Storied Grounds

GaiaHub Herbalist
for Notion

your private hub for all things herbalism

Key Features

End the madness, frustration, and lost opportunities that result from using multiple notebooks and calendars to house a body of knowledge, observations, and intentions that are interconnected
Know exactly when and where to harvest wild foods and medicines each season, and how you can align your activities with your values and goals
Gain immediate insight into the contents of your apothecary and larder, as well as when items are expiring so you never lose food or medicine again!
Stay on top of all of your herbal medicine making and wild food processing
Quickly discern the perfect medicine for unique situations with advanced search features

Plan your activities in the field using your own historical and phenological data
Illustrate and deepen your understanding of relationships between particular land bases, forms of life, habitats, geological deposits, and human stories
Easily attribute notes to key teachers and then retrieve them for effortless assembly of presentations, writings, classes, and more
Manage all of the details surrounding your studies, clinical work, and teaching activities in one place
Free your knowledge and curiosity from silos with a system designed for the bigger ecological picture
Operates within Notion—a free, cloud-based software with a large user community and robust user support

Peek inside the product...

Materia Medica

Dynamic, flexible, and infinitely expandable Materia Medica pre-loaded with 92 medicinal plants and fungi commonly used in North America
Slice and dice your data to quickly pinpoint herbs appropriate for particular uses, formulations, and clients
Taxonomic Data— catalog common names, Latin names, family names for all species and genera
Clinical Data— record herbal actions, affinities, energetics, taste, notable constituents, medicinal uses, exemplary clinical applications, cautions, formulation pairings, relevant herbal traditions, and vibrational properties
Field Data— capture notes on field identification, wildcrafting, bushcraft, cultivation, and more

Medicine Making

Stay on top of next steps and timelines for all of your medicine making processes from tinctures to infused oils
Receive automated email reminders when you need to press out that tincture, harvest that fire cider, and more
Catalog your favorite formulations and other herbal recipes

Apothecary

View and manage the contents of your entire apothecary at a glance, as well as a historical view of all past contents
Quickly discern the precise storage locations of individual medicines, how long you’ve had them, and their expiration dates
Instantly know the precise origin of the herbal material contained in your medicines, the formulation used to make them, and who to credit!
Add medicines of your own making OR items acquired through purchase, trade, or barter—and view them all in one place!

Field Activities

Plan and capture all field activities ranging from wildcrafting to land stewardship using an innovative interface that allows you to view species harvestable by season, the lands near you from which you can harvest, relevant habitats found within those landscapes, and your own historical harvest data
Ensure that your activities on the landscape align with your values with the help of special features that are activated when you complete the bonus Define Values and Goals Workbook

Connect to Place

Catalog all of the land bases you visit to wildcraft, connect with the landscape, attend classes, and lead programs
Chart the connections between key habitats, particular herbal medicines, and the lands you frequent
View the herbs coming into and out of season in your bioregion throughout the calendar year
Story the landscape with the help of features that connect history, tradition, and lore to the life forms and lands you work with

Ideas + Images

Catalog all of the books and other resources that are relevant to your studies and practice
Capture your notes and link them dynamically to species, lands, teachers, and resources—forming your own private Wiki that can grow and evolve as you do
Display all of your images from the field, classes, and events in a beautiful gallery searchable by species, location, habitat, person, date, and more!
Instantly retrieve images, notes, studies, and citations for presentations, classes, and assignments

Bonuses

Define Values and Goals Workbook

This two-part workbook offers an area to think deliberately about who and how you want to be on the landscape, some frameworks to jumpstart reflection, and resources on targeted subjects that you may wish to explore
Values and goals that you define within this workbook are automatically drawn into other parts of the GaiaHub system to deepen self-awareness, and encourage alignment and accountability when planning activities

Mini Portals

Learner— Manage assignments, coursework, and notes for herbal school or self-directed study
Clinician— Manage client records, appointments, and client notes with ease
Educator— Plan and visualize upcoming and past events, collaborating organizations, and notes

Onboarding

Get up to speed fast with access to 4.5 hours of instructional video breaking down how to use all of the features included in GaiaHub Herbalist Edition
View Hacks for Accessibility + Ease for a curated list of tools and strategies designed to make Notion more accessible and joyful for all