Links & Resources
We're going to start out here with links that take you to useful resources. If there is a commercial link it is because we feel it would be of good service to our members or they have helped mentor us in some way on this site. Please do not contact us for link exchanges. This is useful & meaningful list, and not a bunch of web sites who traded for higher Google rankings.
Contact me if you find a site that should be here. We will certainly be researching and adding to this.
Web Resources
HerbMentor Radio Guests & Close Friends
Schools & Correspondence Courses
Bulk herbs and herbal products from our community
Herbs, remedies, books, supplies, seeds, etc..
Mountain Rose Herbs
Medicinal herb starts
Crimson Sage (I met Tina last summer and she grows amazing herbs.)
Horizon Herbs
Seeds, plants, and much more for medicinal herb gardens from Horizon Herbs
The Essential Herbal
Tina Sams' awesome magazine. Please supprt Tina, for she does a lot to support us.
All Goode Gifts
Karen Mallinger, another huge helper in the Forums, sells these wonderful products
Nature Spirit Herbs
James & Kara Jungwirth's high quality sea vegetables, herbs, and remedies.
Australians!
Many of you Aussies get your Kit herbs confiscated by customs, so you can get them here.
Pacific Botanicals, bulk herbs
Extremely high quality bulk herbs at Pacific Botanicals
Herbal Com
Another quality bulk herb site recommended by members
Herbal Resources
Christopher Hobb's...
Herbal Presciber Database. This is cool.
Dr. James Duke
Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
Dr. Sharol Tilgner
Dr. Tilgner has been a huge supporter of this site. She is generous with her research, and these lists are directly from her book, Herbal Medicine From the Heart of the Earth.
Herbs Listed by Common Name
Herbs Listed by Botanical Name
A Modern Herbal, a classic by Mrs. M. Grieve online
at Botanical.com
Poisons & Antidotes
at Botanical.com
Wildcrafting guidelines
By Howie Brounstein, wildcrafter at large...
I like Howie's Links page
All sorts of photos, illustrations, classic texts and more...
Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
Videos of medicinal plants
Go here for a huge list of videos at Michael Moore's site
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Center
An excellent botanical resource.
Herb Information Green Papers
at herbs.org
Herbal News
at herbs.org
Articles & recipes using Chinese Herbs
at Chinese Herbal Recipes
Paul Bergner has some great links and resource at...
MedHerb
Celebrating Wildflowers Coloring Books
Learn by coloring! :)
For you techie herbalists...
The Tincture Calculator
Dr. Christopher's Articles
HerbalLegacy.com
Henriette's Amazing Site...loads of info
HenriettesHerbal.com
Plant databases and the like
United Plant Savers
Their AT RISK and TO WATCH lists of endangered plants. Other info as well.
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (images, etc...)
The PLANTS database
An encyclopedia of plants and gardening
Botany.com
TROPICOS
This is cool
U.W. Madison Department of Botanty
More for your research needs
NatureServe
Rare plant info, etc for your area
Native American Ethnobotany
Database from the University of Michigan
Health Resources
The coolest dang site for simply teaching you about the Body
GetBodySmart.com
University of Maryland Medical Center (includes some natural medicine)
Good for emergency info
Medline
A great "catch all" site. I use it in my acupuncture practice.
Natural Health advice
Mercola.com
Nutrition Resources
Lots of great articles, including myths and truths of nutrition...
Weston Price Foundation
Find local organic and healthful food resources
Eat Well Guide
HerbMentor Radio Guests & Other Close Friends
Celtic Herbs and Heather Nic an Fhleisdeir
Heather from the Village Herbalist
Susun Weed
Visit Susun on the web. Articles, a forum and loads more...
Rosemary Gladstar
Visit Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center & Botanical Sanctuary
Stephen Buhner
Visit Stephen at the Foundation for Gaian Studies
Wildman Steve Brill
Steve has loads of great recipes on his site
Linda Runyon
You MUST visit Linda's site and get her free wild foods PDF newsletter. It's really great.
Earthwalk Northwest
Karen Sherwood's amazing plants and survival skills school. 9 month apprenticeship, wild foods dinners, and their amazing Coastal Foraging class!
Ravencroft Garden
Kimberly and John's most influencial mentors. This is where we learned out stuff. Link to blog.
Wilderness Awareness School
THE place to learn the wilderness arts and BEST non-profit to donate your money to. John worked there for 17 years and still teaches herbal programs. Our son attends their youth programs. THey have a wonderful home study program.
The Essential Herbal
Tina Sams' awesome magazine. Please supprt Tina, for she does a lot to support us.
All Goode Gifts
Karen Mallinger, another huge helper in the Forums, sells these wonderful products
Nature Spirit Herbs
James & Kara Jungwirth's high quality sea vegetables, herbs, and remedies.
Horizon Herbs
Richo Cech and Horizon Herbs: Seeds, plants, and much more.
The Medicine Woman's Roots
Kiva Rose's Blog
Symposiums & conferences
Northwest HerbFest
Herbal Transitions and Sharol Tilgner put this on every summer. It's AWESOME!
American Herbalist Guild
They have a yearly symposium
9th International Herbal Symposium
Celebrating the Healing Power of Plants, June 19th - 21st, 2009. Also at Sage Mountain.... The 21rst Annual Women's Herbal Conference, Aug. 22-24, 2008.
Bastyr Herb & Food Fair
Happens late May, early June every year in the Seattle area. Check this site out around then.
Southwest Conference on Botanical Medicine
Also the Medicines from the Earth Herb Symposium
Southeast Women's Herbal Conference
Happens in the Fall.
Northern California Women’s Herbal Symposium
Happens in multiple sessions. Registration required.
Inaugural Midamerica Herbal Symposium
At St. Mary's University in Winona, MN
Please contact us if you know of more...
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Schools & correspondence courses
Coming soon... For now, here is a link to Mountain Rose Herbs's List of schools & courses...