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Faerie Made ---- Available at ASHH bookstore!
Faerie Made™ is a small family business located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Our handmade soap, shea butter and hemp body balms, hemp lip balm, body care products, and products for facial care are made from natural ingredients in small batches.

Granny Sam's ---- Available at ASHH bookstore!
Southern Appalachian tinctures, salves, soaps, and creams. Pet products, too! Granny Sam specializes in ‘simples’- herbal wares made with a single type of plant.

Green Earth Essentials
Green Earth Essentials provides an eco-friendly alternative to cleaning and sanitizing your home, office or learning facility. We use only environmentally safe and non-toxic cleaning products including local organic essential oils from Western North Carolina.

HerbSlides
Martin Wall Botanical Services- Herbslides.com is the stock photography website of botanical photographer Martin Wall. It contains stock photos, botanical prints, and pictures of plants, fungi, and other things of interest. The primary focus of my collection is medicinal plants but there are also native plants and wildflowers, poisonous plants, edible, and economic plants.

MoonMaid Botanicals----Available at ASHH bookstore!
Founded in 1995 by Cynthia Johnston, MoonMaid Botanicals is an herb company dedicated to providing women with safe herbal products for common health problems. Cynthia has studied and worked with herbs for the past 25 years.  She is available for workshops on the use of herbs and herbs for women's health.  She hopes to one day grow her own herbs, offer classes in her garden; teaching the many uses of herbs for health, creativity and sustenance.

Sattva Botanicals
Kristina Berkeley, Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner & Clinical Herbalist offering personalized wellness consultations in the heart of downtown Asheville.

Savoir Herbals----Available at ASHH bookstore!
All Savoir products are made in the Blue Ridge Mountains by a stay at home mom who loves to create healing treatments & healing treats. They are all hand made in smaller batches to ensure wonderful quality, using organic & ethically wildcrafted ingredients whenever possible. I hope that you enjoy using my products, as much love was put into making them!

Wind Fox Herbals
Long gone are the days when we can quickly consult our neighborhood herbalist for personal attention. Joel "Wind Fox" Boyle provides a modern solution to this traditional need with traditional herbal services.

 

ASHH faculty links

Alan Muskat
Alan Muskat has persuaded thousands to sample rather than trample the toadstools. He teaches at the Appalachia School of Holistic Herbalism and is author of Wild Mushrooms: A Taste of Enchantment (to be published by Ten Speed Press in 2007). He's recently popped up at The New York Nature Conservancy, The California Academy of Sciences, and The Stamford Museum. He has been recently featured in Attaché and Country Living magazine and his wild mushroom special for Folkways airs on PBS early this October. Ask anyone who knows the Mushroom Man: when it comes to bringing out the fun in fungi, he's the champignion.

Dreaming Earth
Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils and Aromatherapy Blends and Accessories
Carrier Oils - Essential Oil Diffusers - Flower Waters - Massage Oils - Natural Pest Control

HerbalChem
My goal is to provide accurate, thoroughly researched phytochemical information for students and practitioners. I've been a traditional herbalist for twenty years and a chemistry geek since 1997. Having taught herbal medicine classes and tutored chemistry students, my combined experience allows me to comprehend chemical information and translate it for practical use. I'm currently based in Boulder, Colorado.

Herbal Constituents
Herbal Constituents is a unique addition to the botanical medicine literature. Written in a down-to-Earth style by a traditional herbalist with extensive training in chemistry and botany, this book is designed for anyone who wants an in-depth understanding of how medicinal plants work. Herbal Constituents presents the most important concepts and the latest research on phytochemical compounds in medicinal plants.

Plants and Healers
Over the last twelve years my passion for being a repository of plant knowledge has grown steadily. I have studied with Herbalists, Shamen, Vaidyas, Sangomas, Green Witches, Doctors, Professors, Medicine Men. . . ..around the country and world. They have initiated me into many ways of walking with plants. More and more there are opportunities to share what I have learned at workshops, schools, conferences, and gatherings of all types around the country...

Red Moon Herbs
Our vision is to carry on and spread the ancient wise woman/ folk tradition to help bring about a world in which the cycles of birth, life, and death are fully honored as healthy, powerful women and men live in harmony with one another and the abundant plants and animals surrounding them.

Southeast Ecological Design
Our Mission is to design and create efficient living systems for homes and businesses with the stability, resilienct, and vitality of natural ecosystems.  To practice and educate the ethics of resource conservation, community responsibility, environmental preservation, and healthy living. SEED is an ecological general contracting company.  We are a collaborative team of builders, landscapers, and permaculture designers organized to approach land use, building, and development holistcally and sensibly.  Our commitment to environmental and social sustainability combined with a focus on artistic and creative design is aimed at improving the quality of life for people and the earth. Located in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, we are committed to preserving our surroundings.

