Keri is a mom of two, home herbalist, yoga teacher, and mental health therapist. Throughout her adulthood, herbs have played a huge role in her self care and now her entire family’s wellbeing as well.
Herbs are for everyone, especially babies and children! Learn ways to incorporate herbs into your family's daily life with herbal medicines, healing foods and topical potions. Leave with more wisdom - recipes, resources and more.
Amelia is a folk herbalist with a passion for nourishing the sacred and wild relationship between people and plants. She draws from her year's spent apprenticing and studying under teachers of The Wise Woman Tradition of Healing, Nutritional Therapy, Restorative Yoga and Meditation Practices & the Earth herself. Guided by muses and curiosities in life, Amelia creates spaces that blend both the practical and the mystical so that you can experience the deliciousness of being both deeply grounded and wildly expansive as you remember and reclaim the sacred wisdom that is alive in you.
Are you ready to meet your next plant bestie? Gather for a chat about how to deepen relationship with the wisdom of the natural world. Explore how meeting a plant somatically and spiritually through language, meditation and intentional presence awakens within us a remembrance that the plants are our ancient and vibrant teachers.
Cristy is the Co Founder of Elements Learning Collaborative, a local, holistic, nature based educational non-profit, educator, and nature enthusiast with a mission to bring holistic nature based education to our southcoast community. She is also a woman, mother, life long learner and educator. I’m inspired, wowed, and grounded by the natural world.
At Herb Fest Cristy will be guiding participants through Open-Ended Nature Inspired Process Art. Enjoy art materials, tools & wild flowers for Herb Fest visitors to sit and enjoy shadow sketching, water colors, and more. Ground and balance through play and exploration with plants & water color.
Your local faerie godmother and stitch witch here, offering one-of-a-kind wearable creations to help you express your full self! Discover lovingly reclaimed second-hand gems transformed with plant dye and cut into playful silhouettes fit for dragons and unicorns...
The Faerest Realm offers handcrafted goods and enchanted experiences inspired by the Fae and the forest, from plant-dyed silks and shimmering potions to woodland rituals and seasonal gatherings. Each creation is a portal, inviting you to remember your magic + deepen relationship with the kingdom of Nature.
Lindsay Days is a Sound Healer, Reiki Master and Yoga Instructor. She did her Yoga Teacher Training locally at Power and Grace Yoga Studio. Lindsay has a small buisness called Heart in Harmony where she offers Reiki and Sound Healing treatments at her office at The Healing Trauma Center in New Bedford. She teaches yoga at The Marion Yoga Loft and The Mattapoisett Wellness Center.
Come experience a serene and deeply restorative Sound Bath on the field of Haskell Garden. It will begin with a Bio-Scalar Meditation inviting the energy of nature into the body to calm the nervous system, connect with our breath and enjoy the soothing resonant beat of the shaman drum. This will be followed by Lindsay playing her chakra attuned crystal bowls. The vibration of the bowls flows through the water in our bodies providing healing on the cellular level. Feel free to bring a yoga mat, blankets, or pillows to make yourself comfortable during this 60 minute savasana.
Introducing Maggie, a generous, nurturing, and incredibly caring human being. Maggie has been on a healing plant path for 20+ years, studying with many teachers, in many healing traditions. As an Herbalist she knows that always and forever, the plants themselves are the true teachers and guides for her healing and the healing she share with others
Stroll along the wild edges of Haskell Gardens with Maggie and identify edible and medicinal plants. We share our region and ecosystem with a variety of edible and medicincal plants. Learn how to identify these plants during this interactive and informative class. For the edible plants that are discovered, recipes will be shared, so you can discover how to consume on your own. Questions are highly encouraged and hearing your uses and recipes we see are most welcomed!
Join Emily in a choice-based movement practice grounded in land, ritual, and plant medicine, accessible to all bodies. Rooted in Native practices and teachings gifted to Emily from Indigenous elders and relatives (Tsimshian, Lakota, and Cherokee to name a few), this sacred pause will invite inquiry and engagement with the land of our own bodies in a way that centers relationship, reciprocity and curiosity, while honoring our unique and collective experiences of this moment.
Emily Lapolice is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga-Facilitator (TCTSY-F), author, educator, and faculty member at the Center for Trauma and Embodiment in Boston, MA. She has been a psychotherapist for 20 years, specializing in complex and intergenerational trauma, perinatal mental health, and evidence culture-based embodiment practices. Emily holds ancestral lineage with the Mi’kmaq and Huron-Wendat First Nations Tribes of Eastern Canada, and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and holds great reverence to the teachings and ways of being that have been gifted to her.
Melodie is devoted to supporting others in deepening their connection to themselves, spirit and nature. She studies what her heart is called to and takes an embodied approach to teaching. Melodie will also be teaching Plants for Pleasure at Wild Heart Herb Fest!
She will offer hand crafted artisanal products such as plant dyed silks, hand dipped candles, and skin + body care. These products are brought to you with deep devotion to the earth and its medicines. Ingredients are homegrown and lovingly wildcrafted or sourced to the best of abilities.
I am Soraya-mother, sister, daughter, and friend. I walk as a maternal nurturer, an indigenous midwife in training, and a Birthkeeper. I founded Sacred Birthing Village as a maternal restorative sanctuary for community care and birth justice, a place where mothers and families can be held in their sacred journey. Through the Maternal Nurturing Collective, I serve in the ancient work of ushering mothers and families through childbirth as a rite of passage, catching, honoring, and witnessing them in their rebirth. At my heart, I am an alchemist, always unlearning and remembering, integrating and embodying what it means to tend to life. I believe motherhood/ parenthood and family constellations are a divine, co-creative responsibility, a blueprint given to us to thrive, and a sacred calling I’ve been entrusted to walk with others.
