Wild Spirit Herbals is an online herbal apothecary in Whitehall, MT. Our inventory includes over a thousand herbal products and natural gift items. We have a wide selection of tinctures and glycerites, quality capsules, and over 300 herbs. And for those of you who are into herbal infused oils, we have a variety of original formulas we love and enjoy sharing. We seriously have just about everything a budding herbalist may need to make your own herbal remedies at home. Shannon Smith, owner and operator of Wild Spirit Herbals, offers classes on making herbal products, wildcrafting and educational classes on herbalism in general. We strive to create a healing environment to support our customer's well-being and to decrease the stress of life in general, even if just for a moment! 

Meet the founder:

Hi, I'm Shannon Smith and I am the owner and founder of Wild Spirit Herbals, LLC. I have had a long journey with herbs, starting in 1997, with my own health crisis that only plants would heal. This health crisis was my first introduction to Bastyr and its marvelous naturopathic clinic in Seattle. It was there that I became a believer of alternative medicine as a whole, for western medicine had failed to heal the root of the constant throat infections that had plagued me since I was a young girl. In two weeks, Bastyr Clinic, not only saved my life from an infection that four successive rounds of antibiotics couldn’t touch, but it made me well enough to get the tonsillectomy I needed to have, for it was too late for my tonsils. As most herbalists start out, at first my journey was a solo one.  I was introduced to the medicine plants one at a time as the opportunities presented themselves. Many of my teachers in the early days were books or medicine people of different Native American tribes. Still practicing and using herbal remedies on myself and my loved ones, I yearned for more knowledge. Bastyr University added the Herbal Sciences program to their accredited degree programs. When I read about this program, a mixture of Materia Medica (the use of medicinal plants) and Science, I knew it was for me, as although I am a very spiritually centered person, I am also very much grounded in Science and realism. I deeply appreciate the hours and hours of time and research that people have poured into finding out how plant medicine works, and which part of the body is affected by particular constituents in plants. I enrolled in Bastyr’s Herbal Science program in 2014 and graduated in June of 2016. I have had the privilege of working with many talented herbalists and naturopathic practitioners along the way, including all my professors at Bastyr University. I feel passionate about bringing this knowledge to my community and hope to expand our knowledge, yours and mine, and to expand the use of these ancient traditions that we have forgotten or misplaced. Come grow with me and submerge yourself in the wisdom of our green friends!

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