Samantha Barker - Medicine Woman

Samantha Barker - Medicine Woman Naturopathic Herbalist, Medicine Woman and Alchemist. Founder and creator of Biophilia Apothecary.

Samantha Barker Naturopathy has a special interest in women's health, traditional methods of herbal medicine and growing or foraging for your own remedies.

There is a language that lives within bitter things.I’m so honoured to have contributed a piece to the Botanical Antholo...
09/02/2026

There is a language that lives within bitter things.

I’m so honoured to have contributed a piece to the Botanical Anthology’s All About Cacao booklet — a collection devoted to the plant in all her richness, ritual, and story.

My article, The Language of Bitterness, explores cacao as a teacher of taste, truth, and the forgotten wisdom of bitter flavours in a world that often seeks only sweetness.

Together, this beautiful booklet gathers voices that celebrate cacao through folklore, herbalism, ritual, and sensory experience. It is a love letter to the plant and an invitation to deepen your relationship with her beyond the cup.

If you feel called to work with cacao in a more thoughtful, embodied way, this anthology is a nourishing place to begin.All About Cacao is over 60 pages of chocolate love. Featuring 21 articles, take a dive into the Food of the Gods from new perspectives.

Visit plantwondercollective.com to grab your digital copy for $3US or purchase the print version on Amazon for $12US.


There was a time when our grandmothers knew the language of the plants.They walked the hedgerows and gardens with basket...
10/09/2025

There was a time when our grandmothers knew the language of the plants.

They walked the hedgerows and gardens with baskets in hand, gathering nettle, dandelion, yarrow, and rosehips—not as weeds, but as trusted allies. They brewed teas for coughs, made poultices for cuts, and stirred pots that carried both nourishment and medicine.

These ways were not written in textbooks, but lived in kitchens, gardens, and quiet moments of observation. They were woven into the rhythms of the seasons and passed down through hands, stories, and care.

When we return to foraging, medicine making, and truly understanding the plants around us, we are remembering what they always knew—that healing begins in the home, in the garden, and in the land beneath our feet.

This is the heart of my work and the invitation of The Healing Cupboard: to bring these old ways back into your own life in simple, grounding, and beautiful ways. 🌿✨

Starts September 21st.
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✨ There is a language the plants speak — not in words, but in colour, scent, taste, and the way they move through our bo...
28/08/2025

✨ There is a language the plants speak — not in words, but in colour, scent, taste, and the way they move through our bodies.

To meet them with childlike wonder is to remember this language.

The calm of chamomile, the courage of dandelion, the brightness of nasturtium. Each plant a teacher, each remedy a doorway back to ourselves.

This is the art of the medicine woman: listening, remembering, weaving the plants back into daily life.

🌿 If you feel the stirrings of this remembering, I invite you to join the waitlist for The Healing Cupboard spring course — a journey into the simple, soulful language of the plants.

📸 From today’s homeschooling adventures — we wandered through the forest, awakened our senses, greeted plant friends along the way, and ended by weaving their beauty into a living mandala.

The Healing Cupboard is opening soon 🌱🌙By joining the waitlist, you’ll get:✨ First access to enrolments✨ An exclusive ea...
25/08/2025

The Healing Cupboard is opening soon 🌱🌙

By joining the waitlist, you’ll get:

✨ First access to enrolments
✨ An exclusive early opt-in discount
✨ A clear path to making your own herbal remedies, teas, tinctures + more

Doors officially open in September, but waitlist members step inside first. 🗝️

Join today and don’t miss out on the special early bird promo.

As the new moon draws her dark veil across the sky, we are invited into stillness—a time for planting seeds, for remembe...
23/08/2025

As the new moon draws her dark veil across the sky, we are invited into stillness—a time for planting seeds, for remembering, and for listening to the whispers of the earth.

Once, it was the way of every household to know the plants at their doorstep—women and families crafting remedies, preserving herbs, cooking with intention, and weaving nature into the very fabric of daily life.

This was the way of the medicine woman, not distant or mystical, but deeply rooted in the rhythm of home and garden.

And this, I believe, is what we are being called back to. Not as something lost forever, but as something waiting patiently within us.

This spring, I invite you to walk this path with me inside The Healing Cupboard—a course that is part remembering, part crafting, part tending.

Together we will cook, garden, blend, and create with the plants, learning their medicine in ways both practical and soulful for the season of Spring .

Waitlist now open! Sign up today for an exclusive offer 🌱

Waitlist: https://samantha-barker-the-untamed-woman.kit.com/5b53488a34

This Friday, we gather with Nasturtium — the joyful, peppery flower who tumbles through the garden with bright laughter ...
19/08/2025

This Friday, we gather with Nasturtium — the joyful, peppery flower who tumbles through the garden with bright laughter and golden fire. 🌼

She reminds us to be bold, to play, and to see life as a patchwork of colour and possibility.

