The Deep Roots School of Foraging & Herbal Medicine

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03/15/2026

Pine is the people's tree!

Generous, plentiful, and endlessly useful — pine has been a medicine chest
hiding in plain sight for centuries.


03/15/2026

What is an herb interaction that surprised you in real life? (Sorry in advance if it wasn't a fun one.)

The textbooks can only prepare you for so much. Real bodies doing real things with real plants can be... educational.

03/13/2026

I don't know about you guys but pine is on my mind with all the pine pollen in the air...using pine to make pine resin salve is a lovely way to utilize this plant and it a wonderful first preparation to make for cuts and scrapes.

Are you making pine medicine? Tell me about it!

Tasting herbal medicines clue us into their properties through a process called organoleptics. Our bodies' unique and hi...
03/12/2026

Tasting herbal medicines clue us into their properties through a process called organoleptics.

Our bodies' unique and highly honed system of recognizing chemical constituents so that we can crave what nutrients we need and recognize whether a plant is food, medicine, or toxin.

For example, salty herbal medicines are high in mineral salts: magnesium, potassium, sodium, calcium.

Salty (mineral rich) plants are balancing & nourishing and provide the minerals to support normal healthy body processes and provide mineral needs.

Some Examples of Salty Herbs:
🌿Alfalfa
🌿Seaweed
🌿Mullien
🌿Chickweed
🌿Nettles
🌿Red Clover
🌿Horsetail

Common Properties of Salty Herbs:
🌿moisten dry tissues and dry damp tissues
🌿general nutritive
🌿clear lymph
🌿support kidney function

Do you have a Salty Herb?

If you are wanting to take a deeper dive into herbalism be sure to check out my Herbal Medicine Monthly Subscription Program where I teach you in depth about one plant per month.

Comment HMMS for more details!

03/08/2026

What's your weirdest herbal preparation that actually works? (Looking at you garlic sock people...)

Come on, we all have that one remedy that sounds ridiculous but does exactly what it's supposed to do.

Organoleptics or Sensory Evaluation is a scientific discipline used to evoke, measure, analyze, and interpret those resp...
03/05/2026

Organoleptics or Sensory Evaluation is a scientific discipline used to evoke, measure, analyze, and interpret those responses to products that are perceived by the senses of sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing.

It is a viable means of determining the potency, and chemical profile of substances from wines to food, to herbal medicines.
You like a sommelier can tap into this human superpower to extrapolate the physiological properties of herbal medicines without much training of experience.

For example, AROMATIC plants have high amounts of volatile oils (essential oils).

AROMATICplants are warming & mildly drying and tend to be uplifting to the nervous system, expectorant, and anti-infective.

Some Examples of Aromatic Herbs:
🌿Dill
🌿Peppermint
🌿Lemon Balm
🌿Sage
🌿Basil
🌿Oregano
🌿Rosemary

Common Properties of Aromatic Herbs:
🌿impact the nervous system (calming/stimulating)
🌿anti-microbial
🌿stimulate circulation
🌿carminative (expel gas)
🌿expectorant

Do you have a Aromatic Herb?

If you are wanting to take a deeper dive into herbalism be sure to check out my Herbal Medicine Monthly Subscription Program where I teach you in depth about one plant per month.

Comment HMMS for more deails!

03/02/2026

I found another friend! 🌿 Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata) is one of those incredible plants that's out and available even in the wintertime. It's easy to ID once you know that signature cross-shaped leaf pattern, and every part of the plant — root, vine, leaves, and flowers — can be used medicinally. It's also one of the fastest-acting adaptogens out there. We're talking more energy and resilience in about three days.

Have you ever worked with Crossvine? Drop your experience in the comments — we'd love to hear how you use it! 👇

03/01/2026

Where's the most unexpected place you've learned something useful about plants?

I'm thinking beyond the obvious herb books and classes. Sometimes plant wisdom shows up in some fun places.

You can't find this many qualified experts in one place — until now....Comment SEFC for the registration link, or head o...
03/01/2026

You can't find this many qualified experts in one place — until now....

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02/28/2026

Ready to get hands on?

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02/28/2026

It's the Austin Powers Tree BABY! This tree makes my favorite winter syrup...check it out!

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02/27/2026

Are you on anyone's Zombie Apocalypse Team? No? We can help with that...

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Why I do this…

Hello friends!

My name is Cameron Strouss and I am a Clinical/Functional Herbalist, Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild, Certified Aromatherapist, Master Gardener, medicine maker extraordinaire, and professional forager of 10 years and clinician of 7 years. (If you want my extended nerdy credentials click here.)

Whenever I take steps back into a place of quiet inquiry I am always quickly lead back to the deep nourishment of wild foods and herbal medicines, foraging, ancestral food/medicine ways, and the utter joy and sense of rightness that foraging brings me. I (and if I am allowed we) so often feel lost, alone, out of place and time, lacking deep connection with self, place, and community.

Little else in my life brings me such clarity - and so quickly - as spending an hour collecting food or medicine, with friends in my neighborhood. It scratches this human-animal itch that is much like the ache of scratching poison ivy. It is the most satisfying feeling I can express.