Woodland Herbal

06/18/2026

Have you felt something missing?
So many people feel it right now, even if they don’t always know how to name it.
A restlessness. A sadness. A hunger for something real. A sense that modern life has pulled us too far from the living world, too far from the seasons, too far from the old skills that once helped people care for their bodies, homes, families, and communities.
Modern life has made us feel like aliens on our own planet.
But the living world is still here.
The plants are still growing in field, forest, garden, backyard, and roadside edge. They still offer food, medicine, beauty, relationship, memory, and care. And they are still calling us back into a more rooted way of living.
That is why Green Path Academy exists.
Our in-person herbal school at beautiful Clary Gardens in Coshocton, Ohio has grown into 20 hands-on classes in plant medicine, nature connection, folk tradition, medicine making, and everyday care.
You can start with one class.
You can return when you can.
You can follow the full path if the plants keep calling.
Most classes begin at $40, and no experience is required.
And if Ohio is too far, you are still part of this work. We are working on bringing more Green Path Academy education online in the future. In the meantime, you can learn with us through the Woodland Herbal blog and bring the plants into your home through our handcrafted apothecary.
If something has been bothering you and you are looking for plant-based support, reach out or explore our remedies. We are happy to help point you toward a tea, tincture, salve, syrup, oil, or formula that may fit what you are looking for.
The plants still remember how to care for us.
Come learn the plants.
Bring their care back home.
Explore Green Path classes: www.GreenPathAcademy.org
Read the Woodland Herbal blog: https://woodlandherbal.com/blogs/walk-with-us-memoirs-meanderings
Shop Woodland Herbal remedies: www.WoodlandHerbal.com

06/17/2026

Relief Rub is the best natural pain reliever and anti-inflammatory that we can make legally... This Extra Strength Medicinal Salve works on Sore Joints, Muscles, Headaches, Neck and Back Pain, and has a powerful topical Anti-Inflammatory action...

Throughout 2019, we had our most active year participating in local artisan markets, farmers markets and regional Ohio events, and by far our most popular product is our Relief Rub. We asked every curious visitor to rub a dollop on what hurts and walk around for 15-minutes, and we were blessed to find most returned because it really helped them. This formula has been refined over the years and is the best we can make with legal medicinal plants, extracts, and essential oils.‡

This potent medicinal balm is effective for topical use on sore muscles, tender joints, and a variety of aches and pains. Our quick acting extra strength Relief Rub is versatile in its applications, as it can be used to ease tension, relieve stress and anxiety, ease headaches and migraines, support the body’s anti-inflammatory response to joint swelling and discomfort, and can be used to support a range of ailments listed on our website.‡

Learn more and shop now at www.WoodlandHerbal.com

06/17/2026

Woodland Herbal is sponsoring the Lost Skills Festival Oct. 3 at Clary Gardens with a variety of teachers and artisans focusing on skills of the past from homesteading to blacksmithing. See link below ⬇️

📸 Leonard Hayhurst/Tribune

06/16/2026

All is not lost.

Herbal Wisdom for a Toxic Age is officially available today.

This book was written for the world we are actually living in — a world of stress, toxic burden, overprocessed everything, fear-heavy headlines, and people quietly wondering how to care for themselves without being swallowed by panic.

My answer is simple:
Care. Not panic.

Inside this illustrated herbal guide are plant profiles, practical recipes, simple methods, and grounded wisdom for anyone looking for a steadier way through modern overwhelm and uncertain times.

The free PDF is available now through Woodland Herbal, because I wanted this guide to reach as many people as possible.

The printed edition is also available for those who want to hold it in their hands, mark the pages, keep it near the kettle, or gift it to someone beginning their own herbal path.

You can read the full story behind the book — why I wrote it, what’s inside, and how to get your copy — here: https://woodlandherbal.com/blogs/walk-with-us-memoirs-meanderings/herbal-wisdom-for-a-toxic-age

Order now at www.WoodlandHerbal.com

Ohio herbal apothecary crafting teas, tinctures, and salves by hand. Visit our herb shop or shop online for small-batch, plant-based care and hands-on herbal classes.

