Susan Hess

Susan Hess is a therapeutic herbalist and native weed wrangler living in Mays Landing, NJ. Originally from southeast Pennsylvania where she spent the past twenty years practicing and teaching about herbs, Susan continues to teach her informative 12-month foundation course entitled “Homestead Herbalism". She enjoys speaking to groups and schools locally on a wide range of herbal topics and is pleased to be able to create an environment that serves to combine community, education, and native medicinal plants.

Susan grows medicinal and culinary herbs in her teaching gardens and enjoys wandering the wilds, discovering native beneficial plants, trees and fungi in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. She is fully committed to growing and harvesting methods that protect and replenish the earth and the plants. In her spare time, Susan enjoys researching and studying various traditional healing modalities, stargazing, writing, photography, cheesemaking and creating with herbs on a daily basis. For more information about Susan’s upcoming classes, please visit her website www.StillRoomatPitchPines.com