Wintergreen Botanicals, LLC

11/01/2025

This looks amazing! I’ll be attending 🌱💗

Registration is 🌸 NOW OPEN 🌸 for Resilience in Herbal Practice: An AHG Educational Summit

In this era of uncertainty and imbalance, how do we nourish ourselves, our communities, and our planet through our practice as herbalists? Join us for a brand-new one-day virtual summit, designed to inspire, connect, and deepen our collective practice.

Together, we’ll explore the theme of resilience in herbal practice, with opportunities to learn from leading voices in the field, strengthen professional skills, and share in the wisdom of our herbal community.

This virtual summit will feature six in-depth sessions plus a keynote address from AHG Executive Director Erika Galentin, offering an enriching day of education and community Connection.

Featuring:
🌿 Reclaiming the Healing Power in Our Traditions with Naa Adjeley Tsofanye
🌸 Rasayana & Resilience – Ayurvedic Care for a Healing World with Anjali Deva
🌳 The Ecology of Resilience: Lessons in Recovery and Renewal with Lupo Passero
🪻 The Path of the Herbalist in Rebuilding from Trauma with Amy Branum
🪞 Reflective Practice as a Tool for Clinical Resilience with Mel Kasting
🌎 An Ecological Approach to Health: Herbal Medicine, Constitution, and Community
Resilience with Caty Crabb
🔑 Pillars of Herbal Practice: Values that Guide Community and Clinical Care Keynote
address with Erika Galentin

Join us for a day to ground, grow, and gather strength — together. All registrants receive access to the livestreamed event as well as twelve months to (re)watch the recordings 🌿

✨ Register and learn more here: https://community.americanherbalistsguild.com/ahg-summit-resilience-in-herbal-practice

💚 AHG Members save $25 — find your code in your email inbox or the Member Discounts area of the Member Community!

10/20/2025

Drop In for Class on Tuesday, October 28th, 6-9 PM Eastern Time
Meet the Mast Cells: Herbal Strategies for Allergies, Histamine Intolerance, and MCAS with Mel Kasting RH(AHG)
Live Streamed via Zoom & Recorded

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wintergreenbotanicals.com/classes

In this three-hour class, we’ll dive deep into the physiology of allergic responses, histamine intolerance, and mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS). You’ll learn to differentiate between these conditions, explore key assessment strategies, and develop effective herbal treatment protocols. We’ll cover the most effective botanical approaches for histamine balance, immune modulation, and symptom management—giving you practical, evidence-informed tools to integrate into your practice. Detailed class notes, a resource packet for further study and a materia medica and formulary will be provided after class.

10/14/2025

Drop in for Class on Tuesday, October 21st, 5-8 PM Eastern Time
Holistic and Integrative Cancer Care with Ember Peters, RHP (they/she)
Live Streamed via Zoom & Recorded

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As herbalists, we can offer holistic care to people going through different stages and types of cancers. Individually tailored nutritional and herbal protocols can help to reduce side effects and improve efficacy of conventional medical interventions, support the person’s overall resilience, and may prevent recurrence. This class will include a broad overview of the physiological mechanisms of cancer, therapeutic goals and herbal actions, the core herbal materia medica and dietary support. From a client-centered approach, we will discuss end of life care, working with oncologists, and supporting our clients in framing realistic goals and expectations for working with herbs. Ember Peters

10/12/2025

Fire cider in the works! This year I did a “smoothie” method with fresh local organic ginger as well as onions and garlic and some turmeric. Kicking myself for not buying some fresh hot peppers 🤦🏽‍♀️ and couldn’t easily fine horseradish (which I don’t love anyway). Frost-kissed lemongrass from my deck planter plus some dry crushed red pepper and black peppercorns. Organic apple cider vinegar with the mother plus a little local honey. Will key it sit about a month then strain (some folks dehydrate and powder the dregs).
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I mainly enjoy fire cider combined with a lot of stone ground mustard and a bit of maple syrup to taste, whirred in the blender. This dressing keeps very well in the fridge (months? Longer?).
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I then use this for side salads of crisp greens, bitter red radicchio, sliced local apples, a sprinkle of toasted pumpkin/pepita seeds and perhaps a few dried cranberries. This is a side salad served with almost every breakfast and many dinners, a few lunches from September through December in our house. (Bacon, canned mackerel, seared or canned salmon, cheddar, and/or roasted chickpeas or seasoned tofu are also great toppers.)
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Of course these ingredients all have health benefits and warming energetics, perfect for these colder months. But they’re also delicious! 😋

