![]() ![]() After completing the CSHS program and additional clinical training, she moved back to Illinois, where she and Althea Northage Orr, an acupuncturist and herbalist, started the first herbal training program in Chicago, the Healing with Herbs Institute. In 1989 Patricia enrolled in the California School of Herbal Studies, studying with David Hoffmann, Amanda McQuade Crawford, Tim Blakely, Mindy Green, and James Green. She ran a lucrative business from her dorm room, making and selling a menstrual cramp formula she brewed by the gallon.Īfter graduating, she moved to San Francisco, where she worked as a sound engineer for Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett, Jackson Browne, Bonny Raitt, Richie Havens, and others. She attended the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where she studied media arts, emphasizing film and television production. Her early clinical training was limited to the few times her younger sisters were willing to drink the (extremely bitter) teas she brewed. She quickly realized that the same herbs used in the stories grew all around her home in northern Illinois.Īs a teenager, she came across a copy of Return to Eden by Jethro Kloss and started harvesting wild herbs and making teas and tinctures. Patricia’s curiosity and passion for herbs started after she read Little House on the Prairie. ![]()
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