Herbal Resource Guide

Adventure in Well-Being
Christine Esters
707-545-2423
info@adventureinwellbeing.com
www.adventureinwellbeing.com
3924 Princeton Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Detox spa helping people overcome fatigue, bloating, and constipation. We support you to feel lighter and sexier. Monthly 10 day cleanse.

An Herb for All Seasons
Beth Riedel, AHG, NC
707-874-2922
beth@multitalents.net
PO Box 1612 , Forestville, CA 95436
Herbal, nutritional, flower essence & companion animal consultations since 1985. Workshops include both on-going & 1 day classes with topics from Herbal First Aid to 10 Month Apprenticeship.

Bear Wallow Herbs
Cara Saunders
530-462-4784
cara@bearwallowherbs.com
PO Box 1033
Sawyers Bar, CA 96027
Off-the-grid in remote mountains near Salmon River, CA. Handmade organic herbal tinctures and salves. Homegrown and wildcrafted herbs. Bestseller - Herbal Medicine First Aid kit!

Jane Bell
707-829-1481
earlyspring@mac.com
www.janebellessences.com
PO Box 1701, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Flower essence consultations for humans, animals and houses. Space clearing. Classes ranging from introductory to practitioner training and guest teachers. Happily in practice since 1985.

Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine
Karyn Sanders & Sarah Holmes
530-468-4342
info@blueotterschool.com
www.blueotterschool.com
We teach herbal medicine from a Native American, energetic perspective. We offer a full-time certificate program focused on clinical practices and part time courses all located in the mountains of Northern California.

Blue Wind Botanical Medicine Clinic
Tellur Fenner
510-428-1810
bluewindbmc@gmail.com
www.bluewindbmc.com
823 32nd Street Apt B, Oakland, CA 94608
Urban herbalism at its best! Offering clinical services, a full line of botanical pharmacy products and a unique variety of classes and workshops to the greater San Francisco Bay Area and beyond...

Botanical Preservation Corps
Ben Kamm
orders@botanicalpreservationcorps.com
www.botanicalpreservationcorps.com
PO Box 1368, Sebastopol, CA 95473
Dedicated to the preservation and evolution of human relations with the botanical realm. Exotic herbs, books, recordings, Ethnobotanical Andean tours. For plants/seeds www.sacredsucculents.com

Jen Bredesen, CMT
5775 Vine Hill Road, Sebastopol, CA 95472
(707) 360-7933
jenbredesen@gmail.com
Jen offers her clients herbal & nutritional consultation utilizing Ayurvedic pulse & constitutional assessment, in addition to rejuvenating lymphatic bodywork & other Ayurvedic treatments. She is also an herbal educator & teaches Ayurvedic Perspectives on Western Herbalism, Herbal First Aid, Wholistic Nutrition & Herbal Beer Making. Jen has a private practice at the dhyana Center in Sebastopol.

California School of Herbal Studies
707-887-7457
cshs@cshs.com
www.cshs.com
PO Box 39, Forestville, CA 95436
Located two miles west of Forestville, in beautiful Sonoma County, the California School of Herbal Studies is one of North America's oldest centers for herbal education. Our mission is to help create sustainable communities by providing Earth-centered, community based herbal education. CSHS works to empower individuals with the skills, experience and confidence needed by the community herbalist. We offer full and part time classes - Please call or write for a catalog!

Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm ~ Peggy Schafer
707-765-9611
pschafer@sonic.net
www.chinesemedicinalherbfarm.com
296 Wetmore Lane, Petaluma, CA 94952
Offering organically grown Asian field grown medicinals and seed. Our goal is to grow the highest quality, most efficaceous botanical medicine. Internships available.

Clear and Vibrant Healing Skin Care - Living Earth Flower Essences
All made locally by Sylvia Marie
707-829-1772
clearandvibrant.com
PO Box 1019, Sebastopol, CA 95473
Face cream, body lotion, mask, lip balm, hydrosols, with naturally healing and organic ingredients. No Synthetic preservatives.

Dandelion Herbal Center
Jane Bothwell, Director
707-442-8157
janeb@arcatanet.com
www.dandelionherb.com
4803 Greenwood Heights Drive, Kneeland, CA 95549
Jane Bothwell directs the Dandelion Herbal Center where she provides a variety of herbal classes for beginning and intermediate students and herbal travel adventures around the globe. www.dandelionherb.com.

The dhyana Center of Health Sciences
(707) 823-8818
info@dhyanacenter.com
7740 Atkinson Road, Sebastopol, CA 95472
DeAnna Batdorff is the founder of the dhyana Center as well as its primary educator. Come heal, learn, and grow through the Clinical Ayurvedic Certification.

Evergreen Herb Garden & School of Integrative Herbology
Candis Cantin
530-626-9288
evrgreen@innercite.com
www.evergreenherbgarden.org
POB 1445, Placerville, CA 95667
Integrating Avurveda, Chinese, and Western Herbal Traditions with Herbalist
Candis Cantin -- Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Programs.

