Nicole Telkes

About Me!

What am I up to? wildcrafting

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 educator 1998-1999

    500hour program with Michael Moore in 2000 at the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine in Bisbee, AZ

    Wildcrafting Classes with Howie Brounstein at the Columbines School of Botanical Studies in Eugene, OR 2002

    Zen Shiatsu Intensive Austin TX 2003

    300hr Massage Therapy Program at The Star Institute Austin TX 2004

    Marma Point Therapy Intensive with Dr Vasant Lad at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque NM 2007

    Ayurvedic Hands On Therapies Intensive with Sonia Masocco at the Ayurvedic Institute Albuquerque NM 2008

    Clinical Intensive Refining Clinical Skills with Margi Flint of Earthsong Herbals MA 2010
    Continuing Ed in Hot Stone Massage, Myofacial Release, Reading the Body, and many others
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.


    Free Plant walks at various events including Festival de las Plantas, as a benefit for the Save Our Springs Coalition, American Botanical Council Herb Day Celebration
    200 hour apprenticehip herb program with intensives in Preparations, Body Systems, First Aid Plant Identification, Outdoor Skills, Wildcrafting Ethics, Clinical Skills, and more
    Texas Herbs for Pain and Stress Management: Herbalists of Texas Symposium
    Yoga and Herbs: Austin Yoga School
    Herbs of the Sabbats
    Herbs for Diabetes
    Bioregional Herbalism: American Botanical COuncil and Austin Herb Society
    Vitalism in Herbalism: Wheatsville Herb Fest
    Ecoherbalsim: Wheatsville Herb Fest
    Ecoherbalism Series: UT Informal Classes
    Herbs and the Sacred Feminine
    Herbs for Fertility, Pregnancy, and Birthing: A 3 part series
    Herbal Preparations
    Herbs for Colds and Flu
    Herbal Aphrodisiacs
    Therapeutic Bodycare and Spa Preparations
    Herbal First Aid
    Magickal Activism

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

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 educator 1998-1999

    500hour program with Michael Moore in 2000 at the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine in Bisbee, AZ

    Wildcrafting Classes with Howie Brounstein at the Columbines School of Botanical Studies in Eugene, OR 2002

    Zen Shiatsu Intensive Austin TX 2003

    300hr Massage Therapy Program at The Star Institute Austin TX 2004

    Marma Point Therapy Intensive with Dr Vasant Lad at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque NM 2007

    Ayurvedic Hands On Therapies Intensive with Sonia Masocco at the Ayurvedic Institute Albuquerque NM 2008

    Clinical Intensive Refining Clinical Skills with Margi Flint of Earthsong Herbals MA 2010
    Continuing Ed in Hot Stone Massage, Myofacial Release, Reading the Body, and many others
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.


    Free Plant walks at various events including Festival de las Plantas, as a benefit for the Save Our Springs Coalition, American Botanical Council Herb Day Celebration
    200 hour apprenticehip herb program with intensives in Preparations, Body Systems, First Aid Plant Identification, Outdoor Skills, Wildcrafting Ethics, Clinical Skills, and more
    Texas Herbs for Pain and Stress Management: Herbalists of Texas Symposium
    Yoga and Herbs: Austin Yoga School
    Herbs of the Sabbats
    Herbs for Diabetes
    Bioregional Herbalism: American Botanical COuncil and Austin Herb Society
    Vitalism in Herbalism: Wheatsville Herb Fest
    Ecoherbalsim: Wheatsville Herb Fest
    Ecoherbalism Series: UT Informal Classes
    Herbs and the Sacred Feminine
    Herbs for Fertility, Pregnancy, and Birthing: A 3 part series
    Herbal Preparations
    Herbs for Colds and Flu
    Herbal Aphrodisiacs
    Therapeutic Bodycare and Spa Preparations
    Herbal First Aid
    Magickal Activism

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

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.