Curating a communal immersion into the alchemy of the womb as the source of our medicine. Through breath, movement, story, and shared witnessing, we will remember the medicine we each carry and how to walk with it in these times. We will end with a gentle closing of the bones ceremony, sealing the circle and sending each person forth rooted, reset, and renewed.
At Stoned Wick Company, we’re more than just candles — we’re a whole vibe. Created with love and intention, our all-natural candles are designed to develop rituals that feel grounding, fun, and a little rebellious.
The candle maker + blogger behind the scenes at Stoned Wick Co. Brandy has been hand-pouring candles since 2016. She created this business because she wants to share her love of self-care and honest conversations. She is a free-spirited wife + mother who is enjoying the journey as a cannabis enthusiast.
Abigail Rose Clarke is the author of the international bestseller Returning Home to Our Bodies: Reimagining the Relationship Between Our Bodies and the World and The Body Oracle Deck: 80 Invitations for Rediscovering Enchantment With Your Body and the Living World. A distinguished somatic educator and facilitator with a rich background in movement studies and embodied healing practices, her work centers on reconnecting individuals to their bodily wisdom as a means to foster personal and collective transformation.
The body is an oracle, full of magic and wisdom. Learning our own physiology as embodied poetry opens us to this magic we carry within us, in our own cells and tissues. In this workshop, you'll be guided into a somatic meditation that opens you to the potency of your own body as an oracle. We will be using The Body Oracle Deck, my own newly published deck.
Wild Heart Herb House is an important part of this deck's origin story, and it is an honor to bring it back here in its full and colorful glory. Brightly soulful and deeply rooted, The Body Oracle Deck is a somatic invitation to awe and wonder, a homecoming to nature and the body, and an antidote to despair.
Many of you know Mary as a teacher, mentor, and prominent figure in our local herbalism community. Mary founded Farmacy Herbs 20 years ago and has been practicing herbalism since the 1990's. Mary has taught herbalism and farming at various local businesses, hospitals, events, universities, high schools, nursing homes, elementary schools, conferences, and for special interest groups and non-profits, locally and around the world.
Join Mary as she discusses her new hot tintcure method for making potent medicinal herbal extractions. In the Hot Tincture Method, the water part and alcohol part are extracted separately. The water part gets heated / decocted, and the alcohol is blended and cold extracted. Yes like a double extraction mushroom tincture.. but for EVERY tincture!
You do not want to miss this opportunity to learn from a herbal legend with a heart of gold and hear what I'm sure will be heartwarming + hilarious stories!
Flower Mood is a seasonally inspired apothecary created in rhythm with nature, created by herbalist Melanie Houghton. Organically grown herbs are sourced at their peak from local farms, gardens, and sustainably minded companies. Everything is intentionally made in Massachusetts.
At Herb Fest Melanie will be offering plant-based elixirs, tea, and body care products such as salves, oils, body butter.
Christin has been fermenting food for 2 decades, and some of her ferments have been alive for almost as long! A student of the non-credo macrobiotic philosophy, Christin believes in learning through lived experience. After many years of studying the energy of food and natural health, she created her Eating with the Elements online course about the energetics of food and the changing seasons. She also teaches classes and workshops on crystals and nine star ki astrology. Get to know her on instagram @thatritzylife
If you are attending Herbfest, you probably already see the medicinal plants around you as part of your more-than-human community. But what about the life you can't see? Fermented food is teeming with life! And yes, they actually live in communities! Learn about fermentation, why it happens, and how you can incorporate this incredible part of nature into your own eating habits for better health!
Melinda is a seer, a poet and a guide for women on the heart-led path. She is devoted to a life of love, beauty and real magic. Melinda holds multiple certifications in Yoga, Reiki (2) and Oracle Reading, along with many other attunements and gifts thanks to her spiritual mentors and teachers. She loves journaling, ecstatic dance and working with flower essences.
Experience for yourself a tool for channeling messages of the Diving Love through the Oracle Readings with Energy Healing from Melinda. These readings are medicine for the heart, offering the receiver the gifts of clarity and personal empowerment.
Maggie is a RI based Herbalist and product maker. Being an herbal educator, having a background in nursing, combined with recent training in yoga and mediation are the things that keep Maggie happy and healthy. Maggie’s Healing Path was created to share all of these pieces with customers, students and clients.
During the Wild Heart Herb Fest Maggie will be teaching an Edible + Medicinal Plant Walk class along the along the wild edges of Haskell Gardens. She will also be offering hand-made herbal apothecary items such as teas, skin care, massage products and more. Adaptogen & ImmuneSupport Electuaries are my newest & very popular addition to my apothecary!
Hi! I’m Crystal and I craft herbal remedies from the herbs in my garden and herbs found in our local surrounding area. My wish for you is that you find safety and ease in my offerings for your every day life. I would love to talk about how herbs can help you not only feel good, but to help you thrive in your day to day. Come say hi!
At Herb Fest I will be offering herbal remedies from the herbs in my garden including tinctures, salves, and oils. I’ll also have house plants, smudge sticks, limited crystals, and random herbal bath and body items.
Keegan is a local artist to the Southcoast, who focuses on blending creativity with sustainability and play. Her work celebrates the magic of artistic expression, while inspiring others to embrace both joy + environmental responsibility!
Magick Crafts Curio Shop offers unique, hand made tie-dye in a variety of styles, sizes and colors. The clothing is made with up-cycled materials from local thrift and donation centers, actively working against excess clothing waste.
