{"id":25767,"date":"2016-08-07T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosemarygladstar.com\/?page_id=25767"},"modified":"2025-02-28T18:46:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T23:46:55","slug":"about-rosemary-gladstar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scienceandartofherbalism.com\/about-rosemary-gladstar\/","title":{"rendered":"About Rosemary Gladstar"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Meet Rosemary<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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All my life I\u2019ve had a deep love and fascination with plants. I started \u2018studying\u2019 them when I was in the 7-8th grade and did my school projects both on Native edible and medicinal uses of plants of Sonoma County. These plants have always been special friends of mine my whole life, no matter how far I\u2019ve traveled or lived.<\/p>\n

I grew up on a small dairy farm in Sonoma County, surrounded by the lush greenery of the meadows and hills of this special plant paradise. And my grandmother, my mother\u2019s mother, Mary Egitkhanoff, lived near us as we were growing up. She knew her plants! She use to tell us that it was her belief in God and her knowledge of the plants that saved her life. And she meant it literally. She and my grandfather both were survivors of the Armenian genocide. She felt it was her \u2018religious duty\u2019 to teach us about God ~ and plants. And what she taught, at least about the plants, stuck with me all my life!<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say I actually knew I was going to be an \u2018herbalist\u2019 when I was younger. I mean, it wasn\u2019t actually a career option back then! But I knew somehow intrinsically that I would be called into the service of the green. They began to talk to me when I was very young ~ and, fortunately, nobody told me I was crazy for listening! When I was in my twenties, I took off on a horseback trip with my toddler son and a young girlfriend who I had met up in Canada. We rode horseback from my parent\u2019s back yard to the Trinity Alps of northern California ~ a three and a half month odyssey. It was a great adventure! We rode every day, bedded the horses and ourselves down each night tired but excited, and woke up the next morning ready to ride some more! <\/p>\n

The great thing about that journey was that we \u2018wild crafted\u2019 our food almost entirely. We had a little pan that we carried with us and we would cook a few greens at night, and eat some seeds and wild fruit we found along the way. The only other food we had was some trail mix that we would munch on when we got hungry ~ and occasionally when we\u2019d ride by a store, which was not often, believe me! ~ We\u2019d buy a jar of peanut butter and scarf it down. I don\u2019t think we could have lived forever on such a diet, but we were sure healthy that summer. Maybe healthier and more fit than I\u2019ve ever been since. And my son, who was 3 years old at the time, had a great time. He looked like a little nature-loving boy, dark and brown skinned but with a golden halo of hair and rosy cheeks kissed by the sun.<\/p>\n

It was when I arrived home in the fall from a summer of riding, wild and free, and so close to nature and plants, that I knew I was ready to start the \u2018give back\u2019. I felt like I was living in a period of grace and that was good, but now, I had to give back a little of all that I had received. I think that might have been \u2018the moment\u2019 when I knew I was an herbalist! That was in 1971. In 1972, with the help of some great friends, and especially Drake Sadler, I opened Rosemary\u2019s Garden, a little apothecary in the back of the Guerneville Natural Food store.<\/p>\n

The rest is history!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Note: This is partially excerpted from an interview with Rosemary.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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About Rosemary Gladstar<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Rosemary Gladstar is, literally, a star figure in the field of modern herbalism, internationally renowned for her technical knowledge and stewardship in the global herbalist community. She has been learning, teaching and writing about herbs for over 40 years and is the author of eleven books.\u00a0<\/p>

Her work includes Medicinal Herbs:\u00a0a Beginners Guide<\/a>, Herbal Healing for Women<\/a>, Rosemary Gladstar\u2019s Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health<\/a>, and The Science and Art of Herbalism<\/a>, an extensive in depth home study course. She is the Founding President of United Plant Savers<\/a>\u00a0and founder and past director of the International Herb Symposium<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Books by Rosemary Gladstar<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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