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Master Herbalist Kerri Kiernan of River Prairie Apothecary offers a deep connection with the natural world through herbal consultations, custom handmade herbal remedies and education.

12/15/2025

😬 What’s the most unhinged thing you’ve ever driven around with in your car?

🚗 🍲 🧙🏼‍♀️

I know you Herbalists - Wildcrafters - Foragers have some stories!

(Ps invite extends to my extra weirdo friends who don’t want to share their adventures publicly 🤪😅)

12/11/2025

When you DIY gifts, do you ever choose to make something you've literally never made before??

- asking for a friend : )

12/09/2025

Psssst, intuitive herbalism next week Tuesday 🫶 wisdom of the Crone with Mugwort ✨

I’ve been sitting with this old friend dreaming up and writing “journeys” to take you all along on.

We will travel to her cave to sit in her presence to receive her wisdom.

We will burrow deep into the Earth to rest with her during her winter hibernation, receiving her insights for your own unique journey, as well as gleaning insights for the collective.

Can’t wait for this one… Feels like it’s gonna be extra magical. We will be super close to the winter solstice as well as the new moon.

What a time to sit together and experience her silver linings… near the darkest longest coldest night…

(photo from my solo travels In Ireland! summer 2024. Marble arch cave… I crawled into several caves that summer … alone, but not lonely 😘✨🧙🏼‍♀️🦇)

12/05/2025

Shhhhhhh….. I didn’t use the fancy blender 😉

OK, I’m morally opposed to this technique but for times’ sake rarely I will do this.

The art of herbalism is that good remedies take time.
Haste makes waste.
But sometimes…

We just don’t have 6 to 8 weeks to wait for a tincture to be done!

The process of tincturing a plant involves using a menstruum like alcohol to extract the medicinal constituents and preserve them.

After the full tincturing time we then filter out the plant and pour the finished extract into a jar or bottle.

Luckily there are some hacks to make this process happen more quickly- here’s one… the blender trick!

You can shake your jar every day and that will make the process go a little faster.

Orrrrrrrrr

You can use the power of a blender to increase surface area of the plant, create friction and agitation, and a slight amount of heat to increase extraction rate… And basically reduce 6 to 8 weeks into a few sessions of 15 minutes at a time.

You don’t want your blender getting too hot so you have to pulse the blender.

This fancy machine has a setting that literally does this for 30 seconds at a time.

I love multitasking so this was the perfect task to do while doing 1 million other things in the kitchen…

I just hit that blend button every few minutes to run it for 30 seconds of pulsing at a time.

I did this on and off over the course of an hour.

important!
You want to avoid turning your tincture into a paste. It is a nightmare to strain. Yes it’s possible to strain, but I don’t like doing it.

After you do your little blender trick, pour everything into its jar and then let your tincture sit overnight- ideally for a week if you can… and it will be perfect.

After I did this, I noticed already by the next day (about 20 hours later) there was some nice mucilaginous plant goodness in the bottom of the jar that came out of the roots.

So lovely how it worked!

By the way, don’t destroy a good blender doing this with dry roots!
Don’t do this with dry roots unless you have a blender that’s actually able to do it. I used fresh roots so as to not leave a trace of my sneaky little extract-making session…

mwuahahaaaaaa

12/01/2025

Mmmmm my cup is sooooo full and I’m back in the Midwest (mostly!).

Sunday airport travels were relatively kind to us... *Relatively* because we’re still not home yet. (Close but not quite!)

Unexpected stay in Minneapolis, but I can’t complain (other than leaving EC last weekend without a jacket and forgot about winter being a reality)…

Yesterday at the airport we got there early expecting delays and craziness… but it was actually quite the opposite.

I don’t know if it was our general boundaries/auras being absolutely crushed by *kid energy* all week that made us seem super approachable and open…

*I earned the nickname “auntie pop rocks” cuz I brought some nostalgic treats to reward my nephew’s efforts learning to ride his 2-wheel bike, I played and read books and acted like a complete goof and got climbed on, clung-to and totally loved -up (and periodically hid in the basement for a bit of reprieve!)

But there were so many moments of giving and receiving others’ help and kindness at the airport… I’m smiling and ready to dive back in this week with class prep and remedy blending (thank you for your patience !!).

* there was an older gentleman who got dropped off by the same shuttle as us, a tram-ride away from luggage check-in… He looked overwhelmed and unhappy, so we offered and helped him navigate the escalator with his luggage and helped him figure out where to get off to find his terminal.

* we pointed a few other people in the right direction of their gates in the giant airport as we sat eating our lunch

**We received**

* once we got back to our car in Minneapolis around midnight we found it was covered in ice… and of course we didn’t have an ice scraper! (Or a jacket) We attempted to use the plastic cover of a coffee cup, and luckily some kind soul came over to let us use her ice scraper

* this morning a friend texted to tell us she shoveled our walkway… and that apparently someone else had kindly shoveled it earlier as well, and I have no idea who.

These ebbs and flows of giving and receiving are so essential for me to feel woven into humanity.

And here we are, December 1st… Into the darkest days and longest nights we go. It’s a time of hunkering down and conserving energy and resources.

It’s also a time to connect with each other and bring warmth and comfort into each other’s lives, even in the smallest ways, even with strangers. It’s also a time for story-telling and sharing.

So here’s a few more photos from my recent Oakland & Bay-Area travels for you to vicariously enjoy - as we all do our best to stay warm and sane heading into a simultaneously quiet yet busy time of year.

PS
I’m really looking forward to seeing you again in classes this month, sharing insights and plant wisdom, drinking tea and learning together.

PPS … or is it PSS??
Grab a ticket if you plan to join as both are already about half full (thank you early birds for your registrations!! Such lovely notifications to receive while traveling 🥰🫶🙏).

