Heidi Berkovitz, BA.Ed., Clinical Herbalist & Educator
Heidi Berkovitz is an educator, clinical herbalist, medicine maker, and wildcrafter with a passion for nature, the healing arts, and a commitment to building community.
She received her formal herbal training from One World Healing Arts Institute, AB Tech's BioNetwork, and the Appalachia School of Holistic Herbalism. She has taken several intensive workshops and classes with a variety of herbalists, including Matthew Wood, Feather Jones, Doug Simons, Darcey Blue, Rosemary Gladstar, Dr. James Duke, Lisa Ganora, David Winston, and many others. Heidi's primary herb teacher was Mimi Hernandez, former Executive Director of the American Herbalist Guild.
Heidi received her BA in Education, with a concentration in Environmental Education from Warren Wilson College, and a certification in Massage and Hydrotherapy from Educating Hands School of Massage.
Heidi 0ffers custom made herbal formulas, classes in herbal medicine and natural health, and herbal consultations.
Heidi loves cooking, creating art, listening to music and podcasts, playing music, reading, stargazing, hiking, eating, exploring, road trips, and learning. She currently resides in the beautiful mountains of western North Carolina.
Heidi with one of her most influential natural health heroes, author & speaker,
Suzy Cohen, RPh. aka:
America's Most Trusted Pharmacist.
My Herbal Heritage (Bottom to top). Heidi with her teacher Mimi Hernandez, and Mimi's teacher Dr. James Duke, PhD., Ethnobotanist and author of over 33 herb books!
You are already missed Jim (1929-2017)
2009 Graduation from Herb School at the One World Healing Arts Institute
Heidi and Rosita Arvigo, author of Sastun, Spiritual Bathing, Rainforest Remedies.
Heidi in a stand of Black Cohosh
Heidi and Rosemary Gladstar!
Enjoying nature at Sabino Canyon
in Tucson, AZ
Surrounded by a field of St. John's Wort on top of Max Patch, NC.
Processing freshly harvested stinging nettles
At the SW Conference for Botanical Medicine 2013: (Left to right) Jenny, DeAnne Tracy Brown, Phyllis Hogan, Ryan Drum, 7Song, Heidi Berkovitz, Martha Burgess, & Amy Valdes Schwemm.
Standing at the top of Craggy Pinnacle off the beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway located in western North Carolina. These sacred lands house over 2,500 plant species, 1,100 of which are considered edible and/or medicinal.