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The Little Herb That Could, 106 acres in rural Missouri, is a traditional herbal medicine farm and practice, home to botany research and food as medicine education.

Cheryl Weatherby practices the Shen-Hammer lineage of Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis - a system working with more than 90 diagnostic qualities across 6 principal and 22 complementary pulse positions. She studied under senior instructor Ross Rosen as part of a 2000 hour internship at The Center for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine (2006 - 2010), as his associate practitioner from 2012 - 2020, and continues to train with Shen-Hammer certified instructors across the country. In addition, Cheryl learned Ayurvedic pulse diagnosis from Dr. Vasant Lad at The Ayurvedic Institute and throughout the California College of Ayurveda’s pancha karma certification program (2003). The psycho-emotional and physical health information revealed by these systems allow for discernment of a disease process at a very early stage.

Cheryl completed the Natural Gourmet Institute’s chef training program in New York City with culinary externship at Mercer Kitchen, and studied Chinese medicine dietary therapies throughout her graduate program at Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine. She is clinically trained in Kanpo Sino-Japanese herbology (Nigel Dawes) and traditional Chinese herbal medicine. Her nutrition counseling, herbal formula prescriptions, and food as medicine seminars emphasize dietary needs based on each person’s unique constitution and is influenced by lab work, muscle testing, and emerging research.

Cheryl is licensed in acupuncture (MO), dipl. NCCAOM, and certified in biodynamic craniosacral therapy, manual lymphatic drainage, hypnotherapy, chi nei tsang Taoist visceral manipulation, Nuad-Bo Rarn Thai yoga, Ayurveda, and energy medicine. She trained in integral anatomy dissection with Somanautics Workshops and taught gross anatomy for Laboratories of Anatomical Enlightenment. As part of her classical midwifery training with The Russian Birth Project, Cheryl assisted in 27 births, performed prenatal and postpartum exams in both hospital and home settings, and practiced manual techniques for turning breach position. In addition to private practice, she has worked in doctors’ offices, community clinics and for the VA Health Administration.

Take a wildflower walk on the farm:

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

- John Muir

“The world contained in a seed,

Determined by its program.” - Dejan Stojanovic

“There's something satisfying about getting your hands in the soil.” - E.A. Bucchianeri.

“All rise!”

Reaching to the moon (that tiny white dot)

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the sea and music in its roar: I love not man less, but nature more" -Lord Byron