10/12/2025

Guess what I’m making today?? ‘‘Tis the season! Recipes to come…

10/11/2025

How do YOU enjoy interacting with garden sage? For medicine, food, ritual….?
Regular ol’ garden sage (Salvia officinalis) is a mind-blowing apothecary in and unto itself. And right now, she’s taking center stage in the garden with lush, frost-tolerant silvery foliage and potent, aromatics.
WISE: Much like its close relative rosemary, sage has been shown benefits both inhaled and ingested for supporting cognition, mental clarity, focus, and clearing the cognitive cobwebs as we age. I love the way that modern scientific research reinforces what we have long known about this “wise sage” plant across cultures and millennia.
ANTIMICROBIAL: As with other pungent mint-family aromatic herbs (think: oregano, thyme, bee balm, savory, lavender, rosemary…), sage is loaded with antimicrobial aromatics and other constituents that help us fight infections topically, in the respiratory system, digestive system, and urinary tract. It’s perhaps best known as a throat gargle or spray because it helps ease inflammation and pain, fights germs, and tights and tones the mucus membranes. One of my recent favorite commercial throat sprays combines sage with aloe gel (to help soothe and moisten things up), myrrh (a potent antimicrobial resin to augment sage’s germ-killing power), plus some cinnamon and peppermint (for flavor, antimicrobial action, and pain relief). It’s also classic in foot care, powdered up with clay for foot powder, incorporated into creams or foot baths, etc. I recently chewed and held sage leaf poultices against an infected tooth (alongside internal echinacea) while awaiting care, which seemed very helpful for knocking things back.
DIGESTIVE: Much like its pungent aromatic relatives, sage helps to stimulate digestion, ease gas and bloating, shift intestinal dysbiosis, and improve fat digestion. Perfect for the starchier, fattier cuisine of these cooler months to come.
More info in comments below - and share your sage stories, too!

10/09/2025

Support the American Herbalists Guild & Show Off Your Wares!

"Call for Silent Auction Donations!"

The actual virtual auction is Dec 2-4, and they're accepting donations now - gift certificates, herbal baskets, consults, arts and crafts, digital offerings (courses, recordings, guides), event tickets... This is a great way to do goodwill and/or promote your work.

To donate an item (before Nov 30!), use the following link along with a high quality photo of the item (donors are responsible for shipping items or sending electronic files directly to winners... if USA shipping only be sure that to include that in the description)

Donation form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhCX8vqQ4ho6t5cHnv7-irNiOklYURX5-BZqf4fo8CKrGgKg/viewform

American Herbalists Guild

10/07/2025

Drop in for class on Tuesday, October 14th, 6-9 PM Eastern Time
Holistic & Herbal Lyme Support with Debbie Mercier, Clinical Herbalist
Live Streamed Online via Zoom (& Recorded)

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wintergreenbotanicals.com/classes

This will be a presentation on using plants to support wellbeing in Lyme disease, sharing materia medica of herbs, charts, supplementation for relief, support for co-infections, and diet suggestions as well as protocols for herxing. Advice on what to do when clients are on other medications that may have herbal contraindications. Debbie will share her experience with cases and demonstrate how each individual differs in approach.

10/07/2025

Drop in for class on Tuesday, October 7th, 6-9 PM Eastern Time
Thyroid with Maria Noël Groves, Clinical Herbalist & Author
Live Streamed via Zoom & Recorded

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In this class we will focus primarily on natural support for Hashimoto’s hypothyroid disease but you will learn the basics of hypothyroid, hyperthyroid, Hashimoto’s, and Graves’ diseases including dietary, supplement, lifestyle, and specific herbal approaches as well as how to read thyroid labs and work in an integrative and safe way alongside hypothyroid medications.

10/06/2025

Join me for a FREE class as part of the meeting held at the New Hampshire Audubon McLane Center in Concord NH. We'll be talking about Growing & Using Peaceful Herbs and I will have books available to buy after the class.

Free but please do RSVP at https://www.concordgardenclubnh.com/event-details/growing-using-peaceful-herbs-with-maria-noel-groves

09/25/2025

NEW student comfrey monograph on the blog! From Kate Duinkerken for course homework (plus additional info/insights from Maria). Learn about comfrey cautions and controversy, benefits of comfrey including for topical aches and pains and wound healing, and more online at

👉 wintergreenbotanicals.com/comfrey

09/24/2025

🍂Dry, Irritated Skin Season is Approaching ~ NEW blog post from Maria shares insights on skin support including for folks who have dermatitis and eczema as well as regular dry or irritated skin. We discuss lifestyle, herbals, internal, and external support plus links to great recipes, videos, essential oil tips, and skin plant profiles.

👉Read it online at wintergreenbotanicals.com/sootheskin

Photo of topical skin herbs from Maria’s book Body into Balance (Storey Publishing, 2016), photograph by Kimberly Peck Photography