Herbs with Rosalee Rosalee de la Forêt

If you’re new to herbs, you might be most familiar with oats as a breakfast staple. But they’re so much more than that! As my guest today, Kimberly Gallagher, shares, oats can soothe frazzled nerves, contribute to endocrine balance and sexual wellness, provide a wealth of easily-absorbed minerals, and much more. (Note that in this episode, Kimberly discusses her latest work with aphrodisiacs, so this interview is best for adults.)
Speaking of aphrodisiacs, though, herbal medicine can be delicious! And as a listener, you have access to a beautiful, watercolor-illustrated recipe card for Maple Oat Squares. (There’s a free, downloadable and printable recipe card available just for you.) 
By the end of this episode, you’ll know:
► Why incorporating herbs into your everyday life provides the best results
► Why Kimberly has turned to oats every day for more than 25 years
► Inspiration for how to make food prep an aphrodisiac experience
► What aphrodisiacs are (and aren’t)
► How oats can create a soothing, moistening, and intimate experience for couples
► and so much more…
For those of you who don’t already know her, Kimberly Gallagher is the author of Aphrodisiac: The Herbal Path to Healthy Sexuality and Vital Living and is co-founder of LearningHerbs.com. She has been working with the healing plants for over twenty years, integrating them into her family's life while homeschooling her now grown children. She is the creator of the Wildcraft! board game and the Herb Fairies children’s herbal program, and loves to teach through experience and play. Kimberly is also the founder of her Trail of Beauty Ministry, where sacred sensuality is at the heart of her work. 
If you’d like to hear more from Kimberly, which I highly recommend, then head to the show notes where you can get easy links for her website and social media channels. You can also find the transcript for this episode in the show notes and you can access your recipe card for Maple Oat Squares at: https://bit.ly/3wfdPnm.
I’m delighted to share our conversation with you today.
----
Get full show notes and more information at: herbswithrosaleepodcast.com
For more behind-the-scenes of this podcast, follow @rosaleedelaforet on Instagram!
The secret to using herbs successfully begins with knowing who YOU are. Get started by taking my free Herbal Jumpstart course when you sign up for my newsletter.
If you enjoy the Herbs with Rosalee podcast, we could use your support! Please consider leaving a 5-star rating and review and sharing the show with someone who needs to hear it!
On the podcast, we explore the many ways plants heal, as food, as medicine, and through nature connection. Each week, I focus on a single seasonal plant and share trusted herbal knowledge so that you can get the best results when using herbs for your health.
Learn more about Herbs with Rosalee at herbswithrosalee.com.
----
Rosalee is an herbalist and author of the bestselling book Alchemy of Herbs: Transform Everyday Ingredients Into...

What a treat you have in store with today’s episode about the lovely (and, as you’ll see, very yummy!) rose plant. The best teachers breathe love and life into what they’re teaching. And my guest today, Liz Knight, is no exception! She reminds me of a little fairy, with her sparkly smile and deep rooted love of the green world.
I know you’re going to love Liz, the bits of culinary and life wisdom she sprinkled like flower petals throughout our conversation, and last but not least, her wonderful recipe for Sweet Rose Dukkah. (There’s a free, downloadable and printable recipe card available just for you.) 
By the end of this episode, you’ll know:
► Twelve hints for working with roses in food and drink
► A surprising way to enhance the taste of olive oil
► A secret for preserving the flavor of dried rose petals
► A to-die-for floral threesome (whether you infuse them into food or just breathe in their scents on a warm morning)
► Three tips for working safely with flowers in food
► and so much more…
For those of you who don’t already know her, Liz Knight is a teacher and author from the borders of England and Wales. As a child, she loved gardening and cooking and when she bought a second hand wildflower ID book, complete with hand written notes courtesy of its previous owner about how to eat the plants, her life was sent on a different, more delicious path. In 2021, after 10 years of teaching foraging and running an acclaimed wild food business, her first book about edible wild plants, Forage, was published to global acclaim, selling out in weeks. 
