Welcome! I’m Paula Grainger - The English Herbalist in Santa Cruz
Since graduating with first class honors from my degree in clinical herbal medicine in England, I have spent many wonderful years connecting people with the amazing medicinal qualities of botanicals.
The benefits of eating fruit and vegetables are well known, but plants have a lot more to offer for our health. Their medicinal actions can help support physical and mental wellbeing, as well as combining to create gorgeous so-natural-you-could-eat-it botanical skincare products.
My life in herbs is joyously diverse. No two days are the same:
I work with individuals in one-on-one herbal wellness consultations and share my love and knowledge of plants in classes and workshops for people of all ages and experiences. Classes are held in Santa Cruz California, and I travel within the Bay Area for botanical skincare making birthday parties, wedding and baby showers and corporate team building workshops.
My small, but perfectly formed range of The English Herbalist teas and incredibly effective pure, clean botanical skincare is handmade and blended from the finest all-botanical ingredients. See here to view and buy.
“Connecting people and plants brings me so much joy...”
I love to write, and recently co-authored INFUSE: Herbal Teas to Cleanse Nourish and Heal which is available in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Spain and Czech Republic — with more countries coming soon. My writing can also be found here on my blog as well as as a content contributor for a major herb company.
If you’d like to know more about how you can connect with plants, contact me here.
Latest news...
I was delighted to be featured in South Bay Accent Magazine... click on the picture for a pdf of the interview.
Upcoming Classes...
Classes are being planned right now — check back for full information! In the meantime, why not take a look at this interview about adaptogens that I recently did with Crystal Obregon…
“As an MD I am finding the herbal medicine world fascinating! Paula knows her stuff and learning to make natural cosmetics is so much fun…”
“Paula is an excellent teacher. She is calm, open to questions and comments and yet moves the class along at an enjoyable pace. She is extremely generous with her extensive knowledge and resources. I had never seen such a clever, easy way to make a hydrosol with plant material from the garden. It was delightful to go home with cuttings to root, a salve, a tincture, a couple of plants and a hydrosol. I highly recommend Paula’s YOUR GARDEN APOTHECARY Herb Class and hope to take another one of her classes soon. Enjoy!”
