Lily has worn many hats.
She is the formulator and owner of Haven Herbs, who creates online courses and teaches workshops on behalf of the company.
Lily is a community herbalist- meaning she cares for individuals and the community at large with her projects and work. Her training was in clinical Western herbalism and Chinese medicine. She also uses other modalities of healing oin her small word-of-mouth practice.
She offers wellness coaching, herbal consultations, and in-person classes on herbalism and holistic wellness topics.
You may know her from her former brick-and-mortar shop (Boline Apothecary in Columbus, OH), as an instructor at Cancer Support Community, or perhaps as the owner of Haven Herbs. She gets around.
Currently, she is working to craft online courses that she has taught in-person. The ones currently available are here,
Lily has other passions, too:
CULTURE! She loves a thriving arts, performance, and music scene. In California, she was also an independent event promoter for music and spoken word. She booked nightclubs, organized festivals, and helped run a poetry slam, and other events.
BIRDS! She has been a parrot behaviorist and caregiver and owned an e-commerce site featuring human grade food, foraging enrichments, and other holistic supplies for parrots. She loves corvids, and did corvid rehabilitation for several years while living in California. She has parrots, and had a Starling rescue, and chickens, ducks, and geese. She looks forward to farming again to expand her flock.
JUSTICE! She also has a thirst for justice and has worked at and volunteered at myriad non-profits and organizations. People Against Hazardous Landfill Sites, Greenpeace, United Farm Workers, INFACT, Queer Nation, ACT UP, The Pynk Panthers, SF Street Patrol, Community United Against Violence, Lesbian Avengers, Industrial Workers of the World, California Peace Action, Herbalists Without Borders, The Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership, and Seneca Proud are a few of the places she has worked for a better world.