If you’d like to hear more from Liz, which I highly recommend, then head to the show notes where you can get easy links for her website and social media channels. You can also find the transcript for this episode in the show notes and you can access your recipe card for Sweet Rose Dukkah at: https://bit.ly/44iuz9V.
I’m thrilled to share our conversation with you today.
----
Get full show notes and more information at: herbswithrosaleepodcast.com
For more behind-the-scenes of this podcast, follow @rosaleedelaforet on Instagram!
The secret to using herbs successfully begins with knowing who YOU are. Get started by taking my free Herbal Jumpstart course when you sign up for my newsletter.
If you enjoy the Herbs with Rosalee podcast, we could use your support! Please consider leaving a 5-star rating and review and sharing the show with someone who needs to hear it!
On the podcast, we explore the many ways plants heal, as food, as medicine, and through nature connection. Each week, I focus on a single seasonal plant and share trusted herbal knowledge so that you can get the best results when using herbs for your health.
Learn more about Herbs with Rosalee at herbswithrosalee.com.
----
Rosalee is an herbalist and author of the bestselling book Alchemy of Herbs: Transform Everyday Ingredients Into Foods & Remedies That Heal and co-author of the bestselling book a href="https://amzn.to/3a2G3R4" rel="noopener noreferrer"...

Today’s episode is a little different from the usual. 
To give context for newer audience members, Anna Rósa Róbertsdóttir was one of my earliest guests on the podcast. When Anna Rósa was last on the show, she shared a big adventure and new project she was just about to embark on, empowering women in refugee camps in Iraq. 
Since we last saw her, that project has been realized and today, Anna Rósa is sharing an update with us. This is a really interesting adventure and you’re definitely going to want to hear about it!  We’ll also hear about Anna Rósa’s philosophy on how you can do a lot with very few herbs, which is an important skill for herbalists! 
As a listener, you also have access to Anna Rósa’s recipe for an herbal infused Pain Relief Oil. This is one of the recipes Anna Rósa developed at the request of women in the refugee camps. There’s a free, downloadable and printable recipe card available just for you
By the end of this episode, you’ll know:
► The attitude you need to create effective remedies when resources are limited
► How to help budding herbalists build confidence
► Why local herbs are so valuable
► Why cultivating deep knowledge of just a few herbs can be so powerful
► Why Anna Rósa considers Iraq the most hospitable country she’s ever visited
► and so much more…
Medical herbalist, wildcrafter, and author, Anna Rósa Róbertsdóttir is the heartbeat and passionate founder behind Anna Rósa Skincare. She hand-picks wild Icelandic herbs to use in her 100% natural, non-toxic, small batch skincare products. Anna Rósa‘s Skincare Collection is a skincare that empowers because she uses the profits to support Helping Herbs, a registered charity in Iceland dedicated to empowering refugee women. As the founder and manager of Helping Herbs, Anna Rósa also works in refugee camps in Kurdistan, Iraq, teaching women to make herbal products. Anna Rósa is the author of Icelandic Herbs and their Medicinal Uses and an online course: The Healing Power of Icelandic Herbs.
If you’d like to hear more from Anna Rósa, which I highly recommend, then head to the show notes where you can get easy links for her website and social media channels. You can also find the transcript for this episode in the show notes and you can access your recipe card for Pain Relief Oil at: https://bit.ly/3TXVbbA
It was great to catch up with Anna Rósa and I’m excited to share our conversation with you today!
----
Get full show notes and more information at: herbswithrosaleepodcast.com
For more behind-the-scenes of this podcast, follow @rosaleedelaforet on Instagram!
The secret to using herbs successfully begins with knowing who YOU are. Get started by taking my free Herbal Jumpstart course when you sign up for my newsletter.
If you enjoy the Herbs with Rosalee podcast, we could use your support! Please consider leaving a 5-star rating and review and sharing the show with someone who needs to hear it!
On the podcast, we explore the many ways plants heal, as food, as medicine, and through nature connection. Each week, I focus on a single seasonal plant and share trusted herbal knowledge so that you can get the best results when using herbs for your health.
Learn more about Herbs with Rosalee at herbswithrosalee.com.
