Bioregional, Small-Batch & Farm-to-garden apothecary
Earthlings Among Us weaves traditions of ancestral remembrance, earth reverence, soft power, and kinship via plant + fungal medicine to return home to ourselves and the wider world.
Co-created with the spirit of Earth medicine to support the mind, body, emotion, and spirit for personal, ancestral, and collective liberation.
Plantitas are lovingly grown (always organic + regenerative gardening techniques) & gathered from our small home garden on the unceded and traditional lands of Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Clackamas, Cowlitz, Kalapuya, Multnomah, Wasco, Bands of Chinook, Kathlamet, Molalla, and many other indigenous communities (past, present, future) -- aka Portland, OR. We give deep gratitude to the stewards of this land before us and generations ahead.
A land acknowledgment is a way to practice naming the original caretakers & stewards of the land before colonization and a way to acknowledge their wider story and continued presence. If you’d like to learn more about the land you live on check out this map of Indigenous lands. Note, that we must work beyond naming the original stewards and people of the land, such as supporting and uplifting their voices, and concerns, and respecting the bodies of wisdom they hold.
Globally, Indigenous kinfolk are at the front lines experiencing socio-political and ecological hardships, and ongoing threats to their quality of life & right to self-determination. It is our responsibility to lean forward with curiosity, challenge our biases, educate ourselves, and fight/protect alongside them. The work is ongoing, fluid, humbling, and vital for all of life.
Remembering Ourselves Whole
Our offering is a living prayer dedicated to sensitives, creatives, dreamers, marginalized, and stewards to feel rooted and connected to their multidimensional identity as they cultivate reverence for their self, innate medicine, land, and the wider world. The spirit of earth & plant medicine allows us to navigate this evolving terrain via slowness, making way for us to reclaim our connection to our sacred truth.
It is through the slowness of re-membering ourselves home and being in relationship with earth’s (nonlinear) rhythm - seen and unseen ways - that our inherent connection to all of creation, our ancestors, and reason for being is awakened. Rooting our connection to earth and body, tending our sacred waters and emotions, and following the constellations of our spirit + heart is part of the sacred instructions that remind us how to be in a reciprocal relationship with body and spirit (in these challenging times of being human).
UNLOCKING YOUR OWN PORTAL
Plant medicine is allowed to travel deep within once you are open to accept your own magic, realizing you have power as a co-creator in this wider world. May you feel safe and have the courage to trust in the process. Plant medicine invites us to turn inward to witness our wholeness, unlocking what is keeping us stuck, reclaim the resiliency and soft power within our bones, blood, and ancestry, and support our body and spirit to process, transform, and lead with ease. When you are ready, these offerings will unlock a gateway for your own homecoming; a sense of belonging and interconnectedness within the living world and within your sacred body. May the earthlings among us continue to ignite warmth in our hearts and soul, rekindle ancestral and plant remembrances, and nurture the wild grace of our being and our own medicine.
Hola ~ Salaam, I am so happy you are here~
My name is Jennyfer, aka Jenny. Pronouns: They/She.
I am a first-generation so-called U.S.-born, raised in Nicaragüense & Palestinian household. I am the medicine maker, steward, and seer behind Earthlings Among Us.
My intention as an herbalist and medicine maker is to support your journey of transcendence. I created this platform to offer herbal remedies, as they can reawaken the profound wisdom of our power & resilience while cultivating love for ourselves and the wider world. I feel that plant relatives are wonderful space holders for de-programming, healing, grieving, and reclaiming remembrance of our own innate healing and magical abilities.
My work revolves around intuition, working with my hands (as my ancestors have), and connecting with my inner and outer ecology.
A lot of times when I am working with plants or simply taking a walk around the neighborhood or forest, I feel a sense of belonging and inspiration by the magic animated by the earthly creatures, the unfurling flowers, the bursting fungi, the rolling winds, the swaying trees, the vast sky, twinkling stars, the stones, the cleansing waters, etc. My enduring magic was reawakened in the misty green landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. In the midst of feeling displaced and disassociative, the forest revealed to me that I am accompanied by loving ancestors and guides. They showed me how deep healing takes place when I go inward into the deepest caverns within myself and surrender to discomfort. That through cultivating presence, I am able to tend to the marginalized parts of my being. I am here to reclaim ancestral ways of connecting to place, to my body, to my loved ones, to my greater community, and to the wider world.
