Wild Women
Wise Plants
A monthly circle for women reclaiming their wildness, one plant at a time
The plants have been waiting for you.
Imagine a gate at the edge of a garden you have almost forgotten.
It has always been there. Ivy-threaded, a little weathered, left slightly open as if someone knew you would come. You push through, and something in you exhales. The air is different here. There is the scent of earth and green and something older, something you cannot quite name but that your body recognizes immediately.
You are not late. You have not missed anything. You are exactly on time.
This is what it feels like to step into Wild Women & Wise Plants.
This is not one more thing to keep up with. This is the place where you get to put everything else down.
Hello!
A note from Michelle
I was a feral child, like many GenXers. I spent most days barefoot on warm pavement, making mudpies, playing with frogs, and talking to trees like they were old friends. Nature was not somewhere I visited. It was where I lived.
Somewhere along the way, as it does for so many of us, life got loud. I built a business, raised a family, and moved a few times. While I poured myself into work that mattered, I had little space for much else. My body let me know, eventually, in the way bodies do. Hello Menopause and Fibromyalgia!
Slowly, over the years, I started to find my way back to the plants. My first herbal book, The Green Pharmacy by James Duke, came home with me in the late 1990s and has traveled with me through every move since. For years, I read, experimented, and made medicine quietly in my kitchen. Then, in 2021, I began studying formally, and what had been a lifelong instinct became a practice and then a calling.
I am a clinical herbalist and holistic coach. I have sat with clients for more than fifteen years in one form or another. And what I know, after all of it, is this: the most powerful thing I can offer another woman is not information. It is space. Permission to be curious. A circle where she can finally exhale.
Wild Women & Wise Plants exists because I wanted a place like this for myself. And I suspect you might, too.
“You will leave each gathering feeling nourished, supported, and quietly more yourself”
What you’ll experience in this community
Once a month, you set the rest of the world aside, pour something warm, open your laptop, and show up. Just as you are.
For ninety minutes, a small group of women gathers on screen, and together you settle into the world of one plant. Not a lecture. Not a quiz. A conversation, a ritual, a slow turning over of something ancient and alive.
By the time you close the window, something will have shifted. You will feel it before you can name it. A quietness. A sense that you have been genuinely seen. The particular nourishment that comes only from being in community with other women who are also paying attention and a connection with the plants.
Between circles, the plant stays with you. It arrives in your mailbox if you choose, or you source it locally, or you grow it on your windowsill. You work with it in your own time, in your own way. Your Plant Companion guide gives you something to come back to. The weekly reflection prompts keep the thread alive. The private community is where you can ask questions, share what you notice, and deepen your connection with others on the same journey.
Over months, something else begins to happen. A new rhythm forms. You start to know plants not as names in a book but as presences in your life. And you start to know yourself a little differently, too.
What we explore together
Each month is centered on one featured plant. We follow a rhythm, season by season, plant by plant, as if walking slowly through that garden with no rush to reach the end.
Together we explore:
The energetics of the plant and how it has been used across traditions
It’s folklore, mythology, and a place in women's wisdom through the ages
Its astrological associations and the rhythms it resonates with
Its traditional uses and how herbalists have worked with it historically
Its folk and magical associations, offered with curiosity and deep respect
This is not a certification program. There are no tests, no homework, no pressure to retain everything. It is educational, intuitive, and relational. You do not need any prior knowledge of herbs or plants. Curiosity is the only requirement.
A journal makes a wonderful companion for this circle. No particular one, just choose one you love.
Between gatherings
The circle does not end when the screen closes. Every month, members receive:
A Plant Companion guide for the month's featured plant
Weekly reflection prompts to deepen your relationship with the plant and yourself
Access to the private online community for sharing, questions, and connection
The option to have the featured herb mailed to your door each month
Everything here follows one simple principle: take what you need, leave what you do not. There is no expectation to engage with everything. Come as much or as little as your life allows.
Ready to walk
through the gate?
Join Wild Women & Wise Plants
All memberships include your monthly 90-minute gathering, the Plant Companion guide, weekly prompts, and access to the private community. This is the full circle experience.