Contributor: Hettie Ayla McNulty

Ayla McNulty is an herbalist living in Vermont. She has been influenced and inspired by her studies of Folkloric Herbalism, Shamanism, Eco-Psychology and Eastern Spirituality. Ayla lives to deepen her relationship with the natural world by witnessing the beauty and the abundance around her.

yarrow & mugwort

We have all been enchanted by the beauty of our natural world. It is a distinctly powerful feeling that cannot be elicited by manicured lawns, nor by finely mulched gardens. Instead it is wild places — peacefully left untouched from man’s meddling hands — that have the capacity to stir something deep within us.