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.

Her Substack contains her blog and archives of her writings, podcasts, videos, and e-books.

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.

In the past, she offered wellness coaching, herbal consultations, and in-person classes on herbalism and holistic wellness topics, She is not taking on any new students or clients (and can direct you to a qualified herb school or clinician if you are seeking one).

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 transform all her in-person classes into online courses. 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.

JUSTICE! She also has a thirst for justice and has worked 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, Lesbian Avengers, Industrial Workers of the World, California Peace Action, Herbalists Without Borders, and the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership are a few of the places she has worked for a better world.