Teachers

Angel Putney Noe, she/her
Angel is registered nurse, herbalist & teacher. She is currently working at Natural Family Health & Integrative Medicine in North Stonington as an office manager, medicine maker & community health educator. She is also now offering CranioSacral Therapy & Reiki. Her journey as an herbalist started many years ago as she travelled around the country. She learned about using common plants for first aid and acute care needs. She worked with friends & family as they needed formulating blends and teaching others how to make their own medicine. Years later she attended the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine as an apprentice in 2003 to further her education. Directly following this amazing program she enrolled in a nursing program to go on and earn her BSN at the University of Southern Maine and becoming a Registered Nurse. She is currently in school to become a Nurse Practitioner, and runs her herbal school, “Reclaiming Our Roots” in CT.

Maggie Hatzpanian, Maggies Healing Path, she/her
Maggie Hatzpanian is an Herbalist and Yoga Instructor with a background in Nursing. She brings all these a plus her own wellness practices together in helping others maintain Health, Wellness & Happiness through her newly formed Maggie’s Healing Path. In addition to working directly with clients she grows & formulates a full line of Herbal products as well.

 

 

Priscilla Vargas, Farmacy Herbs, she/her
Pricilla is an entrepreneur, artist/creator, gardener and herbalist. Born and raised in Providence, RI.  She spent her first 9 years living in the Dominican Republic. She has a passion for uplifting her community through holistic healthcare and supporting local businesses & artists. She currently works as a fine gardener for a woman owned company. She also runs a small business, @GoodsByBlckRose, in which she makes handmade felt items, herbal infused skincare & curated tea blends. She works to share the knowledge she has learned on her personal journey of decolonization & reclaiming ancestral practices.

 

Emily Shapiro is a farmer, herbalist, and educator based in Seekonk, MA and Prudence Island, Rhode Island. She is the founder and manager of Night Garden Herbs, a small, multi-dimensional farm project located on just under 1/3 acre of land and home to over 50 species of culinary and medicinal herbs, flowers, and vegetables grown with low-input, sustainable methods. Emily grows, harvests and processes plants throughout the summer season to be used fresh or dried in tea blends, oils, salves, and tinctures, as well as various other hand crafted medicines and home products. She coordinates a two-season CSA from June – October and December – March, hosts workshops and educational events, and is committed to supporting plants, people, and the planet. All Night Garden offerings are based on a sliding scale model in order to support and sustain financially accessible work. Visit nightgardenherbs.com for more information.

Molly Henry-Molly is student of permaculture and herbal medicine. She strives to find ways to create more regenerative growing models that minimize input and effort and encourage more balanced and healthy ecosystems. She received her Permaculture Design Certificate in 2022 from Sowing Solutions in Western Massachusetts and completed levels I & II at Farmacy Herbs. She is the Director of Climate and Health at the nonprofit, American Forests, where she works with cities across the country to create Tree Equity. She is also a Master Gardener and active volunteer with Revive the Roots, a permaculture farm and education hub base in Smithfield, RI. She lives in Pawtucket, RI with her husband, 2 step children, 1 dog, 2 cats and 3 chickens.

Lesley Wooler, Herb Wyfe
Lesley Wooler, is the owner of The Herb Wyfe, located at Belmont Market in Wakefield. She served on the board for the North East Herbal Association for 10 years, 4 as its president. She is a Regional Director for NAHA ( National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy). She received her BSc. in Horticulture from the University of RI. She has been teaching herbal and aromatherapy classes throughout New England for the past 20 years.

Facilitate Change
Facilitate Change’s (“FC”)  has over 17 years practicing anti-oppression facilitation. FC facilities community conversations. These are intentional spaces for a group to have conversations pertaining to a specific topic, which is set by the group. Topics may range from white accountability to BIPOC healing to post-election processing to name a few of our most recent spaces.