06/15/2026

WHY I WROTE THE BOOK
I wrote Herbal Wisdom for a Toxic Age because I kept seeing people caught between two exhausting extremes: the very real burden of modern life and the constant drumbeat of fear that tells us we are powerless inside it. Everywhere we turn, there is another warning, another headline, another chemical, another crisis, another reason to feel overwhelmed in our own bodies and homes. I didn’t want to add to that fear. I wanted to offer a different doorway. This guide was written to help people remember that care is still possible, that health does not have to belong only to experts, institutions, or expensive systems, and that simple, grounded choices still matter. A cup of tea, a bitter herb before meals, a nervous system remedy, a cleaner rhythm of living, a deeper relationship with the plants and the land. These things may seem small, but they are part of a much larger reclamation. To me, herbalism is not just a collection of remedies. It is a sane, beautiful, practical response to a culture that has become too fast, too processed, too disconnected, and too afraid. This book is my offering to anyone who wants to step out of panic and back into participation, to take their health into their own hands with humility and wisdom, and to begin walking a slower, greener, more human path.

Inside the guide:
• 80 illustrated pages of grounded herbal wisdom and practical care
• 12+ materia medica profiles featuring useful herbs for modern wellness
• 6 practical recipes for everyday home herbalism
• Simple herbal methods for teas, infusions, preparations, and daily use
• Plant wisdom for toxic overwhelm, stress, depletion, and modern imbalance
• A literary opening essay on herbalism as a more human response to modern life
• Beginner-friendly guidance for those just stepping onto the Green Path
• Rooted perspective from Woodland Herbal’s family apothecary tradition

GET THE BOOK
Herbal Wisdom for a Toxic Age will be released as a printed edition, as eBook on Kindle, and as a free downloadable PDF on 06/16/2026.

Preorder the printed edition at www.WoodlandHerbal.com

06/14/2026

Reminder! Lost Skills Gathering meeting tonight for all who are interested in learning more, joining management staff, teach, volunteer, vend, etc. Clary Gardens, 588 W Chestnut St, Coshocton, OH 43812 @ 5:00 PM under the beautiful pavilion.

06/13/2026

I don’t think we’ll ever get tired of seeing this.

Tiny flowers rising out of the ground. Bees moving from bloom to bloom. Butterflies and little insects finding food, shelter, and a reason to stay. What began as a simple hope has slowly become something living.

For years now, Woodland Herbal has planted 100 native wildflower seeds for every item sold. Added all together, that means our customers have helped us put well over 13 million wildflower seeds back into the world.

That number honestly stops me for a moment.

Because behind every order, there’s more than a transaction. There’s a family being supported. There are children being fed. There are humble herbalists able to keep doing the work we believe in. And then, because of that support, we’re able to turn around and offer something back to the land.

Your order helps us care for our family.

It helps us care for the living world.

That’s the circle we’ve always wanted Woodland Herbal to be part of.

This wildflower initiative may seem small compared to the problems facing the planet, but small acts done faithfully can carry great power. A patch of lawn can become a meadow. A forgotten edge of ground can become a home. A single order can become flowers, and those flowers can feed bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, and all the tiny lives that help hold the world together.

We need more beauty.

We need more wild habitat.

We need more people willing to turn ordinary spaces into places where life can thrive.

So thank you. Truly.

When you choose Woodland Herbal, you’re not just supporting natural remedies. You’re helping a real family keep going, and you’re helping us plant something hopeful back into the earth.

You can read more about our wildflower initiative, our mission, and why this matters so deeply to us on our website.

From our family, our children, and all the small yet sacred lives finding steadiness in these beautiful flowers — thank you.

Learn more at www.WoodlandHerbal.com

06/13/2026

Lost Skills Gathering is now accepting vendors...

06/12/2026

Warsaw, Ohio has yard sale fever! 🔥🏷🔥
Start your day of shopping with Yoga at 9:30 Saturday morning (by donation, beginners welcome).
To join in the community yard sale fun, we will be marking down prices on select items, in-store only. Look for the yard sale stickers when you visit Woodland Herbal this Saturday! Happy shopping everyone!