Warm conversations from the herbal community.
HerbRally treats herbalism as both craft and culture. Episodes move from nettle preparations and plant energetics to event updates, practitioner stories, and the everyday work of keeping plant knowledge alive.
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HerbRally is a long-running herbalism show built from interviews, teaching clips, event previews, plant profiles, and relaxed shop talk. It feels roomy. Episodes often begin with a casual introduction or a guest connection, then widen into the kind of conversation that herbalists have around classes, gardens, conference tables, and medicine cabinets. Nettle gets especially close attention in the recent run. One episode challenges simple assumptions about nettle as only a nutrient herb, comparing tea, long infusions, tinctures, seasonal use, inflammation, allergies, urinary support, and blood sugar research. Another turns nettle into a course and challenge, with field filming, community participation, and playful talk about being stung on purpose. The show is not only about single herbs. Pam Gould speaks about functional herbalism, constitution, food energetics, menopause, Lyme, and the work of explaining plant medicine beyond the herbal world. Laura Madeline discusses moving from nursing toward herbal practice, growing medicine from seed, harvesting locally, and noticing the difference between vibrant small-batch herbs and anonymous dried material from larger suppliers. Rick Scalzo talks through Kokora, regenerative organic growing, biodiversity, mucuna, passionflower, turmeric, soil microbiome, and the farm-to-bottle path. Other episodes act like community noticeboards, introducing gatherings such as the Ojai Herbal Retreat and Wild Indigo Herb Fest with details on teachers, outdoor workshops, lodging, camping, sponsorship, and regional herbal networks. The tone is warm and informal. It lets guests take time. That patience can mean repetition, sponsor breaks, and winding conversational loops, but it also preserves the texture of real herbal education: people naming teachers, describing land, comparing preparations, and making room for uncertainty and enthusiasm. HerbRally suits listeners who want more than quick wellness tips. It is for plant people who enjoy practical details, personal origin stories, and the broader social world around herbal medicine.
Made for: For herbalism students, practicing herbalists, growers, foragers, and plant-curious listeners who enjoy patient conversations with teachers and makers. It also suits people looking for event leads, course previews, and practical preparation talk.
What sets it apart: HerbRally stands out through its scale and community texture: it mixes plant monographs, interviews, class-style segments, farm conversations, and herb event previews in one sprawling archive. The show keeps the informal pauses and side paths that make the herbal world feel lived-in.
Welcome to the HerbRally podcast! We take a deep dive into the world of herbalism. We host some of the best teachers in the field with topics ranging from wild foods, botany, nutrition, ecology, herbal medicine and health accessibility. You'll hear class recordings from conferences, narrated plant monographs, interviews, event updates and so much more. There are hundreds of episodes on herbalism so you're bound to find what you're looking for. Thanks for tuning in!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
HerbRally makes herbal practice legible through generous interviews about plants, preparation, cultivation, education, and community.
HerbRally treats herbalism as a living practice shaped by plant knowledge, personal experience, and community. Mason leads warm, uning interviews with herbalists, while occasional recorded talks widen the format.
Mason takes a sip of water; suddenly you're considering what belongs in a tincture.
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A practical herbal conversation about place, energetics, and matching plants to patterns.
The episode settles into the practical side of herbal medicine, following Pam Gould and the host through North Georgia's plant communities, Patricia Kritzy Howell's place as an early teacher and mentor, constitutional thinking, food energetics, and the effort to match the right…
A practical herbal origin story centered on growing, drying, and sourcing plants.
Laura's conversation with the host treats herbalism as something lived and learned, not packaged as a slogan. She links her path into the work to being raised by quote-unquote hippie parents, eating organic in the 80s, and making everything from scratch, then moves through how…
A grounded farm-to-bottle conversation about Kokora's regenerative herbal growing methods, with turmeric and mucuna detail at the center.
HerbRally shapes the conversation around Rick Scalzo and Kokora as a regenerative organic certified herbal brand in the US, with the host pressing on the farm and the path from soil to bottle.
A warm personal keynote where household remedies open into community, values, and plants as allies.
Lottie Spady frames herbalism as something learned through memory, household care, and everyday usefulness. At the 2025 Great Lakes Herb Fair, she moves from homemade beauty practices and painful menstrual cramps to Don Quai tea, honey and lemon cough syrup, gargles, and baking…
A warm herbal conversation makes water the episode's most useful medicine-making question.
Herbal Pharmacy opens around Betsy Bancroft's forthcoming book, then settles into water as one of herbalism's oldest practical materials. The conversation is strongest when Bancroft keeps that idea close to use: tea, bathing, shrubs, and hydroalcoholic tinctures become ways to…
A steady reminder that herbal study can begin with knowing a few plants well.
Herb Rally's Herbalist Hour frames herbal education as something built slowly, through attention and repeated contact. Lindsay Feldposch's path starts with gardening in Detroit, learning about kale, and becoming more awake to plants and herbs.
Herbal medicine mapped through stars and plants.
Mason hosts Lindsay Feldpausch and Rosalie De La Forêt on HerbRally's Herbalist Hour to discuss a holistic approach to herbal education.
Rosalee de la Forêt debunks three common myths about nettle: that it's just a nutrient herb, that tea is always the best preparation, and that it's only usable in spring.
This episode debunks three common myths about nettle, explaining its medicinal benefits beyond just nutrients, comparing different preparation methods like tea and tinctures, and clarifying that it can be used year-round, not just in spring.
This episode introduces the Nettle Immersion, a comprehensive 100-minute herbal course with a 30-day challenge, focusing on the benefits and community aspects of nettle.
Pam Gould joins The Herbalist Hour for a warm, wide-ranging conversation.
This episode introduces the Ojai Herbal Retreat, featuring herbalists discussing its origins and transition from a symposium to a day-long event focused on plant wisdom and community.
This episode features an interview with Sam Roberts and Renée Camila, discussing their backgrounds in herbalism, experiences with imposter syndrome, and their connection to plants and teaching.
Laura shares how herbalism came into her life.
The host welcomes Rick Scalzo to the show and gets right into Kokora.
Herb Rally presents Lottie Spady's 2025 Great Lakes Herb Fair keynote, and she opens by saying she is from Detroit and greeting the room with 'what up though.' She connects 2013 Detroit emergency management, John Hance's land deal, the Flint water crisis, and caregiving for her mother with dementia and diabetes to the pressure that pushed her toward plants.
Betsy Bancroft returns to the Herbalist Hour.
This replay episode features an interview with herbalist and author KhadiYah Preciado, discussing her journey into herbalism and her work promoting herbs, home, and family rhythms.
This episode features a deep conversation with herbalist Lindsay Feldpausch about holistic approaches to herbal education, covering topics from plant experience to phytochemistry and overcoming challenges in learning.
This episode features an interview with herbalists Emily Han and Rosalee de la Forêt discussing their book Wild Remedies, their Rooted Medicine Circle community and course, and the benefits of making herbal remedies.
This episode features an interview with herbalist Jade Alicandro discussing kitchen medicine, bioregional plants, and folk herbalism practices.
Mason Hutchinson, founder of HerbRally.com, discusses his identity as an herbalist and the mission of his community hub to promote herbalism and plant-based lifestyles.