Journal releasing in January! 📖 Join our community! Subscribe to the Mountain Rose Herbs newsletter Subscribe to Mountain Rose Herbs on YouTube Follow on Instagram Like on Facebook Follow on Pinterest Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok 🌿 Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. 🌿
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    48 mins
  • Animism & Alchemy Pt. 1 | Featuring Maureen (Mo) Judith

    Animism & Alchemy Pt. 1 | Featuring Maureen (Mo) Judith
    Dec 23 2025
    "Alchemy is the biodynamic system that recognizes the soul and intelligence within the chemical reaction." – Mo Judith This week on Everything You Didn't Know About Herbalism, we are joined by the Earth-centered herbalist who bottles the alchemical intelligence of plants through the spagyric process, Mo Judith. Join Tommy and Mo as they explore: Consciousness expanding beyond human consciousnessSpagyric tinctures vs. botanical tincturesSeparation and recombination to build wholenessPerceiving life through animism: nothing is inanimateAlchemy bridging the gap between science and spirituality As always, we thank you for joining us on another botanical adventure and are so honored to have you tag along with us on this ride. Remember, we want to hear from you! Your questions, ideas, and who you want to hear from are an invaluable piece to our podcast. Email us at podcast@mountainroseherbs.com to let us know what solutions we should uncover next within the vast world of herbalism. 🎥 Check out Mo's video interview here! - https://youtu.be/gyUQo7whs2A Learn more about Mo below! ⬇️ 🌿 Maureen (Mo) Judith was raised closely to the natural world and was shaped by the quiet intelligence of plants, ecosystems, and wilderness from an early age. She became a life-long student of nature and an advocate for the rights of nature and the more-than-human world. Mo began to study herbalism in her teenage years, which led her to travel the world at 18 in pursuit of broadening her understanding of life and those who inhabited this earth. Drawn not only to local ecologies but also the ways life expresses itself across the globe, Mo spent around 5 years traveling and hitchhiking around the world, seeking to learn from the Earth and those who still spoke her language. Today, Mo runs Aura La Voura, a project, laboratory, and brand dedicated to alchemical herbalism, spagyrics and right-relationship with the earth. Their work scratches the surface of a new kind of research—one that bridges wisdom and soul with modern science and chemistry. Mo currently donates a portion of profits to foundations dedicated to reforestation and coral rejuvenation. "Aura La Voura aims to contribute to a greater shift—where healing is not just personal, but planetary." ⚗️ Learn more about the spagyric process! ⚗️ Aura La Voura | What is a Spagyric? 🌎 Learn more about animism! 🌎 Aura La Voura | What is Animism? 🧪 Shop Mo's line of hand-crafted spagyrics! 🧪 Aura La Voura | Shop All 📓 Check out Mo's hands-on learning opportunities! 📓 Aura La Voura | Class with Mo ~ Mountain Rose Herbs is a purveyor of the highest quality organically grown herbs and spices, teas, essential oils, & botanical goods. You can find our organic botanical offerings on MountainRoseHerbs.com. 📖 Pre-order a FREE copy of our 2026 Printed Journal releasing in January! 📖 Join our community! Subscribe to the Mountain Rose Herbs newsletter Subscribe to Mountain Rose Herbs on YouTube Follow on Instagram Like on Facebook Follow on Pinterest Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok 🌿 Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. 🌿
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    50 mins
  • Planting Medicine Now and Then, with Renée Camila & Sam Roberts | Tea Talks with Jiling

