Interested in helping save native plants, wildlife, pollinators, and ecosystems?

Combat commercial overharvesting by planting native!

Since the popularity of herbal medicine and demand for massive amounts of herbs has grown the highest it has ever been— supporting our native plants has become more important than ever...

This popularity combined with commercial development has led to a huge decline in native medicinal plant populations— to the point that the list of native plants at-risk of extinction grows longer each year.

Because of this, you might be wondering—

  • Which plants native to North America are at-risk of becoming endangered?
  • How can I ethically source herbs?
  • Should I source native and invasive plants the same way?
     

So I developed this completely free Native Medicinal Plant Grow Guide—


Learn the following for 16 North American Native Medicinal species:

  • How to Start

    Some plants grow easily from seed, but others that are extremely challenging or time-consuming to do so and are better grown as cuttings etc.— I share the best way to start each one.

  • How to Tend

    Their soil and light preferences, spacing requirements, ideal container size, and which growing zones they'll come back in each year

  • How to Harvest

    Just because a plant is medicinal doesn't mean every part is worked with in the same way. Plants can carry their compounds in their leaves, flowers, roots, or seeds.

Even if you are not in a position to grow these plants yourself...

I still invite you to download this free Native Medicinal Plant Grow Guide.

Why? Because whether we are purchasing, gardening, or wildcrafting our herbs— this training provides valuable insight and resources into how and why we can ethically source them— Thank you for doing your part to keep the tradition of herbalism alive!
Begin the training now

Meet the Herbalist - Jovie Hawthorn Browne

I created Rootcraft for those who feel they don't "fit in" with the herbal crowd.

Unlike many herbal teachers you can find, I didn’t grow up living off the land...

I’d love to say I did, but I grew up in the impoverished Mojave desert in military housing.

Thanks to colonization, I've never had access to elders who could teach me the healing traditions of my ancestors...

But I did have books and professors to teach me how cellular biology and phytochemistry worked as I earned my bachelor's degree in Biology and post-grad diploma in herbalism.

I don't preach the doctrine that "natural is the only way" or "everything is toxic and after you".

I used to. And I was... the worst. Through recovering from eating and anxiety disorders and examining privilege and internalized classism, I now encourage & teach leaning on whichever tools you have access to in order to get through this capitalistic, patriarchal hellscape we live in. 

I didn’t get to know plants through foraging and wildcrafting them.

I got to know them through cultivating and tending to them in several gardens for over a decade. 

I may not fit in with the herbal crowd. But the plants don't mind.

They allow me to continue learning and experimenting. My path has not been traditional. And that’s okay. Your path doesn't have to look like anyone else's path either. 

I’m just here to share what I’ve learned so far with all of you, in a way that I’m hoping will feel safe, non-judgmental, and balanced.

Herbalism lies where nature, science, and tradition meet.