How to Run a Farm-Based Herb School | Featuring Crystal Moore-Stevens

How to Run a Farm-Based Herb School | Featuring Crystal Moore-Stevens

June 5, 2026 · 42 min

About this episode

Jiling Lin interviews Crystal Moore-Stevens about running a farm-based herb school and promoting biodiversity.

This week on Herbal Radio, host Jiling is joined by Crystal Moore -Stevens . Crystal is the co-owner of Flourish Farmstead & Folk School , a botanical sanctuary and regenerative farm, with her husband and two children. She is a folk herbalist, author, multidisciplinary artist, and organic herb farmer. Crystal runs herbalism programs and workshops through Flourish Folk School's School of Botanicals. She teaches classes in herbalism, gardening, ethical wild foraging, wildcrafting, botanical dyeing, and earth skills at their farm in Godfrey, IL. Their family is passionate about earth stewardship and increasing biodiversity on their 10-acre farm. She is currently enrolled in Project Dragonfly, a master of Arts in Biology program through Miami University. Join us as Crystal and Jiling explore: Growing medicinal herbs and running a small farm-based herb school How Crystal is increasing biodiversity on the 10 acres— while running a working farm How she knows what grows well in her region— and how she knows when to harvest Ethical and bioregional herbalism 🎥 Check out the video version of this epsiode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GCnWWuDik7I Visit Crystal Moore -Stevens at: 💻 Website…

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