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Mimi Prunella Hernandez Author

Mimi Prunella Hernandez, MS, RH (AHG), an herbalist and author of National Geographic Herbal, is devoted to combinining traditional and scientifically validated herbal practices. In 2023 she received the Botanical Excellence Award from the American Botanical Council, which she served for more than a decade as executive director. She lives on her own nature preserve outside Asheville, NC.

Heather Wood Buzzard, MA, has worked as a wildcrafter and trained in Southern folk medicine with renowned 4th-generation herbalist Phyllis Light. Now, as an herbal educator and health writer, she marries the two fields of medicinal plants and therapeutic writing. She is based near Asheville, NC.