How One Woman Is Planning to Bring a 300-Year-Old Farm Back to Life

Plant Whisperer vs. Planet Hustle
Why Tammy Wood Thinks Healing Starts in the Dirt

If your last brush with nature was a sad basil plant on your windowsill, brace yourself. Tammy Wood is here to remind you that no amount of sage smudging will save you if you’ve forgotten how to speak the language of soil. As a guest on Spiritual Conversation, the podcast from HolisticCircle hosted by the ever-inquisitive Philipp Kobald, she unearths what most healers desperately need but rarely admit: a reconnection with the very ground beneath our feet.

Tammy doesn’t teach theory — she teaches composted truth. An herbalist, yoga instructor, and lifelong farmer from North Carolina, she’s not here to romanticize plant medicine. She’s here to tell you your flower essence has better boundaries than you do, and if you’re still spraying your yard with pesticides, you’re basically ghosting Gaia.

The Pesticide Paradox

Tammy’s journey into herbalism didn’t start in a Pinterest-worthy garden. It started with pesticides. Her childhood on a tobacco farm gave her firsthand insight into industrial agriculture’s toll — not just on land, but on bodies. When her daughter was nearly given the wrong pharmaceutical at age two, that was it. She stopped outsourcing health and turned to the plants. Not with woo-woo detachment, but with full-on grit and a hunger to understand what nature was screaming.

Kobald, sharp as ever, draws her out with the kind of warmth only a fellow “vinegar alchemist” could provide. The two compare notes on farming, frequency healing, and why organic food isn’t just about clean eating — it’s about farmer liberation. As Tammy points out, pesticides aren’t just poison to us; they’re grief etched into the soil. And yes, the worms are mad.

Don’t Till Me Twice

There’s something beautifully subversive about a woman who won’t till her land because she respects the worms too much. Tammy’s homestead is a two-acre rebellion in Asheville, built on respect for biodiversity and a refusal to “make things easier” at nature’s expense. It’s not about achieving off-grid sainthood — it’s about listening. She doesn’t till. She doesn’t spray. She uses vinegar to kill weeds, not because it’s trendy, but because the soil told her it prefers it.

Her family, she notes with equal parts candor and compassion, comes from a long line of hard work and harder silences. “They have issues saying I love you,” she says, but she knows where that stoicism came from: farming without support, day in and day out, milking cows and weathering storms. Tammy’s presence on the podcast feels like a gentle but necessary confrontation: how much of your spiritual practice is performative, and how much is actually rooted?

Yes, You Can Grow Something in a Crack

Kobald, ever the European contrast to Tammy’s Appalachian drawl, marvels at the difference in access to land. In Europe, ecological family farms are often just a short drive away. In the U.S.? “I live on bricks,” complain the city dwellers. Tammy, unbothered, suggests they start in the cracks. Literally. Grow herbs in pots. Stick seeds between stones. Watch what happens. One of her coworkers grows lemons in a wagon. “We make it harder than it needs to be,” she shrugs.

This is the medicine healers need to hear. If your connection to nature requires a retreat centre and three sound baths, you’ve missed the point. Plants don’t care about your schedule. They care if you’re paying attention. Your excuses are not their problem.

The Flower Essence That’ll Shame Your Tincture Shelf

And then it happens: Tammy explains, in devastating detail, the painstaking ritual she goes through to make her flower essences. Not the corporate version — no shortcuts, no mass production. Just sun, spring water, crystals, and actual dialogue with the plant. She uses chopsticks so she doesn’t touch the flowers. She asks permission. She places them inside a hand-built medicine wheel and lets them soak for hours under perfect conditions. She even stores and ships them away from electronics to protect their vibrational integrity. It’s not just healing — it’s devotion.

Philipp, visibly gutted, admits he’s near tears. Not just from admiration, but from frustration. “Why,” he nearly begs, “do the people doing the real work never make any money?” The podcast takes a quiet pause, as if the plants themselves are holding space for that painful truth. And in a rare moment of open pleading, Kobald urges listeners — no, implores them — to support Tammy’s work. “Somebody out there, please help. Just… buy her flower essences.”

Soil is the Real Therapist

If you’re a healer feeling stuck, maybe you don’t need another certification. Maybe you need to get your hands dirty. Tammy suggests that even Prozac can’t compete with the microbial joy of soil under your nails — and there’s science to back that up. But science aside, there’s a spiritual truth here: the land heals because the land is alive. And when you grow something — anything — you remember that you are, too.

This isn’t just a conversation — it’s a seed. For healers, herbalists, and anyone vaguely suspicious that Wi-Fi might be frying their soul, Tammy Wood is a voice worth sitting down in the dirt for.

Find the full episode of Spiritual Conversation, produced by HolisticCircle and hosted by Philipp Kobald, on the @HolisticCircle YouTube channel. Just don’t expect background noise — you’ll want to lean in.

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