Stephen Harrod Buhner
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Bio
Stephen Harrod Buhner has been called an Earth poet, bardic naturalist, and an herbal philosopher, as well as one of the most accomplished writers on medical herbalism in the United States. He is the multiple-award winning author of 23 books, a score of memoir and fictional short stories, and numerous nonfiction articles for publications such as The Sun, HerbalGram, The Lampeter Review, Quillette, The Journal of Spirituality and Socialwork, Native Voices, Quail Bell, and many others.
He comes from a long line of healers including Leroy Burney, Surgeon General of the United States under Eisenhower and Kennedy, and Elizabeth Lusterheide, a midwife and herbalist who worked in rural Indiana in the early nineteenth century. The greatest influence on his work, however, has been his great-grandfather C.G. Harrod who primarily used botanical medicines, also in rural Indiana, when he began his work as a physician in 1911.
Stephen has taught throughout North America, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, England, and Holland at many of their most prestigious herbal and Earth conferences as well as at many colleges and universities, including: Schumacher, Goddard, and St. Lawrence University.
He is a member of Mensa, Intertel, Colloquy, PEN, Authors Guild, The Academy of American Poets, Western Writers of America, a Fellow of Schumacher College, a New Mexico Humanities Scholar, and has been listed in International Authors and Writers Who’s Who, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World.
He is a tireless advocate for the reincorporation of the exploratory artist, independent scholar, amateur naturalist, and citizen scientist in American society - especially as a counterweight to the influence of corporate science and technology.
Comments by his Contemporaries
Stephen Buhner is one of the plant geniuses of our time.
— Rosemary Gladstar, the godmother of American herbalism and founder of the International Herbal Symposium and author of Herbal Healing for Women.
One of America's preeminent herbalists, Stephen Buhner articulates the sacred underpinnings of the herbal world and deep ecology as only a real "green man"can.
— David Hoffmann, Fellow of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists and author of The Holistic Herbal.
"Stephen Buhner's writings are a powerful call for people of all colors and nations to work together to restore recognition for and experience of the sacredness of Earth."
— Brooke Medicine Eagle, Native American teacher and author of Buffalo Woman Comes Singing.
"The Earth will love you for reading his work."
— William Lyons, author of Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of as Lakota.
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