About

Latisha Guthrie, HerbMother

Helping women create Tools for a savory life by connecting with nature and rewilding the child within.

In December of 2010, I dreamed up a quaint little virtual community of women, caretakers specifically. A place for women who find themselves tending to children, their own and others’, elderly parents, friends, and co-workers who want to offer their loved ones a natural earth-based approach to healing. But perhaps didn’t know where to begin or who to ask. Inspired by this community of women whose spirits circled me, I began this blog and opened a small virtual Herbshoppe. Slowly, I started teaching classes and leading walks and gatherings in nature within my local tribe and community while I continued to share my adventures of mothering and herbcraft in this space. But as my two girls began to grow so did my responsibilities, and my dream, once so vivid, played on somewhere quietly in my psyche waiting for just the right time. I sunk into my role as mother and started to write here about everything and anything that came to mind. This coming year, however, with great blessings and giant life changes I am moving forward with that dream in a big big way.

I am hoping this space will grow into a safe place to come and learn and share about plant based medicines, craft, and spirit work for anyone who is knee-deep in the care of others (aren’t we all?) and seeking something a bit simpler, a bit more close to home as well as a community to share their experiences with.

My biography is simple: a girl, pacific northwest born, marries her soulmate, moves to the amazing sonoran desert, has two beautiful little girls, falls in love with nature’s medicine, and with her family, plans her move back home. I live for the savory life. I take pride in my garden and being that good-smelling neighborhood herb lady. The rest is, well a work in progress. I am far from an herbalist or a perfect naturalist. Some days, I am that crunchy granola mom with a bustling kitchen, open window, potions on the counter, children happily at play outside in the dirt. Others I’m a pizza ordering, netflix watching, lazy gal who might forget she has children sitting next to her until a kissing scene comes on and they start climbing into my lap for a smooch.

I am a: Mama. Lover. Herb enthusiast. Writer. Desert dweller. Seeker. But most of all, a Work in progress.

For more of the savory life:
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**Despite the impressive amount of my student loans or my ridiculous number of random not-so-useful college degrees, I am not a doctor or a substitute for your family health care practitioner in any way. I believe plant medicine is gentle and forgiving and safe. However, please treat it with respect when choosing to use herbs on yourself or others.  This site is a great place to start. I’d love to be your catalyst, but I hope I’m not your encyclopedia. Though I trust the plants and am filled with as much passion as a young woman in love, I am still learning too. So please, do your own research. Talk to many many ‘experts’ and passionate plant people. Draw your own conclusions. Build a medicine bag you can be confident in. I am careful in the presentation of my information, but do not take my word for it. I am just one voice. The more I learn about herbs (or anything for that matter), the more I realize I don’t know much anyway. And should you find anything contradictory to what I write or have anything to add, please share!**

Thank you so much for joining me in this delicious life.
love and besos,
latisha

We were put on this earth to sing and dance, celebrate and be joyful in spite of your fears.