Seraphina Capranos, a classical homeopath and herbalist bridges the clinical and mystical dimensions of herbalism, and discusses the pressure practitioners can feel to choose between them. She envisions an herbalism spacious enough to hold the clinician and the kitchen witch at the same table.

David Winston, herbalist and ethnobotanist of fifty-eight years, holds science, tradition, and spirit as three ways of knowing, and shows how a herbalism that refuses to choose between them becomes as resilient as a forest.

Peter Conway, one of the most respected voices in British herbal medicine, makes the case for deep herbalism: a practice rooted in relationship, responsibility, and the recognition that we owe our existence entirely to plants.

A conversation with Tad Hargrave that moves from the fear of being seen, to earning a living from sacred work without losing yourself in the selling, into the market as a place of kinship and devotion.

In this inaugural episode of The Herballectual, I sit down with 7Song to explore how herbalists are formed, what must be unlearned, and how clinical reality reshapes early idealism, tracing herbalism across clinics, classrooms, and communities.