News & Reviews

Spring 2021

Albuquerque Herbalism Founder Dara Saville’s new book, Ecological Herbalism: Medicinal Plants and Living Landscapes of the Southwest, is being published by University of New Mexico Press. Pre-order begins this fall. Stay tuned for more!

Growing Forward with Bethany Latham: December 2019

Albuquerque Herbalism Founder Dara Saville shares her philosophy, work, and what motivates her on the Growing Forward Podcast with Bethany Aviv Latham: Take a listen here! Photo by Jessi T. Walsh.

Join us in Durango, CO for the annual Plant Healer conference. Dara will be there teaching: Medicinal Shrubs: The Medicine of Our Times, Tales from the Land: Medicinal Plant Landscapes, and leading a Medicinal Plant Walk. Get the details here.

How are plants part of a systems or landscape approach and how do they work as medicines inside of us? What is herbal health and vitality? How does place inform health? Basmati.com sat down with Herbalist Dara Saville to talk about love of nature, natural healing and herbalism.  Listen here!

June/July 2016: A Tale of Two Plants:

“Yerba Mansa and Osha owe much of their magic to their environments. However, the current fragility of these environments requires humans to intervene–both by cultivation and by managing native habitat–to ensure the plants’ survival.” Read here starting on page 72.

Albuquerque Journal’s Life in New Mexico Sunday Magazine, August 16-22, 2015:

Medicinal Herbs Thrive in the Wild and in Backyards

June 2015

For the Plants’ Sake: Restoring the Bosque, The Yerba Mansa Project

Albuquerque The Magazine, Going Green, February 2014:

“Herbalist Dara Saville digs up dirt on some of Albuquerque’s most useful and plentiful herbs.”

Edible Magazine Blog, Weed Feast, June 4, 2013: Photo and blog post by Gail Guengerich.

KOB/NBC 4, Good Day New Mexico, March 7, 2013

Daily Lobo, Do It Yourself Living…, Dec. 6, 2012

Alibi, Spice Up Your Sick Life, October 25-31, 2012

Albuquerque The Magazine, Bringing Back Bees, August 2012