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Susun Weed
Also known as: Susun S. Weed
American herbalist who codified the Wise Woman Tradition of folk-herbal medicine through the *Wise Woman Herbal Series* (Ash Tree Publishing, 1986–present): *Healing Wise*, *Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year*, *Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way*, *Breast Cancer? Breast Health!*, *New Menopausal Years*, and others. Operates an apprenticeship program from her Catskill, NY land that has trained a substantial fraction of contemporary North American herbalists, including the founders of multiple directory listings.
Susun Weed has been the principal living teacher of the Wise Woman Tradition of [[herbalism|herbal medicine]] since the publication of Healing Wise in 1989 and the broader Wise Woman Herbal Series (Ash Tree Publishing, 1986–present). The tradition emphasizes fresh-plant medicine over dried-bulk herbalism, locally-wildcrafted materia over imported supply, intuitive and seasonal practice over standardized protocols, and direct teacher-to-student apprenticeship over institutional credentialing.
The apprenticeship program at her Catskill, NY land has trained generations of North American herbalists. Two of the directory’s herbalist listings trace directly to Weed’s transmission: [[red-moon-herbs]] (Corinna Wood and Jessica Godino each apprenticed for a year before founding Red Moon in Asheville in 1994) and [[flower-power-herbs-and-roots]] (Lata Chettri-Kennedy trained under Weed alongside Robin Rose Bennett and David Hoffmann before opening Flower Power in NYC’s East Village in 1993). The shared lineage makes Susun Weed one of the directory’s most-connected nodes — the structural reason two herbalist anchors in two bioregions teach the same way.
The Wise Woman Tradition’s positions are deliberately positioned against both the standardized-clinical-herbalism school ([[david-hoffmann|David Hoffmann]]‘s lineage) and the supplement-industry pharmacology of mainstream “[[herbalism|herbal medicine]].” Weed has taught extensively that the medicine is the relationship to the plants — not the extracted compound — and that the most effective herbalism happens at neighborhood scale, taught from teacher to student over years.
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