ABOUT THE BOOK
A comprehensive guide for a holistic wellness practice and lifestyle that weaves together
individuals, communities and bioregions
This book is here to serve as a guide into a regenerative future, where humans align with the rhythms of the ecosystem as the foundation to our relationship with the planet. The Good Medicine Road is here to help deepen our relationship to all life, shifting from a human centered perspective into humans as a part of the whole system.
We aim to bridge the wound of separation as a part of the solution to the ailments of our modern culture. By returning to our wild and untamed selves, we inspire those looking to restore, integrate and align their relationship with the ecosystem.
Together we walk toward a future where all beings share one destiny.
This book is a living offering - born from decades of teaching, land stewardship, and community practice - rooted in the understanding that human health and Earth health are inseparable.
Emerging from the Permaculture for the Herbalist’s Path 150-hour training, this work connects herbalism, regenerative land practices, social ecology, and community organizing, revealing the mirrored relationships between ecosystems and the human body.
We are not separate from nature, we are participants in her processes.
This book honors ancestral wisdom carried across generations, while weaving together folk, modern, ancient, and scientific perspectives that offers a whole-systems vision of wellness, one that includes body, mind, spirit, land, and community.
We envision a world rooted in reciprocity rather than extraction, where neighbors practice mutual aid, herbalism is honored as science, craft, art and practice, and right livelihood replaces burnout and disconnection. A world where belonging arises from relationship with the land, without borders, fear, or exclusion.
This is an independent project sustained by a community of hearts who believe in slow and deep medicine. A body of work that weaves together ancestral wisdom with scientific knowledge serving as a tool for whole-systems wellness.
The Good
Medicine Road
Regenerative Herbalism for Ecological Balance
A COLLECTIVE CREATION
Be a patron
Patrons of this work will walk beside us, bringing to life a publication that will follow readers through generations. As we create, you are a part of the process, we share with you the writing, you share with us your hearts. We are a garden growing medicine that offers tangible, regenerative, and sustainable solutions for land management, holistic wellness, and community design.
As a patron, your resources nourish the roots taking hold in the soil healing itself, through words and aligned actions of the co-authors, Lala Palmieri and Sarah Wu. This work supports healers and earth tenders dedicated to a life of service, as we bring forth our shared wisdom and experience in english and spanish on the pages we write.
We envision a world rooted in reciprocity rather than extraction. Patrons can be assured that The Good Medicine Road will make you part of a legacy that is dedicated to regenerate the present while working toward creating a more fair and connected future.
This book is a long-held dream, weaving years of lived experience, regenerative ecology, and ancestral memory.
Writing a book like this is not fast work. It is a slow, devotional process, just like the living systems it speaks about. For this reason, we are approaching this creation as a work of art, supported through the generosity of patrons who believe in the creative process.
Your support funds the time and space needed to publish this work outside of extractive timelines. By becoming a patron, you join our inner circle and help grow something that will outlive us all.
WELCOME TO THE PATH
Walking together toward a
regenerative future
This book is here to serve as a guide into a regenerative future, where humans align with the rhythms of the ecosystem as the foundation to our commonality. The Good Medicine Road is here to help deepen our relationship to all life, shifting from a human centered perspective into humans being part of this planet.
We aim to bridge the wound of separation from our wild and untamed selves, to inspire those who are looking to restore relationships and integrate back into the ecosystem, as part of the solution to the ailments of our current culture. Together we walk toward a future where all beings share one destiny.
AUTHORS
The team stewarding this path of regeneration
Others
Lorraine Rabbit
Artist & Designer
Lorraine Rabbit is a Costa Rican artist and designer.
She spent over a decade working as a graphic designer for top advertising agencies, collaborating with major brands like Coca-Cola, Kölbi, and Cervecería de Costa Rica, before transitioning to freelance work six years ago.
For the past six years, she has also dedicated herself full-time to illustration. Inspired by nature, her artwork features mushrooms and wildlife—ranging from whimsical Victorian attire to classic botanical styles. She works with traditional media, specializing in watercolor and technical pens.
Marisol Archila
Graphic Designer
Drawn to the connections between culture, nature, the human experience, and shared knowledge.
Through design, she has collaborated with artisans, community initiatives, and projects with a social, organic, and regenerative focus—exploring the intersection of traditional, ancestral wisdom and contemporary practices.