The Matrona
At The Matrona, we believe that birth is a sacred and profound experience, and we teach midwifery as a Sacred Art. We believe that childbearing is a time of transformation and empowerment for parents, and the work of the midwife is to return birth to the family. Our house is dedicated to serving women and families by providing opportunities to access knowledge of Women's Healing Arts. We believe that the knowledge of birth and midwifery is among those arts, and belongs to all individuals and all families. We educate women to be competent, confident, compassionate and caring midwives and doulas who serve families in the traditional ways.

ASHH Guest speakers include:

Best Natural Foods
Our goal is to improve the quality of foods available in America. We believe that we can make great strides toward this goal by encouraging more people to make better food choices. We’re sharing the information on these pages to make it easier for you to choose healthier products.

Horizon Herbs (Richo Cech)
We are growers of organically certified medicinal herb seed and plants here in Southern Oregon. We offer an extensive collection of organically certified seeds from the new harvest and plants grown on our own farm, including indigenous herb seeds from the Native American, Ayurvedic and Chinese traditions. We also grow or collect seed of significant medicinal and aromatic herbs from the deserts, forests, mountains, plains and shores of North America, Central and South America, Russia, China, Tibet, India, Pakistan, the Middle East, Japan, Europe, the Mediterranean basin, Africa, Australia, the Canary Islands, New Zealand and beyond. From our rootsy and organic greenhouse and shadehouses, we offer plants of annuals, herbaceous perennials and woody perennials, including common medicinals, cover crops, nitrogen fixers, shelterbelt and wildlife favorites, dye plants, medicinal trees, fruits, tubers, vines, roots, corms, bulbs, and water plants as well as sacred herbs. Look here also for our own growing guide (click below!), books and other writings with information regarding the germination, growth and environmental requirements of medicinal herbs. We dedicate our services to all beings. In the words of the Dalai Lama, "Diversity is both beautiful and necessary."

MoonBranch Botanicals (Robin Suggs)

At MoonBranch Botanicals, our philosophy centers on the belief that plants produced in their native habitats consistently yield a higher quality product. Through our sustainable sourcing methods involving the responsible cultivation and wild harvesting of botanicals within these habitats, we strive to consistently supply our customer with the highest quality botanicals available. This is the foundation of our approach to satisfying and exceeding expectations relevant to consistency, potency, and proper species identification.

Raven’s Nest Herbals
Raven's Nest Herbals LLC is a supplier of herbs, spices, teas, incense, essential & fragrance oils, soaps, henna, herbal bath products & hand crafted gifts. Our specialties include: Custom scents for our fragrance products - you choose a scent you like and we'll make it for you in a fragrance oil, body oil, bath salts, incense or potpourri!; Herbal pet products; Original scents created exclusively by Raven's Nest Herbals™ ;Location of hard-to-find herbs.

Sheri Winston (Sheri Winston)
A Womancare Practitioner and Teacher of Wholistic Sexuality for Everyone & Womancraft, that is, a healer, counselor and educator.  My perspective is wholistic in that I believe we are each an inseparable, unique whole being.  Although we can talk about being made up of our bodies, our minds and our spirits, I believe that it actually is impossible to separate them.  A truly wholistic perspective also includes not just the individual but everyone and everything that they are in relationship with.  So a wholistic view of any one individual includes their partner or partners, their family, their community,  as well as their cultural milieu and indeed, the whole planet. 

Places and People We Love

Center for Vital Living

ASHH conducts evening lectures and various workshops at The Center for Vital Living, West Asheville’s Apothecary, Complementary Care Clinic, and Healing Arts Center. The center is home to a variety of holistic health care practitioners. Students benefit from discounted treatment prices as well as exposure to exemplary professionals. Students receive discounts to all classes held at the center. The Center for Vital Living offers a truly unique opportunity to explore whatever modality of life enhancement peaks her/his interest. We are dedicated to exposing people to a plethora of options to enhance quality of life.

Herbal Medicine & Spirit Healing the Wise Woman Way

Natural alternatives for women with health concerns such as menopause, osteoporosis, pregnancy, fertility issues, breast health and cancer prevention. Hundreds of woman-friendly links, a forum to share experiences and lots of information about Susun Weed (herbalist and author of women's health books), workshops, intensives, apprenticeships, and correspondence courses.

Frontier Natural Products Co-op
We specialize in natural and organic products. Our products are found in natural products stores and specialty shops throughout the United States and Canada, as well as on our website. By offering easy access to high-quality, competitively priced choices that are both environmentally friendly and socially responsible, Frontier seeks to lead the way in bringing nature -- and peace of mind -- to our customers.

FlorAlive
Our mission is to offer the FlorAlive uncut flower essences as a vital key to creating a profound energetic shift, facilitating entirely new and positive perspectives, and clearing the way to abundant opportunities for people everywhere.

Herb Lore
Specializing in all organic herbs for fertility, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, lactation, PMS & menopause.