At Where Flowers Speak, we’ll step into her world through the senses — tasting, smelling, touching, and creating art that becomes a reflection of our own experience.

Together, we’ll weave a tapestry of impressions, guided by this vibrant plant spirit.

It’s a wholesome, heart-nourishing way to welcome the weekend — slowing down, gathering in community, and letting the plants remind us of wonder.

📅 This Friday, 22nd August
🕒 6–8:30pm
📍 , Cooroy
🎟 https://events.humanitix.com/where-flowers-speak-a-sensory-art-journey

Come sit with Nasturtium and see what she has to say. 🌿

After a long Winter...I am super excited to announce that the waitlist for The Healing Cupboard seasonal herbalism cours...
17/08/2025

After a long Winter...I am super excited to announce that the waitlist for The Healing Cupboard seasonal herbalism course is NOW OPEN!

A place where plants become teachers, remedies, and companions. inside, you’ll learn the art of medicine making, the stories of herbs, and how to build your own apothecary from the ground up. 🌸

Doors officially open this September—but by joining the waitlist, you’ll receive first-to-know offerings and a few secret surprises only for early birds. 🌙

Your journey into herbal wisdom and the magic of medicine making begins here.

🔗 join the waitlist today
https://samantha-barker-the-untamed-woman.kit.com/5b53488a34

Some say nasturtium is the child of the garden — cheeky, bright, and impossible to ignore.She sprawls across fences, tum...
16/08/2025

Some say nasturtium is the child of the garden — cheeky, bright, and impossible to ignore.

She sprawls across fences, tumbles from pots, and winds her way into any corner that will have her.

Always laughing, always curious, always finding the sun.

When you taste her — that peppery bite — she reminds you not to take life too seriously.

Her petals are edible jewels, her seeds little caper-like treasures, her leaves round shields that hold morning dew like secret offerings.

And when she’s steeped into vinegar, she glows.

Golden, playful, a bottle of captured mischief and light.

She teaches us that plants are not just food or medicine… they are companions, mirrors, muses.

This is the invitation at the heart of Where Flowers Speak — to meet the spirit of a plant, not through textbooks, but through your own senses.

To taste, touch, see, and create with the guidance of one green teacher.

📅 Friday 22nd August
🕒 6–8:30pm
📍 Cooroy
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Come and discover which plant will be speaking that night…

They say she holds the colours of memory in her petals…That if you look closely enough, you’ll find the stories she’s be...
14/08/2025

They say she holds the colours of memory in her petals…

That if you look closely enough, you’ll find the stories she’s been keeping all winter.

Gentle, curious, quietly bold — she stands at the edge of the season, watching, waiting, listening.

At Where Flowers Speak, we’ll meet a plant just like her… not through names or books, but through the senses.

We’ll taste, touch, smell, and see with new eyes — gathering each impression into a small piece of art, until together they form a patchwork of our own making.

📅 Friday 22nd August
🕒 6–8:30pm
📍 , Cooroy

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The keeper of petals and secrets...They say, if you wander through the forest at the right hour, you might stumble upon ...
14/08/2025

The keeper of petals and secrets...

They say, if you wander through the forest at the right hour, you might stumble upon a cabin no taller than your knees.

Its roof, mossy and soft, cradles the morning dew. Its windows glow with the light of some unseen hearth. And inside?

Tiny jars of colour, petals pressed between old book pages, brushes resting in teacups.

A place where plants whisper their stories to those who know how to listen.

This is the feeling we’ll step into together…

An evening of slow wonder, where we meet a mystery plant not with our minds, but with our senses.

We’ll taste, smell, touch, and create — gathering moments like scraps of fabric, stitching them into a unique patchwork of art to take home. For all curious minds alike.

🌿 Where Flowers Speak – A Sensory Art Journey with the Plants

📅 Friday 22nd August
🕒 6–8:30pm
📍 , Cooroy

https://events.humanitix.com/where-flowers-speak-a-sensory-art-journey ✨

After a long deep wintering, we turn our faces toward the light.The earth stirs. The plants whisper. And one in particul...
08/08/2025

After a long deep wintering, we turn our faces toward the light.

The earth stirs. The plants whisper. And one in particular is calling.

She is warm and wild, soft yet spirited — carrying the colour of joy and the taste of adventure.

Her medicine will reveal itself slowly, as we taste, touch, and create alongside her.

This is not just an evening of art and herbal connection — it is a homecoming to the senses, a remembering of the language spoken between people and plants.

🌿 Where Flowers Speak – A Sensory Art Journey with the Plants

📆 Friday 22nd August, 6–8:30pm
📍 Cooroy
🎟 Tickets now available

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