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Common Sense Tips for Practicing as a Village Herbalist in Rural America
Here you’ll find a few pointers for both neophyte and tenured herbalists practicing in rural areas based on my own experience. Seeing as my community is a tiny village in the mountains of New Mexico,...
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The Medicine Woman: Returning to Her Roots
The beautiful logo my partner Wolf created for the Medicine Woman Herbal Clinic and for my line of herbal products, Medicine Woman Herbals. I’ve recently opened an office, one day a week, at the new...
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Weeds and Wildlings
Grassroots Herbalism: The Weeds & Wildlings of Folk Medicine by Kiva Rose Mexican Poppy (Eschscholzia californica var. mexicana) Any of ya’ll who’ve been reading The Medicine Woman’s Roots for very...
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The Medicine Woman Mobile Clinic
Friends and clients joined in celebrating the launch of herbalist Kiva Rose’s mobile Village-Herbalist Clinic at her office in Catron County, New Mexico, in a formalizing of her years of providing...
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Herbal Conformism and the Illusion of Normalcy by Jesse Wolf Hardin
Herbal Conformism and the Illusion of Normalcy: A Response to Charles W. Kane from the ‘Freak-Show Field’ by Jesse Wolf Hardin Intro: Charles W. Kane is an experienced clinical herbalist and self...
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Roots Revival: Celebrating the New Folk Herbalism Resurgence
This particular piece is part of a larger project I’m working on for the upcoming issue of Plant Healer: A Journal of Traditional Western Herbalism but something that I feel strongly about sharing with...
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Weedwifery: A Feral Approach to Folk Herbalism
A freeze damaged Opuntia pad The drought withered leaf of Lonicera albiflora With the current drought here in southwestern New Mexico only getting worse right now, I have never been so grateful for...
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Herbalism On the Edge: Walking the Borderlands
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” – Kurt Vonnegut Herbalist. The term can make the role...
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Corazón a Corazón: Exploring Traditional Models of the Healer’s Practice
Excerpted from the Summer 2012 Issue of Plant Healer Magazine Corazón a Corazón: Exploring Traditional Models of the Healer’s Practice by Kiva Rose Hardin Bulgarian folk healer Even after so many years...
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The Witch at the Edge of the Woods: Introversion and Otherness In The Herbalist
by Jilian Tamaki By Kiva Rose ~Originally Published in Plant Healer Magazine~ . “I do not want to be human. I want to be myself. They think I’m a lion, that I will chase them. I will not deny that I...
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