She is interested in aesthetics, cultural memories, spirituality, symbols, and diverse ways of understanding the world. Her work seeks to highlight the bonds that connect people to the land, their stories, and the knowledge that sustains life.
Diana Chavez
Architect and Regenerative Designer
Diana Chaves Chavarría is a Costa Rican architect and regenerative designer dedicated to healing the relationships between humans, water, and the land. Her interdisciplinary practice weaves together ecological architecture, regenerative design, and community innovation, backed by experience in agroforestry and rural entrepreneurship.
She has co-founded initiatives such as Dos Madres Vivero Botánico, Jungle Project, and El Chineo, and has collaborated with organizations including Feria Verde, Tejiendo Remedios, Impact Hub San José, and Symbiosis Eco Design.
Most recently, she studied Interaction Design at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID), further deepening her approach toward creating more conscious, inclusive, and regenerative futures.
REVIEWS
Voices and testimonials:
Experiences from those guided by our practices
Santiago
Classes with Lala and Sarah perfectly blend spontaneity and structure, creating spaces where academic, empirical, intuitive, and energetic knowledge all converge.
They have a wealth of knowledge to share in their theoretical lessons, but they always complement it with practical work that they guide in a very natural and fun way. Additionally, they often invite locals who bring their own real-world, hands-on experience.
It’s beautiful how they also manage to empower students, giving them a leading role to share their own knowledge. This creates a more horizontal environment where everyone feels comfortable and free to express themselves with true authenticity.
Shir
I truly feel blessed to have learned with Sarah and Lala when I did. Looking back, it feels like a gift from the Earth herself that they appeared on my path at the exact moment my relationship with the plants was evolving from curiosity and passion into a life's calling. Meeting them and studying under their guidance quietly changed the course of my life.
Their teaching reaches far beyond herbal medicine or permaculture. With remarkable depth, humility, and reverence, they invite people into a way of seeing the world through relationship—where ecology, community, healing, and spirituality are not separate disciplines, but expressions of the same living whole. Throughout my time learning with them, I felt deeply seen, guided, and supported, and I came away with far more than knowledge. I found a new way of understanding both the living world and my place within it.
I still remember first being introduced to the concept of human ecology. It felt like discovering a missing piece I hadn't known I was searching for. Suddenly, the relationships between people, plants, land, culture, and community were no longer ideas, but one interconnected living system. That understanding continues to shape everything I do today. The seeds planted during those years continue to grow through my clinical practice, my teaching, and the ways I invite people into relationship with the plants and the more-than-human world.
Sarah and Lala truly embody what they teach. Their work is rooted in integrity, compassion, reciprocity, and a profound love for the Earth. They have an extraordinary gift for making people feel genuinely seen while gently expanding their understanding of what it means to walk the Good Medicine Road in right relationship with all of life.
Years later, I have the privilege of calling them not only my teachers, but also trusted colleagues and dear friends. To me, that speaks volumes about the kind of community they cultivate around their work.
Their book feels like a natural extension of everything they have been living and sharing for decades. I have no doubt it will become an invaluable companion for herbalists, land stewards, community builders, and anyone seeking a regenerative path rooted in ecological wisdom, reciprocity, and deep relationship with the living world.
And I, for one, can't wait to read it.
— Shir Rilov, Israel
Graduate, Permaculture for the Herbalists Path (2020)
Clinical & Community Herbalist, Medicine Maker & Educator
Founder, The Fairie Apothecary
Wren
The Good Medicine Road is a call to come home to ourselves by viewing life through its inherent interconnected and holistic lens that we have long since forgotten. My favorite part of being human is that we get to wake up and remember. It is through the work and the devotion of these women that many of us have done just that.
I have had the pleasure of cultivating friendship, business, education and sisterhood with these women for well over a decade. Our bonds are what shape a reality for me, and many others whose lives they’ve touched, that thrives in women led collaboration over competition in such a dog eat dog world on a slower less travelled path of listening, loving and learning.
Wren Lizabeth, North America
Community Herbalist, Bioregional Forager, Deep Ecologist, Village Witch, Owner of The MerTails - a botanical beverage company
Killian
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Andy
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Rebecca
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A remembering, a reweaving, a return to kinship
