About the Herbalist
Danielle Gehl Hagel is an herbalist, naturalist, writer and medicine-maker located at the confluence of the Eramosa and Speed Rivers in Guelph, Ontario. With a focus on bioregional herbalism, healing justice, and ecology of plant and human communities, my work explores how herbal medicines can help remediate our relationships with our bodies, the land and each other.
For the past decade, I've been studying herbal medicine, growing herbs and making remedies for my community. As a naturalist and herbalist, working with plants on the land has been one of my best and most constant teachers. Land stewardship and building right relationship with the more-than-human world are fundamental to my herbalism and nature connection practice.
I’m currently completing a diploma in Clinical Herbalism at The Eclectic School of Herbal Medicine. I hold a certificate in Advanced Clinical Studies program with Wild Current Herbs (2022) and a certificate in Medical Herbalism from Viriditas Herbs in Toronto, Ontario (2018).
I’ve studied Traditional Chinese Medicine Herbs and Energetics at the East West School of Herbology in California, USA (2016) and foundations of western herbalism and Materia Medica at at the Living Earth School in Vaughn, ON (2014). In 2022, I completed Earth Tracks Wild Plants Apprenticeship.
As a practitioner and mentor, my approach to plant medicine is grounded in traditional knowledge, clinical science, a commitment to ongoing learning, and accountability to clients, students and community. I’m grateful to be part of a community of herbalists intentionally cultivating a lineage of practice that centres justice, accessibility and integrity.
About the Land
Eramosa Herbals farm is a one acre, off-grid herb farm located in Guelph, Ontario, where I cultivate vibrant herbal medicine in relationship with local ecology. I began leasing this land in 2021, and got to work planting over 30 species of medicinal plants using ecological, regenerative farming practices, creating vibrant medicine for our bodies and for the earth. Here, you’ll find medicinal herbs growing alongside a myriad of native wildflowers, shrubs and trees that offer food and habitat for pollinators, songbirds, mammals, and reptiles.
The land I tend is the treaty territory of the Mississauga of the Credit (Treaty 3, the Between the Lakes Purchase) and part of the Dish With One Spoon covenant.
I’m committed to growing medicine in ways that are beneficial for plants, people, and the land. I can’t think of a better way to grow the medicine I share with you.
California poppy
Monarda didyma, red bee balm
A hummingbird clearwing moth visits the bee balm
Guild with skullcap, rose mallow, blue vervain and buttonbush
Anise hyssop
A polyculture with lemon balm, yarrow and angelica