Joyful Belly
Artistic inspirations from chefs, amateur cooks, and food writers. Recipes include Ayurvedic health notes.

Learning Herb- Offering at home, hands-on herbal courses.
We believe it is so important in this day and age for families to be in control of their day-to-day healthcare. We want to spread knowledge that will help people stay healthy and empower them with skills to treat common illnesses naturally.

Life Spa
John Douillard's Ayurveda Clinic offers an ayurvedic medicine, panchakarma, ayurvedic remedy, herbal and educational products for health, also offers classes in Ayurvedic massage, Panchakarma, and at the LifeSpa School of Ayurveda.

Mountain Rose Herbs
Since 1987 Mountain Rose Herbs has become the Leading Organic Supplier in not only the finest organic botanical products, but the freshest as well. From our bulk organic herbs and spices, to our essential oils and herbal teas, the quality and integrity of what we offer is unparalleled with smiles guaranteed.

Organic Growers School  
The Organic Growers School is a grassroots organization that grew out of volunteer efforts, with a mission to deliver very practical information about organic agriculture at a reasonable price. The first Organic Growers School was held in 1994, attracting just under 100 participants. By 2006, the school grew to over 1000 participants, drawing farmers, gardeners, and educators from 14 states, and becoming the largest event of its type in the South.

Sandy Mush Herbs
For over 30 years The Sandy Mush Herb Nursery has been collecting, propagating, and selling herbs, perennials, and other interesting plants.  Our Handbook/Catalog contains close to 2000 varieties of plants including: Traditional Culinary and Medicinal Herbs, Scented Geraniums (94 varieties),Wild Flowers and other native plants, Perennials, Trees and Shrubs, Bonsai Plants and Much, Much More. We also carry wonderful, carefully selected books, seeds, and handy items.

7 Springs Farm
Seven Springs Farm is a 125 acre organic farm in Floyd County, Virginia. Our philosophy is to be stewards of the land in the most ecological way possible. We use farming methods that build the fertility of the soil, such as organic fertilizers and biodynamically made compost. Pest management is achieved through cultural practices and biological and botanically-based materials. 

Sacred Cravings
Ayurvedic handouts and recipes. Also info on purchasing Ayurvedic herbs and cleansing.

WNC Herb Festival
“The Asheville Herb Festival has become an annual gathering for herb enthusiasts who return each year to visit with friends, shop for their favorite herbs, and have an enjoyable time among the herbs’, says Rick Morgan, Festival Coordinator. “If It’s Herbs, It’s Here” is the theme for the popular event that attracts over 25,000 herb lovers and visitors from across the Southeast each spring.

ASHH is a member of:

American Herbalists Guild
The AHG was founded in 1989 as a non-profit, educational organization to represent the goals and needs of herbalists specializing in the medicinal use of plants. Our primary goal is to promote a high level of professionalism and education in the study and practice of therapeutic herbalism.

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Carolina Farm Stewards
CFSA's Mission is to support and expand local and organic agriculture in the Carolinas by inspiring, educating, and organizing farmers and consumers.

HerbalGram
Established in 1988, the American Botanical Council (ABC) is the leading independent, nonprofit, international member-based organization providing education using science-based and traditional information to promote the responsible use of herbal medicine. ABC serves the public, researchers, educators, healthcare professionals, industry, and media, and has been a highly respected source and an innovative force for many years. Membership and support for individual programs provide the resources to keep serving the needs of an ever-increasing service population.

Leage of Conservation Voters
The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is the political voice of the national environmental movement and the only organization devoted full-time to shaping a pro-environment Congress and White House.

National Resources Defense Council
National Resource Defense Council is the nation's most effective environmental action organization. We use law, science and the support of 1.2 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.

United Plant Savers
United Plant Savers' mission is to protect native medicinal plants of the United States and Canada and their native habitat while ensuring an abundant renewable supply of medicinal plants for generations to come.

Local Resources

Acupuncture Asheville
Asheville Center for Chinese Medicine, the acupuncture practice of Kath Bartlett, MS, LAc. Conveniently located in downtown Asheville, ACCM is a full-service acupuncture clinic offering individualized and effective care for patients.

Chiropractic Plus
Chiropractic Physician, Athletic Trainer, Massage
Dr. Apfelbeck combines her knowledge of massage, sports medicine, and chiropractic to ensure a wholistic approach. Gentle integrative care combines several methods unique to each individual’s needs. Patients learn about biomechanics and are empowered to participate in their own healing.

Hampton Wellness
Hampton Chiropractic Neurology & Wellness Center--Our dedicated health care practitioners are highly trained to provide complementary health care services for symptom relief, wellness care and for improving mind and body function to express a higher level of human potential.

North Carolina Plant Savers
We are a group of herbalists, gardeners, wildcrafters, teachers, healers, nature lovers, and land stewards dedicated to preserving, renewing, and protecting NC's rare wealth of native medicinal plants, their habitats and wild places for the animals and children of the future.