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🌱 Radio show and podcast dedicated to growing community knowledge of herbal medicine
✨Lovingly produced by Emiliano Lemus and Renée Camila
📻 On the air Tuesdays at 1pm Pacific on KPFA

30/12/2025

Closing the Cycle of the Year

Emiliano Lemus .herbalist discusses plants and practices for meeting the end of the year, including doing a deeper emotional dive, recognizing patterns, and closing cycles.

Tune in live on Tuesday, December 30th at 1pm Pacific Time on in the SF Bay Area and on in LA, or stream the episode afterwards on the Planting Medicine podcast or at KPFA.org.

Photo: Ocotillo leafing out this past week in Joshua Tree park.

21/12/2025

Herbal Birth Energetics with Berenice Dimas

Join Renée Camila and her guest Berenice Dimas, founder of Hood Herbalism , for a conversation about herbal support during birth ceremonies.

In the episode, Berenice shares their perspective on the energetics of birth, herbs she includes in her birth kit, and the importance of spirit dosing with gestating people.

Berenice (she/they) is a q***r community based herbalist, partera (student midwife), educator, and published writer.

This episode airs live on Tuesday, December 23rd at 1pm PT. Stream the episode or catch it afterwards on the podcast or at KPFA.org.

16/12/2025

❄️ Winter Medicine: Part Two ❄️

Join us for part two of a two-part series exploring Winter Medicine. Emiliano Lemus explores the physical aspects of supporting our bodies in the winter, as we slow down and tend to this colder and darker time. We discuss immunity, nutrition, rest, and more. Fund drive.

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Tune in live on Tuesday, December 16th at 1pm Pacific Time on in the SF Bay Area and on in LA, or stream the episode afterwards on the Planting Medicine podcast or at KPFA.org.

Photo by Kate Laine on Unsplash

09/12/2025

Winter Medicine: Part One

Join us for part one of a two part series exploring Winter Medicine. This hour looks at the energetics of winter and how we can tend our spirit during this time of year. Sam Roberts dives into herbal support to help our spirits align with the season, embrace the darkness, welcome back the light and get through the holidays.

Tune in live on Tuesday, December 9th at 1pm Pacific Time on in the SE Bay Area and on in LA, or stream the episode afterwards on the Planting Medicine podcast or at KPFA.org.

Photo by Sam Roberts

02/12/2025

Sleep Spells

The winter season is an ideal time to prioritize rest. Sleep is vital for physical, emotional, and spiritual restoration, and yet challenges with sleep is more common than not.

During this hour Renée Camila looks at the plants and practices that can support casting sleep spells.

This episode airs live on Tuesday, December 2nd at 1pm PT. Stream the episode or catch it afterwards on the podcast or at KPFA.org.

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24/11/2025

Join Violet Moon ( ) as she talks about working with grief and the importance of plant medicine and ritual in moving through and healing our grief on the individual and collective levels. Violet will speak to the inherent wisdom that arises in the process of grief and suffering, and how herbal medicine and ceremony can help connect and move people, place and plant kin towards collective liberations and joy.

Tune in Live Tuesday, November 25th at 1pm PST on in the SF Bayarea and on in Los Angeles, or stream the episode afterwards on the Planting Medicine podcast or at KPFA.org

Photo of Violet’s Hallow’s Eve Ancestor Altar - by Violet Moon

18/11/2025

STIs and Generative System Infections with Stascha Stahl

Emiliano Lemus .herbalist interviews Stascha Stahl .herbalist about natural approaches to common STIs and generative system infections that affect people of all genders, including HPV, yeast infections, bacterial vaginosis (BV), and herpes. Stascha is a clinical herbalist, medicine maker, apothecarist, and educator practicing in the Lisjan Ohlone Territory – Oakland, California.

Tune in live on Tuesday, November 18th at 1pm Pacific Time on in the SF Bay Area and on in LA, or stream the episode afterwards on the Planting Medicine podcast or at KPFA.org.

11/11/2025

The Art of the Monograph

Join host Sam Roberts for an exploration of herbal monographs. This hour looks at monographs as one way to collect and organize information about individual plants, what to include in your monographs, and how herbal monographs can push back on patterns of colonialism in herbalism.

Tune in live on Tuesday, November 11th at 1pm Pacific Time on in the SF Bay Area and on in LA, or stream the episode afterwards on the Planting Medicine podcast or at KPFA.org.

Photo by Sam Roberts

04/11/2025

Holiday Prep 🫔

The winter holidays can be both joyful and stressful. Join Renée Camila for an exploration of the herbs that can boost physical immune health, emotional regulation, and spiritual protection. This episode focuses on preventative support and includes listener call-ins.

This episode airs live on Tuesday, November 4th at 1pm PT. Stream the episode or catch it afterwards on the podcast or at KPFA.org.

28/10/2025

Irish Plants, Here and There

Renée Camila interviews clinical herbalist Kelly McCarthy , RH (AHG), on weaving ancestral connection to Ireland through traditional plant wisdom. Kelly explores the plants and practices of Irish herbalism, and the ways she tends this lineage across distance.

This episode airs live on Tuesday, October 28th at 1pm PT. Stream the episode or catch it afterwards on the podcast or at KPFA.org.

21/10/2025

Medicinal Berries

Host Emiliano Lemus .herbalist dives into the world of medicinal berries. Join them to learn about the special healing properties carried by these fruits. They’ll also take some call-ins at the end of the show.

Tune in live on Tuesday, October 21st at 1pm Pacific Time on in the SF Bay Area and on in LA, or stream the episode afterwards on the Planting Medicine podcast or at KPFA.org.

Photo by Kristina Kutleša on Unsplash

14/10/2025

Pantry Staples for the Home Herbalist

Sam Roberts discusses how to stock your pantry for maximum kitchen based plant magic this fall and winter. During this episode they detail tools and ingredients that are good to have on and for the modern kitchen witch, and explore plant allies in cooking as spellwork.

Tune in live on Tuesday, October 14th at 1pm Pacific Time on in the SF Bay Area and on in LA, or stream the episode afterwards on the Planting Medicine podcast or at KPFA.org.

Photo by Sam Roberts

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About The Herbal Highway

The Herbal Highway is a weekly KPFA radio show and podcast dedicated to providing free herbal information to the public. This program offers voices and perspectives not always present in mainstream discussions of health and maintains an ecological perspective of using plants in a sustainable way. The Herbal Highway has been airing live since 1997.

Karyn Sander envisioned the show which she now maintains through the support of Sarah Holmes who also hosts and produces the show. Sarah is a clinical herbalist in private practice and has been a guest host since the early years of the show and began hosting on a regular basis in 2006. Karyn and Sarah also teach at the The Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine, where you can find many more of their plant medicine and teaching offerings.

The Herbal Highway is also hosted by Renée Camila and Emiliano Lemus. The Herbal Highway team volunteers their time. Follow us on Instagram @theherbalhighway, and also find us on your favorite podcast app.