Adrian is a botanist, herbalist, and wildcrafter with special enthusiasm for the Rocky Mountain herbs. He started Mountain Herbalism as a platform for doing herbal consults, hosting workshops, and teaching others about local medicinal plants. Adrian incorporates song, dance, and dad jokes into many classes to improve student retention of the material.
Adrian is working to better understand and address the forces of racism, colonization, and capitalism that impact the health of our communities. As an herbalist, he believes that the deepest healing can come from building reciprocal relationships with land. He teaches botany, ethical wildcrafting, and bioregional herbalism as a way to reconnect humans with their local ecosystems.
Incarnacion (inca) loves learning, remembering & memory work, and the relatives that abundantly share messages and lessons of reciprocity, restoration and healing. Inca has been involved and working in movement building spaces for most of their life, starting as a young person organizing with other young people. They credit the ancestors, young, elder and non-human who have been co-creating resilience and resistance for generations with all that they know, having been educated primarily by and in community. Inca is the descendent of mixed lineages of indigenous Purépecha from what is now called Michoacán and Guanajuato, Mexico and western european settlers of Irish, Scottish, and German roots. Born on the traditional homelands of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Ute people and nations, Incarnacion’s pronouns are they and them.
Though a transplant from the East Coast, Kat has a passion for working with the herbs nearest to her. Having studied forestry at Northern Arizona University, the plants, animals, and incredible harsh beauty of the Southwest are one of the great loves of her life. Between teaching and working, she spends her time wildcrafting and running in the mountains, gardening in the lowlands, and medicine making in between. Her other interests include art, ancestral skills, gardening, and generally geeking out on the natural world.
Lindsay Adams (she/her) is Clinical Herbalist, Nutritionist, Postpartum Caregiver & Licensed Practical Nurse. She is passionate about supporting people navigating pregnancy, postpartum, hormone balance, grief, the medical system, oppression, parenting & pregnancy loss/release. A lover of the liminal, she is fascinated with life’s transitions, big or small. Her greatest lessons have emerged from birth, death, change & grief. She loves learning, music, dreamwork, magic, communication, parenting & animals. You can find her playing, tending, teaching, formulating & spending time with her sweet little family.