My goal is to offer a portal where you can embark on healing through the heart of nature. The plant and fungi assist in awakening the innate healing of our bodies by nourishing the wells of our own inner ecosystem. May you feel inspired or initiated to reclaim and deepen your connection with Madre Tierra, her earthlings, and your wild roots.
The portal awaits...
For the curious ones, more about Jenny
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The way I have navigated my studies involved blending science and wisdom from my waking & dream life, intuitive guidance received from Earth stewardship & ancestors, and practicing a beginner’s mind (de-colonizing in practice). My formal education also in-forms my wider view and understanding via research, practice, and integration. The areas that I have practiced & studied over the years include :: Place-Based Herbalism, Intuitive Herbalism, Holistic Nutrition & Food as Medicine, Regenerative Gardening & Permaculture (inspired by traditional gardening techniques from around the world), integrating ancestral plant kinship, and slow medicine.
❁ I currently hold a Bachelor of Science in Integrative Health Science from the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM). Which gave me an in-depth understanding of human anatomy, immunology, genetics, research, health modalities, nutrition, health coaching, human sexuality, and more.
❁ My herbal studies and curiosity peaked during my undergraduate at NUNM, which then led me to have a formal study of herbalism with Hawthorn Institute. My studies at Hawthorn Institute were centered around bioregional herbalism, functional nutrition, introspection, land stewardship, relational wildcrafting, clinical herbalism, and Ayurveda.
My {human} teachers include my Felahi Seto, ancestral teachers, Venessa Rodriguez (functional nutrition, herbal medicine, akashic & intuitive practice), Tyler Wauters (place connection, ethical wildcrafting, ayurveda, etc), apprenticed in the garden with fae Toddy Anthony, Anja Robinson, Alexis Cunningfolk, Asia Suler, Clara Bailey, Roman Hanis, Andrew Jones, and more.
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My practice & training is built on the culmination of formal and informal learning experiences. When I was an undergraduate, I was passionate about Food as Medicine (rather than diet, but cultivating balance for ourselves) which was inspired by my own healing journey with chronic fatigue, pain, and chronic migraine. I wanted to work with other people and offer wider healing modalities and options that incorporated “natural medicine” which wasn’t common in my hometown, Miami, FL. I then moved across the country with my partner to attend a Naturopathic & Chinese Medicine School to continue my undergraduate studies.
It was then that I began to understand deeper what it means to untangle trauma and discomfort as I was away from family. I began building relationships with the wide landscapes and bioregions of the Pacific Northwest and took introductory classes in Botany, Medicine Making, Herbal Medicine, Plant Identification, and Permaculture. Upon graduating from the National University of Natural Medicine with a Bachelor’s in Integrative Health Sciences, I decided to take time off from formal studies (instead of pursuing Naturopathic Medicine) to connect with my wider self. I headed to South America and studied Permaculture with The Paititi Institute for the Preservation of Ecology and Indigenous Culture. After connecting with locals (and witnessing their own intimate relationship with the land), I headed back to the Pacific Northwest to study with Hawthorn Institute to pursue further my herbal studies.
Sidenote: I received a lot of dream messages & confirmations that the plant medicine realm was calling me to work with them. As a lucid & active dreamer, I do a lot of work and processing via dreams.
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Although being formally educated or trained is helpful for accountability and safety reasons, it does not define the intimate understanding and relationship one has with plants, fungi, and land. These are the practices of devoted elders and siblings around the world – just like my Palestinian Seto, my Nicaragüense ancestors, and way-showers around the world (past, present, future).
Plant medicine is so much more than a packaged remedy, but is an invitation for us to remember our sacred responsibility: to weave soul & spirit with the science of our bodies, trust our intuition, lean towards curiosity & soft power, and humble ourselves to build a reciprocal relationship with ourselves, each other, and more-than-human kin (i.e the land). Through slow, deep listening practice, I am remembering how to be in deep apprenticeship and kinship with the earthlings among us.
If you are wondering about the legalities of herbalists, please read my disclaimer and always do your own research.