About Me!

What am I up to?

Welcome to my site! I am a weedcrafter working hard to get an herbalist on every corner of Central Texas. My practice focuses on using herbal therapeutics and bodywork to restore the body to balance. My first love is being outside and spending time with the plants, especially bioregional medicinals. My practice consists of seeing clients as both an herbalist and massage therapist, a 6 month 250+ hour herbal apprenticeship program, and a fully stocked apothecary open to the clients, students, and select pracitioners. I believe strongly in honoring, respecting, and protecting the Earth through all my work. Stephanie Berry, Herbalist and Apprentice Midwife, manages the Wildflower apothecary and apprenticeship program. You can read more about Stephanie here. The past few years I have been studying Ayurveda, I did some seed collecting for the Millenium Seed Bank, and am refining my skills as a bodyworker.

2010 activities: A very fertile year! So many students, so much water, lots of herbs. I completed a clinical intensive in January with Margi Flint, amazing herbal goddess from Marblehead, Massachusetts I went to the Anza Borrego in the Sonoran Desert to study desert medicinals and did some wildcrafting. In summer I headed to the Southern Rockies to teach a field class. I am became a Continuing Education Provider in Massage in Texas. Septemeber brought me to the Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference in New Mexico. In October, I taught at the American Herbalists Guild Symposium, the Native Plants of Texas Symposium and sponsored Matthew Wood and Margi Flint to teach a joint Clinical Skills class. As always II was busily making herbal extracts from native, weedy fresh, vital plants

2009 activities: We moved our apothecary into a cottage in my backyard and added several new herb beds. I began seeing private clients at MyoMassage in Austin and visited the Northeast for plant collecting, the International Herb Symposium, and visiting my dear friend and mentor Margi Flint of Earthsong Herbals where I will be offered some classes

Educational Background

Nicole Telkes has spent over a decade dedicated to the study of ecology, botany, herbal medicine, holistic healing, and bodywork. Nicole specializes in educating about the responsible harvesting and use of bioregional plants as medicine.
Institutionalized Learning:BA Environmental Resource Management, minoring in Botany at UT Austin
Work Experience and Holistic Healing Education:

American Botanical Council

Nicole has also apprenticed and worked with several individual herbalists, herb stores, and in clinics around the country. Some the herbalists she has taken classes or worked under include: Jasmine, Grizz, Filiberto Delgado, Margi Flint, David Winston Paul Bergner, Susun Weed, and 7song. Some of the cllinics I have worked in include: Asylum(haha) in the Oregon Wilderness, WTO Seattle, FTAA Protest Tucson AZ, EF Rendezvous Wilderness Clinics several years, Dandelion Clinic for the International Reclaiming Convergence, Plan Z Appalachia Radical Faerie Sanctuary, Hurricane Katrina Free Clinic New Orleans Active Resistance Toronto Ontario

Life Lessons: Wildcrafting with my grandmother in the woods of upper Ontario as a child.
Growing up with a rather witchy family friend Pani Mela. She was an herbalist and massage therapist who taught me to make daisy chains and skip with her down the the dark forest paths. Pani Mela was 60 when I met her, and a survivor of WWII concentration camps.
Living out of a backpack, hitchiking, trainhopping and moving from hot springs to old growth forests needing nothing but to learn to trust whatever your first inclination is to do when you wake up in the morning
Always sticking to whats right and good and speaking out against injustice, even if you lose your freedom doing it

Classes Taught
These classes can be taught at any location at anytime. They are my own material, and I developed all the curriculum for my intensives. I am willing to travel anywhere in the world to teach.

Radio and Published Articles
regular herb blurb on 91.7 KOOP Mondays and 2PM
Guest on the People's Rx Get Healthy Show and Talk Radio
Article: Guaria Del Oso: Austin Daze
Article: Ecoherbalist Manifesto: The Earth First! Journal May/June 2003
Article: A Light in the Darkness AHG Newsletter

Article: Medicine as Resistance Plant Healer Magazine

Article: Texas Medicinal Wildscpapes NPOT Proceedings 2010

I want to thank my assistant Stephanie Berry for all she does in the apothecary and otherwise. She has helped me design this site and create many wonderful remedies for folks.

Educational Background

American Botanical Council

Stephanie Berry

Stephanie has been working with me for over 4 years. She began as a student in my classes about 6 years ago. During that time I have had the honor to watch her go through a pregnancy(while in classes until her last couple of weeks) and give birth to her daughter Kira, who is now a walking and talking little herbalist herself. Stephanie studied with several other herbalists and completed a doula training. SHe is now working as an Apprentice Midwife. She has begun to see clients, formulate mama and babycare items in the apothecary, and has started offering classes in natural childcare. Stephanie is a guest teacher at the Wildflower School Stephanie can be found on the web if you click here

I want to thank my assistant Stephanie Berry for all she does in the apothecary and otherwise. She has helped me design this site and create many wonderful remedies for folks.

Nicole Telkes

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About Me!

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Educational Background

Educational Background