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Abi Huff is an ever-evolving community and clinical herbalist, educator, medicine maker, intuitive life strategist, healing justice organizer, and overall plant nerd. We discuss ancestral herbalism, being a politicized herbalist, food as medicine, and herbs for the nervous system.

Jocelyn Boreta is an herbalist and co-founder of the Botanical Bus, a bilingual mobile herb clinic serving Latinx and Indigenous farm workers in Sonoma County.