Fu Tian Herbs, LLC
1-888-934-3727 toll free
http://futianherbs.com
PO Box 2153, Petaluma, CA 94953
100% certified organic, domestic Chinese herbal extracts. It is our belief that the highest quality, purist ingredients produce the most effective herbal medicine.

Galens Way ~ Matthew Persico
800-742-0848
matthew@galensway.com
www.galensway.com
PO Box 2524, Sebastopol, CA 95473
Medicine maker & manufacturer of herb-rich body care. Unique products formulated with organic oils, plants, and seaweeds for serious—luxurious—skin care. Full line of concentrated herbal extracts (organic alcohol) is available to practitioners.

Go Wild Consulting
Jolie Egert
Fairfax, CA
jolie@gowildconsulting.com
(510) 666-9433
Go Wild Consulting fosters and protects healthy ecosystems that include traditional and sustainable uses by humans.

Harmony Farms
707-823-9125
info@harmonyfarm.com
3244 Highway 116 North, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Organic fertilizers and pest controls; drip irrigation equipment; horticultural tools and books; organic nursery with huge herb and native plant selection and wild flower seeds.

Harmony Healing Center ~ Laurel Brody, L.Ac.
707-829-3658
harmonyhealingcenter@hotmail.com
9051 D Mill Station Road, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Specializing in Women’s Health, 20+ years in practice; Nurturing & Grounded; Lifestyle & Nutritional Counseling; Herbs & Supplements available. Affordable Rates. Beautiful Country Clinic.

Herbal Apothecary
707 -824-0479
PO Box 2514, Sebastopol, CA 95473
A full line herbal pharmacy providing handcrafted medicines for practitioners and the general public. Using organic Western and “clean” Chinese herbs and Demeter certified organic grape alcohol.

Jill Goldreyer
707-291-7059
jillgoldreyer@comcast.net
Jill Goldreyer is a seasoned practitioner offering Plant Spirit Medicine treatments, exquisite massage and Plant Spirit Wisdom seminars. She is located at Sebastopol’s Blossom Healing Center.

Suzie Gruber
707-866-9646
inspiringmovement@earthlink.net
Suzie offers herbal consultations from the Native American energetic perspective. Together we will explore your history, your current lifestyle and your desires in order to inspire you to restore your mind, body, spirit balance. Then we identify & initiate your healing pathway using diet and lifestyle change steps as well as herbs and flower essences. Suzie offers consultations in person and by phone.

Gail Julian
Common Knowledge Herbs
707-829-8923
commonknowledge@comcast.com
Common Knowledge Herbs blends herbal classes, apprenticeships, clinical practice, medicine making, product development with individual study and community sharing. We have much to learn.

Living Awareness Institute ~ Kami McBride
707-446-1290
kami@livingawareness.com
www.livingawareness.com
PO Box 775, Davis, CA 95617
Experiential Herbal Studies with Kami McBride. Herbal instruction E-books, Health Articles and Herb Resources on website: www.livingawareness.com

Laguna Farm
(707) 823-0823
1720 Cooper Road, Sebastopol, CA 95472
We grow organic vegetables and herbs, supplying our CSA (Community Shared Agriculture) subscription program, farm markets, and the Sonoma County Herb Exchange.

Mama Bear Layout & Design - Leila Rand
707-823-3606
infor@mamabeardesigns.com
www.mamabeardesigns.com
Affordable, high-quality web and graphic design for small businesses and non-profits.

Pam Montgomery
Partner Earth Education Center
(802) 293-5996
greenpam@vermontel.net
www.partnereartheducationcenter.com
1525 Danby Mtn. Road, Danby, VT 05739

Napa Valley Botanicals - Terri Toso
territoso@hotmail.com
(707) 664-0768
7139 Carillon Ct., Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Herb starts/seeds, freshly dried herbs/tea blends, healing salve, lip balms, lavender cream, bug repellant, analgesic balm. All herbs grown here!

North Coast Native Nursery
Roanne Kaplow
707-769-1213
roanne@northcoastnativenursery.com

North Rose Botanicals
Cheryl Fromholzer
415-488-1529
nrbotanicals@gmail.com
http://www.northrosebotanicals.com
P. O. Box 261, Woodacre, CA 94901
Holistic health consultations, organic herbal extracts and organic vegan skin care specifically formulated for sensitive, dry, damaged and mature skin.

Northern California Women’s Herbal Symposium
707-824-1429
info@womensherbalsymposium.org
www.womensherbalsymposium.org
Laytonville, CA
Four full days of inspiring Herbal and Sustainable classes for women three times a year. Includes camping, gourmet vegetarian meals, handcrafted marketplace, Rites-of-Passage Ceremonies, campfire, drumming and dancing, swimming, and more!

Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
707-874-1557
OAEC@oaec.org
15290 Coleman Valley Rd., Occidental, CA 95465
A non-profit research demonstration, participatory education center & farm which features hundreds of heirloom varieties of CCOF approved vegetables, flowers & herbs seedlings. Spring & Fall plant sells.

Oak Valley Herb Farm
Kathi Keville
520-265-9552
www.ahaherb.com
PO Box 2482, Nevada City, CA 95959
The American Herb Association and Oak Valley Herb Farm present herb and aromatherapy courses by author Kathi Keville in her Sierra herb gardens. Aromatherapy Seminar (fall), Herbal Medicine Systems Classes (winter), Wild Herb Walks (Spring), Herbal Apprenticeship (Spring-Summer). Kathi's books and quality essential oils and aromatherapy products available on the website.

The Ohlone Herbal Center
510-540-8010
www.ohlonecenter.org
1250 Addison Street, Suite 113, Berkeley, CA 94702
The Ohlone Herbal Center offers a formal Clinical Herbalist training program in two formats: evening classes one day a week and full-time classes 3 days a week. In our clinical training program, students run a community clinic. We also offer community education classes and manage herbal dispensaries for other non-profits.

The Philo School of Herbal Energetics
Mary Pat Palmer, AHG, MA
707-895-3007
www.herbalenergetics.com
PO Box 214, Philo, CA 95466
Mary Pat Palmer, AHG, MA, and Matthew Wood, AHG, MS, offer apprenticeships at all levels. Internationally known guest teachers offer weekend classes.

Rainbow Connection
Karin Uphoff
707-937-2798
karin@rainbowconnection.net
www.rainbowconnection.net
PO Box 978. Mendocino, CA 95460
Karin Uphoff, MS, M.H., author of Botanical Body Care, empowers others to experience vibrant health through connection with the earth, herbal medicine and natural healing.

Rosemary’s Garden
707-829-2539
info@rosemarysgarden.com
www.rosemarysgarden.com
132 N. Main St., Sebastopol, CA 95472
Supplying Northern CA Herbalists since 1972. We answer thousands of questions every year about herbal products. Highest standards for freshness, quality, and best practices. Visit us for answers to your herbal and personal care needs.

Simplers Botanical Company
707-824-5900
office@simplers.com
www.simplers.com
P.O. Box 2534, Sebastopol, CA 95473
An herbalist owned and operated business since 1981. Highest quality therapeutic-grade organic essential oils and herbal extracts, first aid essential oil blends, educational literature. Sonoma County based. Supporting organic distilleries and farms.

The Shamanastary
Mitcho Thompson
707-823-3183
mitcho@theshamanastary.com
www.theshamanastary.com
1959 Gravenstein Hwy South, Sebastopol, CA 95472

Songbird Herbal Cooperative
8280 Old Redwood Hwy.
Cotati, CA 94931
707-478-7274
songbirdcoop@gmail.com
www.songbirdcenter.org
Our herbal program focuses on East-West body systems, local medicines, & the use of herbalism in a clinical setting. We offer all levels, from introduction to a clinical internship. Affordable, sliding scale consultations and herbal bodywork are available to the community. Our pharmacy, supplying largely local, organic medicine, is open Sundays 12-3pm and by appointment. Delivery is available.

Sonoma County Herb Association
707-861-0336
www.sonomaherbs.org
P.O. Box 2162 Sebastopol, CA 95473
We are a local non-profit with the mission of “Fostering respect for the green world and our community through the responsible use and sustainable cultivation of herbs.” Monthly meetings are open to the public and we have a quarterly newsletter. Call for information.

Sonoma County Herb Exchange
707-824-1447
herbexch@sonic.net
The Herb Exchange is a local clearinghouse providing fresh and dry organic herbs directly from grower to herbalist, medicine makers and practitioners. We specialize in hand harvested, top quality, whole herbs and roots. Open to the public, call for catalog.

Stella Flora Botanicals
Ann Wiant-Lyon
707-486-9285
stellaflorabotanicals@hotmail.com
5911 Lone Pine Road, Sebastopl, CA 95472
Healing elixirs, cordials, flower drops and essences, creams and lotions, and personalized body balancing treatments utilizing a variety of modalities and our handmade organic products.

Tonic Teas
Down to Earth Massage
Shannon Williams, Herbalist/CMT
707-829-5019
shannon.caleb@gmail.com
1137 Pine Tree Lane, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Massage and herb education/consultation.

Traditional Medicinals™
1-800-543-4372
www.traditionalmedicinals.com
4515 Ross Road, Sebastopol, CA 95472
For over 30 years Traditional Medicinals® has offered the highest quality, pharmacopoeial grade herbal products. We are committed to using organic ingredients and we follow socially responsible business practices.

Usagi Arts
Jenny Maybee
Kenwood, CA
(707) 282-9029
jenny@usagiarts.com
Shiatsu, acupressure, somatic education and herbal consultation.