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Researching Medicinal Plants, Medical Conditions, Obtaining Supplies and High Quality Sources of Information on the Internet

Here is a list of sites I recommend:

Research herbs at Henrietta Kress's Site http://www.henriettesherbal.com/

Research Herbs at Michael Moores Site http://www.swsbm.com/homepage/

Research Clinical Information on Herbs Here http://www.greenmedinfo.com/

Research Herbs and case studies at Paul Bergners Site http://medherb.com/

Great Blog on various medicinal plants here from Kiva Rose http://animahealingarts.org/

Wildcrafting and Individual Plant Information at Howie Brounstein's Site http://home.teleport.com/~howieb/howie.html

Herbal Goddess Margi Flint offers Clinical Training Intensives to further your skills as a herbal practitioner here http://www.earthsongherbals.com/

Buy Sell Handmade Items like herbal bodycare http://www.etsy.com/

Educate yourself and clients on food issues watch Food Inc: http://www.foodincmovie.com/

Support local farmers and herbalists here http://www.localharvest.org/

Texas Resources

Martin Simonton of New World Botanicals has really great, hard to find native Texas Medicinal plants from in East Texas email him here: martin .simonton@gmail.com

Melanie and Fred Van Akin have Heron's Nest Herb Farm, a great place to obtain fresh medicinal plants, especially Echinacea and Lavender. Melanie also teaches classes http://www.heronsnestherbfarm.com/

Native Medicinals to grow at home are available at the Wildflower Center 2x a year at their plant sale see website here for details (and you can buy my Wildflower tea there) http://www.wildflower.org/

Native Plant Society of Texas has good info on natives here and a great email list where you can id out plants

Sam Coffman has recently moved to Texas and started a wilderness skills and herb school in San Antonio. He is a great addition to our Herbal Community http://www.thehumanpath.com/

Stephanie Berry, The Wildflower School Apothecary and Office Manager is a Doula and offers Natural Parenting Classes here http://www.jademoonherbs.com/doula.htm

Texas American Herbalist Guild Chapter has monthly meetings and events. Student rate available contact tmsims@austin.rr.com

New Blog From Wildflower School Apprentice Ivy Zwicker http://www.hillcountryherbalist.com/

Medicinal Plant and Health Articles from Nicole Telkes

• Abortion Options
• Deep Ecology in Herbalism: A manifesto
• Light in the Darkness: The Common Ground Free Clinic New Orleans
• Medicine as Resistance as Medicine: Festival de las Plantas Medicinales
• Weed Eater
• What does Herbalist Mean Anyway?

Past Classes and Event Resources

The Outdoor Herbalist 2007

Class 1 photos courtesy of Noah Smith, Brackin Camp and others

Thomas J Elpel's Botany in a Day: Patterns Method of Plant Identification
(with Student Discount of 10%) $22.50