Are you interested in teaching at our event? We accept proposals for classes to our email through October 15 of each year! Please send us a short bio and class description as well as your proposed class length – we offer two hour and one hour workshops at our event.
Jennifer is a botanical and visionary photographer, herbalist and flower essence practitioner with over 45 years of experience teaching plant ways in workshops, conferences and private sessions. She holds a BFA and MFA from Penn State University. Jennifer’s life path changed in 1970 when she met Bill Russell, Keith Wilson and Evelyn Snook and learned wild food foraging and plant medicine ways. She continues following her path and is author of Evelyn’s Ways Cleansing and Nourishing with Plants. Her passion is in co-creating with plants as life-long partners for herself and others. jennifer-tucker.com jenniferanne.tucker@gmail.com
Robert Pacitti is a professional consulting astrologer and the visionary behind Deep Earth Astrology. Specializing in psychological and vibrational techniques, he has honed his craft under the tutelage of mentors Linda Berry, Sarah Fuhro, Margaret Gray, and Yvonne Tarnas. Infusing his practice with a deep connection to nature spirituality, Robert holds the title of Grand Pendragon in the Ancient Order of Druids in America and is the Director of the MAGUS Gathering in Gore, Virginia.
Yasoda is the owner of Trifolia Natural Products and Botanicals, a herbal apothecary and supplier of Earth friendly and land-sourced body care and food items. She is also the Director of the nonprofit Three Leaf Farmden-Synergy Initiatives, which is dedicated to raising consciousness through education, sustainability, utility, and self-realization. She has a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and Parasitology and a Masters in Therapeutic Herbalism, a field she has been steeped in for more than 35 years. As a graduate of the Institute For Applied Spiritual Technology (IFAST) Facilitator’s programme, Yasoda has been a practitioner, educator, and spiritual counselor in the Bhakti yoga tradition for over four decades, and comes from a long-established line of teachers and students in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition. Having travelled widely and after living on three continents, she has made her home in Central Pennsylvania where she instructs interns and conducts workshops on spiritual herbalism. https://www.trifolianaturalproducts.com
Heidi has been crafting herbal remedies for friends and family since 1995. She found her passion and became a professional product maker in 2013, working for the Lancaster Farmacy and then formulating/creating for Maia Toll’s Herbiary. Heidi ventures into the Amazon to create medicine for Dr. Rocio Alarcon annually, continuing her education in the field. She is also attending graduate school for Herbal Product Design and Manufacturing at Notre Dame University of Maryland. She loves creating herbal products to stock people’s home apothecary with her business My Herbal Apothecary
Jessicka is the Senior Marketing Strategist and Herbal Liaison for Mountain Rose Herbs. Her passion is to share the most educational, empowering, and useful resources with the Mountain Rose Herbs community and on her IG account @herbalasfolk. Having practiced Macrobiotic food preparations in California, beekeeping in Oregon, and making herbal crafts for local farmers markets in New Jersey, she has a wide variety of experiences and knowledge to share. Her passions include preserving food, gardening, practicing herbal wellness, making DIY skin and body care recipes, and living a lifestyle of minimal impact on the Earth.
Ecologically hearted, evolutionary minded, and driven by a bone deep desire to decrease the harm of the world, Lu has been serving community through bioregional herbalism since 2015. That’s when many passions and paths converged into
Meraki Farmacy: an organic, regenerative herb farm, formulating in house culturally rooted, preventative and responsive remedies. The Plants and Lu have a tendency to focus on building, nourishing, and supporting the
nervous system while
reconnecting People -> Plants -> Possibilities.
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Website: MerakiFarmacy @MerakiFarmacy
Erin Finzen (she/her) is a bodyworker, herbalist, and soap maker with a deep appreciation for any skill that reconnects us with plants, our hands, and everyday ritual. Years ago she wanted to focus on practices that would allow her to be a producer and not a consumer. Soap making was part of that quest. Her work is rooted in embodied learning, and sustainable practices that honor both the land and the people using the medicine.
Working closely with plant medicines, Erin approaches soap making as an extension of medicine making—an often overlooked but powerful way to bring herbal wisdom into daily life. For her, soap is not just a functional product, but a form of care that bridges herbalism, chemistry, and intentional craft.
Artist and writer, Jennifer informally apprenticed with herbalist Briel Beaty for four years and co-created the first two seasons of Community Supported Herbalism offerings. She continues to study plant kinship and Focusing. Relations with the life around and within are her favorite explorations and dearest treasures. Jennifer works in outreach and development for a community land trust.
Registered nurse turned full-time acupuncturist with a deep passion for healing. Rooted in Taoist philosophy and Five Element Alchemical Acupuncture, Tammy’s approach honors nature’s wisdom—utilizing herbs, body points, and flower essence therapy to restore balance and vitality. Through acupuncture, body movement, and holistic practices, the path to harmony becomes one of deep self-awareness and connection to the body’s innate healing intelligence. Tammy is currently deepening her practice through a mentorship with A New Possibility. Founded by Benjamin Fox and Acupuncturist, Lorie Eve Dechar, author of Five Spirits, Alchemy of Inner Work, and Kigo.
Kristin is an interdisciplinary artist with a love for textiles, bookmaking, and natural dyeing. She is a novice food forager and herbalist. She lives in the central Pennsylvania woods and is often captivated by the beauty and violence of nature’s gifts. She’s looking forward to sharing what she knows about coaxing color from plants.
Dana Driscoll is a Northern Appalaican folk herbalist working in the Traditional Western Herbalism tradition and Co-Founder/Director of the Pennsylvania School of Herbalism. She is also a certified permaculture designer, certified permaculture teacher, writer, and botanical artist residing on a five-acre homestead in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Dana is a graduate of the 2014 Lindera Herbal Intensive with Michigan Folk Herbalist Jim McDonald, and she has continued her herbal education since then by specializing in medicinal mushrooms and crafting wild medicines.
Beatrice has been studying health and natural medicine for over 25 years. Educated and practiced as a Registered Nurse, Beatrice is a certified herbalist specializing in all things women’s health. She completed formal training with herbalist Emily Ruff of Sage Mountain at the Florida School of Holistic Living, as well as functional medicine and sound & vibrational therapies training. She is originally from the Ozark mountain area of Missouri and lives today in southwest Florida with her husband and three daughters, where she practices herbal medicine and more as the owner/operator of her small business, Crone House LLC.
