Reishi Strauss

Founder of Earth & Spirit Botanicals, a heart-centered herbalism business specializing in wildcrafted and home grown plant and mushroom medicines to help heal the body mind & spirit.

Reishi Strauss (she/her) is an herbalist, mycologist, and medicine maker from the Appalachian mountains of southwestern Virginia and lives in the PNW. Reishi is currently enrolled in the Columbine’s School of Botanical Studies in Eugene, Oregon where she is studying clinical herbalism, botany, and wildcrafting as stewardship with Howie Brounstein. In 2019 she graduated from the Naturopathic school Bastyr University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Herbal Science, having completed courses in Mycology, Botany, Anatomy & Physiology, Biochemistry, Ethnobotany, First Aid, Herb/Drug Interactions.

Reishi has over 10 years of experience identifying, wildcrafting, and making medicine with mushrooms and plants. She owns and operates her medicinal mushroom medicine business – Earth & Spirit Botanicals – which seeks  to heal the planet & her people with sustainably wildcrafted and regeneratively cultivated herbal & fungal medicines.

"My prayer is that these medicines bring about deep healing for the planet and her people, and help to meaningfully connect humanity to the healing power of Nature so that we may restore harmonious relation with our bodies and the natural world."

Resishi is an instructor at the Guilds Wonder Camp in 2023.