11/22/2025

So lovely to sit with everyone and connect with a gorgeous and interesting plant ally last night.

Themes of protection & boundaries, but also of letting our guard down in the right situations…

Dichotomies of seriousness and silliness, sweetness, and bitterness… spines and blossoms of nectar…

And most interestingly - how different people sense different things, sometimes the very opposite! That’s why it’s so lovely to do this type of plant connection in community.

Thank you, everyone for coming!

We will be doing it again next month with mugwort.

Don’t hesitate to reach out if you need a sliding scale option 🙏 if you really wanna be here, but simply cannot because the price I’ve got options for you 🫶

11/21/2025

I keep getting drawn into connecting with Mullein…

The tall brown stalks this time of year are what remains of the plants at the end of their biennial life.

Just recently while preparing for a class, I was reminded by Herbalists Matthew Wood, and Jim McDonald about the supportive properties of Mullein root!

Please look to them for more in-depth information, but I just feel the need to share with my community about this plant. It’s certainly timely right now!

The ground is not frozen yet. This weekend is the perfect time to dig some roots while the ground is still soft.

This plant is supportive to the musculoskeletal system, connective tissues, and synovial fluid fluids that help your joints to move with ease.

Lots of people know about the use of the leaves for the respiratory system. The roots are also supportive, especially in the lower body.

In general, this plant helps to loosen stagnation and keep things moving, providing structure yet softness to the body.

I just started some tincture with the roots the other day, using fresh root in 75% alcohol.

I get a kink in my back every now and then that’s not necessarily correlated with any particular physical thing I did… Sometimes my hips feel creaky. These are the perfect times for me to work with Mullein root.

Energetically speaking- this is a lovely plant to connect with right now, very grounding, and it also represents tapping into your inner light and letting it lead the way for you through the darkest time of the year.

***Make sure to harvest from a clean area as these plants will bioaccumulate whatever’s in the soil.

You’re going to dig the root of the fuzzy, soft-leafed green plants in the shape of a rosette.

The roots below the brown stalks are done and no longer potent.

11/20/2025

Motivation is a fickle and ephemeral beast for me…

If I feel like I *should* do something or I *have to* do something, it takes a lot of effort for me to get myself to sit down and do it.

But when it comes to random side-quests like a spontaneous opportunity to help clean out a friend’s garden? I switch into motivation mode and I’m packing snacks, wearing a fun outfit and coordinating a carpool to get there…

So one of the hacks that keeps me motivated to plan for classes is to usually attempt some sort of remedy I’ve never done before.

Normal brains will not understand this process, but if you have a little neurospicy in you, you know exactly what I’m talking about!

I love a little excitement, new variables, new things to play with and explore…

So here’s a little video of me proceeding to try a new remedy without following the instructions.

Yes, I did read the instructions, probably three or four different tutorials by other Herbalists, and then proceeded to just do whatever I felt like doing in the moment. 😩😬🤪

I just get so excited to share things with others when it’s new and exciting to me as well. It’s just the way I work... And at this point in time in my life, I am embracing it and I am not hiding it.

Since I started crafting herbal remedies in like 2010 so - I’m now usually trying some pretty obscure stuff if I’m challenging myself to try something new…

And for some reason, making herbal coffee was intimidating to me, so I never tried it… but how come I didn’t know it was so easy??

And TASTY

AND it only takes a couple minutes!!

This experimental batch turned out awesome, and I made it with medicinal roots like burdock, dandelion and ashwagandha (plus some cinnamon).

Did I burn it?
YES

Was it delicious?
OMG YESsssssss

I’ve made a couple more batches since this initial one, and I decided to share this little video for your entertainment.

I wish I could figure out how to do captions, but for some reason, I can’t figure it out on this reel today…You’ll just have to listen with the sound on for the giggles 🤭

11/17/2025

Nothing better than coming together around plants 🌱 ❤️🌱

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1813 Brackett Avenue, Suite B (enter The Front Door)
Eau Claire, WI
54701

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Tuesday	11am - 6pm
Wednesday	11am - 6pm
Thursday	11am - 6pm

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Welcome to River Prairie Apothecary; created and led by Master Herbalist Kerri Kiernan who grows and forages medicinal herbs in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Kerri offers 1 on 1 herbal health consults in order to create customized teas, tinctures and more - personalized just for you.

Kerri researches and creates herbal remedies and products available in downtown Eau Claire at several businesses including Tuning Tree, Broom & Crow and Tangled Up in Hue. Most of Kerri’s recipes have been inspired by requests from friends and family; Kerri loves sharing her remedies and herbal knowledge with you. Message Kerri through this page to inquire about personalized products for you, your friends and family, your wedding party and/or your dog :) Interested in growing medicinal plants? Contact Kerri in April-June for transplants or in summer and fall for seeds... there’s always lots to share in the garden. More from Kerri: “I am passionate about working with medicinal plants, studying their natural habitats, growing herbs, creating art inspired by wild plants and preparing herbs into medicines to share with others. I seek to help foster a deep respect for nature and the life that connects and supports us.” “Using plants for healing, also known as herbalism, is everyone's medicine. There are many ways to use herbs safely and effectively as part of a healthy lifestyle. Herbs are supportive allies in helping you improve your health; they can assist your body through its inherent healing processes as well as connect you to the natural world. Ultimately, herbs connect us to each other as we all have to work together to protect the spaces where these wild medicines grow and to share herbal knowledge so that it can continue to improve the lives of many.” Follow this page for more info on classes and opportunities to purchase hand-made remedies. Thank you for supporting River Prairie Apothecary! Live, heal and thrive and thrive with wild medicine.