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What if plants aren’t just remedies, but a way of remembering who we are and where we come from? What if connecting with herbs, the land, and ancestral plants is actually a path back to ourselves, our intuition, and our place in community?
In this conversation, clinical herbalist Lauren Haynes, founder of Wooden Spoon Herbs, shares how her relationship with plants has guided every step of her life - from growing Tulsi in raised beds in Appalachia to sleeping with violet under her pillow, to trusting intuition over urgency while scaling a national herbal brand. We explore how plants calm the nervous system, why magnesium can be a first step toward feeling better, and why herbalism is less about products and more about belonging: to land, lineage, and ourselves.
Expect to learn why community is the greatest business strategy, how plants regulate the nervous system differently than supplements, how intuition - not strategy - guided Wooden Spoon’s growth, why charging for your work is a form of self-worth, how herbalism reconnects us to ancestry, land, and community, daily ways to integrate herbs without perfection or overwhelm, why magnesium is often the missing foundation for stress + sleep, and how plants help guide us back to ourselves in all the season of our lives.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Welcome + introduction
(02:19) How herbalism first introduced itself to Lauren
(04:37) The early days: farmers markets, ginger tea, and being seen
(07:47) Charging money, self-worth, and integrity in capitalism
(10:53) Growing up in Southern Appalachia + ancestral connection
(14:25) How she formulates intuitively...and with clinical science
(16:18) Favorite herbs for mood, sleep, stress + daily life
(18:01) What nervines actually are + how they help
(19:31) Why magnesium works + what people feel first
(23:20) The “magnesium wars” + citrate vs glycinate
(26:11) How to actually take herbs daily (and enjoy it)
(28:29) Herbalism as remembering, not alternative medicine
(29:03) The biggest lesson plants have taught Lauren
(30:17) Scaling while staying rooted in integrity and community
(33:19) Hiring support + doing the scary thing anyway
(37:13) Saying “not yet” to Whole Foods + trusting timing
(42:28) Intuition vs data in business (and life)
(47:03) Plants as teachers beyond tinctures + fresh-under-pillow rituals
(48:19) The deeper truth Lauren hopes Wooden Spoon seeds in the world
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Links + Resources:
Lauren's Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurensherbgarden
Wooden Spoon Herbs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/woodenspoonherbs
Wooden Spoon Herbs Website: https://woodenspoonherbs.com
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Get in Touch:
Honor Earth Apothecary Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/honorearthapothecary
Honor Earth Apothecary Website: https://www.honorearthapothecary.com
Sara's Personal Substack: https://honoringtheslow.substack.com
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