Hannah Schyler

26/03/2025

14/03/2024

& In an initial consult with me, we meet for about 60-90 minutes and go over your health history and your main health concerns. We discuss what you've done in the past that has and hasn't worked, how you'd like to integrate herbs and how, ideally, you'd like for them to support you. An herbal consultation is, above all, a collaboration between us where I, as a clinical herbalist, serve as facilitator and guide, but you, as the expert on your body and life, make all the decisions and direct us in implementing a care plan that works for you.
P You receive my undivided attention in the session while we talk as well as some deep, behind the scenes research into ways to support you with plant medicines once we've finished. I have particular specialized interests in herbal medicine but I am a general practitioner and do my best to help with all manner of health issues, making sure to express my limits and scope and to also consult research and books to help find the best herbs for you.
ei l am a holistic practitioner that believes in a vitalist approach to healing, whereby we are not just our ailments and every piece of our lives and bodies are interrelated-our selves do not end at the boundary of our skin and those elements and systems that extend beyond us are an important part of the story. I believe our bodies have an inherent desire to heal and herbs are an incredible vehicle for supporting this process.
• Every initial consultation includes a 4 oz custom herbal tincture blend that I formulate for you from my personal apothecary along with a write-up of my notes summarizing our discussion, other thoughts and recommendations with links to any resources.
* Herbs take time and formulas take tweaking! I usually recommend a follow-up in 4-6 weeks to see how the herbs are feeling and get some updates. Then we plan more from there.
All clients receive herbs at my wholesale price of $10/oz to make the herbs more accessible. There are also sliding scale options for consultations as well! Re-fills are available at any time for current clients.

14/03/2024

All the medicine we make here at Foliage Botanics is done in teeny tiny seasonal batches. Because of this, and like the Earth, we are not always in stock and many items we share have an ephemerality to them. I like this very much. It keeps the biz small & ethical & experimental, it allows me to grow and source all our herbs with the utmost intention, and it means every bottle and tin you receive from us is very very potent and fresh.
The Elderberries & Oats come from our friends at Whistledown Farm, the Roses from an antique Rose bush in my neighbour's yard, the Angelica from the Shekomeko creek bed, the Valerian root from my garden, the Nettle from a vast patch in a sheep pasture up the hill... Being able to trace every herb back to its origin and every bottle back to a moment in time feels very special to me and it is—I think you can taste the stories, the places, and the integrity in each little bottle. And, of course, the plants!
Over the years my medicinal herb garden has grown considerably and most of our medicine is now made from herbs grown there. I'll often replant root tops l've dug, save and spread my own seed, transplant and spread existing plants, and so the cycle feels especially cyclical. The garden is my happy place; there's certainly a lot of joy that goes into the medicine I share and I think the plants are happy too-the Motherwort is bountiful, the Marshmallow over 7 feet tall, the Lemonbalm spreads and spreads...
And so, everything in the apothecary this week is 1 5% * ff for the holidays with the code DECEMBER. Please indulge and grab yourself and a friend an herbal treasure-some of these items may not be back for many months or might simply never return! I hope you picture all of this, where it all comes from, as you do :)

14/03/2024

1. Meadow Tea, 2. Garden Tea, 3. Tulsi-Rose-
Oat, 4. Green Things ~~ these limited & very special teas are a labour of love--I spend an inordinate amount of time harvesting and drying herbs for these blends, but it's 1000% worth it. Every single plant in them is grown & gathered & garbled right here in NY! You can both see and taste the difference, a pleasure for the eyes as much as the taste buds.
Everything in the apothecary is 1 5% Off rn with the c de
DECEMBER ~~ just a few bags of these precious blends left!

14/03/2024

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14/03/2024

I really love plants and I've been studying herbal medicine and other off-shoots of plant science since I started college in 2009.
Prior to that I never knew a thing and didn't grow up with any sort of earthy stuff, so I feel very adamant that this knowledge is for everyone, however distant from it one might feel. I started this program in 2021, after watching so much herbal learning shift online, out of my own desire to be together in community with the plants and knowing others wanted and needed that too.
The first year I had a 6 week old baby on the first day of class (a naïve decision, one might say...) and the whole experience was a magical blur. This upcoming program will be year 5 of Wild Medicine Ways and both I and the course have really come into our own. The program also centres around this particular piece of land where l've lived the past 6.5 years, a place where my own understanding of plants really deepened through relationship and time. I love sharing this place, teaching plant ID, and bridging the magical and practical sides of plant medicine, though my own education was more on the practical side with a lot of clinical focus and first aid and botany. As a teacher, I love a hands-on, experiential approach for my students and try to balance providing a lot of information with deep conversation and self-exploration and just being here--I often call my method lateral learning, meaning that everyone shares their knowledge and experience as well, it's not all top-down. I facilitate, but I learn too and I try to let the group's interests and needs and the plants guide us. I also teach from a quite leftist, anticapitalist, antiracist, f**k-the-empire kind of perspective and try to always root our learning in some amount of socio-political context, which I believe is not only relevant, but essential. Here I am with a very, very tall Angelica, one of the many special plants we meet and work with in this class!

14/03/2024

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14/03/2024

Plant identification is a big part of Wild Medicine Ways and I'm excited that this year it's getting a little more time set aside for it, since I believe it is a truly important component of bioregional herbalism. We go on a lot of plant walks together throughout the seasons in this program, exploring the waves of blooming and senescing and seeing as many of the plants we'll use for medicine as possible growing in their natural habitats. We learn the plants first from the perspective of "who are you?" rather than "what can you do for me?" and this feels truly significant. We also get familiar with botanical parts and lingo and learn to use a dichotomous key, in particular the Newcomb's Wildflower Guide, to ID plants we don't know by sight. I think it's really fun and much easier learning to do all this collaboratively, to join minds and figure out the plants together--it's how I learned and, after teaching this program going on 5 years, I stand by it! So excited to devote our hearts to it again. Join us, join us, join us--still accepting applications and just a few spots left 🌿🪴

14/03/2024

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