HerbMentor Radio

Wild Fermentation with Sandor Katz

Explore fermented foods with wild fermentation expert Sandor Katz. Sandor is author of Wild Fermentation and The Revolution Will Not be Microwaved. Learn about fermented pickles, a fermented sauerkraut recipe, fermented vegetables, homemade yogurt secrets, kefir, how to make beet kvass and more.

Herbalist Gail Faith Edwards, author of Opening Our Wild Hearts to the Healing Herbs

Gail Faith Edwards is author of Traversing the Wild Terrain of Menopause; Herbal Allies for Midlife Women and Men and Opening Our Wild Hearts to the Healing Herbs. Through the Wild Heart of Mary; Teachings of the 20 Mysteries of the Rosary and the Herbs and Foods Associated with Them debuts mid-November, 2009. Gail Edwards runs Blessed Maine Herb Farm, where she runs many herbal programs and a correspondence course.

Wild Edible Plants with Linda Runyon

Wild foods expert Linda Runyon rejoins HerbMentor radio for a 90 minute wild edible plants walk. Linda is author of the Essential Wild Foods Survival Guide and dvd. She also design Wild Cards, a deck of wild edible plant playing cards. We cover lamb’s quarter, and how to make flour. Also, dandelions (and dandelion french fries!), red clover, cattail and milk weed. We even take a trip to the Southwest to visit prickly pear cactus and tumbleweed.

A Walk with herbalist Jim McDonald

If you ever spent time on Henriette’s herb forum or the Herbwifery forum, then you may know Jim McDonald. He also gives herb walks at many conferences, including the International Herb Symposium. Jim is an herbalist living in Michigan.

Natural Women’s Health with Amanda McQuade Crawford

Amanda McQuade Crawford answers many question on natural women’s health. Amanda is author of Herbal Remedies for Women and a new book entitled Natural Menopause. Amanda is a founding member of the American Herbalist Guild, and has a tv show called “What a Relief” on Veria.

Get Wealthy First with William Wittmann

Get Wealthy First with William Wittmann, who is a holistic therapist. William has assisted people of all ages in strengthening their gifts and talents and helped them to believe in and bring out their native genius. He is author of Simply Serene and the Magic Formula. Get a behind the scenes glimpse at HerbMentor.com.

Aviva Romm: Herbs for Children

Aviva Romm author of Naturally Healthy Babies and Children, is president of the American Herbalist Guild. We cover herbs for children and many other home remedy and herbal medicine questions.

Tom Elpel: Botany in a Day and Wild Edible Plants

Tom Elpel, director of Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School and author of Botany in a Day, discusses how to learn about plants via plant families. Also, wild edible plants, living close to the land and other topics related to basic botany.

Dina Falconi: Earth Bodies and Heavenly Hair

Dina Falconi, author of Earthly Bodies and Heavenly Hair, discuss all sorts of herbal remedy information. Herbal hair care, herbal skin care, eczema remedies, and much more.

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Natural First Aid with 7Song

7Song is director of the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine in Ithaca, NY. He is also a teacher at the California School of Herbal Studies. In this interview we discuss herbal first aid, natural first aid, an herbal first aid kit, and his work at the Rainbow Gathering and other public service.

Fermented Foods with Maria Atwood, in the tradition of Sally Fallon and Weston Price

Maria Atwood is author of Cooking Your Way to Wellness, which covers fermented foods in the tradition of Sally Fallon and Nourishing Traditions, and Weston Price. Wild fermentation, as discussed in Sandor Katz’s book is discussed too.

Herbal Energetics with Lesley Tierra, author of Kid’s Herb Book and Healing with the Herbs of Life

Lesley Tierra, author of A Kids’ Herb Book and Healing with the Herbs of Life, discusses herbal energetics. Lesley Tierra and her husband Michael Tierra run the East West School of Herbology at planetherbs.com. They also make Planetary Forumulas herbal remedies.

David Hoffmann: Author of New Holistic Herbal

David Hoffmann is author of the New Holistic Herbal and The Herbal Handbook. He practices medical herbalis, and in on the faculty of the California School of Herbal Studies and is on staff at Traditional Medicinals. This excellent podcast interview covers David Hoffmann’s outlook on herbs and herbalism.

Harvesting herbs with United Plant Savers Betzy Bancroft

United Plant Savers Betzy Bancroft discusses harvesting herbs sustainably. Herb harvesting, gathering herbs, wildcrafting and other important United Plant Saver and herb harvesting topics.

Jon Young, founder of Wilderness Awareness School

Jon Young is founder of Wilderness Awareness School, and in this interview he discusses a rare topic for him…plants and native uses of plants. Jon Young was trained by tracker Tom Brown Jr., and is an expert in animal tracking and wilderness survival skills.

WIld Edibles with Karen Sherwood of Earthwalk Northwest

Karen Sherwood of Earthwalk Northwest and I discuss wild edible plants, wild food recipes, edible plants, how to gather herbs safely, wildcrafting and much more.

Kiva Rose: Bioregional Herbalism

Kiva Rose is director of the Anima Center, and an herbalist in the Medicine Woman Tradition, Kiva Rose is also director of the Anima Center in New Mexico. We discuss bioregional herbalism, how to learn about herbs, an herbal remedy for sunburn, and we discuss Kiva Rose’s new book.

Susun Weed Interview

Susun Weed, author of Healing Wise and many books in the Wise Woman Tradition is interviewed about herbal medicine, herbal infusions, how to learn about herbs and more. Susan Weed has a unique perspective, and this interview with Susan Weed goes into depth about how to use herbs.

Sea Vegetables, Seaweed Recipes with James Jungwirth

This podcast features James Jungwirth as he talks about sea vegetables. He also discusses various seaweed recipes and kelp recipes, making use of seaweed, nori, dulse and other sea vegetables. James Jungwirth is from Nature Spirit Herbs and is a student of Ryan Drum.

Stephen Buhner Interview: Herbs and foods that heal

Stephen Buhner talks about foods that heal, food as medicine, info on kitchen medicine, herbal antibiotics, and sacred plant medicine. Stephen Buhber is the author of “The Secret Teachings of Plants, Herbs for Hepatitis C and the Liver, Healing Lyme, The Lost Language of Plants, Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation.