Linda Conroy, MSS, MLSP is a Wise Woman, Bioregional Herbalist, A Wild and Whole Food Afficinado and a Community Organizer. She is the founder of Moonwise Herbs, The Midwest Women's Herbal Conference and Mycelium Mysteries, a Women's Mushroom Gathering. She lives at her homestead in southern Wisconsin with the plants, mushrooms, ducks, chickens, rabbits, honey bees, great pyreness and familiar felines. She teaches classes and runs apprenticeship programs based on the wise woman tradition. She can be reached at www.moonwiseherbs.com or midwestwomensherbal.com

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Interview with Sarah Ellen

Sarah Ellen is a student of life. She cherishes the opportunity to live with awareness, and experience the wholeness of being alive. Sarah Ellen lives at her home, Heartsong, in Barrington Hills, Illinois with her husband Jay, and their dogs, cats, goats and chickens. She intends each day to know and remember her inherent connection with the Earth and all the magic and beauty that surround her. Sarah Ellen has studied virtually with Asia Suler, and personally with Linda Conroy, Pam Montgomery and her lifelong teacher and kindred Susun Weed. She gives great regard and gratitude to her unconditionally loving teachers and co~creators the plants, animals, elements and the well~spring of her own blood and bones that hold the memories and knowings of all the Wise Women and their sons, who came before her. What gifts could be received from a poison ally? During a 2015 three season herbalism class at the Resiliency Institute in Naperville, Illinois taught by herbalist Linda Conroy Sarah Ellen found out. Asked to choose a plant ally Sarah asked that the plant choose her. Though not who she expected, when Poison Ivy appeared it was an invitation too curious to pass up..