Lori Collins Jenkins is a Traditional Herbalist, Wildcrafter, and practicing Kitchen Witch of over 20 years currently living just outside of Asheville, NC. She is the owner and creatress behind Sister of Mother Earth, LLC, a small-batch herbal business focusing on herbal tonics, wildcrafted potions and elixirs, and products made especially for the kitchen witch at heart.

Lori’s goals are to create community within her own local food structures and support those that grow and make our food, as well as those that create magick in the kitchen to share with those around them! Lori believes in the local food movement so much so that she is currently serving on the Board of Directors as President for the Weaverville Tailgate Market and serves on the Board of Directors for the Asheville Herb Fest, which is the longest running and largest herb festival in the United States. 

Lori’s teaching career in Western North Carolina spans over 10 years, with credits including several local businesses and major festivals such as the Gathering of Wisdom Keepers in Hot Springs, faculty member for HERBalachia in Tennessee, Asheville Raven and Crone, the Asheville Herb Festival, the WNC Wild Herb Weekend conference and many others. Before moving back to WNC after being gone for almost 20 years, she taught in the Upstate of South Carolina, classes on budgeting, food storage and homesteading, as well as herbal medicine making. Her classes often include practical applications of kitchen herbal medicine and witchery, informed by many great teachers and herbalists in turn. She has graduated from courses of study at the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine and in Rosemary Gladstar’s course The Science and Art of Herbalism as well as completed coursework and classes under fellow herbalists and wild women Anni Daulter, Asia Suler, Abby Artemisia, Rebecca Beyer and so many others.