Education, Exploration, & Ecology | Featuring Allison Poklemba and Michael Kauffmann

This week on Everything You Didn’t Know About Herbalism, we are featuring a dynamic duo wife-husband team on a mission to enhance the human connection with the natural world, Allison Poklemba and Michael Kauffman. Allison and Michael are the Founders of Backcountry Press, an independent publishing company that explores books on natural history, ecology, and the western landscape. Today, Allison and Michael will be sharing their combined insights and knowledge on the vast ecology that surrounds our world, and how bettering our understanding of plants can help us to foster a better understanding of ourselves.

As always, we thank you for joining us on another botanical adventure and are honored to have you tag along with us on this ride. Remember, we want to hear from you! Your questions, ideas, and who you want to hear from are invaluable to our podcast. Please send us an email at podcast@mountainroseherbs.com to let us know what solutions we should uncover next within the vast world of herbalism. 

Learn more about Allison and Michael below! 

🌲 Michael Kauffmann is an educator, ecologist, and author in Humboldt County, where he lives with his wife, Allison, and their two boys. Michael has also served as an ecologist mapping rare conifers across California and is the author of Conifer Country and Conifers of the Pacific Slope and co-author of Field Guide to Manzanitas, California Desert Plants, and The Klamath Mountains: A Natural History.

🌼 Allison Poklemba is a teacher, botanist, herbalist, environmental educator, Co-Director of Dandelion Herbal Center, Co-Founder of Backcountry Press, artist, mother, friend, and always curious student of nature. She has been concocting potions since childhood and teaching at Dandelion Herbal Center since 2002. Allison is a graduate of Cal Poly Humboldt with degrees in Botany and Science Teaching with a specialty in Environmental Literacy – she also carries a special place in her heart just for seaweed!

Check out these FREE eBooks from Backcountry Press! 

🌲 Sip The Forest: A Guide to Conifer Teas

🌊 Intertidal Zone Map  

🏕️ Guide to 5-Needle Pines of the Pacific Crest Trail 

📖 More free eBooks!

Use coupon code MOUNTAINROSE for 20% off Allison & Michaels’ new book/eBook and online classes!

🍄 Book/eBook: Mushrooms of Cascadia: A Comprehensive Guide to Fungi of the PNW

🌿 Online classes: Sea Vegetables of the Pacific Coast & Cooking With Sea Vegetables

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