Lynn Golan, The Peoples Gold
Based in the lush Northeastern ecosystem, Lynn and The People’s Gold is grounded in the values of community, reciprocity, and healing. Lynn feels most at home bare-footed with hands in the Earth. She has worked on various farms and gardens, learning to grow and care for plants. She studied at the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine in Ithaca, NY and completed Farmacy Herb’s Herbal Clinical Residency in Providence, RI; working with various practitioners at the Sage Healing Collaborative, an integrated medical office. Lynn has attended the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine’s Herbal Practitioner Skills class, the Survivor Art Collective’s Trauma Informed Practitioner workshop, and the Wild Current School’s  Advanced Clinical Skills Program.  Lynn is currently in-training to become a Cornerstone certified Full-Spectrum Birth Doula. When she is not in the People’s Gold herb garden or apothecary studio, she works with The People’s Medicine Project Clinic, a health justice organization providing holistic healthcare throughout the Pioneer Valley. Lynn currently lives in the woods of Western Massachusetts, on the ancestral lands of the Pocumtuc, Nipmuc, and Wabanaki peoples. 

Jade Alicandro, Milk and Honey Herbs
Jade Alicandro weaves a love of bioregionally abundant herbs and kitchen medicine into her work as a community and clinical herbalist. She started studying herbs formally in 2005- coming from a background in botany- and has been intertwined with them ever since. She has a background rich in Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and the Vitalist Tradition of herbalism, and brings this diversity and breadth of knowledge to her teaching and clinical practice.  Her work as an herbalist revolves around self and community empowerment, food as medicine, accessibility, community resilience, locally abundant plants, and the sharing and spreading of herbal knowledge. She draws on the wisdom and traditions of her Southern Italian (Campania, Lazio, Sicily) and Greek ancestral lineages.

 

Kei Cobb
Kei Soares Cobb is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Registered Craniosacral Therapist, Viniyoga instructor, herbalist, musician, and dancer sharing the ancestral gift of immaculate presence for the healing of our waters, our forests, and our future generations in Providence, RI.

 

Jenny Lee, Common Root Botanicals
Jenny Lee – founder of Common Root Botanicals- has been deeply engaged with the secret lives of plants since childhood.Specializing in small-batch skincare products for all seasons and environments, Jenny also crafts custom blended herbal teas, herbal vinegars, syrups, and fermented foods for immune, digestive, and nervous system support. Jenny’s classes and products engage with the health, healing, and wisdom of plants and encourage people to connect to the healing available all around them.

 

Alex Klein, he/him, Herbalist– Alex Klein, intermediary between people and plants. Alexa run a humble herbal medicine practice based in Boston, where he works out of an apothecary almost entirely gathered from wild plants or grown in his garden. Alex’s goal as an herbalist is to help my clients find ease in their lives by connecting them with the plants that he grows around them and to enable them to make healthcare decisions on their own terms. Alex trained under 7Song at the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine and the Ithaca Free Clinic, work as an herbal First Aid-er at various wilderness gatherings and volunteered as a foot care worker at the Asheville Street Feet Clinic in North Carolina. Since returning home to Boston in 2020, he have been leading classes and workshops on herbal medicine, wild food, invasive species, botany and tree appreciation, and all sorts of other plant based topics. 

Nico Lebreux, they /them, Cosmic Earth Collective
Nico is a community herbalist, yoga teacher, meditation guide, radical self care mentor, and earth centered entrepreneur who lives in coastal Rhode Island on sovereign Wampanoag land. They specialize in teaching people how to deeply connect with their multidimensional selves and the living world within + around them through simple everyday techniques that are available to all.Their offerings there are no expectations and no judgments. I will holds space for you to strengthen your intuition, commune with the earth, and connect with source energy whatever that looks like and feels like for you.

Emily Sorlien, she/ her, Queen of Bones Tarot, Farmacy Herbs
Emily is a disabled visual artist and astro-magician based in Providence, Rhode Island. A series of mental and physical health crises in my mid-twenties cracked her wide open, forcing her to learn to tend my wounds with plants, intentional self love, and embodied spiritual practices. Since that initiatory experience, it’s been her mission to locate and weave together the common threads of my astro-magic studies and her work as a maker of deeply symbolic images. As a practicing astrologer and astro-magician, she seek to bridge the gap between wayward mortals and the stars that guide us with the help of plant allies. Emily spend her days painting, studying astro-herbalism, practicing electional astrology, working as a trauma informed natal astrologer and tarot reader, and learning new ways to return to gentle, loving relationship with my whole herself again and again.