Building Plant Partnerships for Personal and Planetary Healing

Welcome to the Plant Partnerships Blog! 

Hi, I’m Laura: an herbalist, permaculture farmer, and natural skincare maker at Swallowtail Ridge Farm & Botanicals. I’m so glad you’re here because we need more people like you—people who want to live in flourishing harmony with the earth.

If you’ve been following along with my products and journey at Swallowtail Ridge (or even Juniper Meadow before that!), you know how passionate I am about connecting people with plants for a greater purpose: the flourishing of all. I want to help people build partnerships with plants for personal and planetary wellness. For the past six years, that’s looked like offering seasonal collections of self-care products made with healing plants grown on my farm and hyper-local, truly natural ingredients. While offering these products as a way to help you step away from conventional (and sometimes harmful) personal care products for you and your family is extremely important, I want to offer you more inspiration, guidance, and support to help you on your journey to flourishing. Read on to learn how I can help plus grab your *FREE* elderberry guide!

Maybe you’re like me and you feel hopeless and helpless about the state of the world sometimes. We’re constantly given messages like “humans are the problem,” and “we need to keep humans out of nature so the Earth can heal.” But this makes us feel more shameful, powerless, and disconnected from our home. I believe humans are uniquely equipped to be part of the solution and offer powerful healing for ourselves, our families, our communities, and the planet. It is only through engaging with nature and forming loving partnerships with the other creatures that call this planet home that we can discover and offer our true gifts of healing. We won’t protect what we don’t love and we can’t love what we don’t know. 

I’ve been on a journey over the past ten years to connect with our world, discover my true gifts, and offer them as medicine to people and planet. I’d love to share all that I’ve learned through permaculture, gardening, herbalism, and heart-centered entrepreneurship to help you on your journey. We need your gifts! The Earth needs your direct love and care. But where to start?

I’ve created a *NEW FREE GUIDE* to help you on this journey: Plants of Power: Elderberry--4 Ways Elderberry can Kickstart your Journey into Healthy, Flourishing, Earth-Connected Living. You probably have heard of elderberry syrup and might know how powerful it is for immune system support. But you may not know that it is a native plant that supports a plethora of insects and birds while stabilizing soils. In my guide, you’ll learn all about how to grow and work with elderberry to improve your well-being while also creating more health and abundance for your local ecosystem. It’s these kinds of partnerships that provide a roadmap to the healing connection that humans can bring to the Earth. Even if you don’t have space to grow this amazing plant, learning how to identify it in the wild will enable you to protect the areas where it's growing so it can thrive. Includes my special recipes for infused elderflower facial oil and delicious elderberry syrup! 

If you love this guide and want to learn more, you can sign up for the Waitlist to join my upcoming online class: Getting Started with Healing Plants.

I’m truly honored and humbled by your continued support. I deeply hope that we can continue to inspire each other to promote more health, vitality, and flourishing for all.