Biota of North America The most detailed plant distribution maps of N. America, including historical and current ranges
Botany Every Day Marc Williams’s online course in field botany, which follows Botany in a Day by Thomas Elpel. This course carries on from Frank Cook, who originated the concept and offered the course annually until his passing in 2009.
Plant Biographies searchable database for the etymological origins of pant scientific names
Plant Database of the USDA Searchable database (common or scientific name) of plants found in the U.S. , includes photos, illustrations, state distribution maps, and sometimes county distribution maps.
Tropicos Missouri Botanical Gardens database -nomenclatural, bibliographic, and specimen data. This system has over 1.2 million scientific names
Chestnut School Graduate's Links
Bean's Herbarium Bean’s Herbarium is a collection of plant wisdom and herbal medicine affectionately gathered so that the knowledge of plants and health can become accessible to more people. Take Root Herbarium is located in Orlando, FL and offers herbal wellness consu
Ecospiritual Wellness Lara Narayani offers trainings in holistic massage for CEs, remote healing (Essencework) to clear birth patterns and coaching programs worldwide to support spiritual awaking through conscious transformation.
Healing Roots Design Ecological landscape design, installation and maintenance, and herbal education.
Lady Luck Flower Farms A beautiful farm that grows a wide variety of vegetables, flowers and medicinal herbs. Open in the summer for “u-pick” flowers. Check them out at the farmers market in Asheville or visit them at their farm in Candler
Old Ways Herbal Herbal education, consultations, medicinal plants and remedies from forest and farm. Newfane, Vermont
One Heart Yoga Yoga and Pilates studio. Fuquay-Varina, NC.
One Willow Apothecaries Gluten-free tinctures, teas, flower essences & other herbal goodies. Grown, wildcrafted & made with love in Asheville, NC.
Piney Mountain Herbals Herbal extracts, oils, and specialty herbal products handcrafted in the mountains of Idaho
Take Care Herbals Clinical Community Herbalism and Radical Health Care offered by Rae Swersey, CH. Provides consultations, herbal potions, flower essence blends and workshops in Asheville, NC.
Villagers an urban homestead supply + design shop in west Asheville with a workshops covering a variety of sustainable lifestyle activities.
Consultations
Asia Suler – One WIllow Consultations Herbal consultations, Reiki treatments, Intuitive readings. Strong background in women’s health, energy healing, and chronic conditions. Asheville, NC.
Meghan Gemma – Herbalist & Doula Birth and Post-Partum Doula. Herbal, Homepathic and Medical Astrology Consultations. Asheville, NC.
Take Care Herbals Clinical Community Herbalism and Radical Health Care offered by Rae Swersey, CH. Provides consultations, herbal potions, flower essence blends and workshops in Asheville, NC.
American Herbalists Guild AHG is an association of herbal practitioners. Membership includes many educational benefits. Annual conference held in differing locations.
Crimson Sage Nursery Crimson-Sage Nursery is a Woman -Owned certified organic Medicinal Plant Nursery Located in the Klamath River Valley in the far Northern corner of California.
Fedco co-op gardening supplies, seeds, tubers, trees, etc.
Johnny's Selected Seeds Employee-owned, gardening supply, organic vegetable and herb seeds, organic amendments
Milkweed Medicinal Seeds Dedicated to helping people grow high quality medicine by offering locally and sustainably grown medicinal herb seed & plants.
Mountain Gardens Joe Hollis has created a botanical sanctuary of medicinals, he sells seeds and custom blends of herbs and tinctures. Joe offers traditional apprenticeships and is an expert at growing Chinese and Ayurvedic herbs.
Prairie Moon Nursery Native seeds and starts, website is overflowing with cultivation specifics and plant photos.
Sow True Seeds heirloom and organic seed company in Asheville, NC.
Strictly Medicinal Seeds Amazing selection of medicinal herb seeds from around the world, very informational website with abundant cultivation information.
American Botanical Council Publishes Herbal Gram quarterly, which focuses on the herbal industry and medical herbalism. Website has many searchable databases related to scientific research on medicinal herbs.
American Herbalists Guild AHG is an association of herbal practitioners. Membership includes many educational benefits. Annual conference held in differing locations.
Herbal Roots Zine Herbal e-magazine for children -Planting a seed of knowledge for a lifetime of herbal wisdom
Medical Herbalism The purpose of Medical Herbalism is to strengthen the herbal practitioner, to preserve and develop the science and art of herbal medicine, and to promote communication and sharing of clinical methods and experiences.
Plant Healer Magazine Plant Healer is the paperless quarterly journal of the new folk herbalism resurgence – a downloadable, beautifully illustrated, full color PDF magazine. An annual condensed printed version is also available.
United Plant Savers Our 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.
Mountain Gardens Joe Hollis has created a botanical sanctuary of medicinals, he sells seeds and custom blends of herbs and tinctures. Joe offers traditional apprenticeships and is an expert at growing Chinese and Ayurvedic herbs.
Wildflower School of Botanical Medicine Nicole Telke’s herbal school in Austin Texas. Nicole is a wildcrafter, activist and massage therapist extraordinaire.
Plants and Healers Non-profit working to carry forth the work of the late Frank Cook, preserving and perpetuating his writings, projects and teachings
Permaculture
Healing Roots Design Ecological landscape design, installation and maintenance, and herbal education.
Living Systems Design Offers permaculture design and training, run by Chestnut instructor Chuck Marsh
Plants for a Future Database This is one of my favorite web references for wild edibles and medicinals. The referencing is very detailed and draws from many rare or out of print books. The database gives you access to info you would have to look up in twenty different books for each
Firefly Gathering The Firefly Gathering is held near Asheville, NC and teaches skills for living with the earth
Wild Abundance Natalie Bogwalker’s primitive skills classes and consultations
Wild Roots Wildroots is a 30-acre radical homestead adjacent to the Pisgah NF in Madison County, Western NC. Their focus is on experiential learning and living, while practicing, developing and sharing skills for rewilding.
Supplies - herbs and accoutrements
Alchemical Solutions Sells a variety of organic alcohol, including organic grape alcohol for gluten free tinctures
Island Herbs Operated by herbalist Ryan Drum. This is one of the few places you can buy bull kelp, which is used in some of our recipes (he sells it as kelp). He also sells sustainably wild crafted bulk herbs.
Mountain Gardens Joe Hollis has created a botanical sanctuary of medicinals, he sells seeds and custom blends of herbs and tinctures. Joe offers traditional apprenticeships and is an expert at growing Chinese and Ayurvedic herbs.
Oshala Farm A certified organic family-run farm in the beautiful Applegate Valley of Southern Oregon. Located among the Siskiyou Mountains with clean water and fertile soils, they grow a variety of medicinal and culinary crops.
Pacific Botanicals Growers and Suppliers of Organic bulk herbs, ships fresh herbs
Pharmco-Aaper Organic grain ethanol for making tinctures
Rosemary's Garden Herbal apothecary founded by Rosemary Gladstar in the 1970s. They carry essential oils, organic herbs, herbal remedies, tea blends and a wide variety of personal care products.
Eat the Weeds Green Deane from Florida shares his love of wild foods, he has many youtube videos on foraging, especially for sub-tropical and tropical plants
