Instructor Biographies
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Juliet Blankespoor
Juliet Blankespoor
Leicester, NC
Enraptured by the diversity and intricacies of the green world, Juliet Blankespoor received her B.S. in Botany in 1993. She furthered her studies by completing over 1200 hours of study at the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine, the California School of Herbal Studies and the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine. In 1994 she founded Green Faith Herbals, a line of organically grown and sustainably wildcrafted herbal tinctures which she owned for 6 years. She has lived on several community-run organic farms including a tangerine grove in Florida and a market garden in the Berkshire Mountains in New England. Some of her other business endeavors have included natural body care products and handmade soaps, prepared wild foods, an organic herb nursery and dried flower crafts.

Being obsessed with plants she has spent much of her adult life botanizing, or identifying plant species, in such diverse setting as the Pacific Northwest, Coastal California, the deserts of the Southwestern U.S., sub-tropical Florida and the Appalachians from North to South. While living in the Pacific Northwest she developed a passion for seaweed and devoted herself to its study and liberal consumption. She is also an avid edible and medicinal mushroom hunter.

Juliet has been sharing her passion for plants by teaching herbal medicine and Botany for over 16 years. She has taught in many diverse settings and schools including the Southwest School for Botanical Medicine, the North Carolina School of Holistic Herbalism, and the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine.

Juliet is a mother, herbalist, gardener, teacher, naturalist, medicine maker and Gaia worshiper. She lives with her family on a small herb farm outside of Asheville NC where she has an organic medicinal herb and native plant nursery.