An online resource bringing together, advancing and celebrating the healing wisdom of the Western World’s diverse traditions of herbalism!

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Sept 17-19, 2010 - The Ghost Ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico

“The practice of herbalism is in many ways most powerful as well as evocative and sustainable, when informed by local knowledge and historic experience, making use of native or readily available species, self administered or tendered by grandmotherly herbwives and community healers instilled with an intimate understanding of self as well as local culture and ecology. It is in that sense that we support and celebrate the grassroots healing systems closest to home, the locally flavored traditions from Western Europe to North, Central and South America... from the Nordic Sami to the Apache of the Southwest, and including Western Vitalism, the Wise Woman, Hispanic and Medicine Woman traditions.

“The Traditions in Western Herbalism Site was conceived by Animá teacher and herbalist Kiva Rose and myself as a community hub as well as portal to help distill, further and propagate these home grown traditions of knowledge vital to our well being and the well being of the world, with links to informative writings, various schools and avenues of study, and sponsoring and showcasing the annual Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference. Together we provide the sensibilities and skills to better heal ourselves and each other, ultimately working to mend emotional wounds as well as physical, helping return to wholeness our wounded culture as well as the threatened natural world that informs, heals and sustains us.”

-Jesse Wolf Hardin, Cofounder TWH

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