The Little Herb That Could: Food as Medicine is a live educational and dining experience developed and presented by Cheryl Weatherby, Licensed Acupuncturist and graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute. The program weaves together Western nutrition science, Chinese and Ayurvedic dietary principles, botanical medicine, and integrative clinical insight. Published course transcript notes of the same name are available as an educational resource for students and practitioners.

Cheryl practices within the Shen-Hammer lineage of Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis and maintains a 106-acre traditional herbal farm in rural Missouri where she cultivates medicinal plants and studies soil ecology. Bio here.

Take a walk on the herbal farm

Herb and wildflower identification walks are offered in spring, summer, and fall, led by deeply knowledgeable local botanists and plant educators. We provide hands-on exposure to native flora, ecological awareness, and traditional plant uses.

“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!”

"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