About

HEATHER WOOD BUZZARD, MA (Writing and Narrative Medicine), sprouted roots as a wildcrafter while digging up dandelions for dollars before training in southern folk medicine with renowned fourth-generation herbalist Phyllis Light. Now an accomplished herbal educator and health writer herself, Wood Buzzard focuses her core work on the intersection of traditional herbalism and narrative in health care. Marrying the two fields of medicinal plants and therapeutic writing is her passion. Wood Buzzard stewards land in Appalachia and is dedicated to using words to bring the wild to life.

Heather is currently at work on a book of vignettes about wildcrafting medicinal plants. She is also working on a guidebook for natural health practitioners titled Narrative Herbal Medicine: Weaving Words and Healing Herbs. She dwells in the botanical abundance of Madison County, North Carolina.