Wise Herbal Ways

Learn to work with herbs, reclaim knowledge rooted in the land, reconnect with the lineages of wise women, cunning folk, and domestic healers, and rediscover the spiritual traditions of the W.I.S.E Isles — while honouring the wider lineages and migrations of healing knowledge that have shaped them.

This work explores embodiment, restoration after rupture, ancestral ways of knowing, and the living relationships between people, plants, memory, and place.

Together we unravel the history of herbalism in the West — exploring how patriarchy, colonialism, and imperialism shaped, suppressed, and transformed healing traditions over time.

Step into the lineages of wyrtgælstre, wise women and men, folk healers, and household herbalists as we follow the threads of older ways of understanding medicine, spirit, land, and community.

Learn practical herbal knowledge to care for yourself, your family, and your wider community — while deepening your relationship with the more-than-human world.

This work is open to everyone, with particular attention given to the often-hidden histories of women, folk traditions, and the movement of healing knowledge across cultures, migrations, and histories.

Some of the questions I’m interested in exploring more deeply:

• How can we work with herbs in meaningful, effective, and relational ways?
• How can we create potent, high-quality remedies rooted in both tradition and practice?
• How do we build deeper relationships with plants?
• Why was herbal medicine increasingly sidelined in favour of institutional medicine?
• How and why were women’s healing traditions marginalised or erased?
• How has the more-than-human world become disconnected from everyday life and meaning?
• What can historical medicine teach us when we look beyond the idea that “old” means primitive and “new” means superior?
• How can herbal practice become both decolonised and deeply bioregional?
• How do we restore connection after rupture — between body, land, spirit, ancestry, and belonging?

What’s Inside

🌿 Research and writing on herbal history from the W.I.S.E Isles (Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England)

🌿 Plant profiles exploring medicinal actions, folklore, cultural histories, and traditional uses

🌿 Herbal medicine making and remedy crafting

🌿 Techniques for deepening relationship with plants and plant spirit connection

🌿 Historical research into wise women, cunning folk, domestic healers, and folk medicine

🌿 Re-examining Western herbalism, its inheritances, and its entanglements

🌿 Rooted in both British and Persian lineages, my work explores herbal traditions, women’s knowledge, and restoration across histories of movement and change.

🌿 Exploring the spiritual traditions of these lands and the wider histories that shaped them

🌿 Guided meditations, embodiment practices, and ancestral connection work

🌿 Seasonal teachings and gatherings

🌿 Practices for intuition, restoration, and reconnection

🌿 Recorded teachings, audio reflections, and occassional live conversations

🌿 Exclusive videos and extended content from The Sage’s Cabin podcast

🌿 Content shared through writing, audio, video, photos, and field notes

An invitation into the living development of this work

This space also offers a more personal and evolving look into my ongoing research, practice, and reflections as a herbalist.

🌿 Diary of a herbalist: Short field notes and thoughts from study, practice, and everyday herbal life

🌿 Explorations of medieval and early modern herbal history and folk medicine

🌿 Reflections on restoration, displacement, memory, migration, and community care

🌿 Behind-the-scenes insights from life as a working herbalist

🌿 Process notes, questions, discoveries, and unfolding ideas

Rather than only polished “content,” this Patreon is intended as a living herbalist’s diary and learning space — exploring how people reconnect to body, land, memory, lineage, and belonging through plants, story, ritual, and collective care.

If this resonates with you, I’d love for you to join me in reclaiming and reimagining wise herbal ways.

Your support also helps sustain my wider work in historical herbal education, community herbalism, and projects supporting displaced people and accessible care.

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