----
Rosalee is an herbalist and...

In this episode, my bestie, Rebecca Altman, and I dive deeper into one of our favorite herbs for resilience, tulsi (also known as holy basil). While we do talk about what tulsi can do for you, this episode is much more than a simple list of tulsi health benefits!
Instead, we’re showing you how much fun you can have, creatively welcoming tulsi into your life. We share some delectable tulsi recipes and ideas with you. And we share our approach to Building Resilience, which includes not only forming relationships with herbs like tulsi, but also transforming your relationship to stress.
►►► Our four-month online course dives even deeper into these concepts and is perfect for you if you’re tired of feeling chronic stress and daily overwhelm, and you’re ready to live a life with more ease and spaciousness. But hurry! Enrollment for 2024 ends April 10th.
Join us for Building Resilience here:
http://joyfulherbcourse.com
By the end of this episode, you’ll know:
► The key to making new habits stick
► Why the nutraceutical approach is so limited (and what really does work)
► Ten easy and delicious ways to incorporate tulsi (holy basil) into your everyday life
► Five health and wellness benefits of tulsi (including what makes it such a unique adaptogen) 
► A new roadmap for having more capacity and feeling more effortlessness and ease in your life
► and so much more…
For those of you who don’t already know Rebecca, she loves connecting people: to the earth, to plants, to each other, and to themselves. The underlying purpose behind all of her work is to help people remember the feeling of living in alignment with who they truly are, and the larger flow of the universe. She has an online school, called Wonder Botanica, where she teaches people how to connect to the earth, the heart path, and the universe; and works with clients individually to connect them to their own inner guidance. 
Rebecca lives in the mountains of Southern California, with her dog, and about a million oak trees. Despite so many reasons not to be, she remains steadfastly hopeful about human beings and this incredible planet. 
If you’d like to hear more from Rebecca, which I highly recommend, then head to the show notes where you can get easy links for her website and social media channels. You can also find both Rebecca and I in Building Resilience at: http://joyfulherbcourse.com
I’m so excited to share our conversation with you today!
----
Get full show notes and more information at: herbswithrosaleepodcast.com
For more behind-the-scenes of this podcast, follow @rosaleedelaforet on Instagram!
The secret to using herbs successfully begins with knowing who YOU are. Get started by taking my free Herbal Jumpstart course when you sign up for my newsletter.
If you enjoy the Herbs with Rosalee podcast, we could use your support! Please consider leaving a 5-star rating and review and sharing the show with someone who needs to hear it!
On the podcast, we explore the many ways plants heal, as food, as medicine, and through nature connection. Each week, I focus on a single seasonal plant and share trusted herbal knowledge so that you can get the best results when using herbs for your health.
Learn more about Herbs with Rosalee at a href="http://herbswithrosalee.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer"...

Today is a special episode! 
That’s partly because I’m with my bestie, Rebecca Altman. But also because we’re talking about something near and dear to both of our hearts: simple and practical ways to build resilience. 
Because life’s too short and too precious to be trapped in a dread of Monday mornings, right? “Monday mornings” might not ever go away, but your experience of them can change.
►►► That’s why we’re excited to share a week-long herbal resilience adventure that’s all about fun, ease, and spaciousness! (If you’re already busy or overwhelmed, the last thing you need is anything that feels heavy or takes too much time, right?) This free class is live from April 4th - April 10th.
Join us for the Building Resilience Mini Course here: www.herbalminiadventure.com
To us, resilience isn’t about productivity hacks to keep stuffing more and more into a draining existence. It’s really about being like a willow that’s grounded and rooted, yet able to sway with the wind. It’s the ability to maintain joy and ease amidst life's challenges.
In this episode, we share three herbs that can help you be more resilient when life sends storm winds your way. 
Rebecca also shares her Soft & Cozy Tea recipe, which you can download (along with an entire tea recipe ebook) in the Building Resilience Mini Course. 
By the end of this episode, you’ll know:
► What really needs to be transformed to build resilience
► Why herbs alone aren’t enough (though they certainly help!)
