Dara Saville
2 Courses • 2 StudentsBiography
Dara Saville is an herbalist, geographer, author, mother, and native plant advocate in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is the founder and an instructor at Albuquerque Herbalism and the executive director of the Yerba Mansa Project, a non-profit organization. Dara is the author of the recently published University of New Mexico Press book, The Ecology of Herbal Medicine: A Guide to Plants and Living Landscapes of the American Southwest and is a longtime columnist for Plant Healer Quarterly. She has an MS in Geography and Environmental Studies from the University of New Mexico and is also a graduate of Tieraona Low Dog's Foundations of Herbal Medicine program. Her work involves providing an educational program in bioregional herbal studies, organizing the community to undertake native medicinal plant restoration on public lands, and writing on medicinal plants and landscapes of the American West.
