The Elder Tree Podcast
In spring 2022, we released a podcast to showcase a myriad of herbalists, herbal educators, permaculturalists and plant medicine workers from around Australia.
There are four segments to the podcast:
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Podcast Segments
Herbal Education
Tatiana Dawn
Permaculture Herbalism
Tonielle Christensen
Sacred Herbalism
Stephanie Hazel
Self Care with Herbs
Jessyca Bosscha
The Elder Tree Podcast — A Journey of Herbal Wisdom, Community, and Connection
Rooted in the fertile soil of curiosity, reciprocity, and a love for the living world, The Elder Tree Podcast began as a seed — a gentle but powerful offering to the herbal community of Australia. It has since grown into a living, breathing library of conversations that honour the diverse ways people are working with plants, healing, and land-based knowledge.
More than just a podcast, The Elder Tree is a remembering — of ancient ways, of community-led healthcare, and of the deep intelligence of nature. It holds space for the voices of practitioners, medicine makers, educators, and cultural storytellers, weaving their wisdom into a rich and accessible archive for listeners across the country.
Each episode offers a different way into this herbal tapestry, through four unique segments — each one hosted by a dedicated guide walking their own path with plants:
• Herbal Education is hosted by Tatiana Dawn (Twiggy), who invites Australia’s leading herbal educators into conversation, exploring how herbal knowledge is passed down, reshaped, and reimagined. This segment reflects on the current state of herbal learning in Australia and dreams into its future, celebrating grassroots teachers, elder herbalists, and emerging voices alike.
• Permaculture Herbalism, hosted by Tonielle Christensen, blends the worlds of regenerative design and plant medicine — revealing how permaculture principles can deepen our relationship with healing plants and sustainable living.
• Sacred Herbalism, hosted by Stephanie Hazel, explores the spiritual and animistic dimensions of herbalism, holding space for conversations about plant spirit, ritual, and the sacred relationship between humans and the more-than-human world.
• Self-Care with Herbs, hosted by Jessyca Bosscha, offers grounded, practical episodes on incorporating herbs into daily life — reminding listeners that herbalism begins at home, in the little rituals of nourishment, rest, and tending the self.
Together, these segments form a beautiful ecosystem — one where knowledge is shared generously, where different paths are respected, and where listeners are encouraged to reconnect with themselves, with the Earth, and with their communities. This is herbalism in its truest form: relational, reciprocal, and rooted.
And the journey of The Elder Tree Podcast is just beginning.
Our Podcast Presenters:
Herbal Education
featuring Tatiana Dawn
Tatiana Dawn (aka Twiggy) is a herbalist and herbal educator on Bandjalang country in Northern NSW. She is passionate about activating the "home herbalist" in everyone, and helping people to get more connected to plant medicine. She runs a small business called Alchemilla Herbals where she makes herbal preparations fresh from the garden and sells them through her apothecary.
Twiggy runs regular workshops teaching folk how to grow, harvest and make plant medicine, ways to work with plants in your daily life, plant medicine connection and much more. She hosts many different herbal events in her community and is a regular guest speaker at health and wellness and gardening events.
In her “Herbal Education” segment on The Elder Tree podcast, Twiggy will be interviewing herbal educators from around Australia to see what motivates and inspires them. She will be exploring the current realilty of herbal education in Australia and look to the future to see what world we could be creating together.
Click here to go to Alchemilla Herbals website or follow and like on Facebook and Instagram.
Permaculture Herbalism
featuring Tonielle Christensen
Tonielle Christensen is Permaculture educator, kitchen witch and plant lover with a passion for connecting people with their gardens to nourish and grow with skills for sustainabilty. She lives with her family on Djabagay country in Kuranda, the village in the rainforest of Far North Queensland.
Tonielle is the founder of Earth Mumma and co-facilitator of the Nature Kids Permaculture Program for families to become empowered earth carers through nature play and to DIY edible gardens to thrive. She authored the Incredible Edibles Tropical Superfoods Guide and in her abundant permaculture garden, Tonielle runs regular workshops in tropical gardening, permaculture design and home grown superfood cooking classes.
Tonielle’s monthly segment of the Permaculture Herbalism in the Elder Tree Podcast will explore the art and science of regenerative design with permaculture principles and practices that empower people expand their lifestyles and landscapes to grow and know plants with a purpose. She will be bringing together practicing permaculturalist from around the world to share their wisdom about integrating healing plants into home gardens for wellbeing.
Sacred Herbalism
featuring Stephanie Hazel
Stephanie is a practicing herbalist in Melbourne on Wurundjeri country with a background in Anthropology who has been working with traditional healing systems for 15 years.
Her approach is informed by holistic principles of traditional western herbalism and chinese herbalism, sacred plant medicine and the anthropology of healing. Stephanie is passionate about our existing intuitive wisdom and ancient connection to plants. She supports people to deepen their relationship to their own bodies and the greater living world through herbal medicine, ritual and deep ecology.
In her segment “Sacred Herbalism”, Stephanie will explore how plants and fungi can support us to enter into a sacred relationship with life and the living world.
Click here to visit Stephanie’s website or click here to visit her instagram page.
Self-Care with Herbs
featuring Jessyca Bosscha
Jess is a Herbalist, Naturopath and Medicine maker working and living on Bundjalung land in Evans Head in the Northern Rivers of NSW. Jess is a qualified teacher who brings her love of sharing knowledge to her practice- her instinct to educate and empower is strong. She loves to help clients hear the whispers their body’s give when help is needed and to connect people to the plant medicine that is all around us.
In her sunny, beachside apothecary Jess offers clients simple ways to weave plant medicine into their everyday, alongside nourishing self care rituals and wholesome seasonal foods.
As a mum of two children and small business woman, Jess cherishes the moments of self care she is able to weave into her days using the plant medicines around her. She looks forward to uncovering and sharing the myriad ways others around the country use ‘Self-care with Herbs’ to enrich their days.
Click here to visit Jessyca’s website.