► The first-time-on-the-show herb that can offer profound support when you’re feeling life's heat a bit too keenly
► An herbal ally that can gradually and gently bring peace to frazzled nerves 
► An herb with a remarkable ability to restore balance, from improving sleep cycles to softening stress responses
► Why gentle action can be the most powerful
► and so much more…
For those of you who don’t already know Rebecca, she loves connecting people: to the earth, to plants, to each other, and to themselves. The underlying purpose behind all of her work is to help people remember the feeling of living in alignment with who they truly are, and the larger flow of the universe. She has an online school, called Wonder Botanica, where she teaches people how to connect to the earth, the heart path, and the universe; and works with clients individually to connect them to their own inner guidance. 
Rebecca lives in the mountains of Southern California, with her dog, and about a million oak trees. Despite so many reasons not to be, she remains steadfastly hopeful about human beings and this incredible planet. 
If you’d like to hear more from Rebecca, which I highly recommend, then head to the show notes where you can get easy links for her website and social media channels. You can also find both Rebecca and I in our free Building Resilience Mini Course at: www.herbalminiadventure.com
I’m so excited to share our conversation with you today!
----
Get full show notes and more information at: herbswithrosaleepodcast.com
For more behind-the-scenes of this podcast, follow @rosaleedelaforet on Instagram!
The secret to using herbs successfully begins with knowing who YOU are. Get started by taking my free Herbal Jumpstart course when you sign up for my newsletter.
If you enjoy the Herbs with Rosalee podcast, we...

Today marks the first time mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) has been spotlighted on the show. And as you’ll see, this is a plant with a variety of culinary, medicinal, and historical uses! So I love that today’s guest, Corinna Wood, chose mugwort as a focus for our conversation. 
As a listener, you also have access to Corinna’s recipe for Mugwort Vinegar. Corinna shares that mugwort is her favorite herbal vinegar because it’s sooooo flavorful! There’s a free, downloadable and printable recipe card available just for you, so you can try out mugwort vinegar for yourself.
By the end of this episode, you’ll know:
► When to harvest mugwort for internal use and what toxic look-alike to be sure you don’t  harvest by mistake
► How living in tune with nature and the seasons can enhance your understanding of herbalism
► Why it’s important to cultivate an herbal community
► How to work with mugwort to make your dreams more vivid and help you remember them
► A variety of ways you can honor Nature’s cycles within yourself
► and so much more…
A seasoned teacher of holistic healing and women’s wisdom, Corinna Wood is well-known in the herbal community. Corinna founded and directed the Southeast Wise Women Herbal Conference, the largest herbal conference in the country, which ran for 15 years. She also ran Red Moon Herbs for 20 years. She’s supported thousands of women on their journeys of healing and wholeness. Currently, Corinna has applied principles of the natural world to create tools for inner growth and healing—through an earth-based, woman-centered lens. Today, her offerings are at the cutting edge of synthesizing natural healing with feminist psychology and earth-based wisdom. 
If you’d like to hear more from Corinna, which I highly recommend, then head to the show notes where you can get easy links for her website and social media channels. You can also find the transcript for this episode in the show notes and you can access your recipe card for Mugwort Vinegar at: https://bit.ly/4cyrmXk
In some ways, I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve had the chance to meet up with Corinna, but I’m thrilled it finally happened. And it’s my delight to share our conversation with you today.
----
Get full show notes and more information at: herbswithrosaleepodcast.com
For more behind-the-scenes of this podcast, follow @rosaleedelaforet on Instagram!
The secret to using herbs successfully begins with knowing who YOU are. Get started by taking my free Herbal Jumpstart course when you sign up for my newsletter.
If you enjoy the Herbs with Rosalee podcast, we could use your support! Please consider leaving a 5-star rating and review and sharing the show with someone who needs to hear it!
On the podcast, we explore the many ways plants heal, as food, as medicine, and through nature connection. Each week, I focus on a single seasonal plant and share trusted herbal knowledge so that you can get the best results when using herbs for your health.
Learn more about Herbs with Rosalee at herbswithrosalee.com.
----
Rosalee is an herbalist and author of the bestselling book a...