    Planting Medicine Now and Then, with Renée Camila & Sam Roberts | Tea Talks with Jiling
    Dec 5 2025
    Please enjoy today's Tea Talk with Renée Camila and Sam Roberts, co-founders of Now and Then Herb School and co-producers of the Planting Medicine podcast and radio show on 94.1 KPFA! The Now and Then Herb School focuses on guiding modern herbalism to old magic within a social justice framework. 🌻 Renée Camila is the daughter of Nicaraguan immigrants, and she is dedicated to the empowerment and healing offered by ancestral medicines through a decolonial lens. Her practice draws from her Mediterranean and Indigenous (Chorotega) ancestry and includes nearly a decade of clinical energetic herbalism, traditional birthwork, and folk education. 🪻Sam Roberts is a gay, white, non-binary triple virgo living on unceded S'Klallam land on the northern Olympic Peninsula. Sam is a practicing energetic herbalist, medicine maker, educator and plant tender with over two decades of experience working with herbal medicine to tend to the health and healing of clients and community. Using herbs, plant spirit medicine, nutrition, and ritual Sam works to steward their clients back to health, vitality, center and a sense of belonging within the world. Renée, Sam, and Jiling discuss: How herbalism is ancestral medicineDecolonizing herbalismCourting plants as peopleIntentionally building relationships with more-than-human beings— or, magic.Hear stories about rose, oats, rosemary, and more in our inspiring conversation! Learn more about Renée and Sam's work together at: ✏️ School: https://www.nowandthenherbschool.com 📻 Radio: https://kpfa.org/program/planting-medicine 📸 IG @nowandthenherbschool Visit Renée Camila at: 💻 Website: https://www.reneecamila.com 🌿 BIPOC Collective: https://www.seedsofancestralrenewal.com/siskiyou 📰 Newsletter: https://www.reneecamila.com/newsletter 📸 IG: https://www.instagram.com/layerbabuenaherbs 🦋 Bluesky: @reneecamila.bsky.social Visit Sam Roberts at: 💻 Website: www.homeandhearthherbs.com 🪷Jiling Lin is an acupuncturist and herbalist in coastal southern California. A clinician and teacher, Jiling is also a passionate traveler, artist, and adventurer. Visit Jiling at JilingLin.com— and get her free Nourishing Life (養生) template and Five Phases (五行) outline. Join her newsletter for seasonal beauty— and fresh updates about her coming book! (Publication 2027/ 2028) ~~~ Mountain Rose Herbs is a purveyor of the highest quality organically grown herbs and spices, teas, essential oils, & botanical goods. You can find our organic botanical offerings on MountainRoseHerbs.com. Join our community!Subscribe to the Mountain Rose Herbs newsletter Subscribe to Mountain Rose Herbs on YouTube Follow on Instagram Like on Facebook Follow on Pinterest Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok 🌿 Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. 🌿
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    46 mins
  • Mirrors in the Earth, with Asia Suler | Tea Talks with Jiling

    Mirrors in the Earth, with Asia Suler | Tea Talks with Jiling
    Nov 21 2025
    This week on Tea Talks with Jiling, we are joined by Asia Suler. Asia is an herbalist and earth intuitive, the author of Mirrors in the Earth, and host of Remember Why You Are Here. She began her journey after years of chronic pain and illness and has guided over 100,000 students through her online programs, where she helps people embrace their own unique medicine through joyful engagement with the natural world. Join Asia and Jiling as they discuss: Intuitive plant medicineHow high sensitivity overlaps with herbalism"Integrating the charge" from Hurricane HeleneRebuilding our inner ecology Listen until the end to hear Asia read an excerpt from her book Mirrors in the Earth about the Reishi Tree! 🪻Visit Asia Suler at: 💻 Website: Asia Suler 📱 Facebook: Asia Suler 📸 Instagram @asiasuler 🎥 Youtube @AsiaSuler 🎙️ Podcast: Remember Why You Are Here 📍Substack: Asia Suler 📓 Book: Mirrors in the Earth 🌿 Intuitive Plant Medicine Course 🌎 Earth Healing Archetype Quiz ~~~ 🪷 Jiling Lin is an acupuncturist and herbalist in coastal southern California. A clinician and teacher, Jiling is also a passionate traveler, artist, and adventurer. Visit Jiling at JilingLin.com— and get her free Nourishing Life (養生) template and Five Phases (五行) outline. Join her newsletter for seasonal beauty— and fresh updates about her coming book! (Publication 2027/ 2028) ~~~ Mountain Rose Herbs is a purveyor of the highest quality organically grown herbs and spices, teas, essential oils, & botanical goods. You can find our organic botanical offerings on MountainRoseHerbs.com. Join our community!Subscribe to the Mountain Rose Herbs newsletter Subscribe to Mountain Rose Herbs on YouTube Follow on Instagram Like on Facebook Follow on Pinterest Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok 🌿 Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. 🌿
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    52 mins