A huge thank you to our presenting sponsor for The Herbalist Hour, Oshala Farm.  Oshala Farm is a beautiful and vibrant certified organic herb farm based in southern Oregon where they grow and sell over 80 different plant species.  LEARN MORE AND BUY | OshalaFarm.com Flower Essences Course brought to you by The Florida School of Holistic Living LEARN MORE AND REGISTER Plant Spirit Psychopomp brought to you by Nativa Medica LEARN MORE AND REGISTER The Vitalist Herbalism FREE Mini-Course brought to you by School of Evolutionary Herbalism LEARN MORE AND REGISTER In this episode of The Herbalist Hour I'm joined by Ash Ritter. Ash is a west coast born, desert-dwelling ethnobotanist, educator, writer, multi-disciplinary animist, and poet in disguise as herbalist. For twenty years and counting, Ash continues to reverently devote her life to fungal & botanical studies, encompassing traditional, academic, clinical, and directly relational terrains. Her approach places emphasis on plants, fungi, and planet as relations, and is manifested through her practice as fostering engagement with & as the living world, rather than "using" plants as commodity. She counsels & creates in her private practice, Black Sage Botanicals. In this episode we discuss the Solanaceae plant family, her herbal origins, what a psychonaut is, making herbal candy and a whole lot more. THIS PODCAST IS MEANT FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY! I had a great time chatting it up with Ash and getting to know her story.  LINKS & RESOURCES Black Sage Botanicals | BlackSageBotanicals.org Ash's products | LEARN MORE Ash on Instagram | @black.sage.botanicals   ?WANT MORE HERBAL GOODNESS? Become an HerbRally Schoolhouse member!  You'll get access to a TON of herbalism classes, monographs, webinars and more.  We add new material each and every week.  There's also discounts to cool herbal companies, a private Facebook group and more! You can get your first 30 days FREE with coupon code PODCAST LEARN MORE AND REGISTER ?WANT EVEN MORE HERBAL GOODNESS? Sign up for the HerbRally newsletter and receive THIRTEEN herbal freebies!  ? CLAIM YOUR FREEBIES! Herbalism in your neck of the woods.  HerbRally www.herbrally.com