A bit about us.. FUN FACTS:: Elijah joined my plant world 4 years ago, and I told him early on - you're gonna have to really like some pretty full on plant teachers for this to work out! Turns our he does, and now he works with me behind the scenes on our family business. FAVOURITE TEA:: Elijah is out tea master, and brews his intuitive daily concoction. Honestly get off the coffee people and get into tea drinking, it's limitless! Currently in love with a blend of Guayusa, White Tea, Peppermint, Tulsi, Siberian Ginseng, little Licorice, maybe a splash of Rose petal. FAVOURITE ANIMALS:: Our family totem as the Kindreds is a Dingo for its playfulness, loyalty and warmth. My personal totems are the Owl to see through the dark and the Green Tree Frog for transformation. Eli is very connected to Dragon Flys for their protection of the water and agility. He loves Owls too for their Perception. The Blue Fairy Wrens have shown up for us a lot in life as cheeky little fellas, and we tend to follow bird songs and feathers along the trail of our lives. WHY PLANTS? The Plant queendom makes planet earth bearable. Looking at the sea of green forest calms my heart. Breathing a forest helps me let go of my sadness. Burying my hands and feet in the dirt of the soil grounds me. The taste and small of the vegetal world invigorates my senses. From flowers, to essential oils, to teas, spices, and good fresh food. I'm kind of obsessed with resins and like to burn things and smell their smoke. So overall, I think loving plants is how I love being human. It's a sensory experience. But that doesn't even begin to explain the world of plant medicine and relationship. But that's another story.. Thanks for reading, Rach

Inside each of us is the fire that never goes out. This fire will save your life, daily. It is in fact a small piece of the sun inside your blood. To learn to harness this fire into the manifest world is when life gets really interesting! #firemedicine #entheobotanica #rebelherbal

We love turkey bush from the top end! It's got an incredible aroma, and flowers in the dry season. Native smudges that grow in inabundance from Australia's soils are a great alternative to rare overharvested overseas options. During dry season the pink flowers of Calytrix exstipulata, a Myrtaceae, can be seen lighting the bush up with colour. It smells divine and keeps bugs at bay. Here's a few reasons why to chose native aromatic plants like lemon myrtle, lemon tea tree and eucalypt smudges: - It connects us to our own soils & sense of belonging - Wild foraging is a beautiul way to connect with our landscape, but we can't wild forage plants that don't grow here - Native plants connect us to the culture that birthed from this landscape, allowing reverance and respect for the old ways of lore and the story of the medicine - Natives connect us to the season's that we live in, they aren't abstract they are relevant - Natives share our land so they tackle the same problems we are dealing with on the day to day #entheobotanica #turkeybush #nativeplants #bushmedicine #australianmedicine #smudge #rebelherbal

Frog medicine I have always loved frogs since I was a child. I wanted a pet frog back then, but my parents informed me we needed a licence to have a green tree frog. Seemed strange to me, as I would see them on windows, in backyard water features, under the lip of public toilets jumping on my bare bum. They just seemed odd, and different, and like nothing else I’d seen. I lked that about them. It is much more powerful to be connected to frog medicine than a jaguar or an eagle. We all know the powerf of an apex predator, a hunter. It’s in the eagle’s eyes, that he owns the sky. It’s in the puma’s body, it’s power is on display with no shame. But the frog’s power is deeper and more complex, more of the water in that it is under the surface. A frog has to change bodies from a swimming wriggler to a full bodied jumper. It has to change it’s movement from swimming to hopping. It changes from water breather to air breather. It emerges from the submerged underwater to a land and tree creature. A frog’s medicine is in its ability to transform. They still show up from time to time. Jumping through a window onto my face whilst asleep. Showing up at times of ceremony. #kambo #frog #frogmedicine #entheobotanica rebelherbal

We’ve been out bush.. again.. and practicing moving like an animal. We have been shooting arrows and squealing like pigs. We have been sitting in nature in silence and letting the world fill up our bodies from the inside. Now we are ready to face the dragons and find the buried treasure. There is no way we can fail its just an obstacle course of problems to solve and play with. Plants are ready for your bellies and want to take over your minds.

The sacred sage.. sitting on the front steps to welcome people here. Please survive this humidity!

A beautiful moment on a beautiful mountain #entheobotanica #rebelherbal #plantmedicine #acacia #entheogen