I am an Elemental Plant Medicine practitioner with a life long love and exploration of plants and their medicine. I work to create products in accordance with the 5 Elements (Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal) and their corresponding seasons and attributes. My products work topically and energetically to treat mind, body and spirit together (rather than focusing only on the body as Western medicine often does). In this way, I create wholistic natural medicine that is gentle and effective, as well as being beautiful. You can use one of my colognes for grounding and sense of well-being in turbulent times. You can use a topical cream for pain and inflammation that also gives energetic protection. You can use one of my beautiful creams as part of a daily ritual or regimen as a facial moisturizer but also as way to instill self-love and reinforce self-value. I grow many of the plants I use, and add more to my garden each year. Some of the plant allies I respectfully and sustainably wildcraft. The ingredients that I must purchase, I carefully source to insure quality. I use nearly no plastic. My products are either packaging-free (soap, shampoo and body bars), in glass (oils, hydrosols, liniments) or paper (deodorant, lotion sticks) or metal tins (balms and salves). The only plastic is in/on some of the bottle caps/stoppers/sprayers and the lip balm tubes (I plan to move to paper lip balm tubes by 2026). Much of my product development comes from my customers. People stop by the table to ask “do you have something for—-“ and if I don’t, I do research and development. This has become a very important part of what I do. Since it is important to me to interact with the public and talk about the medicine, I do all of my own vending. I want people to understand how much amazing plant medicine grows in our own backyards in the Cascadia bioregion. Education is key. I am either at market vending, or home growing/harvesting/processing/making. I enjoy using as much of the plants I harvest as I can. In this way, I offer sustainable, effective medicine.